Society Winter Workshop
Teens in a digital age – rekindling communication
Saturday 29th November 2025 – 9.30 to 16.30 – online
Speakers:
Cori Anderberg – Dr Michaela Glöckler – Lou Harvey-Zahra – Christian Taylor RSHom
Today’s children are surrounded by technology from the moment they can hold a device. As a result, many have lost touch with real-world connection, nature, and genuine play.
By the time they reach their teens, they’ve spent nearly a decade immersed in screens. This lifestyle often becomes an escape from emotional challenges, shaping habits and identities that are hard to break.
It’s easy to sit a child in front of a screen instead of spending time together. Reality blurs with fantasy as free thinking, creativity, and conversation slip away.
When teenagers come to our clinic, the problem often doesn’t start with them. Adolescence is already a turbulent period of identity and self-discovery. The digital age only adds pressure, making it harder for teens to communicate and connect.
Peer behaviour, bullying, and online influences further shape their world, driving a rise in emotional and mental health struggles. We’ve created a culture that dates, shops, games, and escapes online – sometimes to the point where nothing feels real anymore.
When teens withdraw, it’s tempting to dismiss it as typical teenage behaviour. But often, it reflects a breakdown in family communication.
This winter workshop will tackle these challenges head-on. We’ll look at practical ways to reconnect with our teens, rebuild communication, and explore supportive homeopathic approaches that can help both young people and their parents.
Meet our Speakers:
Cori Anderberg – Dr Michaela Glöckler – Lou Harvey-Zahra – Christian Taylor RSHom
‘Social’ Media: How connection with teens is the ultimate remedy in an age of isolation
With Cori Anderberg
Cell phones, gaming, and social media – these represent the ultimate polarity.
Each of these represents a potential channel for ‘connection’ that, in reality, often leaves teens isolated.
How can we respond? How can we help? What is the antidote? Connection. Teens are yearning to belong, to connect and to be connected to.
As homeopaths, we can connect with teens. We can help parents reconnect with their teens. We have numerous remedies to address the underlying drive and yearning, helping them reconnect to themselves and the world around them. It’s not too late! As homeopaths, we are uniquely positioned to help!
Cori Anderberg
About Cori
Cori Anderberg is a licensed professional homeopath who is passionate about creating a space where women, teens, young adults, and families feel deeply seen, heard, and supported on their journey to wellness. She believes healing happens through connection -connection to ourselves, our stories, and the wisdom of our bodies. In her practice, she offers holistic homeopathic care that honours the whole person, helping clients move from disconnection and overwhelm to clarity, balance, and hope. Cori is an American/British mother of three sons between the ages of 15 and 22 who have been raised all over the world. She is also a tutor at the Southern College of Homeopathy. In her practice, she specialises in working with teens, young adults, mothers, and families, with a particular focus on mental health and anxiety, women’s health and parenting and holistic family care.
From Puberty to Teenager in the digital age
With Dr. Michaela Glöckler
Michaela will examine how digital technology is shaping teenagers’ mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. From peer pressure and addiction to bullying, abuse, and the erosion of communication with parents and friends, the impact is profound.
Adolescence is already a challenging time, as teens navigate who they are, what their future holds, and how they fit into the world. Technology can complicate this journey even further.
Dr. Michaela Glöckler
About Michaela
Dr. Michaela Glöckler paediatrician and Waldorf school doctor is the Co-founder of the Alliance for Childhood and the European Alliance of Initiatives for applied Anthroposophy/ELIANT.
Michaela recently presented at the Society of Homeopath’s 2024 conference ‘Why do children get ill? – a homeopathic and anthroposophical view of childhood diseases.’
Understanding and Connecting to Teenagers
With Lou Harvey-Zahra
This inspiring talk will provide greater wisdom and practical tips for connecting strongly with teenagers.
Lou will describe the ‘teenage world’ and guide us through the key changes for the teenage years.
The teen years are a time to re-connect to the changing teen. Lou will provide many easy ideas to help strengthen bonds with teenagers and understand how to speak to teens so that they can hear. These ideas lead to greater harmony and a stable and loving teenage time before adult life. The ideas have far-reaching effects for families as well as people working with teenagers.
Lou Harvey-Zahra
About Lou
Lou facilitates parenting talks and teacher training worldwide each year (UK, USA and Australia). But how did it all begin…? Lou obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Liverpool University, a Postgraduate Degree in Education from West Sussex Institute of Higher Education, followed by a Postgraduate Diploma in Special Educational Needs from Kingston University. Twenty-five years ago, Lou completed her Rudolf Steiner teacher training. Lou was a key presenter at the World Autism Conference and is a key lecturer for Sydney Rudolf Steiner College for the past 8 years. Lou pioneered a Saturday Social Skills Club for children with Autism/Asperger’s and their families, which obtained Government funding and still runs today, 25 years on. Lou is a co-founder of a Steiner Kindergarten, and a successful Steiner-inspired curriculum in a primary school in Melbourne, which has over 250 students and has run for 19 years. Lou was the ‘Teenage Editor’ for Juno magazine for 4 years, writing 38 articles on all aspects of parenting teens. Lou is also author of several best-selling Steiner parenting books.
Teenagers and Parents in your clinic – a homeopathic perspective
With Christian Taylor RSHom
Christian will be exploring how to alleviate the anxiety often expressed about how to talk with (not to), that often-maligned group of people, teenagers.
Christian has spent 20 years as a homeopath working for a charity that provided alternative health care to families and children on low incomes resulting in several thousand children as patients. Christian has talked to many children and teenagers in this time with successes and failures contributing to his knowledge of the family dynamics and how they play out in session.
The teenage years are challenging ones for both parents/carers and the teenager themselves. Often, the teenagers were being brought in in order that homeopathy might modify their behaviour in some way that makes them more amenable to the family expectations (e.g., attending school, not being so rude etc.). The teenagers themselves had to not only negotiate their own highly pressured social environment but also the beliefs of their parents, all while under the influence of raging hormonal shifts at least as extreme as the Menopause. Taking a case in this often polarized, and highly charged environment, can be daunting.
Christian will look at how we can approach the consultation with teenagers in a way that is more likely to produce the kind of open dialogue we need in order to successfully prescribe. This relies on the homeopath having a good understanding of family dynamics and being able to negotiate the, sometimes tricky, interview between unhappy parent and unhappy teenager.
The homeopathic model will be the point of reference in the lecture. In the end it was a better understanding of homeopathy giving a perspective from a somatic view (one that unifies the physical experience with the psychological) that allowed Christian to operate out of a place that can avoid side-taking, making the interview much less fraught and more helpful for both parents and teenager.
Christian Taylor RSHom
About Christian
Christian Taylor RSHom is a working homeopath based in Sussex. He has been in practice for over 30 years. 20 of these years were spent at the Dolphin House Children’s Clinic in Brighton. He teaches at the South Downs School of Homeopathy where he is also Co-Principal, alongside Michael Bird.