Welcome to our June 2009 newsletter. If you agree that a greater awareness of innate human needs and resources is important for society, please tell others about the human givens (HG) approach and forward this newsletter to them.
In this issue:
- The Missing Peace – Middle East politics and the human givens
- Human Givens Netherlands: update
- New dates announced for next HG Supervision Course
- Latest HG Journal just published - Special offer
The Missing Peace – Middle East politics and the human givens
After the refreshingly hopeful diplomatic steps taken by Barack Obama in the Middle East last week, we thought you might like to know about the work of two Canadians endeavouring to bring much-needed insight into the ongoing problems in the Middle East.John Bell and John Zada, both of Middle East origin, have had a lifelong fascination with the Middle East. A career diplomat and a journalist respectively, they have both spent more than a decade living and working throughout the region in various capacities. On their thought-provoking website, missing-peace.blogspot.com, they pool their knowledge, insights, and experiences to generate new perspectives for understanding and addressing the problems of the region.
Drawing on the human givens approach, as well as the work of Arthur Deikman, Robert Ornstein and others, their website, is full of intelligent, thought-provoking posts on such subjects as: Human Needs and the Lure of Extremism, "We are better than them", and Understanding Iran (3): A question of needs.
The clarity that their work brings to the myriad of seemingly intangible problems facing the area offers real hope for finding workable solutions. But if any real progress is to be made, this quality of thought and understanding needs to be diffused and assimilated as widely as possible.
Let's hope Obama and others are reading missing-peace.blogspot.com
Human Givens Netherlands: update
Over the past year, and after much hard work, Human Givens Nederland has successfully piloted 13 different Mindfields College seminars and workshops in Leiden. On the back of this success, they have launched a comprehensive and informative website in Dutch: www.humangivens.nl which aims to answer the growing stream of questions and interest in HG there.
The site clearly explains the human givens approach both to individuals looking for therapy and professionals interested in the origin of the ideas and how this new school of psychology compares to the better known approaches to mental well-being.
Some of the important articles from the HG Journal are now available to read in Dutch (having been kindly translated by Joost Perreijn). And there is a comprehensive section on the HG training programme and the on-site workshops on offer for organisations.
There will be a brand new workshop in Holland in the autumn on Dyslexia, ADD and right-brain dominance.
Report by: Renee van der Vloodt and Marieke Uiterwijk
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New dates announced for HG Supervision Course
This year's HG Supervision course will be held at York University on 30th September–1st October and 24th–25th November 09.
Delegates on the first course last year found it a rich and rewarding experience. It has been carefully designed to bring clarity to the subject and improve standards of supervision for counsellors and psychotherapists generally by basing it on solid human givens principles. (None of the existing five main models of supervision has an organising framework.)
With the increasing likelihood that supervision will soon become mandatory as part of the regulation of the profession, and the inclusion of a supervisory element to MindFields College's new university-accredited courses, the need for supervisors working from the HG perspective will grow.
For more information, see the course leaflet and application form.
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Latest issue of 'Human Givens' journal out now
Published today, the latest issue is as packed full as ever of fascinating articles, news items, reviews and letters, and a thought-provoking interview in which James Le Fanu tells Ivan Tyrrell why he asserts that reductionist science can never explain the mystery of ourselves...
Click here to see the full contents.
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If you haven't yet seen a copy of our journal, you can receive two free back issues to find out for yourself what an inspriring read it is.
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"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property." Thomas Jefferson
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