Welcome to our May 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: John Seddon on how to cure the UK of Target Obsession Disorder (TOD) How to liberate yourself from pain - new book out now HGI's Practice Research Network: Leading the way for psychotherapy outcome research in the UK Transforming Tales: “Pure gold” Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference - Special offer ------------------------------------------------------------------ 'Mending our shattered country' At the 2009 HGI conference, Ivan Tyrrell, Principal of MindFields College, introduced the guest speaker, John Seddon (left), author of Systems Thinking in the Public Sector, to explain why our public services have become so wasteful and inefficient over the last 25 years and show how the damage can be reversed “for free”. Watch the electrifying talk he gave at the conference or find out more about his work at his System's Thinking Review website. A full, in-depth report describing all of the presentations at the conference is currently being prepared for publication at a later date. ------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW BOOK: How to liberate yourself from pain This latest title in the best-selling HG 'Essential Help in Troubled Times' series was launched at the conference. How to liberate yourself from pain: Practical help for sufferers, was written by Denise Winn and Dr Grahame Brown of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust in Birmingham. In the preface, Christopher Buckley, Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Birmingham, writes: “Dr Brown has a real gift for helping people heal themselves – I know: I’m one of them!” And Miriam Chachamu, author of How to Calm a Challenging Child, wrote, “I never realised that a book about pain could be a page-turner…” For more information, click here. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The HGI's Practice Research Network At the Human Givens Foundation’s recent AGM, HGI Research Fellow Dr Bill Andrews (on the left) gripped us with his lively report on how human givens therapists are currently producing the most robust and comprehensive data on therapeutic outcomes in the UK. “Since data collection commenced in April 2007 within the Human Givens Institute Practice Research Network (HGIPRN) we are now able to profile the therapeutic journey of over 2,500 clients, involving over 90 therapists. Tracking client journeys all the way from referral to recovery helps us to accurately represent the impact of our treatments across a wide range of client populations. We believe that for our practice-based evidence to be meaningful it must be robust, fully inclusive and comprehensive. At the moment, we are the only school of therapy doing this and the results to date are extremely promising. We are committed to leading the field in this endeavour – you can read more about our work at www.hgiprn.org At the HGI we encourage all our therapists to work in an outcome- informed way – so if you are a practitioner working in tune with the human givens, whether in training or fully qualified, and are not yet contributing your data, we urge you to please do so (see our website for details). You will help your clients, yourself and the cause, which is to improve mental health services nationwide.” ------------------------------------------------------------------ Transforming Tales Rob Parkinson’s long-awaited book about the power and significance of metaphor, Transforming Tales: How stories can change people, is now available. Rightly described by a leading HG psychotherapist as “pure gold”, it reveals how stories can create feelings of hope, take away psychological distress and even stimulate the immune system. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference Dr Jeffrey Zeig, director of the Milton H Erickson Foundation and member of the Human Givens Journal's Editorial Advisory Board, has arranged a special offer for our readers: a $50.00 discount off your registration fee (when you register online using the case sensitive code: HumanGivens) for attendance at the international Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference. The conference, which takes place on 9-13th December in Anaheim, California, will feature outstanding experts whose work has shaped the face of contemporary psychotherapy. Keynote speakers include: Aaron Beck, Deepak Chopra, Andrew Weil, Irvin Yalom and Philip Zimbardo. For more information on what looks like being an outstanding educational event, visit: www.evolutionofpsychotherapy.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ One last thought... "The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity." Margaret J. Wheatley ------------------------------------------------------------------ We hope you've enjoyed this latest edition of the HGI e-newsletter. If someone has forwarded this to you and you would like to continue receiving it, please sign up by clicking here. (To make sure it doesn't end up in your junk mail folder, please add our email address to your address book.) 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