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No more dancing around the problem
After almost losing his life, Stuart Waters is passionate about bringing emotionally healthy practice to the dance world.
Pulling out positives from pain
Beth Hamilton describes the innovative workshop programme she has devised to help people cope with chronic pain.
The limits of tolerance: ethics and human nature
At a time when we are struggling with a number of major moral dilemas, Ivan Tyrrell suggests that the human givens approach can help us reach ethical decisions.
Emma Charlton describes how the human givens approach provides the framework for the fertility support group she co-facilitates in Bristol.
Emma Charlton describes how the human givens approach provides the framework for the fertility support group she co-facilitates in Bristol.
The APET™ model: standing cognitive therapy on its head
Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell describe a biologically-based theory which explains the shortcomings of purely cognitive approaches and why effective therapies can work fast.
‘Guilt sensitivity’: a possible part to play in OCD
People who find guilt feelings highly difficult to tolerate may be especially prone to the OCD-type behaviours of compulsive checking or checking rituals...
Aspects of good practice
Ian Thomson takes a look at a selection of ethical issues of relevance to human givens practitioners.
The importance of sleep and why we need it
We all take sleep for granted until we have problems with it and then we quickly remember how desirable a good night's sleep is.
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The uses and abuses of hypnosis
Ivan Tyrrell warns that hypnosis is a powerful tool that must be used with care, understanding and integrity...
The fast cure for phobia and trauma: evidence that it works
Counsellors who use it know that the 'rewind technique' is fast, safe, painless and effective for dealing with trauma. Keith Guy and Nicola Guy devised a study to test it.
7-11 breathing: How does deep breathing make you feel more relaxed?
Many online articles now advocate breathing techniques as a way to lessen anxiety and control stress levels, but we have noticed...
Normal birth can be pain free
Sheila Barratt-Smith tells Denise Winn that the images and language used to describe birth can determine whether a woman experiences pain — or euphoria.
Molar Memories: how an ancient mechanism can ruin lives
When we react excessively to events, major or minor, we may be victims of a primitive survival mechanism gone awry, suggests Joe Griffin. Despite often causing years of distress, it can be treated successfully — and usually remarkably quickly.
Book Review – The Attention Merchants: how our time and attention are gathered and sold
Ivan Tyrrell reviews "The Attention Merchants: how our time and attention are gathered and sold" by Tim Wu (Atlantic Books, £20.00)
Let the children play
Carol Harper explores how we can use the insights from the human givens approach to protect and improve our children’s mental health – not only during the current crisis but for the long-term …
Madness, creativity and human nature
Ivan Tyrrell talks with Daniel Nettle about the far closer than expected connection between psychosis and creative thinking.
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HG practitioner participates in global congress
HG practitioner Felicity Jaffrey, who lives and works in Egypt, received the extraordinary honour of being invited to speak at Egypt’s hugely prestigious Global Congress on Population, Health and Human Development (PHDC24) in Cairo in October.
SCoPEd - latest update
The six SCoPEd partners have published their latest update on the important work currently underway with regards to the SCoPEd framework implementation, governance and impact assessment.
Date posted: 14/02/2024