Membership levels

General

Associate Member (AHGI)

Open to anyone who is interested in, or keen to support and be part of, the development and spread of the human givens insights and approach.

HG professional members

There are three grades of professional membership for successful graduates of the Human Givens Diploma, as follows:

The Institute has the power to elect as a Fellow a Registered Member who has also made a distinctive contribution to human givens studies or its teaching or application.

Honorary Members (HonHGI)

Honorary Memberships may also be awarded for outstanding contributions to the field.

> Download our membership guide The levels of HGI membership explained for more details.

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How to get apples, not cactuses: an organisation fit for purpose

Cherry Dale explains how Birmingham South Central’s clinical commissioning group meets wellbeing needs of both staff and community by working on human givens lines.
A much-changed practice

GP Mona Mahfouz shows how dramatically the human givens approach has altered the way she works
A Christmas Carol... or a tale of three therapists?

James Tapper suggests that Charles Dickens’s famous seasonal novel contains much that reflects the human givens approach to therapy.
Overcoming alcohol abuse: the end of a ‘career’

Tom Livesey describes how Hartlepool Mind's successful approach to working with alcohol addiction overcomes funding constraints.
An HG lens on Bereavement

Julia Welstead looks at the impact of bereavement and grief
The road to recovery

Iain Caldwell uses many case studies in his description of how the human givens approach to helping people in distress has had a huge impact on mental health services in Hartlepool.
The Century of the Self

Ivan Tyrrell explores with Adam Curtis how Freudian ideas are flourishing in business and politics today and insidiously influence all of our lives.