Membership levels
Last updated: April 2020
General
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 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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Perceptions of wellbeing
Ivan Tyrrell talks with Paul Allin about the significance of the Government’s National Well-being Programme and the contribution of the human givens
What’s love got to do with it?
Among our essential emotional needs are two nods to our need for human interaction, in the forms of both an intimate relationship and community connection.
When severe emotional damage prevents brief therapy…
Julie Lawrence explains some complex forms of PTSD caused by severe emotional harm in childhood, and explores a role for HG therapists. And Emily Gajewski shares her case experience.
The Trickster: Medicine's forgotten character
Therapy in all its forms can be confusingly capricious and unpredictable. We should not try to deny this, but learn to accept it, says Larry Dossey MD.
"What was that you said again?" - a new look at psychosis
Ivan Tyrrell and Richard Bentall discuss patient-centred new approaches to the understanding and treatment of psychotic illness..
Good choices: autism and the human givens
Angela Austin describes how the human givens approach has informed her work to create an emotionally safe place where children with autism can learn.
How biohistory affects human nature
Jim Penman tells Ivan Tyrrell how biology drives our social history, explaining temperament change within cultures and the rise and fall of civilisations.
Book Review – MindReal – how the mind creates its own reality
Ian Thomson reviews "MindReal – how the mind creates its own reality" by Robert Ornstein and Ted Dewan (Malor Books)
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SCoPED Update – in respect of HGI involvement
As you may be aware of the work being carried out by the BACP/BPC/UKCP to create a framework called Scope of Practice and Education (SCoPEd).