Specialist Sections

Because of the far-reaching implications of the human givens approach, many different fields now benefit from incorporating this important new shift in our understanding of human functioning (see, for example, the article Human givens and social work and others in the Resources section.)

HGI Sections can be set up by HGI members who share specialist skills, interests and employment, to pool information and resources, and promote the use of the human givens paradigm in their particular field.

Current HGI Sections include:

The NHS Human Givens Interest Group
The HGI Education Section
Research – The HGI Practice Research Network

Sections currently under consideration include:

Executive Coaching from the Human Givens
Social Work
Philosophy/ethics
Politics/diplomacy

Any members wishing to apply to start a new section, or head up a section currently under consideration, please contact the HGI office with your ideas and details for consideration by the board.

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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.
Balancing up the business

Janice Haddon shows how she has drawn upon the human givens approach to work more creatively with corporate clients.
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.
From self-harm to self-belief

Even though self-harm is discussed in the media, the subject of self-harming can still feel difficult to approach. Emily Gajewski's ‘From Self-harm to Self-belief’ one-day training course offers clear, research-based framework and practical skills, so you needn’t feel that way again….
The riddle of conditioned taste adversion

THE pain–pleasure recall principle also explains the well-known phenomenon of conditioned taste aversion, which has always presented a problem for classical conditioning.
Common ground: diplomacy and the human givens

John Bell suggests that only a radically different, innate needs-based approach to conflict resolution can bring a possibility of peace to the Middle East.
Treating schizophrenia without drugs

Treatmenta for schizophrenia that involve no drugs, or only low doses of them, urgently need investigation, suggests Dr Tim Calton, lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Nottingham, and colleagues.
The APET™ model: standing cognitive therapy on its head

Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell introduce a biologically-based theory which explains the shortcomings of purely cognitive approaches and why effective therapies can work fast.