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Beautiful outside and in

Lee Pycroft describes how a beauty makeover can trigger self-care and self-respect in vulnerable or traumatised women.
A very different kind of coaching

Frances Masters describes what led her to set up a charity to deliver free psychotherapeutic coaching, based on the human givens.
Human givens and social work

Social work should be about helping people yet, bogged down in bureaucracy, it has lost its way. Jan Little shows how the human givens approach can put it back on track.
Don’t Worry, Be Happy… and Overcome Anxiety

Do you think of yourself as an anxious person? This can lead you to think that anxiety is your lot; that there is damn all you can do about it. Well, that isn’t true at all and you are confining yourself to a limiting box if you continue to believe that...
Mind Sculpture: "This trembling web"

Joe Griffin talks with Professor Ian Robertson about the role of experience in the sculpting of our brains, and why certain types of counselling may do harm.
Balancing up the business

Janice Haddon shows how she has drawn upon the human givens approach to work more creatively with corporate clients.
How schools are using the human givens approach

Human givens principles have been introduced to over 200 schools and adopted systemically by some. Here, four headteachers provide a vivid snapshot of their impact.
Dying and Death

When? That’s the big unanswerable question: the uncertainty of which can cause us debilitating fear or a ‘head in the sand’ attitude of ignoring the inevitable. In this article Julia Welstead looks at our mortality and preparing for the inevitable.