About the Institute
The Human Givens Institute (HGI) is an international organisation concerned with unifying the most effective forms of counselling and psychotherapy into a truly biopsychosocial approach. It incorporates the most powerful, up-to-date therapeutic techniques and explanatory neuroscientific findings, and newly devised interventions, and focuses on achieving positive outcomes for clients as quickly as possible.
‘Human Givens’ is a practical, holistic and scientific therapeutic approach which gives us a clear framework for understanding ourselves and what we need to thrive. Thousands of people around the world recognise that the organising ideas succinctly expressed in the phrase ‘human givens’ have enormous, beneficial implications for education, mental health, social cohesion and the worlds of business, politics and diplomacy.
The HGI itself is both a professional body and membership organisation. Membership is open to anyone who is studying or applying human givens insights and understandings in psychotherapy, education, public and private sector organisations and elsewhere, or simply keen to support and be part of the development and spread of the human givens approach.
The professional body represents the interests of those in the caring, welfare and teaching professions who have trained in the human givens approach, working in alignment with the best scientific knowledge available about the givens of human nature.
The HGI is associated with the Human Givens College, the official teaching establishment for this approach, and all successful graduates of the College’s Diploma are invited to join as professional members. (There are various levels of membership.) The professional section advances all aspects of human givens therapeutic practice, including standards, CPD and the ethical behaviour of members.
The HGI is a founding member of the Partnership of Counselling and Psychotherapy bodies (PCPB) and one of the six PSA-accredited psychotherapy and counselling registers which took the lead in creating guidelines for safe practice and training in psychotherapy and counselling – known as the Scope of Practice and Education (SCoPEd) framework. The HGI’s professional membership levels align with the column’s 3 columns.
