Would you like to learn more?

If you feel inspired by the information and case histories on this website, we suggest you take a look at the training offered by Human Givens College

It is the official, international source of training in the human givens approach and offers a wide range of courses, both online and in person, on how best to help people with a range of emotional and behavioural problems and more. It also offers essential psychotherapy and counselling skills training.

You can develop your own knowledge and skills through its:

Online courses
One- and two-day courses (currently held in the UK and Ireland)
Diploma Course

Training in the USA

For the first time ever, Human Givens College is taking its training courses to America – for more information, please contact John Shuford at the North Carolina Human Givens Center

You can read more about human givens courses here

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20 years of the human givens

We take a look at what's been achieved since two pioneering psychotherapists put a name to this powerful understanding of human nature and mental health...
Helpless to help

The torment of ‘caring’ for a much-loved brother suffering from psychosis, to whom the NHS has failed to offer meaningful help …
Balancing up the business

Janice Haddon shows how she has drawn upon the human givens approach to work more creatively with corporate clients.
The limits of tolerance: ethics and human nature

At a time when we are struggling with a number of major moral dilemas, Ivan Tyrrell suggests that the human givens approach can help us reach ethical decisions.
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.
Why hypnosis and the power of the mind matter in medicine

In the 1930s a Bedouin tribesman introduced a young Irish doctor to the powers of the subconscious mind. Sixty years later, after doing over four thousand operations using hypnosis. Dr Jack Gibson talks to Joe Griffin..
"It's what's right with you that fixes what's wrong"

Chris Dyas vividly describes how he teaches troubled children to be their own therapists.
The Doctrines of Psychology

Chris Scott, human givens therapist, addresses why a new approach to psychology which breaks away from traditional dogma is needed.