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Introducing our new Chair
Sue Gray, who takes over from Dr Declan Lyons, is an accomplished Senior Health & Social Care Director and Clinician...
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).
RedArc adds HGI Register to its panel of professional bodies
Red Arc works with insurers, intermediaries, employers and membership organisations... their Red Arc’s curated panel is used by their nurses to select therapies for individuals where external specialist support is needed.
Our grateful thanks...
Our grateful thanks.... to Declan Lyons and Sue Saunders
Date posted: 01/07/2020
HG Emotional Needs Audit used to assess emotional wellbeing during the pandemic
Just Released: A new report uses the HG framework to assess emotional wellbeing during the panemic lockdown - contains vital information and confirms the value of the HG approach in assessing mental health.
Counselling and psychotherapy organisations unite...
The HGI is one of the organisations supporting the campaign organised by BACP, BPC and UKCP to maximise the role of counselling and psychotherapy in helping to support people through the Covid 19 c
BBC Somerset Radio Interview
Charlie Taylor interviews Judith Desbonne and Tiffany Osborne about the human givens approach to therapy and its many benefits.
2020 Conference Programme announced
This year's 2-day conference promises to be another cracking event with some fascinating new insights, a wealth of practical content to expand your professional knowledge and inspirational illustrations of how widely the HG approach is spreading.
2020 Conference - Save the date!
Our biennial HGI conferences are always a fun way to stay up-to-date and network with like-minded professionals.
HG Therapy now available via AVIVA
The Human Givens Institute is now listed as a regulatory body on Aviva’s private practice register.
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Julia Welstead looks at why we care so much about body image
The fast cure for phobia and trauma: evidence that it works
Counsellors who use it know that the 'rewind technique' is fast, safe, painless and effective for dealing with trauma. Keith Guy and Nicola Guy have tested it in research.
Come fly with me (calmly)
Sian Withers shows how she makes very good use of the human givens approach thousands of feet up in the air.
Try a little kindness
In the midst of lockdown, and echoing the theme of this year's Mental Health Week, Julia Welstead takes a moment to consider acts of kindn
Madness, creativity and human nature
Ivan Tyrrell talks with Daniel Nettle about the far closer than expected connection between psychosis and creative thinking.
Our collective cultural insanity
Doris Lessing believes we are all much closer to craziness than we like to believe. In conversations with Ivan Tyrrell she talks about age, breakdowns and the ubiquitous 'self-hater'.
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.
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...
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Introducing our new Chair
Sue Gray, who takes over from Dr Declan Lyons, is an accomplished Senior Health & Social Care Director and Clinician...
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).