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New mental health podcast series - coming soon
Please share your ideas - and look out for the first episode, featuring a discussion with Joe Griffin about sleep and dreaming.
Latest issue of the Human Givens Journal - out now
The latest issue of the HGI's official journal is available now - you can find out more here.
New live online workshop: How to avoid burnout
To help others effectively we need to have enough ‘spare capacity’ – which means looking after our own wellbeing too. Find out more about Human Givens College's new live online workshop - with Emily Gajewski.
Could you work for the HGI?
The HGI is looking for non-HGI members to sit on its EOC, as well as a registered HG therapist to sit on its Board.
HG at the Virtual Trauma Recovery Summit 2021
Human Givens therapist and tutor, Ros Townsend, has been invited to join an internationally recognised panel of speakers at the Trauma Recovery Summit which takes place from June 21-23 this year.
Further exposure of the mismanagement of antidepressant withdrawal
This update on Marion Brown's work to highlight the often tragic effects of withdrawal from prescription medicines was first shared in the April 2021 issue of the HG Newsletter.
The Lifting Depression Summit - Replay Now Available
Our first-ever online conference was held in February this year, and was a great success. If you missed the day, you haven't missed out. The replay is now available.
HGI Attended Conference Postponed
Due to Covid-19 and the ongoing uncertainty over when large groups will be able to reconvene safely, the HGI has made the difficult decision to postpone this year’s attended conference. We will now be putting all our efforts into planning next year’s to make it another rewarding event.
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).
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The carrot and the stick
Mark Evans describes how working imaginatively with rewards and punishments has helped his clients achieve very swift change
Dancing out of step
Miriam Chachamu explains why she is always mindful of those who are not in the therapy room.
Helping a child in pain
Pain expert Leora Kuttner shares up-to-date understandings about children’s experience of pain and some ways to help them reduce it.
Why we need to understand healthy minds
It took millions of years for the human mind to evolve into the self-forming creature we can now become. We have reached a watershed where exciting recent discoveries about how the mind/body system works enable us to understand the processes by which the human nature of a new child can successfully unfold to create an effective and fulfilled individual.
Handle with care
Aric Sigman explains why craft-based skills are as important as academic ones, and need to be taught in all schools.
Give your 2019 resolutions a positive spin
How’s your New Year resolve bearing up? What went through your mind as the bells rang in 2019? Julia Welstead discusses how reframing, visualising and rehearsing your own success are often the keys to achieving what you want, and to making your New Year resolution a permanent behaviour pattern in your life...
When depression may be catching
People who are vulnerable to depression tend to generate interpretations of stressful life events and low moods that have negative implications for their future and for their self-worth.
Inside our ethics committee
In the first of what will become an annual feature, Ian Thomson, deputy chair of the HGI’s Registration and Professional Standards Committee (RPSC), shares learning points from cases presented within the past year for adjudication or advice.
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New mental health podcast series - coming soon
Please share your ideas - and look out for the first episode, featuring a discussion with Joe Griffin about sleep and dreaming.
Latest issue of the Human Givens Journal - out now
The latest issue of the HGI's official journal is available now - you can find out more here.