2024 Conference
Our next in-person HGI Conference, is being held on the weekend of 20th and 21st April 2024 at Woodland Grange in Leamington Spa.
Our in-person events are always inspiring and stimulating and a great networking opportunity. They are well attended by a range of interesting people from around the world, the majority of whom use the human givens approach directly in their work, but many others have benefited from it in their lives or are simply interested in how the rich psychological knowledge the approach encapsulates can be used to improve not only mental health and wellbeing, but any human endeavour.
This year's theme is 'Seeing how to see' and it looks set to be a particularly dynamic and interesting weekend – we've responded to members' feedback and put together a highly interactive programme which tackles some professionally and personally challenging questions as it builds our knowledge and understanding as the weekend progresses, and gives you plenty of practical 'takeaways'.
You can view the programme here.
SAVE £30 – early bird offer
You can save £30 on the full conference package if you book before Thurs 29th February 2024.
Explore our articles and interviews
Book Review – MindReal – how the mind creates its own reality
Ian Thomson reviews "MindReal – how the mind creates its own reality" by Robert Ornstein and Ted Dewan (Malor Books)
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.
A devastating death
Janine Hurley describes how the HGI Ethics Committee helped her cope, professionally and personally, when, tragically, a client killed herself.
Just what couples need
Véronique Chown explores the value of the human givens approach in successful couples therapy.
Why abstractions confuse people
Most people think ethics is concerned with truth, justice, equality, loyalty, fairness, values, principles, morals, etc. All these words in italics are abstractions. They are content free. They contain no sensory information. Such words used to be called 'reifications' in philosophy and are now more commonly called 'nominalisations'.
“I was Angela long before I became a self-harmer”
Self-harm is still a taboo subject. Angela shares her experience of self-harm and the impact it had on her life before taking the first steps to recovery.
Lifting depression is easy to do — when you know its cause
This article about the human givens approach first appeared in the major American publication, Family Therapy Magazine.
Human givens in primary care
Community psychiatric nurse Liz Potts describes her experience as one of the few primary care professionals in Coventry using the human givens approach.
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2024 Conference
Our next in-person HGI Conference, is being held on the weekend of 20th and 21st April 2024