Online courses
HG College provides a range of free and paid-for online courses – which you can also see listed below. Those marked Diploma-linked count towards Part 1 of the Human Givens Diploma course.
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Overcoming Self-harm
How to reduce and prevent self-harming behaviours. This inspiring course demystifies the causes of self-harm and gives clear, practical guidance on the best ways to help children and adults.
Tutor: Emily Gajewski
Understanding Anxiety – and managing it without drugs
Essential information – discover the quickest, most effective ways to reduce all sorts of anxiety and help people take back control of their lives.
Tutor: Joe Griffin
Effective Anger Management
Have you ever felt powerless in the face of anger? If so, this practical and highly informative course is for you – learn how to take back control...
Tutor: Joe Griffin
Good Practice: Ethics for the caring professions
Essential knowledge – for counsellors, psychotherapists and anyone else working with distressed people.
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell
and Sue Saunders
Tackling Addiction
Discover why we are all vulnerable to addictions, what causes and drives addictive and compulsive behaviours – and the best ways to overcome them.
Tutor: Joe Griffin
How to break the cycle of depression
Vital information for everyone – includes new insights and research findings which dramatically improve recovery rates and reduce relapses.
Tutor: Joe Griffin
The uses and abuses of hypnosis
Hypnosis is one of the most valuable psychotherapeutic tools available. But few understand that it has an equally strong potential to harm patients.
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell
Understanding Trauma
Effective treatment and recovery – Discover why some people become traumatised and not others, the cause of extreme traumatic stress responses, the wide range of trauma symptoms – and much more…
Tutor: Rosalind Townsend
How to make counselling more effective
If you advise, treat or counsel disturbed or distressed people, this could be the most important course you ever take...
Tutor: Joe Griffin
From Stress to Psychosis:
how to prevent mental illness
New insights into the causes of mental illness, including severe conditions like schizophrenia, are explaining distressing symptoms and reducing suffering...
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell
Effective brief psychotherapy
Discover how to make a positive difference – whatever the problem – using the key concepts and skills encompassed in human givens therapy.
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell
Is it possible to build resilience to stress?
Resilience has become a buzzword in mental health and corporate well-being – but what does it mean and why are some people more resilient to stress than others?
Tutor: Julia Welstead FREE
Dreaming, daydreaming and creativity
Ivan Tyrrell's fascinating talk from the HG Diploma throws new light on our evolution as he explains the crucial role of the REM state and much more...
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell FREE
How to become an even better therapist – in just 90 minutes!
Key insights – illustrated with practical examples and stories – designed to further develop your skills as a psychotherapist or counsellor.
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell
How to reduce anxiety in students and young people
This hugely informative, far-reaching webinar gives you essential new information and fast, effective techniques to lower anxiety levels and unblock thinking in students of any age.
Tutor: Gareth Hughes
How to support teenagers through the stress of starting university life
Do you know someone about to start university? Are you or they worried about what it's going to be like or how you're all going to cope?
Tutor: Gareth Hughes
Stress and Mental Health
– what you need to know
If stress impacts on you or your clients – don't miss out on the wealth of helpful information contained in this webinar.
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell
Why do we dream?
Joe Griffin reviews past theories and new research findings (which add further evidence for his own theory) as he tells the riveting story of how he solved the mystery of our dreams...
Tutor: Joe Griffin FREE
Delving Deeper: Exploring consciousness
This groundbreaking course takes you on a mind-expanding journey through the fundamental questions of our time.
Tutor: Joe Griffin
and Ivan Tyrrell
Delving Deeper: How to overcome fear and political chaos
Using the lens of innate human needs to help resolve political and social conflicts, undermine terror agendas and promote peace.
Tutor: John Bell
and Ivan Tyrrell
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Case History: Martin Baldwin
Martin Baldwin tells us about being diagnosed with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPSTD) after numerous traumatic experiences and the life-saving, life-changing impact of human givens therapy
Aspects of good practice
Ian Thomson takes a look at a selection of ethical issues of relevance to human givens practitioners.
Great Expectations
Joe Griffin goes back to basics to arrive at some powerful new insights into the givens of human nature.
The Final Emotional Needs Scale
The final version of the Emotional Needs Scale resulting from Brett Culham's research into emotional needs.
“But he gave me flowers”
Ros Jeal describes how she is helping women stop themselves from being lured back into abusive relationships.
VIP award for HG inspired work
Congratulations to Valerie Hillen, who has won an award for her invaluable work with job seekers.
“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.
Dying and Death
When? That’s the big unanswerable question: the uncertainty of which can cause us debilitating fear or a ‘head in the sand’ attitude of ignoring the inevitable. In this article Julia Welstead looks at our mortality and preparing for the inevitable.
Trending Articles
The uses and abuses of hypnosis
Ivan Tyrrell warns that hypnosis is a powerful tool that must be used with care, understanding and integrity.
The mysterious Jung: his cult, the lies he told, and the occult
Ivan Tyrrell asks Professor Richard Noll, author of ‘The Jung Cult’, to unravel the lies Carl G Jung told to aggrandise himself and his charismatic psychoanalytic movement.
The Emotional Needs Scale
Brett Culham describes the outcome of his research to validate the needs-based human givens approach to psychological health.
Normal birth can be pain free
Sheila Barratt-Smith tells Denise Winn that the images and language used to describe birth can determine whether a woman experiences pain — or euphoria.
7-11 breathing: How does deep breathing make you feel more relaxed?
With mindfulness now all the rage, many online articles are now advocating breathing techniques as a way to lessen anxiety and control stress levels.
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.
PTSD: why some techniques for treating it work so fast
In this article, Joe Griffin suggests that techniques which can yield immediate success, may share an underlying mechanism.
Exploring the CULT in culture
Looking at cult behaviour. A revised version (including additional material) of an article by Ivan Tyrrell, first published in 1993, that explores Dr Arthur Deikman's enlightening work on cult behaviour.
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A Closer Look at our Innate Resources – new online course
Join HG co-founder, Ivan Tyrrell, and HG Diploma tutor, Carol Harper for an in-depth look at our innate resources.
Date posted: 20/01/2022
Ivan Tyrrell interviews Dr Iain McGilchrist
This fascinating conversation is now available to watch.
Date posted: 10/01/2022