Online courses
As well as its face-to-face training days, Human Givens College provides a range of free and paid-for online courses – see below. Diploma-linked courses count towards Part 1 of the Human Givens Diploma course.
You will also find a variety of Special Offers on their website – click here for full details.
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 £159.00
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 £15.00
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 £159.00
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 £159.00
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 £15.00
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
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 £159.00
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 £159.00
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 £159.00
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 £159.00
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 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£15.00
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 £25.00
Delving Deeper: Exploring consciousness
This groundbreaking course takes you on a mind-expanding journey through the fundamental questions of our time.
Tutor: Joe Griffin£129.00
and Ivan Tyrrell
Delving Deeper: 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£129.00
and Ivan Tyrrell
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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...
Book Review – The Attention Merchants: how our time and attention are gathered and sold
Ivan Tyrrell reviews "The Attention Merchants: how our time and attention are gathered and sold" by Tim Wu (Atlantic Books, £20.00)
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
“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.
Beautiful outside and in
Lee Pycroft describes how a beauty makeover can trigger self-care and self-respect in vulnerable or traumatised women.
On the receiving end...
A young Russian woman, Nina, describes how just three sessions of human givens therapy lifted out of her suicidal depression and turned her life around.
Therapy techniques that work
In the first of an occasional series featuring contributions from HG practitioners, Miriam Chachamu shares two simple therapeutic ideas that fit well with the human givens toolkit.
The Century of the Self
Ivan Tyrrell explores with Adam Curtis how Freudian ideas are flourishing in business and politics today and insidiously influence all of our lives.
Trending Articles
How to lift depression quickly and safely
Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell explain how and why a human givens approach can help therapists shift depression in just a few sessions — or less.
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.
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.
Case Study: Antidepressant experience
CASE HISTORY
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.
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.
Lifting depression is easy to do — when you know its cause
An article about the human givens approach that appeared in the major American publication, Family Therapy Magazine.
The uses and abuses of hypnosis
Ivan Tyrrell warns that hypnosis is a powerful tool that must be used with care, understanding and integrity.
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Latest edition of the Human Givens Journal out now - Vol 25, no 1 2018
Volume 25, No 1, 2018, the latest edition of the Human Givens Journal is now available.
Date posted: 11/06/2018
Couples Therapy Interview for Shining Bright Radio
Brian Greene and Jennifer Broadley discuss how to apply the human givens approach in couples therapy.
Date posted: 30/05/2018