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.
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
Good Practice: Ethics for the caring professions
Essential knowledge – for counsellors, psychotherapists and anyone else working with distressed people.
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell£159.00
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 £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 £25.00
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 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 £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
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
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
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
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: 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£129.00
and Ivan Tyrrell
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How we set up a human givens therapy centre
Gail Rhodes and Jenny Waddington describe their experience of establishing a small business to spread availability of the human givens approach.
Madness, creativity and human nature
Ivan Tyrrell talks with Daniel Nettle about the far closer than expected connection between psychosis and creative thinking.
The Doctrines of Psychology
Chris Scott, human givens therapist, addresses why a new approach to psychology which breaks away from traditional dogma is needed.
Shining Bright Radio Interview
Listen to Brian Greene’s interview with Denise Winn (Human Givens College tutor and psychology journalist, editor and author) as they discuss how the human givens approach is used for successfully treating depression.
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.
Why psychiatrists should be more like plumbers
Dr Farouk Okhai opens his casebook to show how the human givens approach can best help severely distressed people.
Are you ok? Don’t miss signs of depression
Would you know if someone you care about has depression? Most people probably think that they would, but it isn’t necessarily as obvious as you might expect. Indeed, until some simple screening questionnaires were introduced for GPs to use, half of them were missing the diagnosis in patients that came to consult them.
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The uses and abuses of hypnosis
Ivan Tyrrell warns that hypnosis is a powerful tool that must be used with care, understanding and integrity.
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.
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.
3 ways to relax immediately
Do you feel overwhelmed with life? Like you are paddling hard just to stay afloat?
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.
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.
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 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.
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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.