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.
Live online events available - gain new knowledge and skills from the comfort of your own home.
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
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
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
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
Explore our articles and interviews
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.
Book Review – The Buddha Pill: can meditation change you?
Ivan Tyrrell reviews "The Buddha Pill: can meditation change you?" by Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm (Watkins Publishing, £10.99).
The Emotional Needs Scale
Brett Culham describes the outcome of his research to validate the needs-based human givens approach to psychological health.
How the police measure up
By introducing the human givens approach along with outcome measurements, Jayne Timmins has made her mark on Dyfed-Powys police.
How to get apples, not cactuses: an organisation fit for purpose
Cherry Dale explains how Birmingham South Central’s clinical commissioning group meets wellbeing needs of both staff and community by working on human givens lines.
"It's what's right with you that fixes what's wrong"
Chris Dyas vividly describes how he teaches troubled children to be their own therapists.
"What was that you said again?" - a new look at psychosis
Ivan Tyrrell and Richard Bentall discuss patient-centred new approaches to the understanding and treatment of psychotic illness..
Don’t Worry, Be Happy… and Overcome Anxiety
Do you think of yourself as an anxious person? This can lead you to think that anxiety is your lot; that there is damn all you can do about it. Well, that isn’t true at all and you are confining yourself to a limiting box if you continue to believe that...
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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