Useful links
Human Givens College
A wide range of courses providing new insights and therapeutic skills for overcoming common and complex mental health and behavioural problems and more – suitable for anyone interested for professional or personal reasons, including psychotherapists, counsellors, occupational therapists, doctors, teachers, HR Managers, life coaches, welfare officers, social workers, nurses and many others...
www.humangivenscollege.com
For details of the Human Givens Diploma course, visit: www.humangivenscollege.com/diploma/
Online Courses
A variety of seminal courses from Human Givens College are also available to take online:
The Emotional Needs Audit:
For a wide selection of related publications see HG Publishing's website:
- The Human Givens Journal
- A wide range of books, monographs, CDs, videos and audio tapes
- Online shop: www.humangivens.com
The Human Givens Foundation (Registered Charity)
Human Givens Therapist Register
Find your nearest human givens therapist
www.hgi.org.uk/find-therapist
Lift Depression: The human givens approach
A website dedicated to providing practical and up-to-date information for anyone who wants to overcome depression or works with depressed people
www.lift-depression.com
Why we dream
A website dedicated to Joe Griffin's expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming.
www.why-we-dream.com
Human Givens Training Overseas
The Australian Human Givens Network:
Human Givens Centre North Carolina, USA:
Pragmatic Tracker
Pragmatic Tracker is an online tool for recording and analysing change using measurement with questionnaires. Its purpose is to provide you and your clients with an easy way to monitor their progress and to generate anonymous research data as a by-product.
pragmatictracker.com
BMJ article
Featuring the 'human givens' approach to psychotherapy, read it here.
BBC Radio 4's 'All in the Mind'
Listen to Dr Raj Persaud's interview with Joe Griffin about the Human Givens College (was then 'MindFields College') 'How to lift depression' workshop on BBC Radio 4's 'All in the Mind', listen here
The Human Givens Charter
MIND
National Association for Mental Health:
www.mind.org.uk
The Mental Health Foundation
Help people to thrive through understanding, protecting and sustaining their mental health:
www.mentalhealth.org.uk
The Centre for Mental Health
Improving life for people in the UK with mental health problems
www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk
Time to Change
End mental health discrimination:
www.time-to-change.org.uk
Mental Health UK
Mental health support for people across the UK:
www.mentalhealth-uk.org
Heads Together
Changing the conversation and tackling the stigma around mental health:
www.headstogether.org.uk
Young Minds
Fighting for young peoples mental health:
youngminds.org.uk
NSPCC
Every childhood is worth fighting for
www.nspcc.org.uk
PTSD Resolution
Forces Veterans' Mental Health
www.ptsdresolution.org
New Scientist magazine's health page
www.newscientist.com/subject/health
OCD Action
The leading national charity for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorders.
www.ocdaction.org.uk
SANE
A national mental health charity which aims to raise awareness of mental illness, campaign to improve services and initiate and fund research into the causes of serious mental illness through its research centre. SANELINE 0300 304 7000 (available every day) is a national helpline providing emotional support and information to those experiencing mental health problems, their families, carers and professionals.
www.sane.org.uk
Depression Alliance
UK charity with information about the symptoms and treatment of depression.
www.depressionalliance.org
British Holistic Medical Association (BHMA)
Educates doctors, medical students, allied health professionals and members of the general public in the principles and practice of holistic medicine.
www.bhma.org
Healers.co.uk
A UK-based website containing a searchable directory of therapists, healers, counsellors and complementary health practitioners.
www.healers.co.uk
Further Links
We are constantly growing our directory of additional links. (Please note: HGI are not responsible for the content of external sites.)
Trending Articles
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.
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 uses and abuses of hypnosis
Ivan Tyrrell warns that hypnosis is a powerful tool that must be used with care, understanding and integrity.
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 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.
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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With mindfulness now all the rage, many online articles are now advocating breathing techniques as a way to lessen anxiety and control stress levels.
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.
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The alarming hijacking of the BioPsychoSocial model
HG-trained lobbyist Marion Brown has spotted an alarming reversal in the use of the bio-psycho-social model for mental health and wellbeing within the medical world.
Date posted: 24/04/2019
HGI's Emotional Needs Audit used to conduct survey into mental health and wellbeing in Ireland
Amárach Research have just published the results of their recent survey of the mental health and wellbeing of 1,000 adults in Ireland, using the Human Givens Emotoinal Needs Audit
Date posted: 07/03/2019