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.humangivens.com/college
For details of the Human Givens Diploma course, visit: www.humangivens.com/college/diploma
Online Courses
A variety of seminal courses from Human Givens College are also available to take online:
www.humangivens.com/college/online-courses
The Emotional Needs Audit:
For a wide selection of related publications see HG Publishing's website:
www.humangivens.com/publications
- The Human Givens Journal
- A wide range of books, monographs, CDs, and audio downloads
The Human Givens Foundation (Registered Charity)
www.humangivens.com/foundation
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:
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
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
Psychology Today UK
Psychology Today provides a comprehensive directory of therapists near you.
www.psychologytoday.com/gb
Find your nearest human givens therapist - www.psychologytoday.com/human-givens
Articles written by HG therapist Denise Winn - Helping Humanity Thrive
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/helping-humanity-thrive
Further Links
We are constantly growing our directory of additional links. (Please note: HGI are not responsible for the content of external sites.)
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SCoPEd Update
The Human Givens Institute (HGI) was one of the six organisations, along with BACP, UKCP and NCS, involved in developing the SCoPEd framework,
Could you help produce this valuable resource?
As you may be aware, after 26 years as editor of the Human Givens Journal, Denise Winn will be stepping down at the end of 2023. Despite advertising for a successor last year, we have been unable to find any one person who could fulfil the role.
Date posted: 13/04/2023