Trauma
Deborah Potts
United KingdomSuffolkAs a registered nurse and health visitor of 35 years, 22 of those in the Army, Deborah has seen first-hand the effects that emotional problems and traumatic events can have on individuals and their
Roberta Hutchins
The Sustainable Health CentreNotaries House, Chapel StreetUnited KingdomExeterDevonEX1 1AJKingsley House Fitness & Wellbeing Centre67 Fore StreetUnited KingdomChudleighDevonTQ13 0HTRoberta Hutchins has over 15 years’ experience in private practice as an integrated holistic health practitioner in Devon.
Jo Somers
18 Duke StIrelandAthyCo KildareIrelandGrangeconCo WicklowWith 35 years of experience in a variety of settings, I am a fully-qualified and registered Human Givens therapist.
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The evolution of the human givens approach
John Halker interviews Joe Griffin (co-founder of the human givens approach) at the human givens conference 2018.
The therapist's account
Read Mike Beard's therapist account of Nina's treatment.
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...
Targets, inspections and the human givens in schools
Trevor Bailey, head of Worle School, raises issues about the impact of targets and inspections on the well-being of staff and thus on motivation and effectiveness..
Great Expectations
Joe Griffin goes back to basics to arrive at some powerful new insights into the givens of human nature.
Common ground: diplomacy and the human givens
John Bell suggests that only a radically different, innate needs-based approach to conflict resolution can bring a possibility of peace to the Middle East.
Our collective cultural insanity
Doris Lessing believes we are all much closer to craziness than we like to believe. In conversations with Ivan Tyrrell she talks about age, breakdowns and the ubiquitous 'self-hater'.
Molar Memories: how an ancient mechanism can ruin lives
When we react excessively to events, major or minor, we may be victims of a primitive survival mechanism gone awry, suggests Joe Griffin. Despite often causing years of distress, it can be treated successfully — and usually remarkably quickly.
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