About the Institute
The Human Givens Institute (HGI) is both a membership organisation and a professional body.
The membership organisation is open to anyone who is studying or applying human givens insights and understandings, in psychotherapy, education, public and private sector organisations and elsewhere, or is simply keen to support and be part of the development and spread of the human givens approach.
The professional body represents the interests of those in the caring, welfare and teaching professions who have trained in the human givens approach, working in alignment with the best scientific knowledge available about the givens of human nature.
Thousands of people around the world recognise that the organising ideas succinctly expressed in the phrase 'human givens' have enormous, beneficial implications for education, mental health, social cohesion and the worlds of business, politics and diplomacy.
The HGI is associated with the Human Givens College, the official teaching establishment for this approach, and all successful graduates of the College are invited to join as professional members. (There are various levels of membership.) The professional section advances all aspects of human givens therapeutic practice, including standards, CPD and the ethical behaviour of members.
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Imagine
If people are suffering emotional distress there will always be unmet emotional needs, this is how the Human Givens approach works.
Just what couples need
Véronique Chown explores the value of the human givens approach in successful couples therapy.
Why hypnosis and the power of the mind matter in medicine
In the 1930s a Bedouin tribesman introduced a young Irish doctor to the powers of the subconscious mind. Sixty years later, after doing over four thousand operations using hypnosis. Dr Jack Gibson talks to Joe Griffin..
Time, please!
Julia Welstead considers what we should really be giving this Christmas... and all year round too
"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..
The Doctrines of Psychology
Chris Scott, human givens therapist, addresses why a new approach to psychology which breaks away from traditional dogma is needed.
Dublin City FM Radio Interview
Listen to Brian Greene’s interview with Sue Saunders (Human Givens College tutor and Educational Director) as they discuss the HG approach to treating mental illness, human givens counselling and our training events.
Beautiful outside and in
Lee Pycroft describes how a beauty makeover can trigger self-care and self-respect in vulnerable or traumatised women.
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HG practitioner participates in global congress
HG practitioner Felicity Jaffrey, who lives and works in Egypt, received the extraordinary honour of being invited to speak at Egypt’s hugely prestigious Global Congress on Population, Health and Human Development (PHDC24) in Cairo in October.
SCoPEd - latest update
The six SCoPEd partners have published their latest update on the important work currently underway with regards to the SCoPEd framework implementation, governance and impact assessment.
Date posted: 14/02/2024