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Graduate Members
All successful graduates of the Human Givens Diploma are invited to join the Institute on completion. If you meet the appropriate requirements and haven't yet received your invitation, or have misplaced it, but would like to join the HGI as a Graduate Member, please contact Silvana Limpus, HGI Membership Secretary, via email: [email protected], or by post: The Human Givens Institute, Chalvington, East Sussex, BN27 3TD, UK.
Registered Members
All successful graduates of the Human Givens Post Graduate Diploma are invited to upgrade or join the Institute as a Registered Member. If you meet the appropriate requirements and haven't yet received your invitation, or have misplaced it, but would like to join the HGI as a Registered Member, please contact Silvana Limpus, HGI Membership Secretary, via email:[email protected], or by post: The Human Givens Institute, Chalvington, East Sussex, BN27 3TD, UK.
Please note, if you would like to be included on the HGI's official Register of Approved HG Practitioners, you will also need to print out, complete and send in your HG Practitioners' Professional Register Application Entry Form with your application to: The Human Givens Institute, Chalvington, East Sussex, BN27 3TD, UK.
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The limits of tolerance: ethics and human nature
At a time when we are struggling with a number of major moral dilemas, Ivan Tyrrell suggests that the human givens approach can help us reach ethical decisions.
Human givens: the evidence so far
In this 2009 article, Bill Andrews describes the practice-based evidence that has emerged from studies of the human givens approach to date and explains why the future looks positive.
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.
The Century of the Self
Ivan Tyrrell explores with Adam Curtis how Freudian ideas are flourishing in business and politics today and insidiously influence all of our lives.
Mind-Body Connection – Dublin City FM Radio Interview
Brian Greene and HG tutor Dr Andrew Morrice discuss the mind-body connection and explore the relationships between the three big E’s…
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.
Handle with care
Aric Sigman explains why craft-based skills are as important as academic ones, and need to be taught in all schools.
Let the children play
Carol Harper explores how we can use the insights from the human givens approach to protect and improve our children’s mental health – not only during the current crisis but for the long-term …
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The Century of the Self
Ivan Tyrrell explores with Adam Curtis how Freudian ideas are flourishing in business and politics today and insidiously influence all of our lives.
Lifting depression is easy to do — when you know its cause
This article about the human givens approach first appeared in the major American publication, Family Therapy Magazine.
How to lift depression quickly and safely
Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell explain how and why the human givens approach can help therapists shift depression in a handful sessions — or fewer.
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Ivan Tyrrell talks to Anne Glyn-Jones author of "Holding up a Mirror" about the dynamics of history that eventually lead to the destruction of security, prosperity and artistic achievement.
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The Trickster: Medicine's forgotten character
Therapy in all its forms can be confusingly capricious and unpredictable. We should not try to deny this, but learn to accept it, says Larry Dossey MD.
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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