Online courses
Study with us at a time and place that suits you – choose from a range of subjects: anxiety, stress, anger, trauma, depression, effective counselling, hypnosis, helping students and more...
Gain new knowledge and skills from the comfort of your own home – HG College provides a range of free and paid-for online courses – see below. Those marked Diploma-linked count towards Part 1 of the Human Givens Diploma course.
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How to reduce and overcome self-harm
Help adolescents and adults overcome self-harming behaviours. Overcoming self-harm is possible but having the right help and support is crucial – this inspiring online course gives you all of the essential insights and tools you need…
Tutor: Emily Gajewski
Understanding Anxiety – and managing it without drugs
Essential information – discover the quickest, most effective ways to reduce all sorts of anxiety and help people take back control of their lives.
Tutor: Joe Griffin
Effective Anger Management
Have you ever felt powerless in the face of anger? If so, this practical and highly informative course is for you – learn how to take back control...
Tutor: Joe Griffin
Good Practice: Ethics for the caring professions
Essential knowledge – for counsellors, psychotherapists and anyone else working with distressed people.
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell
and Sue Saunders
Understanding and Treating Addictions
Discover why we are all vulnerable to addictions, what causes and drives addictive and compulsive behaviours – and the best ways to overcome them.
Tutor: Joe Griffin
How to break the cycle of depression
Vital information for everyone – includes new insights and research findings which dramatically improve recovery rates and reduce relapses.
Tutor: Joe Griffin
Grief and Bereavement
Understanding loss and the best ways to help – this sensitive course dispells many myths and gives you greater insight into the natural grieving process and how best to support those suffering loss
Tutor: Véronique Chown
Understanding Trauma
Effective treatment and recovery – Discover why some people become traumatised and not others, the cause of extreme traumatic stress responses, the wide range of trauma symptoms – and much more…
Tutor: Ros Townsend
How to make counselling more effective
If you advise, treat or counsel disturbed or distressed people, this could be the most important course you ever take...
Tutor: Joe Griffin
From Stress to Psychosis:
how to prevent mental illness
New insights into the causes of mental illness, including severe conditions like schizophrenia, are explaining distressing symptoms and reducing suffering...
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell
Effective brief psychotherapy
Discover how to make a positive difference – whatever the problem – using the key concepts and skills encompassed in human givens therapy.
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell
A closer look at our innate resources
Discover key insights into what makes us who we are that will deepen your psychological understanding and increase your ability to help people...
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell £125.00 £95View full details
Dreaming, daydreaming and creativity
Ivan Tyrrell's fascinating talk from the HG Diploma throws new light on our evolution as he explains the crucial role of the REM state and much more...
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell FREE
How to become an even better therapist – in just 90 minutes!
Key insights – illustrated with practical examples and stories – designed to further develop your skills as a psychotherapist or counsellor.
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell
How to reduce anxiety in students and young people
This hugely informative, far-reaching webinar gives you essential new information and fast, effective techniques to lower anxiety levels and unblock thinking in students of any age.
Tutor: Gareth Hughes
How to support teenagers through the stress of starting university life
Do you know someone about to start university? Are you or they worried about what it's going to be like or how you're all going to cope?
Tutor: Gareth Hughes
Stress and Mental Health
– what you need to know
If stress impacts on you or your clients – don't miss out on the wealth of helpful information contained in this webinar.
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell
Why do we dream?
Joe Griffin reviews past theories and new research findings (which add further evidence for his own theory) as he tells the riveting story of how he solved the mystery of our dreams...
Tutor: Joe Griffin FREE
The uses and abuses of hypnosis
Hypnosis is one of the most valuable psychotherapeutic tools available. But few understand that it has an equally strong potential to harm patients.
Tutor: Ivan Tyrrell
Is it possible to build resilience to stress?
Resilience has become a buzzword in mental health and corporate well-being – but what does it mean and why are some people more resilient to stress than others?
Tutor: Julia Welstead FREE
Delving Deeper: Exploring consciousness
This groundbreaking course takes you on a mind-expanding journey through the fundamental questions of our time.
Tutor: Joe Griffin
and Ivan Tyrrell
Delving Deeper: How to overcome fear and political chaos
Using the lens of innate human needs to help resolve political and social conflicts, undermine terror agendas and promote peace.
Tutor: John Bell
and Ivan Tyrrell
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Meeting emotional needs whilst socially isolating or working from home
Our mental and physical health depend upon meeting emotional needs in healthy ways. This keeps stress levels low and allows our immune syst
Work and the mental health continuum
Ezra Hewing describes how he helped a large insurance company change perceptions about stress and improve the mental health and wellbeing of its employees.
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.
Just what couples need
Véronique Chown explores the value of the human givens approach in successful couples therapy.
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'.
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...
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…
Time, please!
Julia Welstead considers what we should really be giving this Christmas... and all year round too
Trending Articles
The uses and abuses of hypnosis
Ivan Tyrrell warns that hypnosis is a powerful tool that must be used with care, understanding and integrity...
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.
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.
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.
7-11 breathing: How does deep breathing make you feel more relaxed?
Many online articles now advocate breathing techniques as a way to lessen anxiety and control stress levels, but we have noticed...
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.
Where the rainbow ends - the collapse of civilization?
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.
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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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