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.
Book review - You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here: a psychiatrist’s life
Denise Winn reviews 'You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here: a psychiatrist’s life' by Dr Benji Waterhouse (Jonathan Cape, 2024)
How schools are using the human givens approach
Human givens principles have been introduced to over 200 schools and adopted systemically by some. Here, four headteachers provide a vivid snapshot of their impact.
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.
Beautiful outside and in
Lee Pycroft describes how a beauty makeover can trigger self-care and self-respect in vulnerable or traumatised women.
The mental health continuum: spreading the message
Jon Neal describes how Suffolk Mind is successfully introducing human givens concepts across the whole county.
Practising ethically
The HGI Ethics and Complaints Committee considers some of the ethical challenges that human givens practitioners may face. Ian Thomson sets the scene.
Helpless to help
The torment of ‘caring’ for a much-loved brother suffering from psychosis, to whom the NHS has failed to offer meaningful help …
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No more dancing around the problem
After almost losing his life, Stuart Waters is passionate about bringing emotionally healthy practice to the dance world.
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
Case Study: Evidence that it works, the fast cure for phobia and trauma
Read about how a Faulklands war veteran overcame the severe flashbacks and panic attacks he suffered for 20 years after a horrifically traumatising experience during his service in the navy.
Try a little kindness
In the midst of lockdown, and echoing the theme of this year's Mental Health Week, Julia Welstead takes a moment to consider acts of kindness, and what they can bring us all.
Why we need to understand healthy minds
It took millions of years for the human mind to evolve into the self-forming creature we can now become. We have reached a watershed where exciting recent discoveries about how the mind/body system works enable us to understand the processes by which the human nature of a new child can successfully unfold to create an effective and fulfilled individual.
Some thoughts on corruption and servility
Ivan Tyrrell considers how the miasma of corruption we live in affects many aspects of our lives, often in subtle ways.
Come fly with me (calmly)
Sian Withers shows how she makes very good use of the human givens approach thousands of feet up in the air.
The Doctrines of Psychology
Chris Scott, human givens therapist, addresses why a new approach to psychology which breaks away from traditional dogma is needed.
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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