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  • Elizabeth Barr

    Market Harborough
    Leicestershire
    LE16
    United Kingdom

    Elizabeth is an experienced counsellor and psychotherapist (over 10 years) and is able to support with many kinds of emotional and psychological situations.  Her aim is to get you back to happy liv

  • Avril Bailey

    The Dublin Human Givens Centre
    Denshaw House
    Dublin 2
    Co Dublin
    Ireland

    The majority of my professional life has been underpinned by a love of learning in all its guises! Sometimes the lessons to learn are challenging, other times a joy.

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  • 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. 

  • A devastating death

    Janine Hurley describes how the HGI Ethics Committee helped her cope, professionally and personally, when, tragically, a client killed herself.

  • Human givens and social work

    Social work should be about helping people yet, bogged down in bureaucracy, it has lost its way. Jan Little shows how the human givens approach can put it back on track.

  • Great Expectations

    Joe Griffin goes back to basics to arrive at some powerful new insights into the givens of human nature.

  • Inside our ethics committee

    In the first of what will become an annual feature, Ian Thomson, deputy chair of the HGI’s Registration and Professional Standards Committee (RPSC), shares learning points from cases presented within the past year for adjudication or advice.

  • Only the Lonely

    Julia Welstead on loneliness and the Human Givens approach

  • Handle with care

    Aric Sigman explains why craft-based skills are as important as academic ones, and need to be taught in all schools.

Latest News:

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