Events Taught

Brief Psychotherapy Strategies Seminar

From Stress to Psychosis: A new look at the Mental Health Continuum Seminar

Human givens therapy for long-term abuse Workshop

The Essential Brief Therapy Strategies Workshop

Tutors


Bill Andrews	Iain Caldwell	Mike Hay	Farouk Okhai
Angela Austin	Miriam Chachamu	Ruth Hazelton	Martin Smith
Mike Beard	Judith Desbonne	Linda Hoggan	Ivan Tyrrell
Piers Bishop	Chris Dyas	Emily Lindsey-Clark	Andy Vass
Richard Brook	Joe Griffin	Declan Lyons	Pat Williams
Grahame Brown	Melanie Haslam	Anne Moir	Pamela Woodford

Ivan Tyrrell

Ivan Tyrrell worked for many years as a psychotherapist (specialising in brief therapy for depression and anxiety) and now spends most of his time lecturing and writing.

As Principal of MindFields College, editorial director of the Human Givens journal, Director of the European Therapy Studies Institute and the Human Givens Institute, his influence in (and knowledge of) the field of psychotherapy and counselling is considerable.

In 1992 he and a group of psychologists and psychotherapists established the European Therapy Studies Institute (ETSI), whose aim was to discover why some psychotherapy approaches appeared to work and others didn't. ETSI quickly gained several hundred members from a wide variety of professions whose support enabled them to publish a journal, The Therapist, the forerunner of the Human Givens journal.

The human givens approach to psychotherapy and psychology developed out of the work and research of this group (read more) as they endeavoured to bring greater clarity to the way people who become depressed, anxious, traumatised or addicted are helped, as well as making such help more reliably effective.

Ivan is also co-author with Joe Griffin of numerous, influential titles, including:

Human Givens: a new approach to emotional health and clear thinking

How to lift depression... fast

Dreaming Reality: How dreaming keeps us sane or can drive us mad

Freedom from Addiction: The secret behind successful addiction busting

How to Master Anxiety

An Idea in Practice: Using the human givens approach

Release from Anger: Practical help for controlling unreasonable rage

and five ground-breaking monographs on psychology and counselling including The APET model: patterns in the brain, which brings cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and SFBT approaches into line with new scientific discoveries about how the brain works, and The Shackled Brain: how to release locked-in patterns of trauma and Hypnosis and Trance States which gave the first psychobiological explanation for hypnosis.

Other titles include: The Survival Option, published by Jonathan Cape and Back from the Brink: Coping with stress, published by Virgin Books, which he co-wrote with Nick Leeson.

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