Effective Skills for identifying and meeting children’s unmet emotional needs - what all parents and professionals need to know. Call 01323 811 440 today to book a psychotherapy workshop.
If you are interested in child psychology, children’s rights, and children’s emotional needs this new MindFields College workshop is not to be missed. To successfully reduce levels of anti-social behaviour, mental illness, family breakdowns and addictions, children need to be raised in environments where their innate psychological needs are met.
In order to flourish and behave well, all children need to feel secure, be given and receive appropriate attention, be able to delay gratification, take increasing levels of responsibility for their own behaviour, develop a sense of autonomy and, of course, have fun! For this to happen they also need to be emotionally well connected to their family, peers, school and the wider community; and be given a sense of status that reflects their effort and achievements.
Miriam Chachamu’s wide-reaching workshop clarifies how we can do this and gives you practical tools for meeting these needs and managing challenging behaviour.
It also shows how we can create an environment in which not only children but also the rest of the family can thrive and be better equipped to fulfil their potential.
What you will gain from the day:
* A clear understanding of children’s innate emotional and psychological needs and why things can go wrong
* New insights into how children feel, think and understand our communication
* Tried and tested skills for preventing as well as managing difficult behaviour
* Healthy and lasting ways to engender self-esteem
* Effective ways for dealing with difficult emotions
* Practical skills for motivating children to be their best and helping them to both spot and learn from mistakes, without you pointing them out
* Tips on how to transfer these new skills to parents
* New language skills for improving outcomes.
Who should attend:
* Teachers, social workers, therapists, and anyone else working with children who would like to gain a better understanding of their emotional needs, and have an insight into how children think and feel
* Anyone who interacts with children and would like to learn new positive and effective skills to connect with them and to motivate them to become their best
* Therapists and parenting practitioners who are interested in empowering parents to become more confident and skilled in their parenting practices
* Parents who wish to improve their relationships with their children, reduce friction and increase harmony in the home
* Anyone else who would like to have a better understanding of the world from a child’s perspective and discover how they can use this understanding to improve children’s behaviour and wellbeing.
How we are: News, views and information:
Stopping smoking • when clients deteriorate • paroxetine and breast cancer • emotional memories and repression • ADHD and creativity • chronically ill children • exam success • bipolar disorder and high grades • CBT self-help that can harm • cheerful exercise • insomnia • materialism • schizophrenia: another labelling effect • volunteering • excluded autistic children • ’social flow’ • and more
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Human givens: back to the basics
Farouk Okhai says the organising ideas that underpin this approach to therapy sometimes get overlooked
Meaningful pastimes – and past times
Adele Stancliffe shows how carers can be helped to enhance the lives of elderly people in care homes
The curious incident of the four-armed aliens
Renee van der Vloodt describes how careres can be helped to enhance the lives of elderly people in care homes
Patterns of perception
Lawrence Rosenblum talks with Denise Winn about our fascinating and unconscious multisensory abilities
Choosing compassion could help us survive
Pat Williams looks at what is known about our compassionate instinct – and how we can strengthen it
Stop the war!
Deirdre Barrett says humans are so violent because our instincts are out of synch with modern-day living
Rehearsing success
Paul Dow shows struggling students how to meet their needs through using the human givens approach
With the current financial climate, resources are too scarce for our leaders to continue doing what they fancy and hoping for the best - we urgently need clarity of thought.
Despite the wealth of knowledge available to us from diverse disciplines, there is still considerable confusion among professionals and politicians about the best way to manage and approach all manner of things.
The Human Givens Charter provides a positive vision of how this situation could be changed for the better, along with a brief, insightful look at how we’ve got where we have.
Recently updated, the Charter now has its own website in order to draw more people’s attention to the principles it sets out, where you can download the full document in PDF format. Please circulate it and forward on the website address (www.humangivenscharter.com) to everyone who has influence – in the media, education, health (mental and otherwise), politics and private and public sector management – and anyone you know who is interested in the human condition.
Who knows… if word got around that politicians and managers need to work in tune with nature, rather than against her, as they so often unintentionally do, it might help raise the current level of public debate about how to run human affairs.
And that might help decision makers make better decisions on our behalf.
MindFields College is an approved training provider (No. 2761) for the MoD’s Enhanced Learning Credits Scheme (ELC).
The ELC scheme aims to promote lifelong learning amongst members of the Armed Forces by providing financial support in the form of a single up-front payment in each of a maximum of three separate financial years to be used in the pursuit of higher level learning, such as MindFields College courses.
All serving military personnel can join the ELC scheme and are entitled to claim up to £6,000 torwards the cost of training and education courses.This funding can be spent with any learning provider who has been approved and is registered with the Enhanced Learning Credits Administration Services (ELCAS).
Further information
If you or someone you know would like more information about whether you are eligible for funding, please contact your education officer or visit ELCAS’s website at: www.enhancedlearningcredits.com
ELCs can be used in conjunction with the IRTC and Standard Learning Credits.
The December issue of the BACP’s Therapy Today Journal contains an article called “The Rise of Human Givens“.
A concise introduction to the human givens approach, the article offers a summary of how MindFields College, the Human Givens Institute, Human Givens Publishing and the HG Foundation are structured, and a good overview of the main ideas and common criticisms of the approach. Also, Bill Andrews from the Human Givens Practice Research Network, describes how human givens therapy is outcome informed.
It’s worth noting that there are several inaccuracies. It states, for instance, that there are 120 human givens therapists when there are actually over 250 fully-qualified HG therapists and more than 800 people who have taken the HG Diploma and use the approach in their work.
Bueno also implies at one point that the HG approach says it can “heal” damaged resources – which we obviously don’t. Rather, we help people who are misusing the resources they have (such as their imagination in the generation of depression) to use them more effectively and others to develop the potential resources they have but aren’t using.
The introduction:
“Do you know who the leading independent provider of trainer days to the NHS and social services is? Or whose courses are being increasingly incorporated into CPD programmes of schools, universities, the MOD, police departments, charities, Connexions teams, and major public and private companies? Apparently it’s the MindFields College, the breathlessly busy training organisation behind the Human Givens school of psychology or, more humbly, the Human Givens approach. Its flyers regularly fall out of this journal, although there has yet to be any editorial on the subject – until now……”
Dr Grahame Brown, who teaches the popular MindFields College workshop How to manage pain and accelerate healing was recently interviewed by Dr Phil Hammond for a forthcoming BBC Radio 4 programme entitled ‘Healing with Metaphor’ on Tuesday 27th October at 9.00pm.
Dr Hammond, who has read Grahame’s book, How to liberate yourself from pain, sets out to investigate the transformative power of metaphor. Those familiar with the human givens (HG) approach will, of course, already know about the therapeutic benefits of metaphor and language, but it is only recently being recognised more generally in health care, coaching and therapy as a way of engaging the unconscious to activate self-healing, reclaim optimism and fuel the imagination with the energy necessary to attain goals.
Grahame was able to give lots of examples of how he uses metaphor and therapeutic language with great success in his work with patients suffering sub-acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain as an integral part of the human givens approach.
The Missing Peace is a blog that looks at the problem of the Israel-Palestine conflict in the context of new understandings in the field of psychology and human behaviour, the human givens. The authors, John Bell and John Zada, a diplomat and a journalist, have many years experience in the Middle East, both having lived for over a decade in the region.
“For years, efforts to resolve the Israel-Palestine problem, as well as other issues in the Middle East, have floundered outright or only managed to scratch the surface of issues whose roots lie much deeper than where most peacemaking work has taken place. Despite the failures, these political initiatives continue unabated while the problems of the Middle East become further entrenched.”
By addressing the unmet emotional needs of each side the authors hope to go back to fundamental root causes of the Middle East conflict and establish a correct base from which to move forward. A fascinating read, full of new and archived information, this blog is worth a bookmark.
BBC Scotland’s film ‘Walking Wounded’ is an emotionally charged and uncompromising look at the experiences of young ex-soldiers as they adapt to civilian life. It follows three veterans as they attempt to negotiate the difficulties of adapting to civilian life while struggling with the after-effects of their time in the Army. One of the three is Chris from Nottinghamshire, who suffers from acute post-traumatic stress disorder following his tours of Bosnia and Iraq during the first Gulf War. A spiral of anger, drink and depression ended in the loss of his family, business and home, leaving him sleeping rough in London. Moving to Edinburgh with the promise of a new life, Chris enters a maze of benefit systems and Veterans charities.
Resolution, a UK based charity providing help for traumatised military personnel from the Human Givens approach (including use of the ‘rewind technique‘ an imaginative and trauma-focused cognitive restructuring process pioneered and taught by MindFields College) a is one of the organisations that offers him help, and the programme follows his progress. ‘Walking Wounded ’shows what to expect if you are treated by Resolution (around 30 minutes into the program).
Over the summer the new ‘Caetextia: a new definition of Aspergers and autism‘ site was launched including the full original article on caetextia and an hour long video of Joe Griffin explaining the theory and the latest developments of it.
‘Caetextia’ is defined as context blindness caused by an inability to keep track of multiple interconnecting variables and to reprioritise any change in those variables by referring to a wider field that contains the history of them. This causes people with caetextia to resort to one of two mental modus operandi: logical, straight-line thinking or thinking by random associations.
The site has received some fascinating feedback from everyone from professors to people on the autistic spectrum and we are grateful for all responses. Here is the video:
A Danish firm specialising in details, Specialisterne is recruiting autistic and Asperger’s workers for it’s company, BBC news has reported. The firm plans to start a branch in Glasgow, opening job opportunities for autistic people in the UK which utilise their particular skills and meet their needs.
“The company’s founder, Thorkil Sonne, recognises his staff with autism need a quiet environment and fixed routines.
Given the right conditions, they excel at technical tasks.
Robots and Lego models are used to test their skills.
Thorkil Sonne said: “People come to me who’ve had difficulties in the labour market and got depressed.
“They’re like computers that need re-booting.
“I see them grow in self-esteem.
“It’s the most motivating part of my work and a magical moment for me, as the father of a boy with autism.”
MindFields College exists to deepen our collective knowledge of the science of human nature - the human givens - and to apply that knowledge to improve effectiveness and raise standards in healthcare, education and social care policy throughout the country.
This blog serves to promote knowledge and discussion of these ideas, and also to give insight into the company that works to do this - for feedback, comments and suggestions please email: eleanor at humangivens dot com
