Watch Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell passionately summarise the development and importance of the first bio-psycho-social model of mental health and wellbeing – the human givens approach – on the inspiring introductory talk given at the beginning of the Human Givens Diploma Course in January 2008.
The human givens approach draws together the latest scientific understandings of how our innate guidance systems work to get our needs met and offers unique knowledge and insights into human functioning not currently available elsewhere (http://www.hgi.org.uk). For example, it contains the most comprehensive and scientific understanding of dreaming and the REM state currently available (http://www.why-we-dream.com), which has opened up explanations for what happens in the mind-body system in many areas, including depression, psychosis and hypnosis. The approach has also provided original insights into explanations for addictions, autism, and trauma.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 ginny brink // Mar 19, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Thank you for this video. Many years ago I trained as a psychologist and then counsellor. Life took me in other directions - teaching, art, management, and coaching. More recently I have been searching for an approach that fits life as it now. So I am very excited to discover the HG approach - a way to view and work with life, not just in therapy, but in healing in the broader sense. And I am especially relieved because it will contribute to the paradigm shift the world needs urgently and has to undergo soon. I look forward to learning more. Ginny
2 OLEN // Feb 27, 2009 at 2:59 am
IS SOME OF THIS INCREASE IN MENTAL ILLNESS POSSIBLY ALSO DUE TO A NOW UNCHURCHED POPULATION? I STUDY THE BIBLE AND ITS WISDOM HAS FIXED MY DEPRESSION , AND ITS LIFE SKILLS AND HOPE MAKE ME SO MUCH MORE MENALLY HEALTHY AND WOO-HOO ALIVE.
3 Ed // Jun 16, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Fascinating stuff… but it is really going to put the cat among the therapeutic pigeons. The idea of training clients in life skills flies in the face of many passive and reactive models of therapy. HG may be politically controversial as well - it is questionable whether the resources exist in the world to allow everyone to have their needs met at current population levels, let alone future ones. At the very least it will require a savage redistribution of those resources. I wish you well, but you should expect fanatical resistance from many quarters. - Ed.
4 Joanna // Aug 5, 2010 at 1:54 pm
I followed the hg teachings a few years ago but did not understand at that time what was being taught. I took the tools given to me and went on to get some of my own needs met. After watching this video it reminded me of why I first attended a seminar and without those teachings I would not have been able to understand the complexity of living my daily life in our crazy world
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