Post-graduate Diploma

in Human Givens Psychotherapy

Modules 3 and 4

Once students have passed the certificate modules (1 and 2) of the new university-accredited programme, they are able to proceed with Modules 3 and 4, which, together with Modules 1 and 2, comprise the Post-Graduate Diploma in Human Givens Psychotherapy.

We strongly advise students to reserve their place on the two weeks of Module 3 well in advance, however, as these are only offered five times a year and spaces are limited and quickly fill up.

Along with the two weeks of intensive teaching (see below), the Diploma includes attendance at two NTU study days (which we hope to hold consecutively). The first of these covers an overview of the course and its assessments, and furthers ethical study to include ethical practice in research. The second (associated with Module 4), covers the evaluation of practice through the use of outcome measurement tools, such as CORE and ORS.

MODULE 3: 'Developing theory and practice from a human givens perspective'

The intensive two weeks’ training in Module 3 (what comprises the MindFields College Human Givens Diploma) are ten days of highly focused and enjoyable work with MindFields tutors.

The two separate weeks are held held approximately one month apart in a supervised learning environment and include many practical exercises, in groups and one to one, to embed the skills. Observing live therapy sessions, in which tutors work with real patients, is also part of the two weeks.

The profound teaching style and practical approach is highly stimulating and generates much extra curricular thought and discussion. This module expands and consolidates the knowledge and skills obtained on the Post-Graduate Certificate part of the programme, and ensures that you have absorbed what you need to know to work effectively.

Subjects and skills consolidated and taught during these two weeks include:

• Constructing effective counselling sessions using RIGAAR
• Quick rapport building skills – verbal and non-verbal
• Fast, effective, information gathering and how to avoid getting sucked into the patient’s subjective world
• Listening skills, observing verbal and non-verbal cues
• Reflective reframing (active listening with a twist)
• Using language to build expectation and initiate change
• How to establish clear goals with patients and agree strategies for achieving them
• How to discover the client’s psychological and behavioural resources
• Working with the ‘The Observing Self’ concept
• Anxiety management, including how to deal with panic attacks, PTSD, agoraphobia and OCD
• Understanding and working with the relaxation response
• The beneficial effects of relaxation on all forms of harmful emotional arousal
• How to teach patients deep relaxation – a variety of techniques
• Neutralising sub-threshold traumas and ‘molar memories’
• Separating the patient’s core identity from their problem
• Releasing locked-in patterns of trauma and dealing with abreaction
• Pattern matching: How unconscious processes work
• Stimulating mental and physical healing – the power of attention, information and laughter
• The importance of volition, clients have a need to take control of their lives
• The role of timing in therapy
• How to teach missing social skills
• How to avoid creating false memories
• How to separate belief and opinion from fact and look directly at people and their situations
• Understanding perception – why most therapy models bias how patients are viewed
• Stress and the mind/body system – an holistic view of physical health
• How to stimulate the immune system – language, physiology and healing
• Orienting questions and pattern interventions
• Transforming the intensity of a patient’s experience
• Depathologising and changing labels
• Using direct and indirect language
• The metaphorical mind: Why the brain evolved to work with stories – the search for analogy
• How to create and tell healing stories
• The role of suggestibility in mind/body healing
• Guided imagery to rehearse new behaviours
• Sleep disorders
• Why people get depressed – the cycle of depression
• How to lift depression quickly and encourage permanent change
• Working with self-harmers
• Psychological techniques for pain management
• Bringing cognitive behavioural approaches up to date with the APET model
• Dealing with difficult relationships and sexual problems and how to help those who have been physically, sexually or emotionally abused
• Understanding why we evolved to dream
• The relationship between dreaming and psychosis
• Creativity, problem solving and brain function
• Treating alcoholism, drug abuse and eating disorders
• The stages of quitting: mobilising motivation – how to free yourself and others from addictive behaviour
• Identifying and working with Asperger’s syndrome
• Analysis of live demonstrations of psychotherapy
• Ethics & professional conduct: sexual/relationship issues – discernment; the sick and dying; intractable illness
• Finding the spare capacity in yourself to be effective
• Using outcome measurement as part of effective practice
• Developing a private practice, for those who wish to.

Continuing home study:

• Reading list
• Reflective diary

Assessments:

Assessments for Module 3 will include an essay, case study analysis of live therapy session and a two hour exam. (More information.)

For a sample of the teaching on these two weeks, watch Joe Griffin's introductory lecture.

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MODULE 4: 'Implementing the HG approach with individuals and groups'

This module allows students to choose a type of practice assessment relevant to their own profession or
particular field of study.

Those wishing to practise as human givens psychotherapists, for example, will need to submit videos of two counselling sessions with patients which are independently assessed for the quality of work. To demonstrate understanding, the tapes must be accompanied by clear case notes and a comprehensive written explanation of why students did what they did. These combined elements are both independently assessed and marked. In addition, an HG supervisor will conduct three hours of supervision and mentoring with the student. All students will be expected to use outcome measurements in their work.

Those students wishing to use the human givens (HG) approach in other professional fields (such as education and business consultancy) will choose to submit a project report detailing how they have implemented the approach in a professional setting to enhance practice/emotional health/learning/ performance etc. Students will be expected to demonstrate how they measured the outcomes of their intervention, and an HG supervisor will conduct three hours of supervision and mentoring with them.

Continuing home study:

• Reading list
• Reflective diary

Assessments:

For more information about the assessments which constitute Module 4, click here.

Once you have passed Modules 1, 2, 3 and 4, you are eligible to continue and complete the full MA programme with Modules 5 and 6.

If you decided to exit the programme at this stage, you would be awarded a Post-Graduate Diploma in Human Givens Psychotherapy, from MindFields College and Nottingham Trent University.

Further information
> Course structure diagram
> Dates and venues for the two weeks of Module 3
> Post-Graduate Certificate: Modules 1 and 2
> MA in Human Givens Psychotherapy: Modules 5 and 6
> How to apply
> Course fees

If you would like any further information about the new programme, or you would like to discuss your options in more detail before applying, please don't hesitate to call the College Registrar, Kathy Hardy, on 01323 811440.

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