Human Givens:

At the 2006 Recovery Conference,Photo of Ian Caldwell Ian Caldwell, www.hartlepoolmind.co.uk/ introduced the Human Given's approach that has proved to have brought benefit to members of Hartlepool MIND where Ian is the Director. Ian's presentation can be downloaded here

Laurie Davidson organised for Ian Caldwell to come down and talk to the Support Time and Recovery workers.

Photo of Laurie Davidson Following on from the Human Givens Workshop on 26 October 2006 at Lustleigh Village Hall in South Devon, workers in Devon are being encouraged to use the Human Givens approach in their work with Clients, where it fits the needs of the Client. Ian Caldwell and his Presentation at the STR workshop on Human Givens on 26 October 2006

 

The Human Givens approach looks at 9 areas:

  1. Security
  2. Attention
  3. Autonomy
  4. Emotionally connected to others
  5. Being part of a wider community
  6. Fun, friendship and intimacy
  7. Status
  8. Meaning and purpose
  9. Privacy- reflect and consolidate experience
 Human givens are what we are all born with: our essential biological and emotional needs and the innate resources that we have evolved in order to fulfill them.

We all have basic emotional needs, such as the need for love, security, connection and control, and the self-esteem which arises from feeling competent in different areas of our lives. We also have the innate resources to help us meet these needs, including: memory, imagination, problem solving abilities, self-awareness and a range of complementary thinking styles to employ in various different situations. It is these needs and resources, which are built into our biology, that together make up the human ‘givens’.

When our emotional needs are not being met, or when our resources are being used incorrectly, we suffer considerable distress. And so do those around us.

taken from: www.humangivens.com/

Leah Allen, who works for MIND in Exeter and East Devon and the Devon Partnership NHS Trust, has written a Human Givens workbook. Leah can be contacted via email at leahallenminddpt"at"aol.com

A book is available all about the Human Givens approach:

Image of the Human Givens Book Human Givens - A new approach to emotional health and clear thinking
Authors: Joe Griffin & Ivan Tyrell
ISBN: 1899398317
RRP: £14.99
Pages: 448
An Audio Cassette also exists under ISBN: 1899398600 and costs around £9.95

 

LInk to the MINDfields College Website

MINDfields College offer a Human Givens Diploma and Post Graduate Diploma. Information on this and other topics can be viewed on their website www.mindfields.org.uk/HGdip/

You may also like to visit www.humangivens.com/ Reviews of the Human Givens book can be viewed at www.humangivens.com/reviews.html
A link to the Human Givens Journals

Human Givems Journals are available to purchase from www.humangivens.com/journal.html

"Human Givens is the successor to The New Therapist which had an avid readership as a multidisciplinary journal. Its strong reputation was built upon its reliable and thought-provoking content and the willingness to take an iconoclastic stance when necessary. However, as many of those who would find the journal's content of interest do not regard themselves as therapists, the editorial board decided upon a name change which both acknowledges this and reflects the fast growing interest in the human givens approach among health and education professionals, and increasing numbers of the general public interested in psychology and human behaviour." taken from www.humangivens.com/journal.html

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