Merv Edmunds

Merv is a teacher, trainer and therapist. Graduating from MindFields College in December 2007, he became the first Australian to hold a Human Givens Diploma. In 2003, Merv incorporated his HG ideas into an innovative curriculum project that later won an award from the Australian National Training Authority. In a teaching career spanning more than thirty years, Merv has enabled hundreds of young people to discard limiting beliefs and experience remarkable success. Working primarily with under-achievers and early school-leavers, Merv inspired them to develop marketable skills to fund their overseas and interstate travel. Activities that confirm the human potential from needs being met and resources used appropriately.

Merv promotes the human givens approach in Australia by presenting at conferences, training days, and through his busy schedule of one-day introductory seminars for health pofessionals.

Merv brings to the therapy setting all the benefits of a life well lived. He has worked on building sites; in factories; in schools; and business settings. He has built two sports cars, a yacht, an aeroplane, and has traveled extensively in outback Australia, Canada, the US, Britian and Europe. He lives with his wife and companion of nearly fifty years, Robyn, and they have two adult sons. He describes his current role as a 'non-practising retiree', dividing his time between pro-bono therapy, speaking engagements and coordination of the online certificate course for professional associations.

If you are interested in Therapeutic Storytelling, these videos and notes may be useful. Suitable for individual and group settings, with a particular focus on men who have lost their way.

NB: Only therapists and practitioners who have completed their training with the Human Givens College in the UK are eligible for Professional Membership of the Human Givens Institute based in the UK. Associate Membership is, however, available to anyone who is interested in, or keen to support and be part of, the development and spread of the human givens insights and approach.