Using the HG approach

Workshop Program (Day 2)

The Human Givens therapeutic approach

  • turning good ideas into effective practice
  • using the Emotional Needs Audit
  • exercise

The RIGAAR Model

  • how to build and maintain rapport
  • gathering information in a therapeutic way
  • getting positive achievable and needs-oriented goals
  • highlighting adequate client resources
  • getting agreement on strategies for change

Specific therapeutic application

  • using guided imagery for lifting depression and anxiety
  • teen depression - empowering the parents, engaging the kids
  • freeing people from trauma using the UN preferred re-wind technique
  • how to use therapeutic storytelling to stimulate hope and optimism

Building emotional resilience

  • using the avec quartet - awareness, visualisation, emotion management and creativity
  • questions and discussion
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The "human givens" explained
Why humans dream
The Mind - new insights
Depression - new insights


See Brief Video
Video Transcript - the Human Givens Overview


Free Resources

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.