Human Givens: our basic emotional needs, and our capacity to meet them.

I have become quite the fan of the Human Givens Youtube channel - which has a range of short insights into the Human Givens model, the basis and theory - but also the insights and the practice that follow. This is not just another psychological model, in competition with all the other psychological models. This is a consolidation - a meta-study - of all of the main theoretical perspectives across psychological practice and research, and offers (what I think) is a coherent and common-sense approach to how we maintain mental and emotional health.

And thats why it features this month, this month of TENDING to our various and changing needs, so strongly.

Below, in the first video, is Ivan Tyrell talking us through the key emotional needs. See it as a platform for exploring some of their other content on the Human Givens channel.

The second video shares the natural resources we all have to be able to nurture and enable these needs to be met.