Robin in the media
Litte Addicts Podcast
Ep 6 – Havening: Releasing the Trauma Behind Addiction
Imagine someone saying, “You can have the worst trauma in the world, and you just think of it for a moment, and then you stroke your arms and your face and your hands and 15 min later it’s cured”.
Let me introduce you to Dr Robin Youngson MA MB ChB FANZCA. Robin is a Certified Havening Practitioner and Trainer and an Anaesthetic Specialist with a long career in public health in New Zealand. Havening has become the most astonishing and gratifying work in over thirty years of medical practice equally healing and energizing for him, as it is for his clients.
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Woman Magazine
January 23rd 2023 ‘What is Havening?’
Rachel Grunwell
Doctors usually prescribe medication for health issues, which can be appropriate and absolutely required. But there is also a new holistic tool available now that can help with issues too, says Dr Robin Youngson, who is a former anaesthetist, now a trauma therapist. It’s called Havening (a word which translates to mean “safe place”).
Robin Youngson teaches Havening to health experts like counsellors, psychologists and other health workers. He also works as a Havening practitioner at his own clinic based in the beach location of Raglan in the North Island of New Zealand. He works with clients in person, or via zoom.
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Perfectly broken and ready to Heal | Robin Youngson | TEDxTauranga
38,209 views Oct 4, 2016
After 10 years spent trying to effect change in health care systems around the world, Robin Youngson has learned that the key to changing people’s minds, no matter your cause, lies in connecting with, not battling against each other.
Dr Robin Youngson is a New Zealand anaesthetist renowned for his pioneering work on compassionate healthcare.
Robin is the co-founder of the international ‘Hearts in Healthcare’ movement (heartsinhealthcare.com) and the author of ‘TIME TO CARE – How to love your patients and your job’. A captivating speaker, he’s been inspiring audiences in many countries spanning Australia, the USA, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, the Middle East, UK and Europe.
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Raglan Chronicle Nov 19th 2021
‘Havening’ exciting new line for local retired anaesthetist
“Raglan resident Robin Youngson used to specialise in putting people out – but now it’s more a case of putting them right.
In fact the retired anaesthetist turned Havening expert says the revolutionary techniques he now practices have freed more than 100 people locally, and many more around the country, from anxiety and trauma disorders.
There’s no worry over his fees, either: the unassuming, softly spoken doctor – who has a home and clinic at the top of Stewart St – does not charge his local clients. Instead, on Fridays, he offers Raglan residents his expertise on a koha basis.
It’s little surprise then that in the three years since being certified as a havening techniques practitioner Dr Youngson has gained quite a following in Raglan.
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PADA Popup video interview – Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Aotearoa
# 25 with Dr Robin Youngson talking about healing birth trauma with Havening Techniques®
Dr Robin Youngson is joining the PADA Popup Chats and he will provide a general introduction to Havening Techniques® and share data on treating birth trauma and PTSD. Dr Robin Youngson, MA MB ChB FANZCA, is a Certified Havening Practitioner and Trainer, and is an Anaesthetic Specialist with a long career in the public health service in New Zealand.You can view the results of his research on childbirth trauma here.
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PREKURE Mental Health Podcast with Professor Grant Schofield
#10 – Neuroscience of Healing with Dr Robin Youngson
In this episode, Prof Grant Schofield speaks with Dr Robin Youngson, a Trauma Therapist, Certified Havening Practitioner and retired Anesthesiologist.
Grant and Robin discuss Robin’s journey initially as an engineer and then into medicine as an anesthesiologist and his disillusionment and drive for change at a really high level in the medical system. Robin has since become a central figure in the field of trauma therapy and is bringing about real change with tools such as the Havening technique as part of his approach to use the latest science to treat psychological ill-health.
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The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
367. Compassion, healing and Havening Technique – With Robin Youngson
Robin Youngson joins Allison Lindsay to talk about the role of compassion in healing, shifting mindsets in the medical profession, the importance of connection and human touch for healing, the science of compassion, breaking the brain link to trauma, rituals to create presence when working with clients, Havening technique.
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‘Hi Vibe Wellbeing’ Podcast
Healing trauma through Havening with Dr Robin Youngson
27 sept. 2021
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‘The GP Show with Dr Sam Manger’ Podcast
#55 Compassion in Healthcare with Dr Robin Youngson
Dr Robin Youngson is a physician and anaesthetic specialist in New Zealand, internationally renowned for his leadership promoting compassion in healthcare. He is the CoFounder of ‘Hearts in Healthcare’, a global social movement for health professionals, students, patient activists, health managers and all those passionate about rehumanising healthcare.
Robin was a pioneering leader in patient safety and quality improvement, at both the local and national level. He was a founding member of the national Quality Improvement Committee in New Zealand and was the NZ representative on the World Health Organisation International Steering Committee for Patient Safety Solutions. He also helped launch the WHO strategy for ‘People at the Centre of Healthcare’ in 2007.
Since 2006, he has been a passionate advocate for human-centered healthcare, compassion and caring. He is the author of the important book ‘TIME TO CARE – How to love your patients and your job’..
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‘Cancer Talk’ Podcast
“Time to Care” Episode #1.18 – Date: 27 Sep 2022
Dr Robin Youngson trained as an anaesthesiologist in the UK and worked for more than twenty years in New Zealand, becoming an advisor to the NZ government and the World Health Organization on patient safety and strategies for putting people at the centre of healthcare. His passion is re-humanising healthcare and strengthening caring and compassion, and this led him to found the international HEARTS in HEALTHCARE movement, and to write Time to Care, eventually prompting him to leave mainstream healthcare altogether to pursue a relatively new technique which he finds brings rapid help to patients with long-term conditions, in a way that’s not currently possible through conventional medicine.
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