The Harry Guntrip Memorial Trust

THE GUNTRIP TRUST & THE SCOTTISH INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS

‘Ministers and priests deserve the best available back up for their work today.’

The Guntrip Trust, working with the Scottish Institute of Human Relations , offers financial support to religious leaders seeking education about human relations and counselling, psychotherapy, or group therapy.

Positive Support for those in Ministry
Many women and men engaged in the day-to-day work of ministry are finding support through various forms of counselling, spiritual direction, and supportive supervision. Religious leaders can benefit from approaches such as individual counselling or psychotherapy, marital therapy, or therapeutic group work to counter the personal and emotional demands of their work. Or they may simply feel they need space and time to reflect on the challenges and pressures they face.

Alternatively it may sometimes be helpful for groups who need to work together, both clergy and lay people, to understand the dynamics which impact on the health of organisations, and which help or hinder people’s effectiveness.

Financial Support for Groups and Individuals
The Guntrip Trust, working with SIHR, provides financial support for religious leaders to find the training and help they need, which complements and supports their faith, in a confidential setting.

SIHR is able to provide a range of services and support delivered by trained and experienced practitioners from a psychodynamic perspective:

• Psychotherapy
• Counselling
• Couples counselling
• Family therapy
• Group relations
• Organisational consultancy
• Brief employment related counselling

The Guntrip Trust can also contribute to workshops on large scale community disasters.

The Harry Guntrip Memorial Trust
The trust was set up by a group of business people and clergy from different Churches. Formed to honour Harry Guntrip, a Leeds Congregational minister who was a psychotherapist with an international reputation, it exists to advance education and training in the field of human relations and to provide bursary help for religious leaders in Scotland and the North of England who wish to use the services of SIHR. The Trust is run by a group of trustees. Bursaries are regularly awarded.

SIHR and the Trust
Founded as an education trust in 1971, the Scottish Institute of Human Relations is a group of experienced practitioners who are committed to advancing a psychodynamic understanding of men, women and children, both in themselves and in our rapidly changing society. A national charity, it has premises in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

There is a growing body of knowledge about personal growth, human relationships, and institutional change and SIHR’s work rests on the assumption that these are best studied in the context of relationships in therapeutic groups or one-to-one counselling and psychotherapy.

Harry Guntrip turned to psychotherapy out of personal need. That started off a lifelong search for a deeper understanding of the way in which children develop, or fail to develop into good men and women. He saw that just as religious ministry needs a dynamic psychology to guide it, so scientific psychotherapy needs what is basically a religious faith in the value and significance of every human being to sustain its endeavour.

For further information about the Guntrip Trust and applications for support, contact:
The Reverend Canon David Goodacre, Chair
or
Dr John PL Munro, Secretary
The Guntrip Trust
c/o The Scottish Institute of Human Relations
172 Leith Walk, Edinburgh EH6 5EA
Tel: 0131 454 3240 Fax: 0131 454 3241