Transactional Analysis Development Group
I facilitate a TA development group that offers the opportunity to discuss current theoretical developments within Transactional Analysis and the wider pschotherapeutic field, enabling participants to consolidate their theoretical understanding and enhance their practice. The fee per member per group is £60, and each group comprises up to six members, meeting between 10.00 and (up to) 17.30 (depending on numbers) on Monday October 10, December 12 in 2011 and February 13, March 30 and June 6 in 2012. There are, to date, a number of places available on some of these dates, so please contact me if you are interested in attending any of these groups.
Workshop Series: Contemporary Transactional Analysis in Practice
I run a series of six workshops during the academic year, each exploring the application of contemporary TA philosophy and theory to a particular aspect of clinical practice. The fee per member per group is £60, and the workshops run between 10.00 and (up to) 17.30 (depending on numbers). There are, to date, places available on some of these dates, so please contact me if you are interested in attending any of these groups.
For the coming academic year, the workshop series is as follows:
· Diagnosing - September 12, 2011
o Assessing potential clients
o Business contracts and the dynamics of multi-cornered contracts
o Initial sessions
o Ways of diagnosing
· Contracting - November 14, 2011
o Constructing a therapeutic alliance
o The contracting process
o Productive contracts
· Treatment Planning - January 9, 2012
o How diagnosing and contracting informs therapeutic planning
o Different stages and their interrelation
o Differing stages of focusing on the unconscious
· Decontaminating - March 12, 2012
o Contemporary takes on decontamination, accounting for the nature of the integrating Adult
o Berne’s first six therapeutic operations in action
o Effects of decontamination
· Deconfusing - May 14, 2012
o Engaging with uncertainty and confusion
o Listening to the unconscious, such as dream work
o ‘Speaking’ with the Child
· Ending - July 9, 2012
o Different moments of ending
o Engaging with loss
o The enigma of continuing