In this institute, participants will learn basic coaching skills to enhance already existing roles such as teachers, managers, trainers, and anyone working with people. Participants will learn listening and questioning techniques to enable people to think for themselves and to begin to develop new, life-enhancing scripts to use to create the life they love. The work will be based on transactional analysis theory as well as other material, such as the thinking environment work of Nancy Kline and appreciative inquiry principles.
Karen Pratt is a Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (education), a credentialed coach and coach trainer, and an appreciative inquiry facilitator. She works as an independent trainer, consultant, facilitator, and coach in business and nonprofit sectors across South Africa and in the United Kingdom. Transactional analysis informs who she is and how she works. She has a passion for enabling learning and growth and loves life to the fullest!
This institute will offer an opportunity for educators who are new to transactional analysis to focus on understanding some of the core ideas in TA and their application to classroom situations. Working in partnership with students managing conflict and understanding development will be among the themes of the workshop.
Examples of how transactional analysis has been used in classrooms will be offered in addition to time for participants to consider using the ideas in their own practice. Educators from all contexts—primar y, secondary, adult, and specialist schools and colleges—are welcome to attend.
Giles Barrow is a teacher with experience in both mainstream and specialist experience in the United Kingdom. He is also a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (education) and has written several books and articles on the relational aspects of teaching and learning. He works alongside educators in different circumstances and cultures and enjoys finding out what happens when people learn.
We can grieve our losses and open to joy again, we can be angry and full of protest and let that go, we can release the stale memories of pain, we can heal our wounds. And feeling gratitude for all the good things that were and still are in our life, we can open our heart, create a fresh reality, and start dancing to the beat of life again.
This is an experiential workshop in which we will work with concepts from transactional analysis, attachment theory, griefwork, bodywork and more and explore theory and practice through talking, exercises, role play, meditation, and dancing. There will be opportunities for participants to work with personal issues.
Marijke Wusten has more than 30 years of experience in training, teaching, therapy, and healing in different countries all over the world. Since 1985 she has been active in transactional analysis as a Certified Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy) and later as a Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. She has served on the boards of NVTA, EATA, and ITAA and was the codirector of the former Dutch TA institute ANITA. Currently, she is retired, lives in the country, and only incidentally accepts invitations to teach or lecture.
The theory of personality adaptations identifies six universal, core adaptations that individuals develop in their family of origin in order to survive psychologically and meet the expectations of their parents and other authority figures.
Each of these adaptations has a specific way (thinking, feeling, or behavior) for meeting the world, a target area for growth and change, and a trap area to avoid so as not to become caught in the client’s defenses. Each adaptation also has specific identifiable script behaviors. Redecision therapy is a highly effective approach in helping individuals to change and reclaim their power and autonomy. When combined with the theory of personality adaptations, it provides an even more effective means of targeting the therapy in the way that works best with each unique individual. This institute will both present this theory and demonstrate it in clinical work with participants.
Vann S. Joines, PhD, is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy) and president of the Southeast Institute for Group and Family Therapy in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. He won the Eric Berne Memorial Award for integrating personality adaptations with transactional analysis theory and traditional diagnosis. Vann is the coauthor of TA Today and Personality Adaptations and the author of the Joines Personality Adaptation Questionnaire and the JPAQ Administration, Scoring, and Interpretative Kit (www.seinstitute.com).