See below for a WELCOME TO IARTA!

NEXT UPCOMING EVENTS: 

Our sixth colloquium will run from 21st March - 1st April.  It will be launched by a paper from Dr. Marco Mazzetti TSTA from Milan, Italy.  More details imminently!

IARTA'S 3RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE WILL TAKE PLACE ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3RD.  

IT WILL AGAIN BE AT THE NCVO NEAR KINGS CROSS LONDON, AS THIS HAS BEEN SO POPULAR WITH DELEGATES.

PUT THE DATE IN YOUR DIARY NOW  .....

AND LOOK FOR DETAILS SOON - HERE AND IN THE NEWSLETTER.

Relational TA Book.

Published by Karnac - download flier here

Relational Transactional Analysis -

Principles in Practice

edited by Heather Fowlie and Charlotte Sills

The launch took place in Bilbao at the World Conference of Transactional Analysis (July 2011), which at least half of the book's contributors attended.  The book involves 33 papers (and almost forty authors!) which examine different aspects of the principles and practice of relational psychotherapy in general and relational transactional analysis in particular.  It includes a section on different contexts and a section on implications for training, supervision and so on. 

In addition to Heather and Charlotte, contributors to the book are: Diana Shmukler, Suhith Shivanath, Brian Fenton, Richard Erskine, Ray Little, Graeme Summers, Paul Kellett van Leer, Dave Gowling, Jamie Agar, Katherine Murphy, Katarina Gildebrand, Jo Stuthridge, Bill Cornell, Steff Oates, Carole Shadbolt, Phil Lapworth, Marco Mazzetti, Marit Lyngra, Karen Minikin, Jim Allen, Helena Hargaden, Geoff Hopping, Gun Isaksson Hurst, Birgitta Heiller, Sue Eusden, Suzanne Boyd, Jill Hunt, Keith Chinnock, Biljana van Rijn, Sarah Brown, Rachel Cook, Judy Sleath, Rob Hill, Maja Zivkovic, Elana leigh

It is brilliant!  (We think so anyway!)

The book launch followed an all-day symposium on Relational TA facilitated by Charlotte Sills and Heather Fowlie, which involved contributions from sixteen transactional analysts from all parts of the globe, who were involved in talking about relational TA and its implications for practice and also for training.  It was a rich and stimulating day.

For reviews of our 2011 colloquia and the second annual conference, see:

Review Previous Events

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Melanie Rowland

We hope you enjoy exploring our website.

IARTA - the International Association for Relational Transactional Analysis - is a professional and intellectual community of practitioners who are committed to developing relational perspectives in transactional analysis theories and methods, and to exploring similarities and differences with other approaches. It has grown out of a sense of passion and enthusiasm by the founders to promote our clinical and consultative professional identities.

IARTA was founded on 1st September, 2009 and in its first year rose to 149 members. Membership costs only £30 per year and is not restricted to TA people; it is our intention to collaborate with anyone who is interested in the development of relational theory - no matter what their denomination!

We wish to use our energy to increase our relational knowledge base, form bridges with other modalities and provide a space whereby theories and methods of relational perspectives such as  intersubjective, co-creational, object relational, selfobject transferences and the role of the unconscious can be debated and developed in an atmosphere of stimulation and curiosity within a dialectical frame of reference. Our aim is to encourage difference and debate as we believe this process enlivens and contributes to depth of understanding.  

As an organisation, our ethos reflects a passion and a desire for learning, rather than an attempt to find and concretise any particular methodology or set of beliefs. As a part of this we seek to honour our TA roots and at the same time, to play with and develop new ideas and new ways of thinking and working that emerge from our discussions with each other and with those from other similar associations, organisations and professional bodies.

In keeping with our ethos, we have formed our new association in as open a way as possible, acknowledging our differences and collaborating with each other in a way that reflects our interest in emotional connectedness, mutuality - and relationship! Within this we have taken and remain committed to taking an active anti-oppressive and non-discriminatory stance. In these ways we hope to encourage the formation of an organisation in which free and creative thinking and open discussion can thrive.