Berne drew on many different influences while developing his thinking about ego states, particularly during the early days of expounding transactional analysis theory. By the time of his death, in 1970, he had presented several variations of his original structural ego state model, which was typical of the creative, integrative, and developmental approach to theory...
This workshop will reflect on Queer identities including Trans, Non-binary, and gender fluid identities, and working across all GSRD, Gender Sex Relationship, and Diversity. The importance of pronouns will be explored. Queer theory will be mused, calling for dialogue around the evolving of social and political constructs. We will reflect on the limits of the...
The second part of this three part series. This course is designed to offer the opportunity to explore the impact on life when a family member identifies/is identified as autistic. We will open a space for dialogue and exploration to consider the unique impact on each of our personal relationships and lives. We will look...
THEME - MUTUALITY Lew Aaron famously referred to relational psychotherapy as having ‘mutuality with asymmetry’. Our conference this year explores the notion of mutuality. What do we mean by it and how does it affect our work? The conference revolves around a panel discussion between the TA practitioners mentioned above and will include facilitated discussion...
The third and final part of this CPD series. This course is designed to offer the opportunity to explore the impact on life when a family member identifies/is identified as autistic. We will open a space for dialogue and exploration to consider the unique impact on each of our personal relationships and lives. We will...
Focusing on the underlying shame as a foundation and reflecting on existing literature and empirical research, this two-part workshop introduces a relational framework for working with disordered eating. Eating, body and weight issues are becoming more and more common and evident in private practice, often as secondary presentations. Existing literature on the therapy of eating...
The second and final part of this CPD series. Focusing on the underlying shame as a foundation and reflecting on existing literature and empirical research, this two-part workshop introduces a relational framework for working with disordered eating. Eating, body, and weight issues are becoming more and more common and evident in private practice, often as...
A sensitivity to a Liminal state of being, or becoming, with our clients creates transitional spaces of engagement and healthy redefining. In this webinar, I will introduce the creative notion of Liminality and make links to Relational TAs principles and clinical practice. I will draw on Winnicotts ideas of Play, Jessica Benjamins Intersubjective Third as...
This workshop will bring alive Victoria's recent article and thinking on inclusive theory and practice. 'Historically counselling and psychotherapy and indeed transactional analysis has been influenced by western/northern hemisphere concepts and ideology. Thus, largely offering a White, individualistic, heteronormative, neurotypical, middle-class, and binary lens to theory, practice, and curriculums. This article aims to offer a...
In our first in-person event since the lockdown, Dr Galit Atlas and Carole Shadbolt will discuss ideas from Galit’s latest book “Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, her patients and the Legacy of Trauma”. They will talk, among other things, about how inherited trauma can be unconsciously transmitted from one generation to the next, often in quiet...
In this online event, Charlotte Sills will be interviewing John Heath about how 30 years as a psychotherapist have led him to a deeper exploration of what life is all about and what we are supposed to be doing while we have the privilege of living it! We will be looking at how his approach...
In this workshop, the subject of soul murder will be discussed. Soul murder is not a diagnosis, it is a crime. Following on from the work of von Feuerbach (Kaspar Hauser), Freud and particularly Leonard Shengold, not to mention literary examinations of soul murder by Orwell, Ibsen and others, Paul Williams will seek to extend...
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