Liminality – Carole Shadbolt

In this rich and engaging session, Carole Shadbolt introduces the powerful concept of Liminality and its crucial role within relational Transactional Analysis practice. Drawing on foundational ideas from Winnicott’s theory of Play, Jessica Benjamin’s notion of the Intersubjective Third, and Hargaden & Sills’ work on Empathic Transactions, Carole weaves these theoretical strands together with her own clinical insights on rupture and repair.

Listeners will discover how attention to liminal states—the thresholds between old and new ways of being—opens transitional spaces within therapy that foster growth, creativity, and healthy redefinition of self and relationship. This session balances deep theory with practical clinical reflections, offering therapists valuable tools to deepen their relational work.

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This webinar was originally recorded on the 5^h February 2024

Video lecture and handout – 1hr and 40 mins

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Carole Shadbolt lives and practices in the United Kingdom. In a long career, she originally trained as a social worker and worked both as a generic as well as a specialist psychiatric social worker at The Maudsley Hospital, part of the Institute of Psychiatry in London. She qualified as a Transactional Analyst Metanoia under the tutelage of Petruska Clarkson, Sue Fish and Maria Gilbert. Carole worked as a tutor for many years at Metanoia Institute on their MSc in Relational Transactional Analysis programme. She maintains an independent psychotherapy and supervisory practice in Oxfordshire. A relational psychotherapist by instinct, Carole is a published author and a founder member of the International Association of Relational Transactional Analysis and serves on their Steering group. She has been “out” since the late seventies, and her abiding interest is in LGBTQ + issues and diversity.