Page two of the IARTA online video recordings
Radical-Relational Perspectives: Oppression, Alienation, Reclamation.
Karen Minikin
Radical-Relational Perspectives: Oppression, Alienation, Reclamation.
In this recorded webinar, Karen Minikin explores the transferential relationship through the radical-relational lenses of oppression, alienation, and reclamation. Drawing on personal stories and selected readings from her book Radical-Relational Perspectives in TA Psychotherapy (Minikin, K., ed., 2023), Karen illustrates, unpacks, and deconstructs these themes to help therapists deepen their understanding of power, marginalisation, and the therapeutic relationship.
This recording is ideal for psychotherapists, counsellors, and transactional analysts wanting to enrich their practice with contemporary relational thinking and social justice perspectives.
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Video lecture and PowerPoint – 1hr 57 mins – This webinar was originally recorded on the 19th Oct 2023.
Read More About the Speaker – Karen Minikin is a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer (TSTA (P)) currently working in West Somerset and Devon. She draws on history with personal life experience and uses this in relating to help integrate the psychodynamics of politics and power within a relational framework. She has written on these themes in chapters of books and articles, and her book, Radical-Relational Perspectives in TA Psychotherapy, was published in September 2023.
The Place of Failure and Rupture in Psychotherapy
Carole Shadbolt
The Place of Failure and Rupture in Psychotherapy
In this recorded session, Carole Shadbolt discusses, expands upon, and answers questions about her influential article The Place of Failure and Rupture in Psychotherapy. Her work explores rupture and failure within transactional analysis psychotherapy from ethical, cultural, theoretical, and clinical perspectives.
Working within a relational frame of reference, Carole highlights how failure and rupture are not only inevitable but necessary parts of the therapeutic encounter. She describes a relational therapeutic sequence and offers a fresh relational aspect to Berne’s (1972) game formula, illustrated with a rich clinical case example.
This recording is ideal for psychotherapists and transactional analysts interested in working more deeply and openly with rupture and repair in the therapy room.
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Video lecture with article – 1 hr 48 mins. This webinar was originally recorded on the 22nd Feb 2022
Read More About the Speaker – 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.
The Empathic Transactions
Charlotte Sills and Mica Douglas
The Empathic Transactions
In 1966, Eric Berne described what he called the therapeutic operations — a term that reflected his medical-model approach to psychotherapy. While Berne’s theories were largely relational, his methods often were not. In 2002, Helena Hargaden and Charlotte Sills offered a significant relational revision of Berne’s concept, introducing what they called the empathic transactions.
Building on this, in 2019, Mica Douglas, Giovanni Felice Pace, Valeria Villa, and Bill Stiles conducted theory-building research into the empathic transactions. Their findings confirmed that psychotherapy could be deepened and progressed by consciously applying these relational methods (see Transactional Analysis Journal, 2019).
In this recorded webinar, the research team introduces the empathic transactions and invites viewers to explore how to apply them in practice. They also present their research findings, demonstrating how these concepts can enrich relational depth and therapeutic progress.
This recording is ideal for transactional analysts, psychotherapists, and trainees seeking practical, evidence-based ways to deepen their relational work.
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Video lecture with PowerPoint – 1 hr and 14 mins – Recorded on 26th October 2021
Read More About the Speakers,
Charlotte Sills is a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, Visiting Professor at Middlesex University and Professor of Coaching at Ashridge Business School. Amongst her many publications are Transactional Analysis – A Relational Perspective with Helena Hargaden (Routledge 2002) for which they were awarded the Eric Berne Memorial Award in 2007. In the same year, Charlotte was awarded the EATA gold medal for services to the TA community.
Mica Douglas is a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist and supervisor and has a particular interest in trauma, attachment, unconscious processes and developing potential in others. After training to be a social worker and then a therapist and supervisor. Mica has a strong interest in research and has completed a Doctorate in Psychotherapy with Metanoia and Middlesex University. She is a member of the following professional bodies: • Social Work England, Registered Social Worker • UKCP, Registered psychotherapist for adults and children and registered supervisor • International Association for Relational TA, member of IARTA Steering Committee.
Traversing the Fault Lines: A Relational Approach to the Treatment of Trauma
Jo Stuthridge
Traversing the Fault Lines: A Relational Approach to the Treatment of Trauma
In this powerful recorded seminar, Jo explores a relational approach to working with trauma, based on her paper “Traversing the Fault Lines: Trauma and Enactment.”
Trauma often involves experiences too overwhelming for the mind to fully assimilate. When emotional pain becomes unbearable, the psyche can shatter to maintain a fragile sense of sanity. Jo uses the image of a fault line as a guiding metaphor in her trauma work — symbolising the fractures created by dissociation, somatic symptoms, enactment, and the intense transference and countertransference dynamics that often arise in the therapy room.
Drawing on over three decades of experience working with sexual abuse and other forms of trauma, Jo shares insights into how internalised victims and persecutors can shape complex relational dynamics within the therapeutic dyad — making this work both deeply challenging and transformative.
This recording is ideal for psychotherapists seeking to deepen their understanding of relational trauma work and enrich their clinical practice.
Revisit Jo’s insights anytime and strengthen your work with trauma.
This webinar was originally recorded on the 11th 2022 and is based on Jo’s article ““Traversing the Fault lines: Trauma and Enactment” which appeared in the Transactional Analysis Journal, April 2012, Vol 42, No 4.
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Video lecture with Power – Point – 1 hr 33 mins
Read More About the Speaker – Jo Stuthridge MSc, NZAP, is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst and a registered psychotherapist in New Zealand. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Dunedin and is director of the Physis Institute, which offers training in transactional analysis. She has published book chapters on transactional analysis and several articles on trauma. Jo is a teaching and research associate with the Department of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Auckland University of Technology. She was a Co-editor of the Transactional Analysis Journal from 2010 – 2019
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