Certificate in Transactional Analysis

Overview

This course will introduce participants to the main aspects of Transactional Analysis. It explains:

* the intrapsychic process within the individual, client, patient, which means, what is going on inside the person, where is it located (ie is it part of the family history, or their personal history), and how it is affecting their response to current situations
* the interpersonal difficulties and transactions that are often the externalisation of the unresolved inner conflict. This means that people behave in some quite unexpected ways as a result of the internal dialogue that no-one else can see. This can account for aggressive behaviour, over-reactions, conflicts and difficulties. Transactional Analysis helps make this understandable and alterable, with the full knowledge and consent of the participants
* the patterns of people's lives, the way they structure their time, the kind of recognition they do or do not receive, the myths they live by, the old beliefs and irrational self statements, their constructs of the world. Thus Transactional Analysis encompasses the notion of 'man' as a philosopher in search of meaning and as a scientist constantly experimenting with what is possible.

Course Content

• Archaic Child Ego States – a developmental perspective
• Parent introjects, influences and cultural scripting
• The Integrated Adult: problem solving and autonomy
• Scripts, personal, cultural and organisational
• Games and Rackets: ways of avoiding intimacy and real contact
• Self Perpetuating Strategies, Strokes, Time Structuring
• TA and Group Dynamics
• Contracting and Application of TA
• Autonomy and Cure

Course Aims

• To provide the basic building blocks and concepts of Transactional Analysis
• To relate these to a range of situations and applications
• To provide an opportunity for people to explore how these relate to their own experience
• To provide an opportunity for fun, personal growth and insight into many day-to-day encounters

Course Objectives

• By the end of this certificate people will be conversant with some of the key concepts
• Be able to apply these concepts
• Be able to combine intuition with evidence
• Make decisions based on strategic and well thought out outcomes (in the field of management, therapy, counselling and coaching)
• Have enjoyed being part of a learning community that reflects the best principles of mutual respect, creativity and trust