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Individuals with Autism (usually higher functioning Autism/Asperger Syndrome) will frequent the therapy room, largely undiagnosed; seeking solutions to their relational, emotional, and social issues.

Jacquie very generously agreed to spend an hour with us talking about her new book “Bare: Psychotherapy Stripped by Jacqueline Simon Gunn with Carlo DeCarlo”.

The book opens with the most powerful description of Jacquie reaching for authenticity internally and in her relationships and how that has emerged in her work with clients.

In this session Robin, Diane and John discuss the counselling session and the supervision session with each other and the online audience.

In this session Robin offers Diane some supervision for the third and final counselling session she has just had with John, live on the website.

This is the third session of counselling that Diane has offered John live on the website!

This discussion is a follow up to my article “Are we really Person-centred? You can’t be a vegetarian and eat meat!”

I hope that the discussion would look at what it means to be a person-centred practitioner, inside and outside of the counselling room, and whether or not we can integrate different approaches to a person-centred way of working without doing a disservice to the approac

As an alternative to the medical model most often used in mental health I relate to specific TA concepts to make sense of many clinical presentations such as obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders, post natal depression, self harm etc. Clients will often present with these symptoms and a further diagnosis of personality disorder due to their developmental and relationship issues.

Beren shared his experiences working as a psychotherapist in private practice and in Growing Well, a farm-based therapeutic community based in Kendal, Cumbria.

He also discussed how he has developed the therapeutic direction of the organisation over the last ten years, and the way TA’s theoretical and philosophical framework suits a community approach to mental health recovery.

This is a discussion about what cyber trauma is and how it is appearing in the therapy room. There will be a bias towards young people and the traumas associated with the use of cyber space as this is the area I both work in and research.

Many therapists are passionate about politics and issues of social justice. How useful is therapy thinking in terms of addressing political and social issues? Andrew has been writing about this for many years in books such as The Political Psyche and Politics on the Couch. In this webinar, he will look at issues such as leadership, violence and war, and ecopsychology. In particular, he will focus on economics and the question of inequality that is being much discussed at the moment. In May, Andrew had a letter published in The Guardian which we can discuss.

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My work with complex adoptions and children with disturbed behaviour led me to look beyond technique and focus attention on the coping skills and mind of the carer. The findings of my own research revealed that kindness was a relevant and powerful state of mind to support change and decrease distress and disturbance as well as regulate a child’s state of mind.

This finding is backed by much of the current neuroscience and is very much key to the practice of Mindfulness.

Jerold Bozarth facilitated a workshop thinking about the theory, philosophy and practice of the person-centred approach.

Jerold Bozarth facilitated a workshop thinking about the theory, philosophy and practice of the person-centred approach.

In this interview Noel will help us to think about the connection between Trauma and Recovery from Addiction.

This interview is part of our preparation for Noel’s workshop “Walking on Eggshell’s” which will be an opportunity to think more deeply about the relationship between Trauma, Addiction and early family experiences and how best to work with these in a therapeutic context.

In this interview Emma and Sue begin to explore some of the tensions present when making safeguarding decisions in counselling children and young people and explore possible conflicts between personal values, counselling ethics and organisational procedures.

In this session Robin, Diane and John discuss the counselling session and the supervision session with each other and the online audience.

In this session Robin offers Diane some supervision for the counselling session she has just had with John, live on the website.

In this session Diane conducted a second counselling session with John live on the website.

Michael Gavin is deeply passionate about the role Counselling & Psychotherapy can play in helping people who have experienced Trauma.

Michael has extensive experience in working with people who are experiencing Post Traumatic Stress. He has agreed to talk to us about how his work has been informed by the theory of Transactional Analysis and how he thinks about the clients embodied experience, engaging with the whole person of the client to facilitate recovery.

Adrienne will discuss and explore parent ego state theory and introduce her new ideas about the different roles or parts of parent that are expressed externally as well as experienced internally.

She invites the audience to join the theoretical discussion and apply it to their own practice with clients and to their own parenting experience.

In this TA Tuesday Joanna introduced TA Psychotherapy with clients who have criminal tendencies. She talked about her work with sex offenders, people who are violent, who steal etc.

She also looked at TA assessment of these of these clients as well as treatment approaches.

In this interview Janette talks about the themes in her presentation including the challenges of having a child in the education system who has dyslexia and her struggle to get the needed resources and understanding.

Janette also described the relational approach that she has developed in this experience and how vital it has been in this journey and she is looking forward to talking more about this approach in the event.

The opportunity to work online therapeutically opens the door on supporting new clients groups (such as deaf and deafened, housebound, those with issues of shame , those with autism) as well as offering a wider range of formats for providing online therapy.

An hour of conversation with Colin Lago and Dot Clark on their experiences of holding open learning environments.

Colin has, for some time now, been facilitating the Temenos Postgraduate Supervision Training using this mode of learning, and Dot has joined him as co-facilitator on the last two courses. The next course is due to begin in October 2014.

The aim of creating such a learning environment is to enable participants to take responsibility for their own learning process and to support the making of meaning within a rich context of appropriate resources and relationships.

Do you have clients who seem mired in the same old emotional habits session after session? They keep telling the same stories, using the same labels and categories for what happened and what it all means – over and over. You long to help them connect with a sense of fresh life energy and forward movement – but how?

All fields in Transactional Analysis share a common theory base and a common commitment to working in an OK-OK manner.

How we do that differs from field to field.

This Live stream workshop will address the issues of power and vulnerability alongside the philosophy of Transactional Analysis from a developmental perspective which is the foundation of all fields.

Neil’s aim is to inspire us to assess the role of values in our lives and work. He demonstrates how a common values vocabulary can become an ethical code on which we can base our lives: giving us a personal compass that helps us to find meaning and purpose. Neil shows us how values become a lifeline for some and a life enhancer for all, helping us to make positive decisions about ourselves. He explores how values act to help us to raise our awareness (consciousness), as would a positive nurturing and structuring parent, so that we act in alignment with our essence.

For me, none of these models have been satisfactory in explaining this primitive experience of the infant. In this presentation I will review previous models and present a new representation developed on the ideas of the Child ego state in Hargaden & Sills book on Relational Transactional Analysis.

Research on client process done by Eugene Gendlin and others at the University of Chicago could give you new tools and fresh insights for your stuck clients. This research studied the clients’ manner of experiencing. Rather than looking at what clients were saying, the researchers looked at how they said it. The remarkable result was that clients who spoke articulately about their problems did not do as well in therapy as those who, in some moments in the session, were in contact with something so freshly and immediately felt that they could not articulate it easily.

The postmodern critique of truth and reality is starting to have a significant impact on the practice of psychotherapy, but its influence often remains unspoken. In this TA Tuesday I’d like to open up a conversation about truth, reality and psychotherapy and explore what transactional analysis can bring to the postmodern table.

Cathy very kindly agreed to spend an hour talking with us about her new book “What You Really Need to Know about Counselling and Psychotherapy Training: An Essential Guide”

In 1978 when Robert & Mary Goulding first identified the ‘Impasses’ in Redecision TA therapy they offered a diagrammatic model for the Type 3 Impasse, this was followed by Ken Mellor in 1980 with his model, who identified the developmental stage. Later by Petruska Clarkson who suggested another diagram.

For me, none of these models have been satisfactory in explaining this primitive experience of the infant. In this presentation I will review previous models and present a new representation developed on the ideas of the Child ego state in Hargaden & Sills book on Relational Transactional Analysis.

Mindfulness is now widely used in mental health, organizational and educational settings. Furthermore, an increasing body of research suggests that mindfulness not just impacts on psychological health but the very structure of our brains. At the same time TA continues to be a valued approach in all of these settings.

This workshop seeks to explain mindfulness, and look at some of the research regarding its impact on psychological health and brain development. It will then look at how it may relate to TA and what a Mindfulness Based approach to TA might offer.

As a trainer and supervisor mark is often aware of beginning supervisees struggling to understand how best to use supervision.

As a trainer of both therapists and supervisors, in this TA Tuesday Mark will share some his thinking about supervision. The intention is both to provide supervisees with a wider understanding of what might be obtainable from supervision, as well as offering supervisors and advanced practitioners some ideas around their own supervision practice.

Rory explains the common errors that students make when submitting final portfolios.

Writing a case study is a particular challenge as students seek to combine practical work with theory and philosophy. Rory will offer some practical advice on difficulties particularly with case study writing.

Leilani Mitchell very generously agreed to step into the breach as our presenter has had to postpone their appearance.

Bravely Leilani invited an open dialogue about anything TA and enjoyed a lively and dynamic discussion!