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.

In the trainings I deliver I have frequently been asked “what is the link between rage and shame?” Participants and myself have intuitively known that there is a strong relationship between them both. As a consequence I have been inspired to research the issue and have developed a model that articulates the connection between the two, and also a deeper understanding of how the therapeutic relationship can address these commonly presented, often perplexing, issues.

In this online interview I discuss a practice example of how a client may oscillate between rage and shame, the impact that this had on me as a therapist and how I worked with it.

TA is a great tool that can be used in a range of ways, my experience is that TA therapists in particular often limit themselves to using their skills and knowledge within the therapy room, but there are many other areas we could apply what we know.

I talked about TA as a psycho-educational tool and shared some ways that we at The Link Centre facilitate learning TA concepts while inviting growth and development in our students. We mostly use these ideas when training therapists but they can be applied in many different settings.

Jim presented two contrasting but complementary styles of engaging in the therapeutic relationship with couples, and explored the challenges that this type of work presents for counsellors and psychotherapists.

In this interview Jacqui talked about personal first aid kits as a self-care tool for counsellors, supervisors and their clients.

Self care, personal first aid kits has long been something Jacqui has firmly believed in as an essential part of being in a caring profession. She has developed her own kit over many years and taught students, clients and supervisees how to develop their own.

Focussing on the work of Parker J Palmer this third session will consider the integration of soul and role. How many educators leave themselves at the classroom door, only to rely on technique and policy initiatives to shape how they work with students. Often we ask what is to be taught, and occasionally how to teach. Rarely are teachers encouraged to consider why they teach and fewer to consider who it is that shows up to teach. Re-connecting with an early sense of vocation, clarifying core values and living out who we are in relationship with students, is new territory for many contemporary educators.

Leilani Mitchell talks to onlinevents about the global Transactional Analysis community coming together for #TATuesdays. There have been participants from Serbia, Russia, Amenia, Australia, USA…

Noel shared his experience of working with couples where one or both has issues of addiction or co-dependency. Where one or both may be in formal recovery groups such as AA or where one or both is in denial of their need for support into recovery from addiction or co-dependency. What is the impact of denial, trauma, cross-addiction, co-dependent loss of the victim-caretaker role?

In this interview Richard talks about how TA has helped him run his own business successfully and how he uses it when coaching and delivering organisational change.

Richard is a business coach, best-selling author, hosts a weekly business radio show and has been awarded Accredited Teacher status at Cranfield University. He has taught TA skills to executives and managers and used TA to benefit hospitals, SME’s, charities and single-handed businesses. His secret mission is to write a whole book about Physis, and he’s started with chapters about it in his books Bouncing Back and Riding the Rocket.

Clifton Supple is Clinical Director of Physis Quantum (www.physisgroup.co.uk) recently established in Shropshire to work with children and young people who present a complex range of emotional needs, inappropriate / harmful sexualised behaviours, attachment disorders, abuse reactive behaviours and trauma.

He is intending to discuss the culture that been developed upon an explicit commitment to a whole team approach focused upon the integration of therapeutic care, educational provision and clinical components to maximise the opportunities and outcomes for the young people they support.

In this discussion Frances is looking forward to sharing some of her experience working in GP surgeries offering short term counselling of up to six sessions.

As part of the discussion Frances will consider some of the demands on the practitioner to work within a short term contract and how we might meet these. And Frances will also take some time to think about how TA theory informs and supports short term counselling work.

A spiritual teacher (Byron Katie) said, “I trust people 100% to do what they do.” If you think about it there can be no betrayal in such a world view.

The topic I would like to focus on in this talk is the breaking of psychological contracts. This is a contract that is not explicit but a deal that has been made in the eyes of one party, which the other may not have known about. For example, ” I take a short lunch break so I am entitled to leave early. You have no right to challenge my integrity.” Or, ” I rescued you from your family. I am entitled to an affair.”

Lurking behind these psychological contracts are core beliefs which we are often unconscious of. What I am suggesting is, that we can use the universal feelings of betrayal to access some of our deepest core beliefs, which do not serve us.

In this interview, Mark will talk through some of the findings from his research on the outcome of TA Psychotherapy for depression, which demonstrate that TA can be an effective therapy for depression.

Mark’s vision is for TA to be recognised as an evidence-based therapy by 2020, he is also looking forward to talking about a systematic research strategy for the TA community and a series of small-project research ideas which can be taken forward to build the evidence base for TA therapy.

In this discussion, Andy considered the changes that have taken place between the definitions of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in DSM-IV and DSM-V, and the ways in which this may inform our thinking about treatment of trauma as practitioners.

We discussed a triage approach to trauma, and looking at the importance of stabilisation as the initial treatment intervention, prior to further integrative work. We then discussed differing treatment modalities and what they may have to offer the practitioner and client in the treatment of trauma.

Education is always taking place in context which in turn shapes how individuals make sense of themselves as intelligent, capable, competent and worthwhile, or not.

Our experience of being schooled can be profoundly important in terms of shaping personal script and which reverberates into adult life and career.

In this workshop, Mark presented the findings of his research on the outcome of TA Psychotherapy for depression, which demonstrate that TA can be an effective therapy for depression, and will demonstrate a method of conducting case study research, which is accessible yet rigorous.

In this interview Lin talked about the theory underpinning the work that she does in therapy groups and the practical questions to think about when setting up a therapy group.

One of the questions that Onlinevents focuses on is “What’s this all about?”

What a great question! I guess as a practitioner we all work with clients whose approaching session fills us with a sense of dread, fear or resistance.

Working as a psychotherapist both in secondary care NHS and in private practice I am really interested in how we work with these “complex” clients and what is stirred in us, either individually or as a member of a clinical team.

Touchstone and Talisman: The Living Grid, is a synthesis and progression of several TA theories and maps, incorporating concepts from other modalities, into a highly accessible yet complex touchstone for individuals and professionals at all levels of training and development.

In this interview we explored the application of the material in a wider context both personally and professionally for assessment, diagnosis, reflective self supervision and individual and group supervision and ultimately personal development.

Before training as a psychotherapist Lin Cheung had a successful career in sales and marketing. In this workshop she will share with you some of her ideas on how to use online marketing and social media to support your business and build a successful private practice.

Lin is also a part-time artist and talked about the marketing strategies that she uses in this work and how they might be similar and different to how she markets her private counselling practice.

Giles has written and presented on the “Educator as Cultivator”, reflecting on his experience moving with his family from London to live and work on a farm and the steep earning curve he experienced.

Considering the role of cultivation in his own experience of learning, holding space in a way that supported him through the shame of conscious incompetence, was vital in sustaining his development.

Giles describes the need for the cultivator to be grounded in the learning relationship and be able to act courageously on our intuition that something “may be amiss”, while not intervening in a way that diminishes the learners energy and autonomy.