TAworks

Combines the talents of many qualified transactional analysts with a rich breadth of TA perspectives and applications from across the world, plus the specialist applications of skilled TA learners.

• Our training calendar names the practitioners offering their talents to TAworks over the next year.

TAworks is quite different from other TA training institutes in a number of specific ways:

• we have a radical and contemporary take on TA - and are careful to teach the origins too, and to look at how theory is culturally shaped
• we use emergent design in our curriculums - even for the packed TA101 intro to TA
• learning through experience is our core approach
• we always consider the unconscious and non-conscious in relation to individuals and organisations
• we take a systemic perspective - away from pop psychology ideas about the power of childhood on personality and towards ideas that we are constantly being shaped by the cultures of the systems we belong to
• we are interculturally aware - families have culture; so do organisations; as well as nations and other groups and many misunderstandings are due to different cultural understandings
• ethical considerations fascinate us - and every choice has an ethical dimension to be explored
• curiosity is central to being human - and so to be encouraged at all times

So come and join us! Suggest to others they might like to join us too!
We are present on all social media thanks to Michelle Thome who organises this for us.

who we are

Rosemary Napper is a TSTA and CTA in the fields of Organisations, Education and Counselling. “I was born a ‘third-culture kid’ and this sparked my passion for social anthropology and social psychology, and for developing TA as a resource for intercultural understanding. It has also led me to travel the world: TA has been a wonderful way to make lifelong friends and colleagues on all the continents. I’ve authored several books and chapters on TA (including the long-selling TACTICS with Trudi Newton TSTA-E), and my enthusiasm is for adult learning and developing the TAworks Learning Centre in Oxford. Here we focus on integrating experiential learning and a co-creative approach in an emergent curriculum with a systemic perspective in each of the TA strands. We offer this for coaches, consultants, facilitators, trainers, counsellors, leaders, managers, and professionals working with people – as well as in the specialist development of TA trainers and supervisors, both online and in live workshops.”

Thorsten Geck is an Organisational TSTA and CTA and leads the Organisational strand at TAworks. “Our boutique training centre represents what is important and is proven to be effective TA, emphasising a systemic perspective, highlighting emergent design, with a stance towards others based on open communication and Ok-ness. This approach empowers my experience in working with a variety of organisations in the 21st century.”

Sian Rivers is a PTSTA-E who trained in TA Counselling at TAworks. “I treasure the systemic perspective used at TAworks, where full considerations of the different fields of TA provides both depth and breadth of knowledge in practice. TAworks has a global community of trainees and trainers which makes for a unique learning experience. I spent most of my working life as an educator in one way or another – at first in youth and community work and now teaching Higher Education in the UK. I am looking forward to contributing to the People Practitioner and Education strands, learning alongside participants, supporting their own development and learning. I passionately believe that TA training should be inspiring, enjoyable and challenging, and plan to develop a social justice curriculum.”

James Longwell is a PTSTA-O who recently joined the TAworks staff team to assist in the Foundation and Organisational programmes. “I studied Systemic Transactional Analysis at TAworks and experienced multiple benefits both professionally and personally – many of them transformational. I am delighted to join the training team and support others in their learning journeys.”