frameworks for your future — A 120-HOUR
fast-track FOUNDATION in Transactional Analysis
Are you wanting to increase your sense of presence in your life?
The goal of the Foundation in Transactional Analysis at TAworks Oxford is to find and exercise that
structural Adult ego state muscle; the capacity to be in the ‘here and ‘now’ and thus communicate in flow with
others whilst appreciating our own needs and hungers.
The Foundation programme in TA prepares you to do this, and so enhance both your private world and your
professional roles. This programme totals 120 learning hours — homework is continuing to navigate your life,
sometimes using a TA lens!
The FOUNDATION in TA focuses on in-depth TA theory in relation to you — as a result you will discover your
barometer indicating when you are fully present in Adult, and so regenerating your energy. This is valuable in
itself - and essential if you are going on to further training to apply TA in other settings.
The 120 hours Foundation is designed to get a depth of knowledge of transactional analysis to support you in
your everyday life and for you to locate your felt-sense of your Adult ego state — and in order to decide if
you want to go further so that TA can underpin your professional work.
Which of the plus points of this programme of learning fit
your needs and wants (see below for more details)?
PERSONAL and PROFESSIONAL
- you will develop your fluency in using TA concepts to think about situations
- you will gain insight into how TA can be used in
different roles — in the workplace; in learning; in
families; by counsellors and psychotherapists; in
leadership; in coaching; in specific professions — as
a way of thinking about effectiveness in these roles
- if successfully completed you will be able to choose
which formal field of TA application you wish to progress
to learning (organisational, educational, psychotherapy,
counselling) towards qualification – or for ongoing
professional development; or to decide this learning is
complete in itself. TAworks provides further learning in
all fields apart from psychotherapy.
POTENTIAL
- you will gain a measure of your own potential
professionally and personally through this programme,
including your capacity for emotional literacy
PRACTICAL
- conveniently programmed as six events of twenty
learning hours approximately every four weeks, on a Friday
afternoon from 13.30–19.30, Saturdays from 09.00–18.00,
Sundays from 09.00–16.00
- In 2019 weekend sessions begin: February 15, March 15, April 12, May 10, June 7, July 12 (with option of dinner in local restaurant on July 13 and flexible finish time on July 14).
- a weekday programme can be arranged if there are 6 or more who request this.
PROCESS
- In the early afternoon there is an invitation to safely
reflect on your experiences of your different roles between
group meetings, plus a focus on our communication in the
group using TA as a framework for illuminating thinking
about our experiences and deciding how we might be and do
differently. This is followed by a focus on extending and
deepening understanding of specific TA concepts, with
practical examples
PRACTITIONERS
- The key trainer is Rosemary Napper (TSTA Organisational, Educational & Counselling; Accredited
Counsellor BACP; MA Educational Studies with a TA-based dissertation)
- Additional trainers from all fields will facilitate
learning on some Saturdays
PLACE
Exclusive access to a training centre in Oxford — with local cafes and
restaurants for pastiming
PRICE
£2400 fully paid; £2650 instalments; £2950 if paid by employer.
Booking – please use our booking form, describing your experience and
including a copy of your certificate for the official
introduction to Transactional Analysis (the TA 101) +
£200 non-returnable deposit.
FURTHER FEATURES OF FRAMEWORKS FOR
YOUR FUTURE FOUNDATION IN TRANSACTIONAL
ANALYSIS
The benefits of this programme are in
extending your professional and personal competence —
and one of the key features of the training is the quality of
the learning experience in supporting such learning.
Philosophy into practice
- The trainers will model the TA tenets such as
OKness, autonomy, and capacity to think — both in their
design and delivery and in their response to
learners’ curiosity and challenge
- Learners are encouraged to begin to think using the
‘maps’ that TA supplies so accessibly —
and to use the peer learning group to support and clarify
their thinking
Providers
- The key trainer, Rosemary Napper, is present throughout
the monthly training to provide continuity and encourage
connections between the modules plus the making of meaning
by the learners.
- In addition there will be input from other
trainers from different fields of application of TA —
and opportunities for you to explore with them what further
training might entail.
Programme
By the end of this programme you will be able to think
readily about yourself and situations using TA concepts as a
framework for considering and clarifying with hindsight
— and to recognise how you could also use TA with
foresight. Two or three key concepts from TA are explored in
depth at each training session, illustrated with how these
are applied in different fields of practice.
There are also further options for extending your
learning:
- There are often optional workshops on applications of
TA provided by a range of TA trainers and supervisors
- A Counselling qualification beginning in February 2021
- Organisational and Educational TA programmes beginning
each February
- To ensure optimal learning the group size is limited to
an absolute maximum of 12
- Participants need to already have the TA 101, available
internationally and in Oxford at the workshop, or bespoke in-house in organisations, or
pre-foundation by tutorial and written assignments
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