This “TA 101” course will be particularly useful to you if you work in the helping professions, or in management, communications or teaching. It will also be helpful to you if you are interested in understanding more fully your relationships with others.

This course – the “official TA 101” – is recognised by the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA) and the European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA) as their standard approved introduction to TA. Completion of the course affords you the “TA 101” certificate, a necessary requirement if you should later wish to enter accredited training as a TA practitioner.

• Our contract – what do you want from this course?

• What is TA?

• Attachment Model – the secret of life!

• Underlying values of TA – what is important?

• The life and publications of Eric Berne.

• The development of TA.

• Ego States – who am I?

• Contaminations and Exclusions – how reality gets distorted.

• Symbiosis – how do we relate with others through dependency?

• Transactions – how do we communicate with each other?

• Hungers and strokes – what you concentrate on is what you get!

• Time structuring.

• Psychological sweatshirts.

• Our Frame of Reference – filtering reality.

• Discounting – avoiding solving problems.

• Psychological trading stamps –expressing our feelings.

• Rackets – how do our feelings get distorted?

• The Racket/Script System

• Life Positions –How OK am I in relation to you?

• Games people play – how do we repeat the same destructive patterns in relationships?

• Life Scripts – how can we make life predictable?

• Miniscripts – how we adapt to ensure our acceptance.

• Physis – How we grow and change.

• Autonomy and Homonomy – the goals of TA.

• Closure and goodbye.