Foundation Year

All fields


About the Course

For the academic year 2025/26 we will be offering 2 Foundation Year Groups, one Group will be in person at Berne House on Saturdays and Sundays and one Group will be online on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

The major focus of this one-year part-time course (20 days of training), is on providing an in-depth awareness of TA and its applications in all fields. It will be relevant for anyone working in, or considering a career in the helping professions, teaching, management consultancy, and has many wider applications.

As well as considering the major theories of TA and their applications, it also includes practical, experiential and skills-development work, and provides an experience of personal development.


  • Who is it for?

    The Foundation Year is an essential first step into further TA training and is a valuable source of TA techniques and tools for those who wish to further their knowledge and expertise in TA.

  • Qualification and Accreditation

    Upon successful completion of the Foundation course you will receive the Berne Foundation Certificate and the TA101 certificate of the European Association for Transactional Analysis

  • Course Content

    • Attachment & Group Processes, Counselling & Listening Skills, Philosophy & Contracting
    • Ego-states a deep exploration into different TA models for understanding the Self, including Functional, Structural and Integrating Adult TA theories, Contaminations
    • Communication analysis, Transactional Analysis proper
    • Hungers & Stroke Theory
    • Symbiosis, how we relate to others through co-dependency
    • Discounting, avoiding solving problems, Redfining & Passive Behaviours, Frame of Reference
    • Child Development models & cycles of development
    • Feelings includig Moiso's Feeling Loop, Psychological Trading Stamps and Rackets and how our feelings get distorted
    • Personality Adaptations & The Miniscript and difference channels of communication
    • Contracting for change
    • Intimacy and Psychologial Games people play and healing distructive patterns in relationships 
    • Life Scripts and Script System – how we make life predictable. Different models of Script analysis and significance of early life decisions
    • Transformation and change. Physis, Autonomy and Homonomy

  • Eligibility and Entry

    No previous academic qualification is required for entry to the Foundation course. If you apply for a place on the course, you will be contacted to arrange an admission interview, which will be face to face or by telephone.

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Summary

Course Cost

 

Fees 2025/26

£2550

Course Dates

Dates 2025/26

Venue: Berne House
4 -5 October 2025

1 - 2 November

29 - 30 November

10 - 11 January 2026 (online)

7 - 8 February

7 - 8 March

11 - 12 April

9 - 10 May

13 - 14 June

11 - 12 July


Venue: Online

8 - 9 October 2025

5 - 6 November

3 - 4 December

14 - 15 January 2026

11 - 12 February

11 - 12 March

15 - 16 April

13 - 14 May

17 - 18 June

15 - 16 July




Tutors

Adrienne Lee TSTA(P)

Frances Townsend TSTA(P)

Debbie Robinson TSTA(O)

Annette Terry PTSTA(P)

Rebecca Elston CTA(P)

Our Core Philosophy

At The Berne Institute we recognise that people come into TA training with widely differing experiences of clinical practice, theoretical knowledge and formal academic learning, and that they differ widely also in their current personal resources and skills. Our courses therefore honour the uniqueness of each individual’s learning and experience and their different learning styles, pace and areas of competence.

The philosophy and practice of Homonomy that respects our mutuality and interconnectedness has been recently integrated into the Berne Institute philosophy. The aim is to expand the focus in our theory and practice from individual change to include a focus on the wider implications of our work on the whole community and our planet. 


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