Mutual Respect Network Seminars
Our
Mutual Respect Network online seminars
are aimed at broadening our frame of reference around topics
which fall under the theme of equality, diversity and inclusion.
Tickets for these seminars are by voluntary donation (choose your amount).
All money raised by donations goes to The Berne Institute Bursary Fund.
See links below for
online seminar details, topics and timings.
We look forward to welcoming you to our community.
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Mutual Respect Network Seminar
Positive Games: Co-creative confirmations
Online
Wednesday 23rd September 2026
6.30pm to 8.30pm (UK Time)
Presenter: Paul Robinson TSTA(E)
In the TA bulletin (1962) Berne stated that all Games are played from one of the four existential life positions. In “Games People Play” (1964) he went on to say that Games can be constructive or destructive, depending on whether our Script is constructive or destructive. However, after stating this, he wrote almost entirely about Games with destructive payoffs describing, and naming, Games that support and reinforce self-limiting Script beliefs, whilst only, briefly, mentioning “Good Games” that result in a constructive payoff. Summers and Tudor (TAJ, 2000) re-framed Games as co-creative confirmations and suggested that Games may be played out with healthy (positive) outcomes. The workshop will explore how we can use this re-framing of Game theory to support healthier and more present centred transactions to generate the intimacy facilitated, invited and accessed through we-ness, shared responsibility and positive regard.
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Mutual Respect Network Seminar
The Amputation of Intuition: Navigating Relationship without a Compass
Online
Wednesday 21st October 2026 6.30 – 8.00pm (UK Time)
Presenter: Bev Gibbons
TSTA(P)
I propose intuition to be an innate capacity, rather than a learned skill. It is a power, a compass intrinsic to being human; held in our very essence and outside of script, informing all of our sensing in ways we are only at the edges of becoming able to understand.
Bodymind or Namarupa – meaning name and form is a central concept in Zen Buddhism and refers to the interdependence of the mind and body. The bodymind is the integrated system that makes use of the raw data gathered through the full sensory experiencing of humans. I suggest that intuition provides an arterial network that enables the bodymind.
Following from this I offer the idea that in certain circumstances intuitive function is deliberately amputated in the service of survival, and the bodymind comes apart and becomes body and mind. Separate. A profound loss results– the loss of the ability to form a healthy, growthful relationship with self, other and the environment.
I offer a lens that gives different depth and context to what might be met in encounter, in relationship with someone who has a compromised capacity to know what happened i.e. unable to stretch into the corners of their bodymind with full intuitive capacity and trust themselves, and to give themselves permission to own their gut feelings, heartbreak, wide-eyed astonishment and heartfelt self.
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