Karen Pratt TSTA (E)

We invite you to be part of an enlivening conversation around the conference theme of Legacy, Identity and Legitimacy. An engaging team of younger TA professionals will join me in sharing ideas, especially around our identity as transactional analysts, and inviting your engagement so that together we might be changed by the encounter and go back to our own communities and cultures with fresh eyes.

Some of our preliminary wonderings have been:

• Berne’s ideas were impacted by the rebellious culture of the 1960’s – how do our unique cultures impact our meaning making and use of the TA frameworks?
• What parts of our collective identity constitute the essence of TA and should be preserved?
• TA frameworks are metaphors – how might our different identities and cultures be beckoning us to create more meaningful metaphors? Which new metaphors might express tension between ‘universal’ features of TA and culturally specific features?
• What makes us truly Transactional Analysts? Is there just one ‘single story’ of who we are as Transactional Analysts? [See Adichie’s TedTalk: The danger of a single story]What arises in you when you consider the conversation of rebranding TA in The Script?
• What facilitates the integration and emergence of field specific identities?

Joining me are Jr-Earn Lam PTSTA (E) from Singapore, Piotr Jusik PTSTA (C) from Guatemala, Nims Dawan PTSTA (O) from the UK and Elina Belyayeva PTSTA (P) from Kazakhstan and now living and working in Germany.