Lucy Freedman CTA-P,O,E
Field of audience: C,E,P

Language: English
Level of audience: All

In the early days of TA conferences, Eric Berne Scientific Award Winner Pat Crossman’s 3 P’s (Protection, Permission, Potency) were actualized in workshops by Liladee Bellinger and Lois Johnson, who were well-known in our TA community. The workshops were fun, stroke-filled, and liberating. The enthusiasm spilled over into the conferences.

The theory will be presented, discussed, and put into play. We will talk about how ego states were interpreted in different schools and groups in the early years of TA, which resulted in very different methods of practice. For example, in the Classical School, therapists did not touch clients at all, things were worked out in diagrams. Reparenting / Cathexis involved full regressions, holding, and other age-appropriate actions. Redecision School used projection in the form of two-chair work, often between Child and Historical Parent. Back in the day, proponents of various schools participated together in Permission Workshops and Child Welfare rooms at conferences.

Participants will come away with reinforcement of beneficial uses of the Parent Ego State, clarity for Adult about the conditions for making changes, and affirmation for the Child in each of us.

For our modern TA Practitioners, this workshop includes discussion of the relationship with relational TA, regressive work, trauma-informed treatment, family constellations, and applications in psychotherapy, counseling, and education, as well as the opportunity for childlike exploration.