Tin Vanderhoeven PTSTA-O
Valérie Cionca TTA-O
Field of audience: C,E,O

Language: Bilingual English & French
Level of audience: All

TA-practitioner Pat Crossman said in her EBSA-acceptance speech : “Eric Berne sought to preserve the old, while giving it new meaning from new points of view”. This constant broadening of Frames of References is exactly what we, both TA-trainers in the organizational field, aim for when we facilitate knowledge, integration, and growth in our training and peer groups.

Just as a single footprint leaves a lonely mark until it blends in with others to form a new liberating shape, this process cannot be done alone. Through a mutual interdependent exchange, we infuse existing legacies with newly co-created narratives. The integration of an individual footprint into a meaningful relational path with others that can leave a positive impact in the world, can be challenging.

By revisiting NK Symor’s model of the dependency cycle (1977) we draw in this interactive workshop a parallel with our own emancipation process as TA-trainers. Our navigation through the four stages testifies how this introspection shaped our own legitimacy and identity while integrating the heritage of our predecessors since Berne.

The final result aims also for something beyond ourselves; to allow a constant rebirth or natality (Arendt, 1958) in the light of an ever changing world. Just as blending your individual differences with mine allow us to start something new, it is this Amor Mundi (Arendt, 1958) that presupposes an active commitment from each individual to make sense of the world and to be able to live in it.
Using the existential positions from TA to bring about more healthy groups, systems and organizations, is our personal translation of this global task, one footprint at a time.

Join this workshop to explore together how the liberation coming from our interdependency embraces plurality and solidarity among human beings.