Language: English
Level of audience: All

With new research I feel my identity as a TA psychotherapist is shifting more towards a wholeness of being, combining words with the body and the mind/soul.

The legacy of Berne is his groundbreaking approach to psychotherapy, which unfortunately after more then 70 years, still is not legitimate all over Europe. Berne used a structured talking therapy to help people feel better.

But sometimes words are not enough and we need to access body-memories in order to heal.

I think psychotherapy very often is about coming to terms with our experiences, accepting our life and then adjusting that which does not work, if this is possible. Also remembering psychotherapy unfortunately is only for a few of us – then it becomes political.

The experiences we have had, the choices we have made, consciously and unconsciously as well as luck, has shaped us into the beings we are.

Starting in dance, movement and art, natural dance therapy, moving into “eco-therapy” in the form of Grandmother’s Council, Wilderness Quests and other forms of Rites of Passages, I finally encountered TA at the beginning of the 90is. Since then I have successfully worked with talking therapy as a transactional analyst, on the same time coming to realise, that to heal, we need to work through our bodies as well. Trained now in Trauma Sensitive Yoga I find myself combining stress reducing yoga, dance/rhythm, mindfulness exercises and art with non-dominant hand drawing and painting, with traditional TA psychotherapy.

I will offer an experiential work shop combining these elements with TA in order for the participants to experience another way of doing TA.