Language: English
Level of audience: All

Friends with Benefits:

Exploring the legacy of intimate professional friendships, their ongoing legitimacy in transactional analysis, and the role they can hold in the lifelong development of our identities and communities.

If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known’ (Kreider, 2013. New York Times)

As four experienced TA trainers, supervisors, and psychotherapists, we are curious about the boundaries between professional relationships and close personal friendships.

In our conversations around tables, on sofas and over Whatsapp we have risked intimacy and then noticed the somatic, visceral pull to split and project that can emerge.

In this workshop we’d like to explore how Transactional Analysis theories can support us as we:

• Account for love in our professional relationships.
• Navigate conflict and difference.
• Examine security and vitality.
• Explore envy and power; helping us to own our projections.
• Open our heart and soul to intimacy.

With particular interest in group, role and body/somatic theories, we honour the dynamic and expansive nature of our evolving TA theory, which ignited all those years ago amidst the close friendship and professional relationships of the San Francisco seminars.

We invite you to join us in this exploration of the experience of loving friendship, and the powerful transformative processes this can bring to our professional and personal relationships and expanding TA theories.

An experiential workshop for all fields of TA and all levels of practitioner-hood.