Language: English
Level of audience: All

Berne (1970, p192) left us with the legacy of a pathological view of incident hunger when he wrote that “when it [structure hunger] becomes acute, it turns into incident hunger which causes many people to get into trouble and make trouble just to relieve their boredom, and that is one reason why they play hard and destructive”. Lapworth and Sills (2011, p82) offered us another view of the incident hunger as “a need for excitement, the unexpected and the new”.
Following de Graaf and Levy’s (2016) thinking and exploration about the Transactional Analysis training program groups are sufficiently disturbed, we will invite the participants to reflect on how the trainers can offer potential space for emerging comfortable and uncomfortable learning experiences.
Disturbance is a challenge for the participants learning script (Barrow, 2009). It offers the opportunity to experience the legitimacy of the own educational process and to have one step further to authentic self while being part of the group.
In this co-creative workshop, we want to challenge and redefine the beliefs about incident hunger we notice in TA groups (training, counseling, psychotherapy, and organizational) to support each participant to meet their own identity and the group identity.