Language: French (translated to English)
Level of audience: All

Our western society is undergoing in-depth change, and the family is a marker of this change. The “traditional” model formerly consisting of a father, mother, and children, is evolving to become “plural” with same-sex families, single-parent families, and more.

At the same time, we can observe an emerging desire to have no child. One of the results is a worldwide declining birth rate, which in several countries – including France – drops below the replacement level.

In the world we live in, youth exposure to anxiety-provoking component is strong ; young people are unable to identify with the world passed on to them. Social networking feeds this anxiety which leads to break with social and family normative tensions.

What, then, is the point of bringing up a child in a world going to pieces ?

Together in this workshop, we will see how transactional analysis can help to understand what resembles shift in mentalities and behaviours:

presenting the cultural scenario in terms of misleading, confining limitations
exploring the question of choice…
exploring the question of breakdown
through building a new identity…

We will also see how we can be helped out of this scenario thanks to a new element : transmission, inheritance, are generally conceived in relation to descendants, but if we pay close attention and try to understand how the young generation thinks about the future, a brand new model arises which they can pass on to us.