Language: French (translation to English)
Level of audience: Advanced

Who are we? Where do we come from? Not only who were our fathers and grandfathers, but where did they themselves come from, and what did they passed on to us? We can easily trace a TA family tree and link it to the introjections we’ve made. We can also observe certain script transmissions. But why for example, do we look more often at inhibitions than at transmitted resources?

Before the construction of ego states, there’s the Berne protocol, the skeleton of the Scenario; that core of non-verbal experience on which our identity as transactional analyst is based. What about what we’ve incorporated, what we inherit from body to body and which is almost intangible? What non-Ego floats in our unconscious memories? Do we have a way of approaching it?

The aim of the workshop is to enable us to “feel being and belonging” by putting into words, individually and as a group, our identity journeys. We’ll start by recalling our first experiences of TA and our first models, tracing back the “thread” of our self-construction, and confronting the history of our ancestors and the social and political context in which they lived. We put our memories and perceptions into perspective. We’ll make the emerging Self consistent, then try to look at what is experienced at the stage of individuation and differentiation, in a world where psychological theories and practices are flourishing.

This workshop offers a playful group and individual experience, with symbolic exercises illustrating the theory of Self development, from the TA protocol to its Scenario.