Language: English
Level of audience: All

Through script theory, Transactional Analysis theory has privileged attention to the past as a way of understanding and changing one’s present-day functioning. A theory of the place of the future was fleeting in Berne’s writing. He pointed to aspiration and physis as rather philosophical forces that he suggested propel our tendency for growth. But how do we attend to the future as we meet with clients, students, supervisees, and work environments? To wish for, invest in a chosen future can feel frightening, fragile, transgressive.

Christopher Bollas has emphasized that we repress our futures as well as our pasts. How do we engage with the immediacy, the vitality, and the fragility of the present to build for the future?

This workshop will explore ways in which we can engage with the potentials of future and the anxieties and prohibitions that limit our futures.