Language: English
Level of audience: All

How do we begin to decolonise Transactional Analysis theory?
If we want to reckon with past and present violence and injustice, do our models suffice?
How do we account for the power we hold in the therapeutic dyad?
How do we promote clients’ own sense of Ok-ness to build their own narratives, sense of belonging and acceptance?
Can we bring those external relationships and histories into connection with each other and maintain equality?
Who owns the definition of Adult and what does that ownership demand and obscure of the other?
How do we begin to think about transactions from a social and political context?

Grounding ourselves in Anton Hart’s concept of Radical Openness, leaning into the work of Minikin, Taylor, Cornell, Tudor and others challenging the socio-economic, gendered and racialised systems of power, we look at what colonisation exists in the systems of TA and how we might begin to decolonise from them. We will explore the vital changes we think our theory needs. Calling in recent and historical works from TA, psychoanalysis, and beyond.