Petrescu Cristina PTSTA-P
Field of audience: P

Language: English
Level of audience: All

In my professional experience I noticed that trainers (teachers and students who present a dissertation) choose topics depending on their major preoccupations in their professions or their personal life. In this way they build a narrative, make sense of the new life experience and go on. Sometimes the narrative is presented like a professional product (essay or a paper), other times it is shared openly during workshops, lectures or presentations. As the children use-fairy tales in order to give a meaning to the new life experiences and build the life script, the grown-ups need the narratives too, in order to reinforce their own life scripts or to change it. The aim of the workshop is to increase the participants` awareness regarding the connection between preferred topics (stories) of the trainers (teachers or students) and the life script and to support them to discover the role of narrative in creating new meanings of their life experiences, in script change or reinforcing. The learning aim is to develop skill, knowledge and attitude in working with TA concepts of script, narrative and transformational learning. At this workshop are invited participants at all level of TA training, who already graduated 101 TA, specialized in Psychotherapy, Organisational or Educational fields. The maximum number of participants is 25. During the workshop I will create a stimulant learning environment, with specific working materials, handouts, materials for presentation (power point or poster), and flipcharts. For the methods I will use short presentations, individual and group exercises, open discussions, examples, warming up moments, feedbacks and strokes. Participants will practice and conceptualize TA  and adult learning terms during the workshop in order to discover and to increase their awareness of the role of narrative in creating new meanings of the experience as grown-ups, in script writing or rewriting.