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What our trainees are saying…

October 3, 2019 By Jane Williams

trainees giving feedback

What our trainees are saying….

Andy Williams ran an Introduction to Transactional Analysis TA101 course last weekend. It was a great weekend’s training and we’ve had some lovely comments back from the trainees. These are some of the things they had to say:

An excellent introduction to TA. Andy is informed, enthusiastic and a skilled trainer. He has left me wanting to learn more. Thank you. Andy has brought the TA textbook to life!

Peri O’Connor

A really good trainer with excellent knowledge. I would thoroughly recommend the course to anyone

S Worsnop

Enjoyed the course. Definitely recommend.

Neil Martin

There is nothing about this course that is dry or overly clinical. The two days flew by and I will put what I have learned to use with my clients.

Kim M

I’d thoroughly recommend this course. I learnt a lot and had fun in a very nurturing environment with an excellent trainer.

P Moulding

If you are a counsellor or psychotherapist from a particular modality, then I’d recommend coming on this course to open your eyes again. It refreshed some of my thinking.

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If you’d like to know more about the TA101 or transactional analysis, then please take a look at the TA101 page. Dates for the next few courses are 1 & 2 February, 18 & 19 April , 27 & 28 June 2020.

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Who Trains to Be a Psychotherapist?

December 17, 2018 By Jane Williams

Supervision GroupAre you thinking that you might be interested in training as a psychotherapist or a counsellor? Wondering if this is the kind of work you might enjoy? Or if it’s for you?  One of the questions people often ask is,  “who trains to be a psychotherapist?”  They also want to know if people who apply come from a particular background, or employment history.  I will answer this last question first.  Whilst it can help to have previous experience in working with people in some kind of helping role, it is not essential.  Training to be a psychotherapist is as much about the kind of person you are, and mindset you have, as it is about having previous relevant job experience.  Let me talk you through some of the qualities we look for when we are accepting applications on to our training programme.

Having an Enquiring Mind

Curiosity, and having an enquiring mind are important qualities of being a psychotherapist.  Are you interested in people, why people think, feel and behave in the ways they do?  Do you want to understand ways of making sense of human behaviour?  Behaviour is so often a result of the underlying thoughts and feeling we may have about a situation. Sometimes those thoughts and feelings can be just outside of our awareness.  Or they can be more deeply buried in our unconscious.  As a psychotherapist one of your tasks is to facilitate people in uncovering their deeper thoughts, feelings and motivations regarding their behaviour.  So, it helps to be interested and curious in people because part of the role is to question and enquire about such things. Are you interested in asking questions like how and why?

Self-Directed Learning.

Other qualities that are important in who trains to be a psychotherapist is self-motivation and enjoyment of learning.  Training to work as a psychotherapist involves the acquisition of theoretical knowledge, practical experience in working with clients and self-development and awareness.  Because each person begins training with their own history and experience, each person’s journey will be different.

Secondly, as you set out on the training you will discover areas of the work that interest you more than others. You may develop a specialism in working with a specific group of clients, or want to work in a particular way.  Because of this, being willing and interested in developing your own learning journey is an important part of the training.  You will want to seek out and find your own sources of learning.  This might be in the form of additional training, with a supervisor with a relevant area of expertise, through research and reading. Therefore, you will need to be self-motivated and proactive.

Self-Development

The next area I am going to talk about is that of self-development.  You will need to have a keen interest and be committed to your own self development.  These are important qualities in who trains to be a psychotherapist.  A very big part of training as a therapist is about self-knowledge.  This is because therapists need to have enough emotional competence and internal resources to engage with the demands of the training and the work of psychotherapy.

Emotional competence is about understanding feelings.  It is also about how to express feelings appropriately and use them to inform your thinking.  Internal resources are about being ok with people who may be distressed.  It is also about recognising when you need help yourself.  How can we help others to know themselves if we do not understand ourselves?  So, most training will include a requirement for personal therapy.  Therefore, it is very important that you are willing to explore all aspects of yourself.  This includes your less positive attributes and qualities.  You can also use therapy to build more emotional competence and your internal resources.

Non-Judgemental Stance

Working as therapist will bring you into contact with a very wide range of people from different circumstances and backgrounds.  You do not need to know all about different cultures, religions and contexts.  To be a competent therapist you will need to have some awareness and sensitivity in relation to the political, socio-cultural and religious or spiritual contexts of people’s lives and how different they can be.  As well as this sensitivity you will also have some awareness of prejudice and the many forms it can take.  You will also need the ability to respond openly and without judgement to questions of race, gender, age, sexual preference, cultural difference, and diversity for example.

Self-Reflection

The final quality in this post about who trains to be a psychotherapist, is that of self-reflection.  Part of the task of the therapist is to think about their work, their clients and themselves because this is one of the ways we can learn about our work and practice and improve it.  Reflective practice is a skill that can be developed.  It is attended to during training in a variety of different ways; journaling, discussions and supervision are examples of reflection in practice.

Next Steps?

If you have found this a helpful post and want to take the next step then you can:

Sign up to our Five-Day Email Challenge.  Starting in January, we will be sending you an email a day for five days with a series of question and tasks based on this post.  Click here to sign up for the challenge.

Contact us for an interview for entry on to our next intake of students in September 2019.

Book on to the next TA101 course.  The TA101 is a great way to find out more about studying a psychological model.  It is also a personal development course so will be a great way of understanding yourself and others better.

Contact us for an informal discussion of career options.

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What to Expect on the TA 101

March 14, 2018 By Jane Williams

What might you expect on the TA101?

The TA 101 is known as the “official introduction” to transactional analysis.  What does official introduction mean? If you are thinking about coming on the course, carry on reading.

Transactional Analysis Theory

Well, first it means that you will be covering some of the key concepts in transactional analysis. You will then look at applying those transactional analysis concepts to yourself and your relationships.  You will gain insight into how you might be able to change some of your internal and external communications to gain more positive outcomes.

We begin with simple fun exercises to help the group to settle and get to know each other.  Feeling relaxed and comfortable is important in helping people to learn. The main format of the teaching is to present one of the models, followed by looking at real life examples.  Then you will engage in reflective exercises. These are mostly in small groups, applying the theory to yourself to see what you can learn about yourself.

Over the two days you will look at the underlying principles of transactional analysis.  You will consider what these then mean in practice and apply them to yourself. You will also look at 9 key theoretical models in transactional analysis.

When you have completed the 2 days, you will receive a certificate from UKATA, the UK branch of the European Association  for TA.

Informal Training

The style of the training is very informal.  We use lots of real life examples to help you understand the material.  The course is relevant to lots of different job roles.  For example  you might be a counsellor looking to develop an understanding of TA to use in your clinical work.  You might be a  teacher wanting ways to increase your effectiveness at work through understanding parents and children.  Or you might be from the world of business and coaching  wanting ways to understand staff better and improve performance at work.  For all these different roles Lin and Andy will look to find examples and applications of theory that are relevant to your work setting.

Counselling Training

If you are thinking of training as a counsellor or therapist then this course is a brilliant first step.  We will introduce you to what it is like to study a psychological model. It looks at what that means in practice and provide you a basic understanding of how TA is applied in a counselling or therapy setting.  It’s a great way to see if counselling training might be for you.

So, if you are interested in learning more about what makes people tick and some of the reasons why we do what we do then the TA 101, the official introduction to transactional analysis is a great course to really get some insight and the answers to these questions.

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New Peak District venue for TA101s

January 22, 2018 By Andy Williams

Devonshire Dome in the Peak District

We now offer TA101 courses in the Peak District National Park as well as at our Leeds venue. The courses are located in the beautiful town of Buxton, Derbyshire.

Lin Cheung is presenting the courses on 19 & 20 March 2018 or 14 & 15 June 2018. We know you will love the venue for these workshops – the amazing Devonshire Dome. The Dome is an iconic building right in the heart of Georgian Buxton. As if that wasn’t enough, Buxton is surrounded by the the outstanding Peak District countryside.

Book your ticket for either of these courses, by clicking here TA101.

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Contracts and Contracting

October 9, 2017 By Andy Williams

Lin Cheung talks about contracts and contracting and their importance within the transactional analysis model.

What is contracting?

Contracting is one of the key principles of how we work as transactional analysts. As they say “If you are not contracting, you aren’t doing TA” This is a really interesting idea but what does it mean?

I think its about being clear about what we are doing and why we are doing it. And that its not just me that is clear about that but also the person I am working with. It applies across the board, whether we are in an organisation working as a coach, if we are doing organisational consultancy, if we are a psychotherapist, if we are a counsellor. Its about being clear and not having any confusion about what we are here to do and what the end outcome is.

Charlotte Sills uses the word ‘confusion’ and I really like that idea. What we are seeking is clarity. This doesn’t necessarily happen straight away and can often be emergent. Moment by moment we are seeking clarity – ‘What does this mean to me right now?’

Our clients often come to us, as psychotherapists, without a sense of what they are seeking and a big part of what we are there to do is to help them work it out for themselves and then to have a shared idea of the goals of psychotherapy and how we are going to get there.

That is contracting for me.

We explore contracts and contracting in our Foundation Certificate course which runs each academic year, September – July.

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What is the TA101?

July 22, 2015 By Jane Williams

Transactional Analysis

Introduction to TAThe TA101 is the official introductory course in transactional analysis.  So, if you want to understand yourself, or your relationships better whether at home or at work the TA101 can often provide with insight and understanding through two days of interesting theory, discussions, and personal development exercises.

If you are thinking you might like to train as a counsellor the TA101 can be a good course to attend as it introduces you what it might be like to study a psychological model.  For existing counsellors the TA101 can be great CPD and provide new insights into clients and new and different effective ways of working

Whether you are in business or sales, the hotel trade, a teacher of children or adults, a mental health or social worker, working the in the prison service or in a hospital the TA101 can help with understanding self and relationships in new and useful ways.  It’s for anyone who wants to know more about themselves either for using on a personal basis or in a work setting.  You don’t need previous psychological knowledge or understanding as the course starts from the very beginning.

Eric Berne

Transactional Analysis was developed by Eric Berne in the 1950s and 1960s, he wrote 8 major books and numerous articles.  He was a trained medical doctor and psychiatrist and he wanted to make psychotherapy effective more quickly and more accessible for people.  He wanted to remove the distance between client or patient, and doctor as expert.  He encouraged people to engage with and use the theory for themselves. Because of this TA uses normal everyday language and is easily accessible and understood.

The course is dynamic mixture of formal teaching where the trainer will present an idea or concept from TA and lots of discussion in large and small groups as the delegates on the course apply it to themselves and their situations.

The syllabus is set internationally and covers the key ideas and concepts in TA in a short two day programme.  Those people who then want more can go on the study TA in-depth which begins with a one year introductory course and can lead to a post graduate Diploma and the Certificate in Transactional Analysis which is a worldwide qualification and is at Masters Level.

Lin teaches two TA101’s a year at TA training Organisation and she says “ I really like teaching this material, it’s a fabulous experience as a trainer to see people learning about TA for the first time and understanding themselves and their relationships with other people in ways they have not done so before.”

What people say about the TA101

“A very informative course and hadn’t realised how much it would benefit my own life” Annie J

An excellent course; incredibly informative, intense and enjoyable.  Lin Cheung’s knowledge and experience is enhanced by her warmth.  I learnt a huge amount of new knowledge to apply to my own life and my clients.  Most highly recommended.” CLH

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