Using Transactional Analysis in Coaching - The Fundamentals Part I

Workshops: Sept 17th - 13:30 to 17:30 & Sept 18th - 13:30 to 17:30

A bout this course

This course is designed for people who work as coaches to enable others to solve problems, develop new thinking and overcome obstacles. The content features models and tools from Transactional Analysis (TA), chosen to enable coaches to contract professionally, gain a deeper understanding of their own behaviour and develop strategies for overcoming client resistance to change. I have included some more information on TA below.

TA in Coaching - The Fundamentals Part I is a 1-day course, comprising 2 half day workshops which run over two days consecutively from 9:30 to 1:30. The course is a combination of experiential learning, application and reflection, this approach caters for different learning styles and increases the retention of new learning over a longer period than with more traditional workshops.

Following on from this you can also complete TA in Coaching - The Fundamentals Part II which is a 1.5 day course, this further learning also includes a learning review session. I also run additional TA courses for Team and Group Coaches. Part two is accredited by ICF as Continuous Coach Education and carries 12 CCEU's which are awarded to participants upon successful completion.

The benefits of using TA in your coaching practice include:

• Getting to know yourself and your clients in a deeper way
• Being able to support your clients in transforming their relationships
• Discovering fresh ways of working that allow you to facilitate your clients in finding their as yet undiscovered potential
• Being able to helicopter above experiences with frameworks to consider what happened and what next
• Connecting at a deep level with others who are using TA maps on their journeys, from all over the world
• Getting refreshed, becoming inspired and finding your own source of energy and aliveness

W ho is the trainer?

This course will be delivered by John Fleming. John is the lead trainer of TActics and is also an Executive & Personal Coach, Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Mentor and Supervisor, based in West Cork, Ireland.

John Fleming is not a certified TA trainer although he has completed several years of TA training across 3 fields of application. John is currently a Trainee TA practitioner working towards certification and is offering this course to coaches based on his extensive knowledge of working as a coach and developing other coaches.

This training is CPD training specifically designed for coaches. It is not certified TA training and it cannot be used as part of a pathway to becoming a Certified Transactional Analyst.

A bout TActics - Transactional Analysis Training

TActics is a Transactional Analysis Training organisation.

Transactional Analysis training

• .. for coaching & mentoring
• .. for teaching & learning
• .. for leading & managing
• .. for being with & supporting
• .. for being human

TActics was set up in 2017 with the vision of making TA training more readily available and accessible to people outside the main fields of application which are Psychotherapy, Counselling, Education and Organisational Development.

Where does TA come from and what is it?

Originating in 1950’s with Eric Berne (1910-1970) TA has continued to develop theoretically, and today provides richness in illuminating relationships — within oneself and between individuals, groups and systems. It is a theory of communication as well as providing concepts to consider personality, and a model of systems. Berne called his theories "social psychiatry" — today it is termed a social psychology. Berne focused on the importance of using everyday language and core humanistic values such as :

• everyone is ok
• people can think
• if a person can think then they can decide to change

TA is a psychological framework which incorporates a variety of perspectives, ranging from cognitive behavioural to psychodynamic. It can lead to professional qualifications in counselling, psychotherapy, education and organisational applications.

Rosemary Napper TSTA (O, E & C) a TA theorist says that TA can be considered as a set of maps about being human in the world with others

• Some maps show the landscape: communication and relationships
• Others map our underlying geology: our internal world
• And a few describe the systems: our contexts we live together in -families, organisations and societies

So these maps can support us when we:

• Plan to go into new relationships and environments
• Experience being lost or somehow wrong - footed in our communication
• Find our way forward is blocked and so we are diverted
• Take time out to reflect on life
• Want to deepen and expand our professional identity