“Transactional Analysis - a toolkit for the workshop of life”

Aims: The workshop aims at giving basic orientation to several themes and application of Transactional Analysis to participants Background: Transactional Analysis is a psychotherapy technique designed by Dr. Eric Berne TA is a practice founded on a set of philosophical views about people and goals to change. The assumptions made are 1. People are OK. 2. Everyone has the capacity to think. 3. People decide their own destiny and these decisions can be changed. Applications In psychotherapy In developmental psychology In organisational behavior In Education A transactional analyst believes in the competency of client to understand and deal with his problems. So every individual has a personal responsibility of feeling,thinking and his or her behavior. As a young child I have decided my responses to environmental pressure. These responses are carried in Adulthood as dysfunctional patterns of thinking and behavior. TA holds people can change. This change is genuine and lasting. Change is not brought merely by getting insight into the pattern but actively replacing it that are appropriate for the grown up abilities. The treatment direction is a informed choice with set contract goals. It uses various methods like ego states, strokes, script analysis etc. Everyone of us has a right to free ourselves from the past that interferes in the present through your beliefs. TA brings awareness ,spontaneity and autonomy in our lives.