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A Relational Approach in Consulting

A New Formulation of Transactional Analysis Theory in the Field of Organizations

Pages 167-178
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The author explores how the relational approach, which is prevalent in psychotherapy, can be applied to organizational consulting in which the client system is often so much more complex than in one-on-one therapy. In addition, he elaborates on some analytic concepts that can be implemented in relational transactional analysis consulting, providing there is a willingness to expand from a cognitive, informational, and behavioral use of transactional analysis toward a transformational one by focusing on the undertow of organizational dynamics as they occur in the work between consultant and client.

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Servaas van Beekum

Author Biography
Servaas van Beekum, drs., is a social scientist with a background in analytic, humanistic, and systemic modalities. He is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, a psychotherapist (Pacfa registered), a supervisor and executive coach (EASC/AAoS registered), and a consultant to organizations. He is the 2015 recipient of the Eric Berne Memorial Award. Servaas is also a past president of the European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA) and the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA) and works globally as a guest trainer, author, speaker, and consultant. Servaas is a cofounder of Group Relations Nederland (1992) and Group Relations Australia (2005), both of which are associations that study unconscious group process in organizations. He lives in Sydney, where he has a private practice as a psychotherapist, executive coach, and supervisor. He is also the director of the consulting training arm of the Australian Centre of Integrative Studies (ACIS). Servaas can be reached at 158 Wellington Street, Bondi/Sydney 2026, New South Wales, Australia; email: . The original version of this article was published under the title “Un approcchio Relazionale nella Consulenza” in Neopsiche: Revista di analisi transazionale e scienze umane, the Italian Journal for Transactional Analysis, No. 17, pp. 11-29, November 2014.