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Using the OK Modes Model to Enhance Clarity in Communication

Pages 42-53
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The author believes that there is a need to update transactional analysis (TA) theory so that it is congruent and applicable today, particularly in relation to the concepts of structural and functional ego states. Earlier references to the Adult ego state as a data processor led to a mix-up within transactional analysis between using Parent and Child to indicate the past when referring to structural ego states and then, conversely, to the present in the functional ego states model. This article addresses this confusion and outlines the rationale for a more recent model designed to replace the functional model and to outline transactions based on OKness. Titled OK Modes (Mountain & Davidson, 2011), this model is appropriate for all fields of transactional analysis, although this article focuses on its use in the organizational field. The author’s aim is to develop a theoretically rational model that is congruent with the structural model of ego states.

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Anita Mountain

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Anita Mountain, MSc (TA Psychotherapy), is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (organizational and psychotherapy) and an Association for Coaching-accredited executive coach. She travels internationally offering consultancy, coaching, coaching supervision, training, and keynote speeches. She has worked with a variety of organizations, including the Royal Air Force and the Ministry of Defense in the United Kingdom as well as a variety of commercial organizations. For 18 years Anita also ran her own open workshop program on organizational transactional analysis. Along with Chris Davidson she coauthored Working Together: Organizational Transactional Analysis and Business Performance (published by Gower). Anita can be reached at Beechwoods, 56 Main Street, Desford, Leicester LE9 9GR, United Kingdom; email: .
 

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