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Are Transactional Analysis Training Program Groups Sufficiently Disturbing?

Pages 222-231
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The authors investigate questions concerning the learning climate in transactional analysis training programs. Their research evolved from their own experience as transactional analysis trainees beginning in the 1980s to their more recent experience as transactional analysis trainers. As trainees, they often experienced a warm, welcoming atmosphere in training groups. During their search to become competent trainers, they took part in training classes outside of transactional analysis, including several informed by a more psychoanalytic, didactic model. They found that the exploration of the more uncomfortable reality in groups adds an important dimension to the development of a transactional analysis professional. This inspired them to question and challenge the sometimes calming and nurturing learning climate in many transactional analysis training groups.

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Joost Levy

Author Biographies
Anne de Graaf, MSc, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (organizational), is co-owner, general director, and trainer at the TA Academie [Dutch TA Academy]. Together with Bill Cornell, Trudi Newton, and Moniek Thunnissen, he coauthored a new introduction to TA titled Into TA: A Comprehensive Textbook on Transactional Analysis. He has also coedited other TA books, including Einstein and the Art of Sailing and Climate Change in Organisations. Anne can be reached at Nobel Hoeve 43, 3451 TA Vleuten, Netherlands; email: ; website: www.ta-academie.nl.
Joost Levy, MSc, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (organizational), is director and trainer/consultant at the p.r.o Academy, where he provides training in which he links transactional analysis and psychodynamic systemic research in organizations. He is coeditor of the TA book Climate Change in Organisations and coauthor of the assessment tool Radicalisation Assessment in Mental Health Care (RAM). Joost can be reached at John Grosmanstraat 12, 6836WJ Arnhem, Netherlands; email: ; website: www.proconsult.nl.