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Awareness and Discounting: New Tools for Task/Option-Oriented Settings

Pages 44-58
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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In this article, two new tools are presented: the awareness-discounting matrix and the awareness action sequence. The first is a variant of the discounting matrix developed by Mellor and Schiff (1975); the second is completely new. Created for task-oriented and option-oriented functions–which occur in many contexts, particularly educational and commercial settings–the new developments are specifically designed to deal with the different emphases needed in such settings compared with the predominant requirements of contexts in which personal resolution or growth and development are primary. The tools are each defined and described. Helpful relationships, guidelines, and principles related both to the way these tools work and how they can be used are also discussed and illustrated. The tools have been applied in a wide variety of settings, including the information technology (IT) education field, from which many of the examples in this article are drawn.

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Ken Mellor

Ritchie Macefield has TA 101 and Master Prac/NLP certificates. He is a senior lecturer in information technology (IT) at Staffordshire University in England and has recently completed doctoral research in human-computer interaction. Prior to that, he was a director of MEFU Ltd, a consulting organization specializing in IT education. Ritchie has been using transactional analysis theory for the last seven years in his IT teaching, particularly in his “adaptive ICT learner” model. He is also the author of Secrets of University Success, a general performance enhancement guide for students that utilizes some transactional analysis theory. He can be contacted at 19 Cornovian Close, Perton, Wolverhampton, WV6 7NU, England; e-mail: .
Ken Mellor is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst and a master of meditation. During the last 35 years, he has developed an approach to personal spiritual awakening called urban mysticism, which integrates Western personal growth technologies with wisdom and practices from the East. Along with writing several books and developing many teaching aids for use in this context, he and his wife, Elizabeth, have written four books on parenting. He and Eric Schiff (now Eric Sigmund) were awarded the Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award in 1980 for their work on discounting and redefining. He can be contacted at PO Box 271, Seymour, Victoria 3661, Australia; e-mail: ; Web site: www.biamenetwork.net.
 

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