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The Role Concept of Transactional Analysis and other Approaches to Personality, Encounter, and Cocreativity for All Professional Fields

Pages 17-30
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article is the final exposition of Bernd Schmid's keynote speech presented at the 2007 International Transactional Analysis Conference in San Francisco. Schmid is the winner of the 2007 Eric Berne Memorial Award for his adaption of the transactional analysis concept of ego states. His role model integrates transactional analysis approaches with systemic ideas and can be used as both a personality model and a communication model. It expands the ego state model, describing the individual as the portfolio of his or her roles played on the stages of his or her world. Background information about these ideas are provided along with perspectives that are integrated in this role model. Familiar concepts—including intuition, encounter, empathy, humanity, and spirituality—are described from the point of view of an integrated approach.

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Bernd Schmid

Bernd Schmid, Dr. Phil., Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, is founder and head of the Institut für systemische Beratung in Wiesloch, Germany. The ISB-Wiesloch specializes in qualifying professionals in the field of organizations. Bernd studied economics and earned his doctorate in education and psychology in 1972 from the University of Mannheim. His special interests include systemic teaching, professionalization, working with culture, and working with dreams and psychological images. He is an honorary member of the Systemische Gesellschaft (the German Systemic Association) and winner of the European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA) award for authors. Bernd is also a Teaching Member of other societies in the field of psychotherapy, coaching, supervision, systemic consulting, and organizational and personal development. He is the cofounder and chair of Deutscher Bundesverband Coaching (the German coaching organization), founder and longstanding chair of the Gesellschaft für Weitebildung und Supervision (the Association for Adult Education and Supervision). He lectures and teaches at several universities (e.g., Heidelberg and Mannheim) and is on the supervising board for the University of Education, Heidelberg. In addition, Bernd is a council member of Das gepfefferte Ferke, an online journal for systemic thinking and acting; editor of the book series Systemische Professionalität und Beratung EHP, Bergisch Gladbach, and was the coeditor from 2001–2005 of Profile, an international journal for change, study, and dialogue. Bernd has authored several books, many articles, and audio documents. He can be reached at his Web site at www.isb-w.de or by e-mail at .
 

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