Transactional Analysis - A to Z, in a Nutshell

This course covers almost all the important topics in Transactional Analysis, everyone would expect in a course on TA 101.

The entire course is in easy to understand, simple language with a lot of real life examples that participants could personally relate with and understand. Our goal is to take the use-values of this wonderful subject called TA, to the people at large, all over the world.

By attending this course, you will respect the fact that every single individual is OK and he or she has personal worth and dignity.

Transactional Analysis will help you to understand your internal mental states and how they lead your life in any given situation.

You will be aware of your 3 Structural Ego States : Parent, Adult and Child.

You will be able to make the best use of your 5 Functional Ego States and in appropriate ways : Critical Parent, Nurturing Parent, Adult, Free Child and Adapted Child.

By using your ‘Transactions’ effectively your communication will become much more fruitful.

This course will show you the pathway to think, feel and act appropriately in all walks of your life. Using the expected, appropriate, parallel and complementary ego states, you will be able to connect with people and improve your relationships and friendships.

You will move your ‘Psychic Energies’ to suit your wants and needs and in appropriate ways.

You will be aware of the Pleasure Principle, Morality Principle and the Reality Principle and the roles that they play, to keep you in balance at all times.

You will understand your mental blocks called ‘Injunctions’ and you will give yourself the necessary permission to overcome them.

You will be able to identify your NOT OK ‘Life positions’, if any, and start moving towards OK-OK relationships with people around.

You can rewrite your Autobiographical ‘Life Script’ to become a Winner and gain Autonomy.

You will be able to identify your favorite ‘Drivers’ – ‘Be Perfect, Be Strong, Try hard, Hurry up, or Please Others’ - that drive your life. Even though they appear to be superficially positive, you will not allow them to drive your life anymore.

In any problem situation you will immediately recognize the ‘Drama Triangle’ getting woven around you and stop playing your part as either ‘Persecutor, or Victim or Rescuer’.

You can catch yourself in the act of playing ‘Games’ that result in negative feelings for everyone involved and decide to lead your life ‘game-free’.

Your ‘Frame of Reference’ to ‘Self, Others and the World’ would be moving towards betterment to enhance the quality of your life.

You will be aware of the Discounting process you use to Discount your ‘Self, Others and the Situations’ on hand and stop them. You will be able to identify the ‘Existence, Significance and Solvability’ of your problems and use your ‘Personal ability’ to solving them.

You will become aware of your ‘Racket Feelings’ and strive to get connected with your ‘Authentic, genuine feelings’.

You will stop collecting negative feelings in the form of ‘Stamps’ and throw away all your earlier collection of Stamps also.

You will not be ‘Symbiotically dependent’ on anyone nor would you permit others to remain dependent on you by making use of your full complement of ego states.

You will rearrange your Time Structure to ‘Withdraw, play Rituals, use Pastimes, get into Activities, stop Games and develop Intimacy’.

You will give ‘Strokes to others abundantly, Receive Strokes happily, work in a way that fetch you Strokes, ask for Strokes when you deserve them, and give yourself Strokes for jobs well-done’.

Overall, you will be able to understand your own self from a higher platform, you will raise your bar and change your life path willingly for your own good. As a natural consequence, people around you in the family, office or society would also be all the more happier.

As we have said earlier, TA is a systematic psychological tool for Personality development and your personal and inter-personal well-being.

Disclaimer:

Its a course purely for self development, improving communication skills and interpersonal relationships. It does not have any counseling or therapeutic applications. For psychological issues you are directed to contact professionals in the field.

What you’ll learn : You/will

Will move towards Autonomy and be a winner.

Will understand the ego states of yourself and people around you

Will communicate positively and

Will respond to people by coming from the expected ego states

Will understand your mental blocks, the life positions that you have taken.

Become aware of the your life script written by you

Understand how your Script runs your present life at an unconscious level.

Will be in charge of your life and stop being driven by your 'Drivers'

Stop playing negative roles in your life drama.

Stop playing non-productive, negative Games

Change your frames of references about people and the world

Stop discounting Self, others and the situations.

Acknowledge your problems, their significance, solvability and your personal ability to solving them.

Re-connect with your genuine and authentic feelings.

Stop collecting negative Stamps.

Re-arrange your time structure to suit your specific needs.

Give and receive a lot of strokes to your Self and others.

Be a Winner as an autonomous person with awareness, spontaneity and intimacy.