Post on 15-Jul-2015
Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Research Scholar
School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
Phone – 9744551114Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com
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Discovering your own script
• Dreams, fantasies, fairy talesand childhood stories can allgive us clues to our script.
• While you do these exercises,let your imagination run fee.
• Don’t bother thinking whatthey are for or what theymean.
• Don’t censor or try to figureour what you are supposedto say.
• Just accept your first imagesand feelings that may comewith them.
Exercise 1
Hero or heroine• Who is your favorite
character?
• It may be someone for achildhood story.
• Perhaps it is a hero orheroine from a play,book or film youremember.
• Maybe it is a realperson.
Exercise 1
Hero or heroine• Choose the first character
you bring to your mind.
• Be come your chosencharacter. Talk aboutyourself as long as youlike. Use the word I…
• Ex :Superman.
• Whoever your chosencharacter is, now goahead, be him or her andtalk about yourself.
Exercise 2
Story or Fable• Choose any story or fable. The
first one you bring to mind isbest. It may be a childhoodfairy tale, a classic myth oranything else you want.
• You might begin : “ Once upona time, there was a beautifulgirl who was sent to sleep forages and ages by her evilstepmother. She lay in a roomdeep inside a castle. Round thecastle was a prickly hedge.Kings and princes cam lookingfor the girl, but none of themwas strong enough to hackthrough the hedge.”
Exercise 2
Story or Fable• To get more from the story, you
can go on and become each oneof the people and things in thestory.
• From the above story, you couldchoose to be the girl, thestepmother, the room, the castle,one of the princes or the hedge.
• As the hedge, you might say : “Iam hedge, I am sturdy, rough andprickly. All my prickles arepointed outwards, so that peoplecan’t hack me around. My job isto protect that young girl who isasleep inside me.”
Exercise 3
Dream• Choose a dream of yours.
You are likely to learn mostfrom a recent dream orone which recurs, but anydream will do.
• Tell the dream. Relate it inthe present tense, not thepast.
• Then, just as you did withyour story, become each ofthe people and things inthe dream and talk aboutyourself.
Exercise 3
Dream• Recall how you felt
immediately after youawoke from the dream.Was it pleasant orunpleasant feeling?
• Did you like how thedream ended? If you didnot, you can continue theexercise by re-writing yourdream ending.
• Tell the rewritten endingjust as you told the dream,using the present tense.
Exercise 4
Object in the room• Look around the room.
Choose any object yousee. The best one is thefirst one you think of.
• Now be the object and talkabout yourself. Forexample : “I am the door. Iam hard, square andwooden. Sometimes I getin people’s way. But when Ido, they just push me toone side…”
Exercise 4
Object in the room• To get even more from
the exercise, ask apartner to conduct aconversation with youas the object you havechosen.
• The partner is not tomake interpretation. Heis just to talk with you asthe door or fireplace orwhatever you havechosen.
Exercise 4
Object in the room• “I am the door. When I
stand in people’s way,they push me aside.”
• “Well, door, how do youfeel when people pushyou aside?”
• “I feel angry. But I am adoor and I cant talk. Ijust let them do it.”
• “Aha. So is thereanything you want tochange door, to feelbetter?”
Exercise 5
See your life as a play• Imagine you are in a
theatre. You are waitingfor a play to start. Thisplay is your very own lifestory.
• What kind of play is thisyou are going to watch?Is it comedy, a tragedy?Is it high drama or akitchen sink opera? Is itinteresting or boring,heroic or matter of fact– or what?
Exercise 5
See your life as a play• Is the theatre full, half
empty or empty? Arethe audience going tobe enthralled orbored? Happy or sad?Are they going toapplaud or walk out –or what?
• What is the title of thisplay of yours- yourvery own life story?
Exercise 5
See your life as a play
• Curtain is opening andthis is the very firstscene of your life.
• You were very young.What do you see aroundyou? Who is there? Doyou see faces and theexpression in faces?
• What do you hear? Beaware of what do youfeel.
Exercise 5
See your life as a play• Scene changes and now
you are a young child ofthree to six years old.
• Where are you? Whatcan you see aroundyou? Are there otherpeople there? Who isthere?
• Are they saying anythingto you? Are you sayinganything to them? Doyou hear any othersounds?
Exercise 5
See your life as a play• Similarly, go through
teenage, adulthood,the present age andten years in the future.
• The last scene of yourplay – your deathscene. How old areyou in this last scene?
• Share your experienceto the group.
Other TA topics available on slideshare
1. Strokes - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/strokes-24081607.
2. Games People Play - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/psychological-games-people-play.
3. Structural Analysis - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/the-ego-state-model.
4. What is TA? - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/what-ta-is
5. Cycles of Development - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/cycles-of-developement-pamela-levin-transactional-analysis.
6. Stages of Cure - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/stages-of-cure.
7. Transactions - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/transactions-33677298.
8. Time Structuring - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/time-structuring.
9. Life Position - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/life-position.
10. Autonomy - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/autonomy-33690557.
11. Structural Pathology - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/structural-pathology.
12. Game Analysis - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/game-analysis-33725636.
13. Integrated Adult - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/integrated-adult.
14. Stroke Economy - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/stroke-economy-33826702.