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n 2011, as a result of my person-al interest and together with
Isabelle Taquin, TSTA (P) from Bel-gium, we started a transactional analy-sis journey in Bulgaria. I invited her tolead a TA 101 in Sofia to gauge interestamong Bulgarians in TA. We had noexpectations, especially given that themost popular therapeutic modalities inBulgaria at that time were psycho-analysis, the Lacanian school, the Jun-gian school, neo-Reichian therapy, pos-itive psychotherapy, psychodrama, andcognitive and behavioral psychothera-py. But the Bulgarian psychologicalcommunity washungry for thenew and curiousand motivated tolearn. It was aspring day hon-oring Slavonic lit-eracy and culturewhen Isabellebegan the firstTA 101, a daycommitted toeducation, train-ing, and culture.Thirty peoplecame to theevent and werethe first to showinterest in certi-fied training intransactional
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The Development of TA in Bulgaria
by Elena Nikolova
analysis in Bulgaria. Neither I norIsabelle expected such great courseattendance. Transactional analysis waswelcomed with enthusiasm and pas-sion.
After another three TA 101 courses weregiven, we understood that our adven-ture was turning into a serious project.People wanted to continue their train-ing. TA’s accessibility combined with itsthoroughness, as well as Isabelle’s skillin working with the process, attractedmany. She soon invited two colleaguesfrom Belgium—Béatrice Godlewicz
Bulgaria group after training with Béatrice Godlewicz, PTSTA-C,
from Belgium. (In the second row, third from the left is Béatrice,
then Elena Nikolova, then Marina Stoycheva-François. This
group started the training in 2012 and finished in 2015. Most
are professionals who already practice TA.
Participants
of the 4-year
training pro-
gram (first
row from
left): Sibilia
Jahangiri, a
psychologist
now living in
the USA;
Maya
Mihaylova, a
clinical psy-
chologist
who works
with addicts and victims of violence; Sezgin Bekir, the general secretary of
BATA and a doctoral student at the Bulgarian Academy of Science; Milena
Manova, famous in the Bulgaria psychological world and a positive psy-
chotherapist and author who works with children and adults; (second row
from left): Dessislava Ivanova, a psychologist who works with special needs
children and in private practice; Svetlana Velkova, a clinical psychologist who
works at Solidarnost association for addicts and is a doctoral student at Sofia
University and works with adults and children; Valentina Nikolova, a clinical
psychologist who works with children and parents and is currently in Italy;
Isabelle Taquin; Elena Nikolova, a psychologist, TA trainer, and president of
BATA; Anna Kabakova, a clinical psychologist with a private practice who
uses a systemic approach; Sylvia Tsvetkova, a professor at Pleven University
who works in private practice with children and adults; (third row from left):
Oksana Horvat-Stancheva, a doctoral student and positive psychotherapist
who has her own practice; Iliyana Alexandrova, a psychologist in private
practice who works with various individuals, including women with cancer;
Aneta Jecheva, a clinical psychologist and systemic therapist who works with
families and children and does trainings in schools; and Reny Mineva, a
psychologist who works in human resources.
(PTSTA-C) and Françoise Platiau(PTSTA-P)—and the four of usformed the main team for the trans-actional analysis trainings.
By 2013, two TA groups had startedtheir long-term training, and wedecided to establish the BulgarianAssociation of Transactional Analy-sis (BATA), the purpose of which isto set professional standards and tocooperate for the popularization ofTA in Bulgaria. In 2014, BATA wasthe host of the European Associa-tion for Transactional Analysis(EATA) Outreach Program in Sofia.The successful event drew about 60participants and included a seminarby then EATA President MarcoMazzetti on “Transactional Analy-sis: From Our Roots to Relational
Dynamics” and another by EATAVice President Sylvie Monin on “TheScript: A Resource Rather Than aPathology.”
In 2015 BATA joined EATA. We arenow applying for membership in theBulgarian Association for Psycho-therapy, which is a member of the
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newsletter of the international transactional Analysis Association5932 Corte CerritosPleasanton, CA 94566-5880, USAFax: 925-600-8112 email: [email protected]: www.itaaworld.org
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European Association for Psycho-therapy. This is necessary so thattransactional analysis will be recog-nized as a legal psychotherapeuticmodality here. The basic-level train-ing, including the TA 101, has con-tinued along with long-term trainingaccompanied by supervision for
“We understood that our adventure
in TA was turning into a serious
project. People wanted to continue
their training. TA’s accessibility
combined with its thoroughness, as
well as Isabelle’s skill in working with
the process, attracted many.”
In her introduc-tion to the Bul-garian edition,Isabelle wroteabout how, withthis book, read-ers would have achance to learnthe original ther-apy and thebasic conceptsdeveloped byEric Berne andothers as well asthe newestdevelopments inthe field. It canbe the guide-book for all pro-fessionals and
trainees on their way to becomingtransactional analysts.
Another favorable circumstance fos-tered the publication of Brécard andHawkes’s book: Jean-MarieFrançois, the husband of the trans-lator for our trainings, has a publish-ing house in Bulgaria called Publish-ing House ARS Sofia (http://ars-sofia.net/). This family company wasestablished in 2000 and specializesin notes, fiction, psychological litera-ture, and philosophical literature.The translator of the book, MarinaStoycheva-François, has perfectFrench and is also a psychologygraduate. Hence, our team wasformed: Isabelle Taquin, the scientif-ic consultant; Marina Stoycheva-François, the translator; and me,Elena Nikolova, as organizer and apracticing transactional analysis edi-tor. The book was published in June2015 to positive, enthusiasticreviews and reactions.
Currently, my school for psychologi-cal consultation and training, Meta-morphozia, which is the organizer ofthe transactional analysis trainingsin Bulgaria, is preparing a new long-
practitioners. An increasing numberof people in Bulgaria are interestedin TA and considering certification.
Until recently, only three books ontransactional analysis had beentranslated into Bulgarian: I’m OK–You’re OK by Thomas Harris andGames People Play and A Layman’sGuide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysisby Eric Berne. The paucity of TA liter-ature in Bulgarian was a serious dis-advantage for both trainees andpractitioners, so we decided totranslate Le grand livre de l’analysetransactionnelle [The Big Book ofTransactional Analysis] by FranceBrécard and Laurie Hawkes. Wechose it because Isabelle Taquin saidit was accessible and covered all TAconcepts. She used it in her training,so we could see that the examples init had been taken from practice andlife, which was important for us. Atthat time, we needed a textbook, amanual with simple phrases andexercises that would be of practicaluse and yet also present TA’s depth.
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term training group. We expect it tobegin in 2017. My first group oftrainees has completed its 4-yeartraining and is in the process of sign-ing TA certification agreements. Onemore long-term training group is inthe third year of training conductedby Béatrice Godlewicz (PTSTA-C) andFrançoise Platiau (PTSTA-P). Plans forthe next couple of years include long-term courses, several TA 101 courses,and workshops with lecturers fromBelgium, Slovenia, Sweden, and Hol-land. I hope that one day we will havethe privilege of welcoming France Bré-card and Laurie Hawkes, the authorsof Le grand livre de l’analyse transac-tionnelle, to Bulgaria.
At this point, over 170 people fromBulgaria have passed the TA 101.Having Le grand livre de l’analysetransactionnelle in Bulgarian will helpincrease that number as well as be oftremendous value to those whoalready practice TA and their clients.We are all grateful to have the trans-lation so that we can become betterat understanding and practicingtransactional analysis. S
Isabelle Taquin (right) with Marina Stoycheva-François, the transla-
tor of Le grand livre de l’analyse transactionnelle
Bulgarian translation of Brécard
and Hawkes’s Le grand livre de
l’analyse transactionnelle Elena Nikolova can be reached at
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in Memoriam
r. Hank Nunn passed awaypeacefully on 31 July 2016.He was for 35 years the
director of Athma Shakthi Vidyalaya(ASV), a unique therapeutic com-munity in Bangalore, India. Afterbeing ordained as a priest in August1951, he served as principal of aschool in Darjeeling for many years.He then traveled to his homeland,Canada, where he trained as acounselor.
After returning to India, he studied intransactional analysis with Carlosand Saroj Welch in Vellore. It wasthen that he met Jacqui Schiff,founder of the Cathexis School oftransactional analysis and a pioneerin working with people with schizo-phrenia. Fr. Nunn lived and workedas a counselor in Ashirvad, Banga-lore, and one of his clients was ayoung schizophrenic. After dis-cussing that case with Jacqui, Fr.Nunn ended up joining her as shebegan ASV in August 1979, the firstsuch therapeutic community in Ban-galore. He later trained further inreparenting in California, and in 1985he took over as director of ASV whenJacqui returned to the United States.
A day after Fr. Nunn’s funeral, Italked with Usha Srinath, a clinicalpsychologist with ASV and an associ-ate of his almost from the inception
support. I saw how relationshipscould heal deep wounds. This workwas not about maintaining sterileboundaries but getting into themessiness of the relationship withpatients, into the conflicts, and pro-viding a holding environment evenwhile confronting them.
Fr. Nunn was one of the truly spiritu-al men that I have known. He was aman of few words, and there was asimplicity about him. His dedicationand life’s work spoke for him. Hislegacy lives on within the walls ofASV and with all the people whoexperienced healing there.
of ASV. She recountedhow his presence had acalming effect onpatients and that staffexperienced him asbeing approachable atany time. He emanateda sense of strength andsupport. Even aspatients acted out theircraziness and weresometimes abusive, heusually saw that as theillness acting out and supported theterrified Child within, not letting theperson down or turning him or heraway. Usha said he truly walked histalk as he practiced and lived in an“I’m OK, You’re OK” way.
ASV is a therapeutic community(TC) based on the idea that living inthe community is itself therapeuticas individuals need to accommodatedifferent personality types, learn tosolve conflicts, experience livingskills and leadership qualities, basi-cally go through all the good andnot so good dynamics of a family,and learn the coping skills required.The quintessentials of TC areattachment, containment, commu-nication, involvement, and agency.
I worked with ASV as a volunteer for3 years, during which I saw theeffectiveness of teamwork and staff
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Fanita English celebrated her100th birthday on 22 October2016 with a small but splen-did party organized by herdaughter, Deirdre English.About 30 family members andfriends—some from as faraway as Italy, Germany, Texas,New York, and Arizona—gathered to honor Fanita ather apartment complex. They
enjoyed her introductory comments and then, over a lovely dinner, shareddelightful, touching, funny Fanita stories. A message from ITAA PresidentSuriyaprakash was read out, and later Fanita opened a card thatannounced a donation from ITAA in her name to the International RescueCommunity. After dinner Fanita was presented with a large chocolate caketopped with a full complement of 100 candles, which she blew out withsome help from a hair dryer wielded by Deirdre. We are thrilled to congrat-ulate Fanita on this milestone in her extraordinary life and hope that oth-ers will add their good wishes by calling her at 650-685-8418. (Our thanksto Ravi Sethi and Fanita’s great niece Sasha Taskier for sharing their pho-tos. Thanks also to Mel Van Dusen for his video from the party: see here.)
Keeping in touch
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Fanita watches the lighting of her
100 candles on her birthday cake
Fanita English (right) with her
daughter Deirdre English during
Fanita’s 100th birthday party
has been run (and where in someplaces it has been extended to par-ents and caregivers, teaching assis-tants, and unemployed people).
The project at De Bonte Tol was setup by the school leader, MarinaHoos, who has been studying TAand who commented afterward,“Iam very happy about what the stu-dents and teachers achieved. This isthe basis for a society in which welive together with respect for every-one’s autonomy and for each other.”
The project ran during the schoolyear 2015-2016, and the pupils andteachers worked with TA4Kids, acurriculum set up for promotingsocial and emotional development.The group learned about OKness,strokes, contracting, script, egostates, and transactions. This
TA Proficiency Awards Launchedin the Netherlands
On 8 September 2016, a group of50 children, ranging in age from 6 to8 years old, and four of their teach-ers, were awarded certificates andbadges for having completed therequirements of the TAPACY (TAProficiency Award for Children &Young People) and TAPATE (thesame award for Teachers & Educa-tors), respectively.
This made the primary school DeBonte Tol, in Pijnacker, the firstschool in the Netherlands to haverun the TAPA scheme. They joinArmenia, Croatia, Germany, Italy,Macedonia, Serbia, South Africa,Taiwan, Turkey, and the UnitedKingdom as places where the TAProficiency Awards (TAPA) program
The United Kingdom Associationfor Transactional Analysis
(UKATA) will hold its 2017 confer-ence on 21-22 April at the HiltonMetropole Hotel in Brighton with thetheme “The Form and Function ofRelationship.” The conference will bean opportunity to explore the mean-ing, importance of, and difficulty ofrelationships in all their forms,including with ourselves and ourpartners, children, colleagues,clients, supervisors, therapists, pro-fession, locality, government, andthe world. Among the questions tobe considered will be, “Why do werelate?” The keynote speaker will beCharlotte Sills. For more information,visit here . The call for proposalsdeadline is 30 December 2016, andthe online submission form is avail-able here .
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Every September in France, the entire country is occupied with “la rentrée,” that is, going back to school. The Ecole d’Analyse
Transactionnelle de Paris-Ile de France (EAT) [the Paris TA School] upholds this tradition by inaugurating the post-foundation training
with a residential Séminaire d’Exploration des Motivations [Seminar for Exploring Motivations]. During this event, participants delve
into their plans to become transactional analysis psychotherapists. This year, they had this wonderful photograph taken by one of the
group members, Benoît Foujols, who is a professional photographer (he is in the back row, eighth from the right).
creative approach used group activi-ties and individual assignments tocontribute to increased self-aware-ness, the ability to cooperate, and theautonomy of the students.
As is usual with a TAPA scheme, thepupils produced portfolios of evidenceof what they had learned and howthey had applied it in their lives.These were assessed by GisèleSarolea, an advanced TA student whovolunteered for this and had supervi-sion from Julie Hay, TSTA (OPE), whoproject manages the scheme interna-tionally on behalf of the Institute ofDevelopmental TA. Julie makes surethat standards are consistent acrossdifferent countries. Another volunteerwas Alice Timmermans, an advancedTA student who also has much experi-ence within the educational system inthe Netherlands and who served asthe ambassador and handed out the
badges and certificates at the awardceremony.
For more information about TAPAschemes and where they have beenrun, visit here . If you would like to
explore how to run a TAPA scheme inyour country, whether for children,teachers, parents, or anyone else,contact Julie Hay by email [email protected] .
Children and teachers posing happily with their certificates after completing the
De Bonte Tol TAPA project
Karen Pratt, TSTA-E, has beenworking with the South AfricanNational Blood Service (SANBS)since December 2015. Some peoplein management had come across TAmany years ago and realized thatintroducing it as a shared languagecould potentially change the cultureof the organization. Their core taskis saving lives: having enoughdonors, ensuring precise and accu-rate cross-matching of each sample,and fast and efficient delivery ofblood to people who need it. Theyscored high on accuracy and effi-ciency, but interpersonal dynamicssometimes suffered with the stressof the fast pace and literal life-and-death nature of their core business.Karen writes, “We began work atthe end of last year with a workshopfor the executive team. They enthu-siastically worked in small groupsusing the TA tools of three levels of
made an impact in my life’; and ‘Anincredible way of learning how tocommunicate, on all levels of life, beit at work, at home, or in general.Everybody should be taught thistool, especially in the workplace.Although there is hierarchy at work,if all communication could be on the[integrating]-Adult-to-[integrating]-Adult level, the workplace would bedynamic!’ It has been a pleasure towork within an organization withsuch openness and vision about theimportance of recognizing anddeveloping people throughout thelevels of the organization. I am look-ing forward to an exciting adventurewith SANBS in the future.”
contracting, the OK-OK communi-cation model, life positions, andstrokes. In May there was a 2-dayTA 101 for 21 members of thehuman resources team. What agreat group of people, open tolearning, and enthusiastic about thepotential for SANBS to acquire thenew language of TA. The creativeCEO brought in a colleague whocould speak Mandarin (a languagenot known to any of the partici-pants), and after a few minutes ofnot understanding anything thatwas being said, they readily recog-nized that the organization wouldbenefit by having a shared commonTA language. These were somecomments after the TA 101: ‘I thor-oughly enjoyed the 2 days with you;that was the first time in many yearsthat I truly felt challenged anduncomfortable with some of myviews’; ‘Thank you, Karen, you
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Karen Pratt (seated fourth from left) with most of the HR team who attended the TA 101 at the South African National Blood
Service. The human resources team is part of a huge national company working in several provinces in South Africa
headquartered in Johannesburg. Some participants flew in from as far away as Durban, Port Elizabeth, and George.
tA Around the World
n 5 November 2016, around 100 TA profession-
als celebrated 40 years of TA train-ing in the Dutch-speaking world.They met on the campus of theDutch TA Academy, and it was anevent to remember. Anne de Graafand Moniek Thunnissen were hon-ored for their work on the new bookthey helped to edit (with Bill Cornelland Trudi Newton): Into TA: A Com-prehensive Textbook on TransactionalAnalysis. Both became honorarymembers of the Dutch TA Associa-tion. Trudi Newton and Giles Barrowdelivered an inspiring keynote, andMil Rosseau took participants on asentimental journey. To conclude theday, everyone present worked in aso-called open space event on ideasfor future TA training.
It was in November 1976 that threenewly educated transactionalanalysis professionals started thefirst TA training course in theNetherlands. Maarten Kouwen-hoven, Marijke Arendsen Hein, andGerrit Roosjen designed and gavethe first TA training on the premisesof a Dutch mental health clinic, thencalled De Strook. From the start,they joined with Raymond Hostie,who, together with Michael Reddy,
and Holland joined forces to publisha TA magazine called De Strook. Theyregularly invited various well-knownTA luminaries to do training andworkshops, including members ofthe Schiff family, Bob and MaryGoulding, George Thomson, RichardErskine, Marge Reddington, GeorgeKohlrieser, and Ellyn Bader.
The teams of ANITA and VITA wereeager and had loads of energy.ANITA started the Dutch TA Associ-
introduced TA in Europe. Raymondwas the founding father for TA inFlanders, the Dutch-speaking partof Belgium. The first Dutch TA train-ers called their training instituteAlgemeen Nederlands Instituutvoor Transactionele Analyse(ANITA). In Belgium RaymondHostie started Vlaams Instituutvoor TA (VITA).
Together, they cocreated a Dutch-speaking TA community. Flanders
Forty Years of TA Training in the Netherlands and Flanders
by Anne de Graaf and Mil Rosseau
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(from left): Gerrit Roosjen, Marijke Arendsen Hein, and Maarten Kouwen-
hoven, who started the first TA training group in the Netherlands in 1976
ation, NVTA. Together NVTA andVITA stood at the cradle of theEuropean Association for Transac-tional Analysis (EATA). Over theyears, new trainers joined, inspiringhundreds of students with their pro-found knowledge of and experiencewith TA. Three fist-sized books,called “TA in Nederland 1, 2 and 3”were edited by Maarten Kouwen-hoven. Every year the ANITA teamstarted a new group of about 16students. These first decades werefruitful years.
During the initial 2 decades, VITAorganized five successful confer-ences as well as multiple workshopsand learning therapy groups. Ithosted a dedicated group of nine TApsychiatrists who called themselvesTAPers (TA Psychiatrists). Acrossthe country borders, Ger Heesterand Mil Rosseau started the firstinternational Special Fields-onlytraining groups. Piet Weisfelt, one oftheir students, became another TAtraining powerhouse.
Indeed, especially in the Nether-
oped ANITA into the TA Academie.On its beautiful campus, in the cen-ter of the Netherlands, 16 TA train-ers welcome around 500 studentseach year. Furthermore, based onthe foundation built by MaartenKouwenhoven, Marijke ArendsenHein, and Gerrit Roosjen, 14 morebranches of TA training institutesstarted their activities in the Nether-lands and Flanders.
Little by little, TA lost momentum inFlanders. Linda Hoeben and, morerecently, Mil Rosseau have each puttheir shoulders under a new start.Both have confidence in the future ofTA. The TA communities in theNetherlands and Flanders go back tothe early days of cocreation:(P)TSTAs from Flanders teach at theTA Academie in Netherlands, andthe TA Academie supports activitiesin Flanders. Together, we celebrate40 years of delivering the gift of TA.
lands, transactional analysis wasgrowing fast. Ten years ago, MarijkeArendsen Hein explored with Annede Graaf whether he was interestedin taking over the position of direc-tor of ANITA. With an entrepreneur-ial attitude and additional skills,Anne and his team further devel-
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Trudi Newton and Giles Barrow being honored for their keynote on
developments in TA training over the years
Marij Peeters (left center) and Lies de Bruijn (right center) among others at the open space
event in which participants created ideas on what TA training
might be like in 2026
Anne de Graaf can be reached at
[email protected] ; Mil Rosseau can
be reached at [email protected] .
itAA news
by A. Geethan
As the year comes to an end, Iwould like to share with ITAA mem-bers a little about the financial pic-ture of the ITAA.
In 2016 we did not have an ITAAconference and hence no incomethrough that channel. Many changeinitiatives within the associationrequired legal consultation, anexpense that was not foreseenwhen we established the 2016budget. Those two factors mayresult in a financial loss for ITAAthis year. In addition, full ITAAmembership appears to be fixed ataround 800 members, thoughintroducing student membershiphas brought in an additional 160members, which was good newsboth for students and the associa-tion. In the future, ITAA partnershipwith other TA associations may addvalue to the ITAA as well as theother associations and facilitatemembership growth.
I am in the process of forming afinancial committee and would liketo hear from any member who isinterested in being a part of that.We are looking for individuals whoare willing to spend 4-5 hours amonth on committee business. Thefinancial committee will work toanalyze ITAA’s capital investmentsand the patterns of how its money iscurrently handled as well as possi-bilities for creating new patternsthat will benefit the ITAA.
The supervision exchange projectestablished in 2015 to raise funds
for the ITAA has brought in incomeof USD 500 so far. This stream ofincome, though small, is new, andwe expect that it will continue toexpand in coming years. I thank theproject coordinator for the supervi-sion exchange project, DeepakDhananjaya, and his team for theirefforts to make the project a success.
I also want to thank membershipcommittee chair Karen Pratt and herteam for their efforts to sustain andgrow ITAA’s membership.
My term as a treasurer is nearingcompletion, so I am planning towrite a standard operating proce-dure (SOP) to help the new treasur-er to understand his or her role andthe role of the CFO.
A. Geethan is ITAA Treasurer and can be
reached at [email protected] .
Election ResultsThe election results are in, and thenew European representative to theITAA Board of Trustees is Alessan-dra Pierini of Italy. We thank all thecandidates who stood for this posi-tion and all the European memberswho voted. Alessandra will assumeher position on 1 January 2017.
Note: With the new bylaws adjust-ing the election schedule in such away that election results will bedetermined before the Annual Gen-eral Membership meeting, the exec-utive committee has voted thatbeginning in 2017, all newly elected
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itAA service AwardNominations Deadline:
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Send nominations for the Capers, James, Goulding, and
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Send nominations for the ITAAResearch Award to committee
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See the ITAA Web site or contact the ITAA at [email protected]
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officers and trustees will begin theirterms at the end of the AGM eachyear and run for the following 3years, until the end of the AGM ofthe third year.
Call for ITAABoard NominationsThe following positions are open fornominations now. Deadline fornominations: 28 January 2017
Officers (nomination and electionby all ITAA voting members):
President-elect (2017-2018)
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Nominations require the name andconsent signature of the nominee (itmay be yourself), the name of theperson making the nomination, andthe name of the person secondingthe nomination. To be eligible fornomination, trustees may not havealready served two consecutiveterms of office in any position on theboard. Position statements (char-ters) that describe the function andselection criteria for each of the offi-cer positions are available from ITAASecretary Mandy Lacy [email protected] . Nomi-nees are encouraged to read andunderstand these before acceptingnomination.
send nominations to ITAA Nomina-tions Chair Sumithra Sharatkumarat [email protected] .
Those who accept nomination to theabove positions must email a writ-ten statement and digital photo tothe nominations chair as soon aspossible and no later than the 28January 2017 deadline. Statementsshould be a maximum of 250 words.
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World Conference for Transactional Analysis
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A project of EATA, ITAA, FTAA hosted by DGTA and TU Berlin
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Welcome to New Members
June 2016
Zankhana broker, India
rakhee chaturvedi, India
Alina comendant, romania
rebecca davies, UK
Sarah demaree, UK
Ichiro Hirose, Japan
Vasudha L, India
marit Lyngra, Norway
John Paradise, UK
Wendy Peterson, Netherlands
Antoana Silov, croatia
July 2016
Lucie belton, New Zealand
dali bregvadze, Georgia
Anita champion, Australia
Annamaria cser, Hungary
Te Amokura Griggs, New Zealand
Junghyun Kim, Korea
claire Lloyd, UK
carla Neumann, Switzerland
magdalena Sekowska, Poland
Jaipreet Singh, India
Aida Vardanian, russia
Justin Whitlock, UK
AuguST 2016
matthew caminer, UK
John evans, New Zealand
Lucy Gamlen, New Zealand
colm Grogan, Ireland
Amina Jamal, UK
Yeom Kyeongjin, Korea
Angela Stobo, New Zealand
Heejung Yoon, Korea
SePTembeR 2016
John breen, Italy
remco de Ket, New Zealand
mahesh deshmukh, India
Henry Glatz, USA
Ingrid Hellang, Norway
Kate Jones, UK
Hans Kopruch, New Zealand
Sarmishta mani, India
Hiten momaya, India
Audrey Peters, Netherlands
Lesley Pollard, UK
Laura Quagliotti, Italy
EXAM CALENDARexam Cert. ApplicationDate exam Body Location Deadline
2-3 Feburary 2017 . . . . CTA . . . . . COC . . . . . . Florence, Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *
16-17 June 2017 . . . . . . . CTA . . . . . COC . . . . . . United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . *
25-26 July 2017 . . . . . . . CTA . . . . . COC . . . . . . Berlin, Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . *
9-10 November 2017 . . CTA . . . . . COC . . . . . . Koln-Rösrath, Germany . . . . . . . *
16-17 November 2017 . CTA . . . . . COC . . . . . . Switzerland (Fr. speaking) . . . . *
23-24 November 2017. CTA . . . . . COC . . . . . . Milan, Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *
3-4 May 2018 . . . . . . . . CTA . . . . . COC . . . . . . Padua, Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *
16-17 June 2017 . . . . . . . TSTA . . . . COC . . . . . . United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . *
25-26 July 2017 . . . . . . . TSTA . . . . COC . . . . . . Berlin, Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . *
9-10 November 2017 . . TSTA . . . . COC . . . . . . Koln-Rösrath, Germany . . . . . . . *
16-17 November 2017 . TSTA . . . . COC . . . . . . Switzerland (Fr. speaking) . . . . . *
2-4 December 2016 . . . TEW. . . . . COC . . . . . . Sarajevo, Bosnia/Herzegovina . *
31 July-2 August 2017 . TEW. . . . . COC . . . . . . Berlin, Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . *
2-4 December 2017 . . . TEW. . . . . COC . . . . . . Lisbon, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *
24-26 March 2018 . . . . TEW. . . . . COC . . . . . . Amsterdam, Netherlands . . . . . *
1-3 December 2018 . . . TEW. . . . . COC . . . . . . Zagreb, Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *
*For CTA and TEW deadlines see the EATA Handbook or contact the EATA Supervising Examiner.
For more information about IBOC exams, see www.itaaworld.org . For further information on COC exams, see www.eatanews.org/examinations/ .
TA Conferences
Worldwide
4-11 February 2017: Port Antonio, Jamaica. USATAA
Twentieth Winter Gathering.Contact: Lucy Freedman at
[email protected] 408-353-2490
21-22 April 2017: Brighton, United Kingdom. 2017 UKATA Conference. Contact: uktaconference
27-29 July 2017: Berlin, Germany.
World TA Conference. Contact: [email protected]
or www.tawc2017.berlin
TAJ Theme Issues
“Gender, sexuality, & identity”Coeditors: Brad McLean and
Bill CornellDeadline: 1 January 2017
“social Responsibility in a Vengeful World”
Coeditors: Bill Cornell and Sylvie Monin
Deadline: 1 May 2017
“standing on the shoulders ofGiants: the Parent ego state
Revisited”
Guest Editors: Steff Oates and Diana Deaconu
Deadline: 1 November 2017
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to TAJ Managing Editor Robin Fryer,MSW, at [email protected] .