Optional Pre-Conference Activities:

Morning Modern Somatic Yoga 

with Robin Titheradge: Please select this option if you are planning to attend the session

UK-TASTN Network Group Meeting:

This meeting is for suitably qualified Trainers and Supervisors of TA.  Please select this option if you are planning to attend the meeting

Truth Mandala:

Jen Beaver and Mary Dees will lead the group.  Please select this option if you are planning to attend the session

Workshop 1:

Adrienne Lee:

The Dark and the Light

Lisa Mathurin and Nathan Bryce:

How The Crown Slips: From Prince to Frog via Life Script

Abi Giles: 

What's The Harm In That: Facing the stigma of self-harm

Neil Keenan:

Striving, Surviving, or Thriving?: The Dance of Individuality and Inclusivity, Authenticity and Acceptance

Bev Gibbons, Ronen Stilman, Beren Aldridge and Helen Rowland:

Friends with Benefits: Exploring the resources, challenges and potential close friendships bring to our professional life. How do these deep and intimate connections advance our knowledge, enhance practice and connect our minds? What role they can hold in the ongoing development of our identities and communities? 

Barbara Clarkson:

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Finding our Self, Soul and Shadow, in the other..

Enid Welford:

Transference with a transgenerational twist:

Carol Remfrey Foote:

Demystifying Outcome Measure Use in TA Counselling and Psychotherapy: How to enhance your knowledge, clinical practice and therapeutic relationships

Will Daniel-Braham:

A Deep Dive into Stage 5: Deconstructing and Re-Constructing Script

The UKATA AGM

Find out the latest updates - refreshments will be served

Optional Activity:

Morning Modern Somatic Yoga 

with Robin Titheradge: Please select this option if you are planning to attend the session

Workshop 2:

John Paradise:  

Working with men - the absence of intimacy and the role of internet pornography

Jane Tillier and Silvia Baba Neal: 

Tensegrity:  The interplay between integrity and flexibility in the art and science of connecting minds 

Jem Gunn:  

Advancing Knowledge & Enhancing Practice for Appearance-Based Distress / Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD): Hidden Hurt: Relational TA for Appearance-Based Distress & Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)

Ruxandra Blidaru:

The Hunger-O-Meter: Binge Eating: Hungry for Change

Mike Meleady and Barbara Wattiez:

Working with Groups: Considering Love, Intimacy, the Radical and Intersectional

Annette Terry: 

Holding Connection: Holding connection when the connection feels threatened

Nea Clark: 

The Invisible Wound: Neurodiversity and the Hurt We Carry: Exploring the Unspoken Impact of Neurodivergent Relationships in Families, Friendships, and Work

Gemma Hunt and James Maltby:

Wellness, and Rave Culture: Is It Therapy?

Tim Small:

Treatment Plans: ethically essential or rigid and prescriptive?

Workshop 3:

John Fleming:

Advancing Knowledge: Becoming You: A Sanological Perspective On Identity Development

Geoff Hopping:

From fragmentation to integration: Personal and collective   

Beren Aldridge and Julia Pool:

Addressing the White Supremacy we are folded within

Rosalind Sharples:

Voicing the Inarticulate Cry: Hearing the wound beneath the defense

John Heath and Alexandra Logan:

Keep it live, keep it loving, keep it now: A rough guide to transformational experience

Jo Moores:

Integrating Parts Work with TA:  Stabilisation to Empower Trauma Survivors 

Rachel Cook and Patrick Brook:

Chacun Cherche Son Chat (Everyone is looking for their cat): Developing Your Authentic Professional Philosophy Within a TA Framework

Ronen Stilman:

Who are we? We're who we are: applying group lens to working with couples

Andy Williams, Hulya Hooker, Lori Hedges, Alison Mackiewicz, Emma Jackson and Pawel Jedras:

Co-Creative Research through a TA Lens : Research "On," "With," or "For" Our Participants and Who's Missing?

Optional Activity:

Morning Modern Somatic Yoga 

with Robin Titheradge: Please select this option if you are planning to attend the session

Workshop 4:

Stefan Charidge: 

The Internal Saboteur: How to engage and interview the Internal Saboteur

Hanna Konoplianyk:

Psychotherapy Across Languages: An Encounter in the Multilingual World

Matt Howarth:

Using AI in TA counselling and psychotherapy: Augmenting, not replacing, the human practitioner

Ben Groves:

The Art of Working with Dissociation:  Recognise, Understand, and Support

Mary Dees:

Reimagining ourselves, our communities and our future: Exploring Ecological Life Positions by playing a sustainability learning game

Helen Blackburn:

Exploring the landscape of body-mind, how living metaphor can enhance our practise as Transactional Analysts

Beatrijs Dijkman and Cat Cornthwaite: 

Hospicing TA: Playing  and sitting with endings and openings 

Giovanni Felice Pace:

My Brother is a Single Child: The Nonego and the Third-Order Structure: Re-Visioning the Unconscious in TA

Kim Byng:

Transforming Relationship Dynamics: Working with individuals who are abusive in their relationships