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EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS N°107, JUNE 2013

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N°107, June 2013 EATA Newsletter

Each day will have plenary events relating to as-pects of this theme. We have chosen to play with the usual format and have made space for plena-ries at the start of both the morning and the after-noon often with a focus on encounters between the speakers. On Day One, the focus will be on Creating En-counters between us in the TA community with a plenary session facilitated by Adrienne Lee and Charlotte Sills, followed by workshops.In the afternoon, there will be another plenary session on researching the encounter, including the encounter between practice and research. This is presented by Roland Johnsson and Gun-vor Stenlund who will share their doctoral rese-arch and invite participants encounter their inner researcher!

On Day Two, the plenary theme will be En-counter with the Demon, where Geoff Hop-ping and Ann David will facilitate a plenary session called Meeting the best of ourselves, meeting the worst of ourselves, to be followed by more workshops.

Day Three’s theme is Encounter in Context and we are experimenting with bringing the commu-nity together for the whole morning. A represent-ative of each of the four fields of TA will present a session and offer us an experience on the impor-tance of encounter in their particular field. The presenters will be Erich Hartmann (Organ-isation) Jean-Michel Javourez (Counselling) Nevenka Miljkovic (Education) and Carla de Nitto (Psychotherapy).

Workshops in the afternoon will be followed by a short closing event when we bring our learnings together, and then celebrations and goodbyes will go on into the evening with the GALA DINNER.

Throughout the conference, there will be a choice of over sixty exciting Workshops, offered by pre-senters from all over Europe.

You can see a list of the workshops at http://taoslo.com/workshops/

2013 EATA Conference: Plenary Events and Keynote Speakers

Charlotte Sills Adrienne Lee

Roland Johnsson Gunvor Stenlund

Ann David Geoff Hopping

Erich Hartmann Jean-Michel Javourez

Nevenka Miljkovic Carla de Nitto

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Dear all,

we have here this new issue, released just before our EATA Conference in Oslo. It will be a great chance to meet and share. How many of you are thrilled to listen to the key note speeches and to participate to the workshops… maybe someone already chose the preferred ones, others will make the choice on site. Then, how many of you are waiting to meet friends and colleagues from other Countries; I can imagine happiness and joy will touch all of us.

Walking the path of the “encounter”, I will be there with the wish and the goal to give the participants the chance “to meet the Newsletter” th-rough me, the editor. I will interview, ask opinions and comments about the Conference; I will wait for your questions and suggestions; I will ask to be lively part of the October issue… you will see how!

For now, let’s enjoy next pages, full of “encounters” from the word, yes, not only from Europe. We have experiences of a lot of richness and deep commitment, and invitations for interesting occasions. Many pho-tographs will give you the sense of the good atmosphere our colleagues created and experienced. I wish to thank all the people who gave their contributions, and who accepted my invitation to write something. It has been a real pleasure to collaborate with all of you: thank you for making this issue possible!

Rosanna Giacometto

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Agenda of EATA General Assembly on July 3rd, 2013 at 18.30 Holmenkollen, Parc Hotel Rica, Norway

1. Welcomes and presentation of officers and delegates2. Vote: Approval of the minutes: General Assembly 2012 in Bukarest3. President’s report4. Treasurer’s report5. Vote: Acceptance of the accounts and vote to give release to the

Council and officers6. EATA Awards7. COC Award: SilverMedal for examiners8. Miscellaneous9. Hand-over to the new EATA president10. Good bye’s

Invitation for EATA General Assembly 2013

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09:00 - 09:30 Introduction Presenters: Oddmund Teigen, Sabine Klingenberg09:30 - 11:00 What is an encounter? Presenters: Adrienne Lee and Charlotte Sills11:00 - 11:30 Coffee11:30 - 13:00 Workshops 1,5 hour13:00 - 14:30 Lunch14:30 - 15:40 Research into the encounter: “Being a practitioner and researcher”. Presenters: Roland Johnsson and Gunvor Stenlund15:40 - 16:00 Coffee16:00 - 18:30 Workshops 2,5 hours19:30 - Boat trip on the Oslo Fjord

09:00 - 11:00 Meeting the best of ourselves, Meeting the worst of ourselves. Geoff Hopping and Ann David11:00 - 11:30 Coffee11:30 - 13:00 Workshops 1,5 hour13:00 - 14:30 Lunch14:30 - 17:00 Workshops 2,5 hours17:00 - 17:30 Coffee17:30 - 19:00 Workshops 1,5 hour19:30 - 21.30 Presidents meeting20:00 Dinner

09:00 - 09:10 Introduction to the morning etc.09:10 - 10:15 Plenary - two presentations etc 30 minutes each.10:15 - 10:30 Coffee10:30 - 11:30 Plenary - two presentations etc 30 minutes each.11:30 - 12:00 Coffee12:00 - 13:00 Workshops, 1 hour in parallell with Plenary development: Open space (encounters emerge from the group)13:00 - 14:30 Lunch14:30 - 17:00 Workshops 2,5 hour17:00 - 17:30 Coffee17:30 - 18:30 Closing the encounter. Small group discussions – what am I taking back into my practice and personal life20:00 Gala dinner

2013 EATA Conference

Thursday July 4th: The Mystery and Facts of the Encounter

Friday July 5th: Encounter with the Demon

Saturday July 6th: Encounter in Context

ProgramThe Mystery and Facts of Human Encounter


2013 EATA Conference: Social event on Thursday evening, July 4th:

The evening of 4th of July we in-vite you to a trip by boat on the Oslo fjord. It lasts about 3 hours and is included in the conference fee.

An adventurous way of exploring Oslo, cruising the fjord and at the same time enjoy the view of his-torical buildings, the Opera house, beaches and the archipelago.

Partners not attending conference are welcome to join the trip for a fee of 25 EUR.

For the third time now, after 2007 and 2010, a conference took place on the topical con-nection of TA and artistic activities in 2013. It was a European event with participants and speakers from different countries in Europe: Great Britain, Switzerland, Italy, Aus-tria and Germany. This conference was held together with the first European associa-tion for art-therapy “First European Association of Arts Therapies (FEAT)”, the Professional Un-ion for Art-, Music- and Dancetherapy (BKMT: Berufsverband für Kunst-, Musik- und Tanztherapie), the EATA and DGTA. Dance-therapist Prof. Yolanda Bertolaso and Mat-

thias Sell opened the conference and outlined the framework for the cognitive science. The participants could make their first art-therapeutic experiences of the confer-ence in dance-therapy with “Dance Performance”, which was shown impressive-ly by Prof. Dr. Yolanda Bertolaso with her students of the Master class.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Karl Hörmann held the opening speech on the topic of the confer-ence “Tone and Sound“. In a very sensitive way the music-therapist elaborated on the differences between sound-psychology and a psychology of tone and also looked into TA-literature, on how TA speaks about “tones“ and “sounds“ and how this could be understood. A sound-psychology seems the more complex, he con-cluded, as it is comprising the entire human being in the context of the current situation.

TA and art – tone and sound in Berlin, Germany

Boat trip on the Oslo fjord


In the following workshops very varying approaches to the topic were to be experienced. Dr. Birgitta R. Heiller, Great Britain: “Sound to promote understanding – In-terpersonal Prosodie”;Richard Ireland, dance-therapyat Britain: “Ulterior Transactions: Listen be-tween the Lines”; Annette Wyler-Krisch, Germany: “The Sound of my Voice”; Rainer Holzapfel, Germany: “Theatre, Opera and TA”; Jacqueline Dossenbach Schuler, Switzerland: “TA and Creative Therapy”; Dr. Georg Franzen, Germany: “Imagination in the Space of Art”;Matthias Sell, Germany: “Esthetic experience in music and humanistic trans-actional psychotherapy” Rita Inglese, Italy: “Scores - where musicians read music - of the therapeutic encounter - The body, the silence, the voice of experience and the expression of if.”; Belinda Duschek, Angela Klöcker, Germany: “Sense sound, I hear, I hear - What?: I hear - How, I hear - myself”; Arina Kröger, Germany: “Family-attunement and dis-sonance of a relational system in images”Michael Samarajiwa, Germany: “Re-musicalisation of children and adults through TA and synesthesia”.

The event was accompanied by a show of impressive sculptures by sculptor Ingrid Cremer from Wolfsburg, which also formed the bridge to the next “TA and art“ with the topical em-phasis on “Sculpture and Body”. A possible next event location will be in Italy.

A concert with experimental music in the evening was very capturing and stimulating. Some speakers afterwards gave some tasters of their musical art-istry on the piano away. The students of Mrs. Prof Bertolaso showed another dance-therapeutic performance on the second day.

All around 50 participants showed themselves moved by the experiences on the conference. In the final round a lot of posi-tive feedback was given and many of the participants and also of the speakers let others participate in their stimulating expe-riences. The quality of the presentations and of the content of the presented topics was very high and was surely a reason for a thoughtful contentedness, with which the conference ended.

Matthias Sell, TSTA, Germany, organisor of the event together with Ulrike Sell and Jacqueline Dossenbach-Schuler


In the education field, some interesting awards have been created of which many transactional analysts in other fields may not be aware. And now, for the first time, educators and learners in a local South African (SA) government school have been given these awards in recognition of their understanding of improving communication and selfesteem using transactional analysis.

Among these awards is the Transactional Analysis Proficiency Award for Children and Young People (TAPACY), which was designed to recognize children and young people who have learned and applied various transactional analysis con-cepts. The process leading to achieving the award involves producing a portfolio of evidence and undergoing peer and adult assessment. Rather than being based on a pass or fail system, the emphasis is on acknowledging the involvement of young people in a TAbased learning process, with the focus of the accreditation on the process rather than the outcome. Another award was created called the TAPAL, which stands for Transactional Analysis Proficiency Award for Leaders, and a third award, TAPATE, stands for Transactional Analysis Proficiency Award for Teachers and Educators.

Those who recently achieved these awards in South Africa included five educators who received the TAPATE and two gra-de 11 learners (17 year olds) who received the TAPAL at Ned Doman High School in Athlone, South Africa. The students were leaders (often known as “prefects” in the SA school system) who chose to wear OK-OK badges to indicate a culture of mutual respect and leadership rather than the more common culture of Parent to Child. The awards to the educators and students were presented by Trudi Newton, TSTA (education), as a representative of the Institute of Developmental Tran-sactional Analysis (IDTA). Another 15 educators and 10 learners received certificates for attending 6 weeks of transactional analysis workshops. “Ned Doman is the first school outside Europe, the first school in Africa, and the first high school in the world to achieve this recognition,” said Trudi. “In talking to the educators and learners, I was impressed by their passi-on and understanding of transactional analysis and their willingness to engage with positive psychological concepts in the classroom. Well done to everyone concerned!”

The involvement of transactional analysis at Ned Doman began when Stellenbosch University psychology doctoral student Sharon Johnson, who was studying stress and burnout among educators in highrisk secondary schools, introduced TA there as one of three approaches to assist educators in coping with their major stressor: learner discipline. Her study took place in five high schools in the Cape Flats area near Cape Town, South Africa, an area of endemic poverty, high levels of unemployment, and high rates of crime and drug and gang activities. Sharon covered eight concepts in her introduction of TA: ego states, transactions, “I’m OK, You’re OK,” the drama triangle and the winner’s triangle, strokes, contracting, discounting and accounting, and steps to success. Teachers learned, for instance, to focus on inviting cooperation rather than rebellion in learners, disciplining in a positive way, inviting respect from learners, and maximizing learning rather than having conflict take up so much teaching time. Learners were encouraged to respect themselves and each other and were given tools to help them behave in a more positive way toward others in the classroom, on the playground, and in their personal lives with family and siblings. (The results of Sharon’s study should be available in 2013.)

According to Ned Doman headmaster Gwynne Philander, the school is on a drive to improve not only matriculation rates but also learner behavior. Matricula-tion is the SA school leaving qualification at 18 years old, and the pass rate at Ned Doman has increased from 33% to 75% over the past year. Mr. Philander added that the school will continue to introduce

South African High School Honored with Transactional Analysis Awards

Educators and learners at Ned Doman High School who received Transactional Analysis Proficiency Awards and certificates of course attendance, with headmaster Gwynne Philan-der (third from left, seated), TA educators Trudi Newton (UK) and Karen Pratt (SA) (fourth and fifth from left, seated), and doctoral student Sharon Johnson (front)


Sharon Johnson (far right) in a workshop with 17-year-old TAPAL learners who are OK-OK leaders in their school (some holding ego state hoops). In the back row (left) is headmaster Gwynne Philander, who supported TA training at the school.

uplifting activities, such as educator workshops, learner empowerment, upgrading facilities, and greening the playgrounds in an effort to achieve allround excellence in challenging circumstances. “We see transactional analysis as playing a vital role in the positive development of our educators and learners,” he said. Mr. Philan-der will join a transactional analysis training group in 2013 to deepen his knowledge and use of TA. The transactional analysis workshops for educators were prepared and run by Karen Pratt, PTSTA (education), and the workshops for learners were designed and facilitated by Sharon Johnson. The educators who received the TAPATE awards were Phumla Sono, Dawood Jaffer, Sharien Sa-dien, Gwynne Philander, and Buddy Matthews. The learners who received the TAPAL awards were Abdul Aziz and Aqueelah Abraham.

One of the teachers who achieved the award, Shireen, wrote a wonderful piece in her portfolio about the power of strokes. There were learners who had low self-esteem and were disruptive in her class, but when she began giving them positive strokes for what they did well, they became cooperative and more focused in their work. When one student had to appear before the school inspector, the whole class gave him strokes and encouraged him, after which he did well in his meeting.

Several other teachers realized that they often ended up in a drama triangle dynamic and did too much for their students (Rescued), thus keeping those learners dependent and feeling like Victims. By understanding levels of contracting and using contracts with their classes, they encouraged learners to take responsibility for deciding as a group what the conse-quences would be for not keeping the contract.

The TAPACY was created by Giles Barrow, a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst in education. It was begun in 2004 in Greenwich, a deprived area of London, England, with children up to the age of 11 years who were at risk of exclusion from school, in a vulnerable position in their home life, or in the state care system. Since then, there have been programs in Essex, Cumbria, Medway, and Lincolnshire involving over 300 children. The original focus on children with social issues has broadened as the benefit of transactional analysis to all young people has become obvious.

In 2010 the European Transactional Analysis Association (EATA) provided some funding to help the Institute of Deve-lopmental Transactional Analysis (IDTA) spread the scheme across Europe. The support helps with translations and travel costs to facilitate award ceremonies, although most of the scheme administration is done voluntarily. To recognize the EATA support, the initiative became known as EUROTAPACY, although now that the scheme is spreading internationally, the term TAPACY is once again being used. The project is managed on behalf of the IDTA by Julie Hay ([email protected]), ably supported by a growing team of national coordinators. As interest in TAPACY grew, there were requests for awards for different groups of people. As a result, the TAPATE and another award, Transactional Analysis Proficiency Award for Caregivers and Parents (TAPACP), were added. All three options are described on the IDTA website at http://www.instdta.org/taproficiencyawards.html .

By Karen Pratt and Sharon Johnson Karen Pratt is the Africa regional representative to the ITAA Board of Trustees. She can be reached at [email protected] .

This article was previously published in the Script (ITAA). Photos of the students are published according parents’ permission.


On November 30th, 2012, a conference entitled “The Words of Intuition” took place in Milan at the Swiss Cultural Center on Via Palestro. The event, organized by CPAT, by the Transactional Analysis and Psychology Center in Milan and by the pub-lishing house La Vita Felice, was held in occasion of the publication of the text The Strawberry Place. The text, developed by Cinzia Chiesa with the preface written by Silvia Attanasio Romanini, is an accurate, two-volume illustrated collection of the writings of Dolores Munari Poda and of her experiences in psychotherapy with children and adolescents.Dolores Munari Poda received the Eric Berne Memorial Award in 2009 for her contributions to working with children.

The conference gained much interest as there were around 200 people present, and much participation was had among the professionals. In a stimulating environment that was rich with contents and emotions, we heard the reports and testimonies of important representatives in the world of psychoanalysis, phenomenological psychiatry, and transactional analysis. These testimonies underlined how the experience of relationships with people through words is a human experience of knowledge of and attention to the other person.

Conference on Intuition held in Milano, Italy

From left: Maria Assunta Giusti, TSTA; Cinzia Chiesa, PTSTA; Dolores Munari Poda, TSTA; Silvia Attanasio Romanini, TSTA


“Caring for” words that on different levels bind us to the other per-son, understanding the transformative potential of words in an ana-lytical context, learning how to use them, and being attentive to the words one uses all have the meaning of taking care of the quality of the ongoing relational process and helping it develop. In the morning there were four presentations that focused on the relationship between intuition and words. Anna Rotondo (TSTA-P) introduced the session with the report With regards to “speaking like dreaming” by Thomas Ogden, followed by The invisible speech of intuition” by psychoanalyst Giampaolo Lai.Dolores Munari Poda (TSTA-P) presented The Girl Reader. Notes from a short story of living words.Giorgio Cavallero (TSTA-P) concluded the morning with Intuition and strategies of persuasion in the Child.

In the afternoon, coordinated by Cinzia Chiesa (PTSTA), we were given the extraordinary opportunity to meet Eugenio Borgna, a well known psychiatrist and phenomenologist, and become involved in his words, living creatures, in a Conversation on phenomenology, and on the possibility that this philosophical-existential vision of-fers to psychiatry to “comprehend the patient rather than explain the illness”.In Conversation on phenomenology with Eugenio Borgna, the transactional analysts that were present found more than one point of convergence with the vision of relationships as a rapport between subjects, of the attention to Okness advocated by Eric Berne, of the “care” for the intuitive process in the analytical relationship.

Psychoanalysis, the phenomenological concept and Transactional Analysis find profound connection in Eric Berne’s thinking and proposals.Eric Berne’s Transactional Analysis contains both conceptual and treatment cases in psychoanalysis as well as the need to bring these cases back to an existential context from which they perhaps risked detaching.As is said on the back cover of The Strawberry Place, Dolores Munari Poda uses ‘roots of knowledge’ in her work with children and adolescents <with particular attention to psychoanalysis, to interpersonal relationships, to Da-seinsanalyse, and to Transactional Analysis>.The second part of the afternoon was dedicated to The Strawberries’ Place.Gerardo Mastrullo, publisher of La Vita Felice (The Happy Life), invited us, by means of several illuminating examples, to keep the intuitive process in mind at the base of the graphic and editorial construction of a text, and how this can be the meaningful element of communication between the writer and the reader.The round table that involved Dolores Munari Poda (TSTA-P), Silvia Attanasio Romanini (TSTA-P), Maria As-sunta Giusti (TSTA-P) and Stefano Morena (PTSTA-P) in discussion, led by Cinzia Chiesa, presented itself as a reflection on the experiences of the people present more than as a contribution of reflection on the text at hand. It seemed, therefore, that the experiential vision took precedence.Evita Cassoni (TSTA-P) concluded the day’s work, underlining the richness and “nourishment” contained in its contents.

Thank you to all our speakers and participants. A particular thanks also goes out to Vittorio Soana for his presence and his words. Anna Rotondo, psychotherapist, TSTA-P, Centro di Psicologia e Analisi Transazionale, Milano, Italy

Dolores Munari Poda “Il posto delle gragole” La Vita Felice publisher, Milano, 2012


Now into its 4th year, IJTAR is expanding its coverage.

And we have a new Editorial Board – Thomas Ohlsson, Adina Dumitru and Günther Mohr continue to serve and are joined by Mark Widdowson and Sandra Wilson – ably supported by a growing group of Reviewers.

We want to hear from you!In addition to new research studies and reviews of existing studies related to specific topics, IJTAR is rea-dy to publish papers that expand awareness of TA generally, including its approaches, methods, constructs, schools, etc, in ways that add to practitioner, teacher and supervisor knowledge and hence lead to best practice.

IJTAR already publishes high-quality empirical research using any scientific paradigm across the full range of TA applications. It also promotes research comparing TA and other models and non-TA research that has significant implications for TA theory or practice.

A wide variety of research is welcomed, including but not limited to:

• Pure as well as applied research. Research that tests existing theoretical models within TA and research that tests the effectiveness of specific interventions and programs are both of interest;

• Outcome as well as process-oriented research. Randomised, control group research designs and real life process research are both seen as relevant;

• Quantitative and qualitative research methods are both encouraged.

In future we will also accept papers that provide readers with information related to the understanding and application of TA theory, such as theoretical reviews, practitioner reports, exploration of specific TA constructs, etc.

IJTAR issues appear in January and July each year. If you have something ready (or almost ready), please submit now. There is still time to complete some reviews and publish in the July issue.

Author Guidelines are shown on the website and you can also submit a manuscript online –

www.ijtar.org.

Or just send it direct to the Editor if you prefer and we will handle the online part for you.

And please contact us if you have some ideas for a paper, or for a research study, and would like to discuss options before you start writing – we will be happy to advise, encourage, critique and hopefully motivate you.

Julie Hay IJTAR Editor [email protected]

CALL FOR PAPERS – IJTAR International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research


by Ian Stewart and Vann JoinesSecond edition, Lifespace Publishing, Melton Mowbray and Chapel Hill, 2012

It is with great pleasure that I review the new book of Ian Stewart and Vann Joines. Since 25 years from the first edition, the book “TA Today” comes out renewed and enlarged.In its first edition, the book has been re-printed 19 times and translated in many languages, great success sign. As famous as the book, the authors don’t need any introduction: TSTAs in clinical field, have held several workshops around the world, have written many articles and published another book together in 2002.The first edition, as the current, had the value to condense in 400 pages all TA theory, becoming useful tool for spreading Transactional Analysis in the world and compass for laymen orientating themselves in the rich theoretical TA world.A second edition fully revised, that keeps features of the previous one: simple and readable language, a conversatio-nal style, many examples making more understandable TA theory, crossing over culture differences.

In the last 20 years TA increased the development of theory and many concepts have been enriched by experimental studies and discoveries from related disciplines. This new edition fits with the need to update a fundamental book both for those who study and use TA in their own work, and for those who meet TA for the first time, pushed by curiosity.30 chapters providing a huge view on TA compose the book that offers a wide range of exercises, following each chapter, which can be useful to “know more about yourself” as the authors say. TA philosophy and the key ideas are the starting point and the basis of Part I, almost a brief summary of what is needed to know speaking of TA.The section II, called “Picturing Personality: The ego-state model”, presents a wide discussion on basic concepts referring to Ego-state, both of first and second order and on structural and functional aspects.In the chapter 2 there is a short but meaningful paragraph “A matter of words: are there ‘just three ego-states’?” that invites reader to reflect on something that seems obvious but is not. The question “how many ego states are there?” is linked to the meaning itself of ego-state, to its definition, and in my opinion, to the connection between ego states and psychic organs, as well. This theme is taken up in a small paragraph in the same section that explores and deepens the functional aspects of ego states and in which the „Five Behaviours Model“ developed by Ian Stewart is proposed.

Sections III, IV, V and VI bring readers in the heart of TA: transactions, strokes, time structuring, script apparatus, games, rackets, discounting, symbiosis etc.The section IV is one of those mostly updated with two chapters completely new. The first one describes how we write our life story and in which way we carry on with it. The second chapter (no. 16) is entirely dedicated to the personality adaptations. Many readers might remember that Vann Joines won the Eric Berne Memorial Award in 1994 with an article about this issue.In the book, all the six personality adaptations are described, connected with drivers, process scripts and the Ware sequence. A pen-portrait for each adaptation is provided.The last three chapters, in part VII are completely new.Very interesting is the chapter 28, dealing with differences and similarities between TA psychotherapy and counsel-ling, an important aspect for many European countries, and also in it the relational approach is described.The next is focused on educational and organisational application fields, and the last chapter deals with TA develop-ment since Berne to the present.I’d like also to underline that in the book has been incorporated the official 101 course outline, revised in 2008.

As in the first edition, in this new one as well, the Authors invite readers to let them have critique and feedback. So I invite you to read the book in order to be able to send them your comments!You may order it at www.seinstitute.comI wish the readers to enjoy with this book, and I wish the Authors to replicate the previous success.

Reviewed by Alessandra Pierini

Book Review: TA Today. A new Introduction to Transactional Analysis


As we move forward with the transition to having the Transactional Analysis Journal (TAJ) published by SAGE Publications, it seems like a good time to update you on a few things that will be changing as well as some that will remain the same.

Design and ContentThe various levels of change begin with the TAJ itself. For example, while the cover of the Journal will look much as it always has (with the color changing yearly), there will be some differences in the layout of the inside pages. In terms of the content, that will remain the same in terms of style and quality. The TAJ is dedicated to providing a high level of support to its authors, especially those writing for the first time and/or whose native language is not English. In addition, our articles use a fair amount of TA-specific language and symbols. All of this makes the copyediting of TAJ manuscripts particularly important, and we are happy to report that the ITAA Board of Trustees has chosen to maintain Robin Fryer’s position as TAJ managing editor to ensure the quality and accuracy of the Journal’s content. She will continue doing all the copyediting and working with authors until the manuscript is ready for final formatting by SAGE. Likewise, the attention of our coeditorial team will continue to focus on the quality of reviews and working with authors to help them develop and present their ideas as clearly as possible.

PermissionsIn terms of permissions, an important area in our international TA community, non-English-language transactional analysis journals will still be able to translate and republish TAJ articles by direct agreement with the ITAA, much as has been done in the past. Individuals and groups outside the field of transactional analysis will now contact SAGE to obtain permissions.

Member Online Access and CostsThe TAJ will continue to be a primary benefit of ITAA membership, and one of the most exciting changes to come is the fact that it will now be available both in hard copy and online to all classes of ITAA members as well as to indivi-dual and institutional subscribers. And as the digitizing of back issues is accomplished by SAGE, the entire archive of past TAJs will also be available online, with access determined by membership or subscription level. This important new offering is being accompanied by a change in ITAA membership categories and dues, as you will all have read in a communication from the ITAA Board of Trustees sent last month. Briefly, there will be two membership levels, each with different benefits:

Level I includes Regular, Certified, and Teaching Members ($160/year), Student Members ($110/year), Retired Mem-bers ($99/year), and TAlent Members (fees calculated on a pro-rata basis). Members in all of these categories will receive the TAJ in hard copy and digital formats plus access to the Journal back catalogue through to 1971 as it becomes available this year; The Script newsletter, available as a members-only benefit for 2 months after publication once the members-only section of the website is up and running; conference discounts; listing in the ITAA online directory (in the appropriate category); and voting rights.

Level II includes Associate Members ($110/year), who will receive The Script, a hard copy of the TAJ, and digital ac-cess to the TAJ for the current year and one year prior.

Nonmember subscribers may purchase individual subscriptions directly from SAGE ($130/year), which will include a hard copy of the TAJ plus online access for the current year and one year prior for the duration of the subscription (to subscribe, go to [email protected]).

Copyright and Author RightsAnother area in which there will be both some continuity and some change is that of copyrights and author rights. As the TAJ enters the digital age in its partnership with SAGE, these areas inevitably become more complicated. However, we are pleased to say that copyrights for all TAJ articles will continue to be held by the ITAA, as they have been since 1993. The ITAA will license SAGE to publish the TAJ, and authors will sign a new author contract that outlines the copyright situation as well as the rights and limitations authors will have under the agreement with SAGE.

In terms of rights, TAJ authors will continue to have those they now have under the ITAA author contract: to use their articles in classroom teaching, to post on their own websites or in their own digital publications, and to include in other

Some Things Remain, Others Will Change: The TAJ Transition to SAGE

By Bill Cornell, Ann Heathcote, Birgitta Heiller, and Jo Stuthridge


books or compilations of which the author is the author or editor. Specifically, under SAGE, authors may at any time without further permission:• Distribute on a nonprofit, individual basis print and electronic copies of the article for teaching purposes or to col-

leagues• Circulate or post on any repository or website the version of the article submitted to the TAJ (i.e., the version before

peer review and editing) or an abstract of the article• No sooner than 12 months after initial publication, post on any noncommercial repository or website the version of

the article that was accepted for publication (SAGE has said that if approached for permission earlier, they usually grant it)

• No sooner than 12 months after initial publication, republish the whole or any part of the article in a work written, edited, or compiled by the author provided that citation is provided for the original publication by ITAA and SAGE. This must not simply be a republication of the article in its complete or abridged form in another journal or other serial publication or database.

Other forms of republication will need to be vetted by the permissions department at SAGE, which is available to au-thors through a dedicated website. These permissions may involve a fee paid to SAGE.

The restrictions on authors’ distribution of articles published in the TAJ are standard among academic and scholarly publishers and include:• The SAGE-created PDF of the published article may not be posted at any time. These PDFs are the versions made

available on the SAGE website and to institutional (library and university) subscribers.• Each use of the article, or any part of it, must include the copyright notice that appears on the issue of the TAJ in

which it is first published and a full bibliographic citation to the Journal as published by SAGE. • Copies of the article, or any part of it, shall not be sold, distributed, or reproduced for commercial purposes. • The article, or any part of it, shall not be used for any systematic external distribution by a third party (e.g., an

electronic mailing list or a database connected to a public access server). This ensures that access to articles is only through ITAA membership, the SAGE website, and institutional subscriptions through SAGE.

There are a handful of authors who have published in the TAJ but were unwilling to assign copyright to the ITAA. They will be contacted directly by SAGE to see if they are willing to grant permission for their articles to be included in the digital archive of TAJs from 1971-2012. In the future, all authors will be required to sign the SAGE author contract if their article is going to be published in the TAJ. This is a necessary requirement from SAGE to ensure the online distri-bution of the journal to institutional subscribers and allow sales of individual articles through the SAGE website. (For additional details, see http://www.sagepub.com/authors/journal/permissions.sp .)

These details are part of the final agreement with SAGE, which resulted from detailed discussions and negotiations over the past 2 years. These included communications and negotiations between the TAJ working group and various external publishers as well as consultations with other associations that publish through academic and scholarly pu-blishing houses. Considerable time and effort were devoted to comparing copyright and authors’ rights arrangements with various publishing houses, and SAGE’s permission structure was found to be both consistent with others and also more “author friendly” in terms of supporting the widest possible distribution of an author’s work. In fact, a big factor in choosing SAGE over any other publisher was that they were willing to adjust some of their standard systems to ac-commodate certain aspects of how the ITAA and the TAJ function so that we could retain some things that are important to the Journal and the worldwide TA community.

So, while many things about the TAJ will remain the same with the move to SAGE, there will also be some changes. We think most of these will be of enormous benefit to the ITAA and its members as well as to TAJ authors and readers. The contract with SAGE will offer TAJ authors far broader distribution of their work, not only to other transactional analysts worldwide but to other professional groups as well as libraries and universities. We hope you will enjoy these added benefits as ITAA members and TAJ readers and that they will encourage you to think about writing up your ideas and/or work for the Journal.

Bill Cornell, Ann Heathcote, Birgitta Heiller, and Jo Stuthridge are the coeditors of the Transactional Analysis Journal. Comments or questions about this article may be sent to them via Bill at [email protected] .

This article was originally published in The Script, Vol. 43, No. 5, May 2013. © International Transactional Analysis Association.


Congratulations!

Exam successes

Welcome to Sevastopol!

TEvW successes

March 24 - 26, 2013, Nice, France

TEWMara Adriani Italy PMichela Carmignani Italy PSantina Ficara Italy PTiziana Frazzetto Italy PAlana Gladwell UK PNicky Haris UK PStefano Lauciello Italy OFrancesca Merlini Italy OMike Michels Germany OJennie Miller UK PVilardell i Llargués Montse Spain PHanna Parkhodko Ukraine PRossella Pedone Italy CAgnès Petit France CMario Augusto Procacci Italy PJosé Ant .Alonso Sanchez Spain PLiudmila Sjöholm Russia PUlrika Widen Italy C

April 4th, 2013, Cheltenham, UK

CTA-PAllison KnellJanet FittTony FarnsworthNicola SheehanSuzie HatherillFiona Burke

David HarfordDenise BorlandNaomi EvansLynda QuickBeren AldridgeAlan Jones

Dec. 2 - 4, 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece

CTA TrainerKlaus Holetz Germany OMonica Guarise Italy PElena Guarrella Italy PCatia Lucia Martorello Italy PMaria Angela Rossi Italy PFrances Townsend UK P

March 15th, 2013, Dunedin, NZL

CTA-PRaewyn Knowles Auckland, NZLAntonia Muir Dunedin, NZL

The following members passed successfully their TEvW and now are CTA trainers.

Transactional analysis has been developing in Ukraine since 1997 during which period both the method and specialists who study and practice it have progressed significantly.Workshops on TA in psychotherapy, TA in organiza-tions will be conducted by EATA-certified practitio-ners.Also, TA students will introduce their advances in the method.Conference participants: Members of UATA and EATA, psychotherapists, psychologists, teachers, so-cial workers, trainers, coaches, those from the spheres of organizational counseling and management, anybo-dy interested in TA as a professional instrument and a means of life betterment.

As part of the conference, a marathon training on ‘Au-toaggression and suicide’ will be conducted by Dmitry Shustov, Doctor of Medical Science, professor, dean of Psychiatry department of Ryazan’ State medical university, TSTA-P-EATA, certified transactional ana-lyst and supervisor. To take part in the conference, you should submit an application form and pay the participation cost.Organizing committee: [email protected] +380958343745, +38067 402 30 31, skype isaenaDetailed information can be found at uata.org.ua, tacrimea.ua

June, 14 - 16 2013: 2nd workshop conference GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT on transactional analysis in Crimea, Sevastopol


Announcing:

Professional Excellence Workshops at The Berne Institute, UK

C oming d ates: 6-8 S ep t. 2 01 3; 28 F eb .-2 M a rch 20 14 Do you want to enhance your professional skills in TA? Then the PEWs are for you! To all TA professionals, these workshops offer an excellent opportunity for advanced training and supervision. The PEWs – run regularly twice per year since 1992 – have been a “springboard” from which many participants have gone on to gain success in EATA/ITAA examinations, both CTA and T/STA. The workshops have also proved their value as preparation for the EATA/ITAA Training Endorsement Workshop (TEW). The workshop leaders are Ian Stewart, Adrienne Lee, and Mark Widdowson, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analysts. As a team with many years’ experience of the PEW format, they can offer you an outstanding environment for learning. Workshop format is highly flexible. Activities are tailored contractually to the needs of the participants, and typically include: multi-level supervision ... tape presentation ... discussion of theory and ethics ... practice exams (CTA or TSTA) ... supervised teaching ... personal work.

Venue: all PEWs are held at The Berne Institute, near Nottingham, England. Fee: per 24-hour workshop: UKP 395. Booking deposit: UKP 95. For bookings and further information please contact: The Course Registrar, The Berne

Institute, 29 Derby Road, Kegworth DE74 2EN, England (tel/fax (+44)(0)1509-673649; email via www.theberne.com).

Vitality and Inertia in the Therapeutic Relationship

This conference asks the question ‘How do we as therapists, use our creativity

to promote vitality in the therapeutic relationship?’

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The Scottish Transactional Analysis Asso-ciation (STAA) Conference is being held in Edinburgh on 2nd November 2013. The theme this year is ‘Vitality and Inertia in the Therapeutic Re-lationship’ and we invite you to wonder how we as therapists, can use our creativity to promote vitality in the therapeutic relationship. We are retaining the new format that we introduced last year of an invited panel to give their take on the conference theme. The panel this year consists of John Heath, Ray Little, Martin Wells and Caro-le Shadbolt, who will each present briefly on the theme which is then opened up to floor for que-stions and discussion, facilitated by the chair of STAA, Trevor Timms.There will also be several workshops to choose from and an AGM at the end of the day that we hope you will attend. It would be great to hear your voice. The STAA committee members will all be around if you want to talk about anything relevant to the STAA, or the conference. There will be a good buffet lunch, and teas and cof-fees will be available all day. I hope you all join us for what should be an exciting and stimulating day. Best wishes from your conference committeeJosephine Murray-Smith & Katie Banks


Exam Calendar

Exam Exam Date 2013 Location/Supervisors CTA and TSTA 2nd/3rd July 2013 Oslo, Norway Supervisors: Sue Eusden (CTA) & Sabine Klingenberg (TSTA)CTA and TSTA 9th/10th November 2013 Fribourg, Switzerland Valerie Perret (CTA), TSTA Mireille Binet (TSTA)CTA and TSTA 14th/15th November 2013 Pforzheim, GermanyCTA 13th/14th December 2013 Florence, ItalyTEW 8th/10th July 2013 Oslo, Norway Coordinator: Matthias Sell: [email protected] – For CTA trainer 29th Nov. – 1st Dec. 2013 Palermo (Sicily), Italy Coordinator: Matthias Sell: [email protected] TeW/TPW* 3rd – 5th December 2013 Palermo (Sicily), Italy Coordinator: Matthias Sell: [email protected]

Exam Exam Date 2014 Location/Supervisors CTA and TSTA April 23th/34th, 2014 Blackpool, UK Francis Townsend (CTA) & Dave Spenceley(TSTA)CTA and TSTA November 9th/10th, 2014 Lyon, France

TEW March 16th - 18th, 2014 venue to be announced Coordinator: [email protected] July 10th - 12th, 2014 venue to be announced Coordinator: [email protected] December 6th - 8th, 2014 venue to be announced Coordinator: [email protected]

*only for the participants of the TPW in Barcelona 2010

Dates for 2013 and Venues of COC oral TA examinations and TEWs

Dates for 2014 and Venues of COC oral TA examinations and TEWs

COC CTA exam candidates who are doing the COC writ-ten case study must submit it no later than six months before the oral exam date. Details/application available from the COC Language Group Coordinators.

To arrange to take a COC exam, contact your EATA Language Coordinator. Check with the EATA office for the name of the appropriate Language Group Coordinator.

EATA Training Endorsement Workshop (TEW) or Training Evalutaion Workshop (TEvW):To take a TEW or TEvW, contact the European Coordi-nator, Matthias Sell, eMail: [email protected].

To arrange to take a BOC exam, contact the T&C Council, 2186 Rheem Drive #B-1, Pleasanton, CA 94588, USA. Note: COC people sitting for BOC ex-ams must forward the equivalent of the EATA fee to the T & C Council office.

Documents

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