• Weekend 26-27 Apr.: Redecision Therapy Training Marathon  with Ian Stewart BA PhD MPracNLP TSTA(P)  This workshop offers an opportunity for intensive personal experience and “hands-on” learning of the Redecision approach. The workshop will include: Redecision therapy sessions led by Ian Stewart... teaching and discussion of Redecision theory and techniques... and small-group work where members of the group have the chance to practise Redecision therapy under Ian’s supervision. Fee: £175 (booking deposit £75)
• Thurs.-Fri. 15-16 May: “TA 101”: Official Introduction to TA  Adrienne Lee BA MPracNLP TSTA(P)  This introductory course will examine the theory of TA, including the structure of personality; transactions, or the way we relate to others; time structuring; the psychological “games” we play; and life scripts. This “TA 101” course is recognised by the British, European and international TA organizations as their standard approved introduction to TA.  Fee: Berne Institute members £110; non-members £130 (booking deposit £30)
• Sat. 24 May: Free seminar: “Time-Frames, Theory and Therapy”   Ian Stewart BA PhD MPracNLP TSTA(P)
• Wed. 4 June: /ATTA\: “Providing TA Counselling in NHS Primary Care”  Frances Townsend MSc(TA Psych) CertCouns PTSTA(P)   This one-day workshop will cover most of the things you need to know to work in GP surgeries, including: NHS structures – how to understand and access them... working in a Primary Care team... the relationship with GPs, practice nurses, health visitors, secondary care workers and other administrative and support staff... using short-term TA interventions suitable for Primary Care... keeping and writing up case notes and referral processes... managing confidentiality... understanding the effects of medication... working alongside medical models...NICE guidelines and structures for working with mental-health issues in the NHS... understanding mental-health issues including appropriateness for short-term work and liaison with GPs for responsibility of care... risk assessment and safety issues. This workshop will be useful for TA trainees and other counselling professionals who are seeking work in a GP surgery.  Fee: Berne Institute members £75; non-members £85 (booking deposit £25)
• Sat. 14 June: Free seminar: “Intuition”   Hazel Hirst MSc(Ed) MPracNLP TSTA(P)
• Thurs.-Fri. 19-20 June: Process Group Therapy Marathon with Adrienne Lee BA MPracNLP TSTA(P)   This training experience will analyse and demonstrate the different styles and processes of leadership and work that can be done in a group setting according to the theory and practice of  Transactional Analysis and Process Group Therapy. Trainee therapists in the group will have the opportunity to learn in awareness and log the appropriate TA training hours.  Fee: £175 (booking deposit £75)
• Weekend 28-29 June: Special Workshop: “Movement, Gesture and Transitional Spaces: The Somatic Foundation of Self-Organisation and Expression” with Bill Cornell MA TSTA(P)  In transactional analysis, practitioners are well accustomed to working with patterns of cognition, interpersonal behaviour and beliefs, and emotional systems. Increasingly, TA practitioners have also become sensitive to work within the transference/countertransference matrix, coming to understand the therapeutic relationship as a primary means of therapeutic exploration and change. This experiential workshop will seek to add another component to practitioners’ field of awareness and technical repertoire – somatic learning through sensate and sensori-motor exploration. This workshop will emphasise attention to the space between therapist and client – the actual, physical space as well as the relational and symbolic space. We shall explore the questions (theoretically and experientially) of how our bodies – that of client and that of therapist – inhabit that space, move through the space, communicate with one another through body action (or inaction), shape and reshape the interpersonal space. Fee: £175 (Berne members), £185 (non-members); booking deposit £75.
• Sat. 12 July: Free seminar: “Eric Berne ‘Live’”   Adrienne Lee BA MPracNLP TSTA(P)
• Wed. 23 July: Special Workshop for Couples with Adrienne Lee BA MPracNLP TSTA(P)   This will be a one-day experiential workshop for couples to explore and experience the vitality of their relationship. There will be structured exercises and opportunities for sharing, developing communication, emotional literacy, and intimacy. Often, with our partners, we get into limiting patterns of behaviour and don’t take the risk or the time to share honestly our feelings, expectations, and yearnings; this workshop aims to provide, through exercises and group process, the opportunity to open our hearts to the vitality of the relationships that are important to us, claiming the pain and the joy, while honouring our self and our partner and our relationship.  Fee per couple: £165 (booking deposit £75)
• Weekend 26-27 July: “TA 101”: Official Introduction to TA  Ian Stewart BA PhD MPracNLP TSTA(P)   (For details, please see the entry above for 15-16 May).  Fee: Berne Institute members £110; non-members £130 (booking deposit £30)
• Fri.-Sun. 5-7 Sept.: Professional Excellence Workshop at The Berne Institute with Alice Stevenson,  Adrienne Lee and Ian Stewart. Fee: £325 (booking deposit £75)
• Wed. 17 Sept.: /ATTA\: “Techniques for Rapid Script Change”   Ian Stewart BA PhD MPracNLP TSTA(P)  Eric Berne repeatedly urged his students to “cure their patients in one session”. In another of his provocative metaphors, he pictured the psychotherapist as an honest craftsperson – the plumber who takes out his hammer, bangs the appropriate pipe, and quietly departs, having put the boiler back into full working order. As Berne pointed out, anybody can bang a pipe; it’s knowing which pipe to bang, and just how to bang it, that marks out the skilled professional. In this workshop, Ian will suggest that today’s psychotherapeutic “plumber” enjoys the use of a range of tools that were unknown in Berne’s time. He will open the toolbox and present a range of these power tools, drawn from TA, NLP and other current approaches. There will be plenty of time for hands-on practice, backed up by theory and practical discussion. By the end of the workshop, you will have learned ways to facilitate therapeutic change quickly, easily and painlessly. Even though pathology may take a long time to acquire, it need only take a very short time to cure. Such speedy cure can also be a permanent cure. It’s simply a matter of knowing what to do.  Fee: Berne Institute members £75; non-members £85 (booking deposit £25)
• Sat. 20 Sept.: Free seminar: “Becoming More Ourselves: Identity and TA”  Ian Stewart BA PhD MPracNLP TSTA(P)
• Thurs.-Fri. 18-19 Sept.: “TA 101”: Official Introduction to TA  Adrienne Lee BA MPracNLP TSTA(P)   (For details, please see the entry above for 15-16 May).  Fee: Berne Institute members £110; non-members £130 (booking deposit £30)
• Weekend 11-12 Oct.: Redecision Therapy Training Marathon  with Ian Stewart BA PhD MPracNLP TSTA(P)  (For details, please see the entry above for 26-27 April).  Fee: £175 (booking deposit £75)
• Wed.-Thurs. 22-23 Oct.:  Special Workshop: “Healing History with TA and Family Constellations” with Jane McQuillin PTSTA(P) and Enid Welford PTSTA(P)  Family Constellations is a radically different way of addressing and healing historical issues that are affecting the current generation. In this workshop we shall: demonstrate Family Constellations, so that some participants will have the opportunity to do personal work… teach the main principles behind this way of working. … show the link between Family Constellations and the Parent ego state… indicate how to recognise and locate a “Hot Potato” within the Parent ego state… demonstrate the impasses we believe develop as a result of a “Hot Potato”… use our version of the Parent Interview to address a “Hot Potato”, and resolve the impasse. Our goal in this workshop is to show and teach how therapists can facilitate the generational flow of energy and love, previously blocked by a “Hot Potato”, to the client. This empowering material can readily be integrated with participants’ current TA skills.  Fee: Berne Institute members £150; non-members £170 (booking deposit £50)

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• Thurs.-Fri. 13-14 Nov.: Process Group Therapy Marathon with Adrienne Lee BA MPracNLP TSTA(P)  (For details, please see the entry above for 19-20 June).   Fee: £175 (booking deposit £75)
• Fri.-Sun. 27 Feb.-1 Mar. 2009: Professional Excellence Workshop at The Berne Institute with Alice Stevenson,  Adrienne Lee and Ian Stewart. Fee: £325 (booking deposit £75)

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