Experienced, highly qualified Co-Directors and trainers: The Berne Institute's Co-Directors, Adrienne Lee and Ian Stewart, personally lead all "The Berne's" on-going training courses. Ian and Adrienne are both accredited by the International and European TA associations as Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analysts - the highest training qualification offered by these bodies. Both Co-Directors have many years' experience as teachers in further and higher education, and are also among Britain's most experienced trainers in transactional analysis.

Dedicated training centre, giving you a fine environment for learning: our training centre, Berne House, has a long history. It began life a century or so ago as a "town house" with a church vestry attached. When we bought it, in 1994, it was serving as a cafe and bed-and-breakfast place. Now, the ex-vestry, ex-cafe room is our big training room, with lots of space and a fine original wooden floor and ceiling. Also on the ground floor is our bistro-style coffee room, pictured below:

Upstairs you will find a smaller training room, plus three counselling rooms of various sizes - one of these also houses our Library. At the back of Berne House is our walled garden - great for coffee or for "breakout groups" when the weather is good. In front, there's off-road parking.

Proven track record of successes in professional exams: The Berne Institute's Co-Directors, Ian Stewart and Adrienne Lee, have been conducting an on-going TA psychotherapy training programme since 1984. (Before the foundation of The Berne Institute in 1994, the training programme went under the titles of NECTA and Training Central England). Over the years, trainees from our programmes have been consistently successful in the professional examinations set by the European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA) and the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA).

A lively and growing professional community: as part of our mission, we want "The Berne" to be not just a place for learning and study - though that's important - but also a centre of community. That's why we run monthly free seminars and publish a newsletter that is free to our members. It's why we see to it that Berne House is furnished and provisioned in a friendly and welcoming way, and why we run a membership scheme . We hope we may welcome you soon as part of our community!

If you would like more information on "The Berne" and our various activities, please explore the pages in this Web site. For any further details that you can't find here, please email us here >> , call or fax us on 01509-673649 (24-hours answering machine) or write to: The Course Registrar, The Berne Institute, Berne House, 29 Derby Road, Keworth DE74 2EN.

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