TA101 | Giles Barrow

Welcome

Welcome to my on-line introduction course to transactional analysis (TA). I hope you find this a rich experience and one that really supports your professional development. If you have not come across me and my work before have a view of the various videos on the site to get a sense of who I am and my approach to teaching.

I also hope that you find an informality in how I have set up the programme with an emphasis on discussion and interaction. I have aimed to put a lot of the theory in the course on-line so that when we meet in the live-streamed sessions we can focus on questions and examples and avoid lengthy taught input. We will also be having time to reflect individually and I strongly suggest that you use these times to get up, wander around and ideally go outside.

I am getting ahead of myself though, and should let you know that in our first session I will be wanting to get a sense of your expectations. As preparation I would appreciate it if you could give the following questions some thought, making some notes if need be. Your responses will feed an important part of setting up the programme.

Reflection

As you think about beginning the on-line sessions what expectations are you bringing to the course? The following questions will form part of a discussion in the first session. You might want to make some notes beforehand of your responses.

What questions or curiousity do you have about the course? What aspects of your practice do you hope might benefit from the course?
What are the expectations of your school or service in your attending the sessions? What’s their agenda? Where do you think that this training ‘fits in’ to the wider work of the organisation? Have you been ‘told’ to attend and if so why do you think that is?
What needs to happen during the on-line sessions for you to learn at your best? What do you know helps and what hinders your engagement in training? Is there anything you know that gets in the way of your learning?
How will you know that this has been a brilliant experience?

Please take some time browsing the site, and I am always interested to know what you liked or might be improved. Please also take the time to read through this set of protocols for working over Zoom.