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TAAS is proud to present a series of webinars featuring international TA experts
We are pleased to conclude another engaging TA international expert webinar on 2 July 2020.
Special thanks to our international facilitator John Heath and participants who have joined us from here and globally!
This 3-hour webinar received overwhelming response with all 60 places fully subscribed before closing date.
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John Heath presents Working with Somatic Process in Therapy and Counselling Settings
Facilitator: John Heath
John is a Teaching and Training Transactional Analyst in the Psychotherapy field. Before that he was an Educational Psychologist, Chartered by the British Psychological Society. In addition to TA he has also trained extensively in Body Psychotherapy. He is a tutor at The Berne Institute in the UK and has developed a private therapy, supervision and training practice in the UK and internationally. He served as President of the ITAA from 2010 to 2015.
About the webinar
Human beings are embodied creatures. Life experience impacts us at all levels of the organism including the cognitive, emotional and body levels. We encode meaning at all of these levels in ways that form the habits which guide us in life. In Transactional Analysis this is reflected in the multi-level organisation of ego states. Clients seeking help from a psychotherapist or counsellor will usually expect a form of intervention based mainly in talking. But when the key meanings and habits at the root of their problem are encoded at the somatic level (the third order of ego state structure) the talking cure needs to include somatic process in its scope. This is particularly important for clients who have experienced early or severe trauma. But counselling work with all clients will benefit from an awareness of somatic process and its relationship to emotional and cognitive processes.
Healthy embodied contact is a key co-regulatory feature of life in a well functioning community and when we work online it is even more important than usual that we hold an awareness of our own and our clients’ body level experience. This is an essential aspect of promoting the health and growth of those we work with, at a time when normal contact with others is diminished.
Learning outcomes
Participants can expect to engage in an exploration of theory and practice under the following headings -
Delivery
We will look at theory from TA, body psychotherapy, neuroscience and the literature on affect regulation to support our thinking and practice.
We will explore these ideas through didactic teaching, personal reflection and discussion.
Recommended for
Counsellors and therapists at all levels of experience. It may be of particular interest to those who are currently having to work remotely with clients because of the worldwide pandemic which is preventing face to face therapeutic work in many contexts.
A certificate of participation will be presented by TAA Singapore with three (3) CPE-hours.
John is a Teaching and Training Transactional Analyst in the Psychotherapy field. Before that he was an Educational Psychologist, Chartered by the British Psychological Society. In addition to TA he has also trained extensively in Body Psychotherapy. He is a tutor at The Berne Institute in the UK and has developed a private therapy, supervision and training practice in the UK and internationally. He served as President of the ITAA from 2010 to 2015.
About the webinar
Human beings are embodied creatures. Life experience impacts us at all levels of the organism including the cognitive, emotional and body levels. We encode meaning at all of these levels in ways that form the habits which guide us in life. In Transactional Analysis this is reflected in the multi-level organisation of ego states. Clients seeking help from a psychotherapist or counsellor will usually expect a form of intervention based mainly in talking. But when the key meanings and habits at the root of their problem are encoded at the somatic level (the third order of ego state structure) the talking cure needs to include somatic process in its scope. This is particularly important for clients who have experienced early or severe trauma. But counselling work with all clients will benefit from an awareness of somatic process and its relationship to emotional and cognitive processes.
Healthy embodied contact is a key co-regulatory feature of life in a well functioning community and when we work online it is even more important than usual that we hold an awareness of our own and our clients’ body level experience. This is an essential aspect of promoting the health and growth of those we work with, at a time when normal contact with others is diminished.
Learning outcomes
Participants can expect to engage in an exploration of theory and practice under the following headings -
- The three levels of ego state structure
- Body level defences in depression, anxiety and other common conditions
- The somatic aspects of trauma
- The integration of mind - body process as a guide to treatment direction
- The special challenges of working online
- The skills of embodied counter-transference
Delivery
We will look at theory from TA, body psychotherapy, neuroscience and the literature on affect regulation to support our thinking and practice.
We will explore these ideas through didactic teaching, personal reflection and discussion.
Recommended for
Counsellors and therapists at all levels of experience. It may be of particular interest to those who are currently having to work remotely with clients because of the worldwide pandemic which is preventing face to face therapeutic work in many contexts.
A certificate of participation will be presented by TAA Singapore with three (3) CPE-hours.