What kind of future are you contributing to through your personal style of practising TA? We invite you to reflect on this question while we journey together through 3 frames of reference, informed by ideas from history and philosophy:
The personal is political.
– What’s the recursive relationship between the personal and the collective dimensions of our lives?
The 3 perspectives on time.
– How does our individual use of TA concepts reveal our unconscious assumptions about the future?
A 4th way towards the future: the model of Radical Hope.
– How can we recover our ability to imagine the future as a diverse collective?

Cristina Pop is a psychotherapist with 13 years experience in private practice. She is passionate about using TA in both her work and her search for answers to existential questions. Her main interest is fostering radical hope – the belief in a future worth living even when we cannot yet imagine what will make it so.

David Stănică works as a psychotherapist & counsellor in private practice.
He has a background in systemic coaching, transactional analysis and other meta-theoretical approaches such as tropical vedic astrology and integral theory.
His main focus is articulating a trans-disciplinary praxis methodology rooted in complexity, sitting at the intersection between unconscious process, embodiment, political economy and cultural studies.

This workshop introduces the concept of Family Accounting as an Intergenerational transactional patterns of accumulation of positive and negative energy within a closed system
Many relational difficulties can be understood as manifestations of recurring cycles of loyalty to the fate of ancestors , transmissions of injunctions , and unconscious family contracts passed down from generation to generation— through Epigenetic Social Cycle
These lead to the reinforcement of psychological prohibitions in the Parent Ego-State regarding Sucess, Money , health and wellbeing and restrict access to making decision from the Adult Ego-State
Working with the family script enables the identification of these patterns and expands the possibilities of the redecision process.
During the workshop, participants will be invited to empirically explore family systems and to consider how these approaches can be integrated into their work in a thoughtful and trauma-informed manner.
key words Family system, Family Constellattion, Intergenerationsl Script, epigenetics

Alex Piotrowska is a teacher and supervisor in Transactional Analysis (TSTA) both in Psychotherapy and Counselling supports other practitioners in two areas .

Alex has private practice in London. In her teaching work, Alex specializes in issues related to family systems, couple dynamics, and matters of attachment.. She focuses primarily on working with the system focusing on the support and change

The challenging assumption of universal human worth underlies all TA theory and methodology. We call “I’m OK-You’re OK” the “healthy” life position from which we can best “get on with” life. Does this imply that thinking of parts of self or another as not-OK is necessarily a mistake? Are beliefs about not-OK parts automatically of lesser worth in getting on with life? In this workshop we will reflect on the concept of OK-ness and the challenges of believing in it. Perhaps it will take us into one of the most challenging conversations of all, which is about the faith, fact and fantasies of universal love, personal accountability and the limits of forgiveness. This will be explored in a safely curated discussion, drawing on the diversity of who we are and the complexities of what we each do and have done to get here. Perhaps it will also help us be better at helping others, especially those who suspect that part of them, or someone else, may not be OK.

John has worked in the psychological professions all his adult life, first in educational settings and then, in mid-career, moving into TA psychotherapy. His quest to deepen his understanding of human development and potential brought him, in later life, to an appreciation of spirituality and the capacities of mind beyond the reach of our structural ego states. He is now in semi-retirement but finds his passion for interesting conversation is undimmed. He runs a small part time practice in Penrith and online.

Alex started her professional life by training as an Anglican priest. She has worked as a vicar in a London parish and also in chaplaincy roles in higher education and in the prison service. Later she extended her skills in what had always been a relational spirituality by training as an Integrative psychotherapist. She runs a private psychotherapy practice in Lancaster and online, and also continues to work as a prison chaplain.

Working with migration and displacement requires transactional analysts to turn the reflective lens inward. How does our own Frame of Reference and Cultural Parent dynamic meet a client’s lived state of limbo, identity negotiation, and unmourned loss?
Grounded in Alan Wolfelt’s companioning model, this 2-hour experiential workshop examines practitioner reflexivity when working with cultural bereavement. Moving beyond eurocentric, pathology-focused models of rapid assimilation, participants engage in somatic spatial mapping, silence pair work, and metaphor witnessing. Attendees will gain body-centered tools to step out of expert ego states, tolerate liminal tension, and co-create authentic relational space.

Daria Modina is a relational integrative psychotherapist, supervisor in training. In her private practice, she works with individuals and groups navigating trauma, grief, anxiety, and the complex ways transgenerational trauma and cultural bereavement shape identity and adjustment.

Drawing on relational TA, EMDR, and Alan Wolfelt’s companioning model, Daria’s qualitative research and supervisory focus centers on cultural displacement, liminality, and social masking. As a Russian-born practitioner living in the UK, her lived experience of navigating languages and cultures deeply informs her commitment to deconstructing “expert” therapeutic stances and creating non-defended spaces for authentic belonging. Beyond the clinic, she is an active skateboarder and calisthenics practitioner, using movement and physical resilience as somatic anchors in her life and work.

This advanced workshop anchors on reflexivity, training Organizational Transactional Analysis professionals to decode systemic scripts and examine their own countertransference hooks within client structures. Participants learn to shift systems from automated Adapted Child compliance to autonomous Adult processing.

Key Outcomes:
* Learn practitioner reflexivity to navigate parallel processes and systemic parallel transactions.
* Unpack institutional injunctions and psychological currency balance sheets driving organizational games.
* Facilitate second-order shifts to co-create game-free operational contracts, replacing rigid historical scripts with transparent, adult-to-adult workplace agreements.

Priyanka Lenka is a seasoned professional in Talent and Organization Development with over 16 years of experience in enabling workforce transformation. A Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA) in the organizational field, she presented her work on leadership behaviors in traditional enterprises at the 2025 World Transactional Analysis Conference (WTAC) in Europe, USTA and NAATA. Her expertise lies in designing and developing future-ready talent pools in global organizations.

Reflexivity invites therapists to look beyond the client’s process and turn the lens towards themselves: What am I bringing into this therapeutic relationship, and how might it be shaping my practice?

Drawing on Transactional Analysis (TA), this experiential workshop explores reflexivity as an ongoing practice of noticing our own ego states, life positions, drivers, script patterns, racket feelings and relational responses within the therapeutic encounter. Participants will examine how their personal history and professional identity can influence what they notice, what they discount, how they respond, and the interventions they choose.

Through reflective exercises, TA-based case explorations and guided self-inquiry, participants will be invited to recognise moments when their Parent, Adult or Child may be influencing the therapeutic process, and to explore how awareness can create greater choice and flexibility. Particular attention will be given to the therapist’s responses to clients—what gets activated in us, what we may be rescuing, controlling, avoiding or over-identifying with, and how these responses can become valuable information rather than unconscious influences.

The workshop aims to move reflexivity from an intellectual concept to a lived professional practice—one that supports greater authenticity, awareness, ethical responsibility and therapeutic effectiveness.

Participants will leave with a practical TA-informed framework for asking:
“What is happening in me, what is happening between us, and how might my response be shaping what happens next?”

Sunila Nambiar is a certified Behaviour Skills Facilitator with over three decades of rich experience in teaching, training, and facilitation. She has empowered more than 5,000 students under the Skill India Mission as a Training Partner with the National Skill Development Corporation, and has trained over 1000 teachers across several schools in Navi Mumbai and Mumbai. She also led a school team to receive the prestigious Quality Education Award from the IMC RBNQA, reflecting her commitment to excellence in education.

Her corporate portfolio includes designing and delivering training for prospective and mid-level managers in both government and private organizations.

Sunila’s Transactional Analysis journey began in 2018. Since then, she has certified around 200 participants in TA Foundation and successfully completed one Diploma in Transactional Analysis (DTA) batch in 2025 and one more is in progress. She holds a Master’s in Transactional Analysis from ICTA, and currently pursuing her CTA from SAATA. She is a Master Practitioner in NLP from ABNLP, and a Certified Parenting Coach from DEEP, Delhi.

Currently, she also serves as a member of the Academic Council at ICTA, bringing her deep expertise and passion for human development into every learning space she creates.

Co-facilitated by an Indian therapist and a British therapist, this high-energy, experiential online workshop explores the dynamics of our roles as couples and relationship therapists, examining how we show up in the therapy room as shaped by our biases and personhood. Using specific moments and short case studies from our practices in two very different cultural contexts, we will examine our internal responses and play with possible interventions—while inviting all participants to boldly do the same, co-creating a lively learning experience.

We will also discuss how reflexivity comes into play around common issues—e.g., sex, money, parenting, in-laws, infidelity, triangulation, over-functioning, and conflict itself. This session will also be informed by our different approaches to couples therapy (including a psychosexual lens and a Developmental Model focus), with our common meeting ground as passionate, existentially informed Transactional Analysts.

As an enthusiastic introvert, Kathryn favours relational warmth, playfulness and existential philosophy. Rooted in Rachel Cook’s existential TA and Robert Waldinger’s insights, her work is informed by Paul Williams, James O’Neill, and The School of Life. Her ethos centres on seeking to honour suffering to help clients convalesce, understand their minds, improve relationships and unlock vitality.

Yashodhara Lal (PTSTA-P) is a couples therapist & bestselling author of several books in India, the latest being ‘What They Don’t Tell You About Marriage’ (Penguin, 2026). She practises using the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, and has been a part of the Advanced training & Mentorship program at the Couples Institute, San Francisco.

When our usual ways of understanding aren’t enough — in loss, uncertainty, illness, or conflict — we may reach for images: moving against the current, standing at a crossroads with no map. This practical, reflective workshop places the practitioner’s own relationship with metaphor at its centre. Through guided reflection and discussion, participants will explore the metaphors already operating in their lives, discovering how these images reveal hidden strengths and ways of enduring. Central is the idea that metaphor can transmute suffering — not by removing pain, but by changing our relationship to it. This is experiential work first, with clinical applications kept secondary.

Pippa Fairhead has a Masters in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy, has achieved her PTSTA (P), is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds a PGCertHE in Teaching and Learning in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

She is a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice based in East Sussex. She has also taught at a number of psychotherapy colleges at both diploma and master’s level in England.

Transactional analysts continue to develop throughout their professional lives. At certain points, however, ways of understanding ourselves or our work that once served us well no longer meet the demands we encounter. These periods can be understood as developmental crises: moments of destabilisation that may lead either to stagnation or to a new level of professional functioning.

This workshop presents a conceptual model of these developmental crises, developed by the presenter within the field of psychotherapy. Each crisis has its own triggers, internal dynamics and developmental potential, and each can recur at any point in a professional life. Participants from all fields of TA are warmly invited to test the model against their own contexts.

Reflexivity is proposed as the capacity that determines which way a crisis turns: the ability to notice which of our own assumptions, biases and emotional responses are shaping how we read the situation. Without it, difficulty tends to be misread as personal failure.

The workshop combines theoretical input with experiential and reflective exercises and whole-group discussion.

Milena Marković, MA, is a psychologist, psychotherapist (CTA-P) and Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (PTSTA-P) from Serbia, teaching and supervising internationally. Her main professional interests concern the professional identity and inner life of the psychotherapist, including models of professional confidence and of developmental crises in professional formation. She is the founder of TA Connect and TA Zajednica, online platforms for shared learning, support and growth in Transactional Analysis.

Therapist wellbeing often sits low on the list of priorities in busy professional lives. Yet practices that keep vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout at bay are central to sustaining therapeutic work and to remaining genuinely present in relationship with our clients.
Supporting others requires attention to our own resources, boundaries and the ways we nourish ourselves.

This experiential workshop explores practical ways to support therapist wellbeing through a constellation of support: practices for pre, during and post-session that foster grounding, awareness, connection and sustainable wellbeing. These include re-connection with (more-than-human) nature as well as mindful awareness of your body, mind and emotions to gain awareness of your needs.

This work can often feel lonely, and many of us find ourselves navigating it in isolation. Sustainable practice grows not only from individual resourcing, but from a sense of belonging to each other and to more-than-human nature. The workshop will offer space to share your own resources and spark ideas in the workshop’s community, while also deepening your connection with the wider web of life which can be a holding container, offering presence, grounding and belonging that reminds us we are not isolated selves, but interconnected.

This workshop offers an opportunity to experiment with practices that can be integrated into your everyday professional life, and to draw on resources that support a more sustainable, connected therapeutic practice. Expect creativity, movement, stillness, and time working both together and alone, a diverse offering for the diverse parts of you.

While the workshop focuses on the therapist, many of these practices can also be adapted for sharing with clients.

Vanessa Bear is a UKCP-registered integrative psychotherapist working with adults and children. Vanessa organises regular wellbeing events and training for therapists focused on self-care, embodied practice and nature connection. Vanessa is the creator of the Wild and Wellbeing Card Deck and co-author, with Babette Rothschild, of the ‘Help for the Helper Workbook’ and the ‘8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery Workbook’.

It is widely accepted that reflexivity is sought as a framework and product of supervision. In our meta-analysis we have reflected on those factors that enable reflexivity to be fostered in supervisory spaces, legitimation resulting as a key aspect for this process.
Drawing from our lived experiences (like facilitating groups for therapists on a parenthood journey), and introducing our model of supervision as a multilayered support systemic intervention (Hartescu & Villa, 2025), we invite the conversation on the role of legitimation of our own autobiography as a core aspect to foster reflexivity.
We will use transactional analysis, attachment theory, systemic approaches to mental health and human development, and wisdom from perinatal psychology to enrich our dialogue.
We aim at fostering a space of dialogue where participants will be invited to co-create together a shared, collective learning.

Valeria Villa CTA-P, PTSTA-P is a psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor in Ferney-Voltaire (France). Valeria’s passion for parental mental health started while working within the criminal justice system and with cultural minorities. Her passion resides in research and the expansion of psychotherapy theories and models to support individuals, couples and families in their journey of parenthood/childlessness.

Mihaela-Leocadia Hartescu (she/her) is a psychologist-psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor (CTA-P, PTSTA-P), specialised in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C), in private practice in Milan, Italy. Working also within organisational settings with leaders, she is passionate about supporting individuals’ and groups’ vital processes and transitions throughout the life cycle. She is certified as a cross-modality supervisor with CSTD London and currently informally researching the interweaving between autobiography, parenthood, professional choices and spirituality.

Isa Delannoy (they/them) is a psychotherapist (CTA-P), educator and supervisor based near Southampton (UK). They have a passion for perinatal mental health, with particular areas of interest around sex and gender, ADHD, pregnancy loss through miscarriage or abortion, transgenerational trauma and breastfeeding. Isa’s foundation for self-care is ecotherapy, meditation and mindfulness in movement.

When clients experience profound trauma, it is easy for the therapist to lose touch with their centre, to be knocked off balance
Using Muriel James’ (1981) concept of the Inner Core, participants will examine how grounding, curiosity, and moment to moment awareness strengthens therapeutic presence and relational steadiness.
Through theory, guided reflection, and experiential exercises, we will deepen awareness of our internal processes and practise staying centred during emotionally charged encounters.
Together, we will examine how to remain connected to ourselves while working with clients experiencing complex and profound trauma.
Theory to be Covered:
• Muriel James’ theory of the inner core.
• Transgenerational trauma – therapist’s and client.
• Cultural script and other diversity in the therapist’s and client’s systems
• Transference and games, especially the therapist’s position on the drama triangle.

Yinka is a Certified Transactional Analysis specialising in Psychotherapy, and an accredited member of BACP. She is an Accredited Practitioner in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) and a trained, Level 1-3, Emotional Freedom
Technique Practitioner. Yinka enjoys selecting from a range of techniques and theories to work with a diverse range 

Therapeutic mistakes are inevitable, yet they are often accompanied by shame, self-criticism, or unconscious attempts to conceal imperfection. Within a relational Transactional Analysis framework, such errors may be understood as relational events offering clues to countertransference, script enactments, and relational impasses. This interactive workshop explores the concept of reflexivity, shifting the therapist’s stance from self-judgment to Adult curiosity and self-acceptance. Through examining the dynamics of rupture and repair, participants will explore how acknowledging their own fallibility can deepen relational intimacy, model healthy vulnerability, and transform clinical missteps into opportunities for therapeutic growth.

Adam is a Psychotherapist, Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (PTSTA-P), university lecturer, and ICF accredited coach (PCC level). Vice President of the Polish Transactional Analysis Association. He works in private practice with adults and couples, and facilitates a psychotherapy group. He also provides individual and group supervision, as well as prep courses for CTA certification.