Transactional Analysis for Coaches - with Karen Pratt on Tues 14th March
Inner Work, Outer Impact: Workshop 2 in the Series
TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS: OPENING A WINDOW TO PSYCHOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF YOURSELF AND YOUR PRESENCE AS A COACH - WITH KAREN PRATT ON TUES 14TH MARCH 18.00-19.30 ONLINE
You will interactively explore a contemporary TA framework called the OK-OK Communication model - the Parent / Adult / Child model brought alive in a new way to invite awareness of your own styles of communicating with your clients. By linking this model with the Drama Triangle and Winners Circle, you will be able to understand some of your inner patterns of ways of being which can help (or hinder) how you show up in presence with your clients - awareness of these offers you options and choice.
In her coaching practice, Karen uses both Appreciative Inquiry and Transactional Analysis to enable clients to discover their values and positive core, which then inspires them to design new beliefs about themselves, others and the world, and to move forward to be in the world in a way that serves them best. Transactional Analysis also supports her ongoing deepening of embodying a coaching moindset.
As a trained coach supervisor, Karen works internationally, providing a space to coachees and coach supervisors for self reflection on their work. She is internationally certified as a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (TSTA) with an Educational speciality. She is President of the South African Transactional Analysis Association and Co-Chair of the Professional Standards Committee of the International Board of Certification of the International Transactional Analysis Association.
If you attend all the live online meeting/ listen to the recording, you will received 1 CCE in Core Competencies and .5 CCE in Resource Develoment.
If you are interested in a particular event but unable to attend the live session, you have the option to buy a ticket for that particular event to receive the recording and resources. For the March series, if you are interested in all the events but unable to attend some of the live sessions, buying the discounted ticket for the whole series you can receive all the recordings and all resources and follow-up communications for all events in the series.
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COACHES CORNER Q&A:
1. Who or what inspired you to do what you do?
In the late 1990s I was working as a holistic practitioner and specialising in offering Therapeutic Reflexology to support women undergoing fertility treatment. For some women their journey to conceive stretched over many years and was extremely stressful. They started to share their inner worlds and meaning making with me and I realised that I needed more than the basic listening skills that came with my reflexology training. And that’s when I heard about Transactional Analysis (TA) for the first time. I cautiously attended a TA 101 two day course - and it was the biggest gift I had ever received - such a respectful and safe environment in which I began to discover so much more about who I was and my patterns of being in the world and being with others. That journey has continued and I am proudly a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst now supporting others on their personal and professional journeys.
Soon after I began my TA training journey, I had the opportunity to train as a coach. and later a coach supervisor. TA gives me the psychological framework through which I connect and listen for the underlying meaning-making of clients; coaching gives me the framework in which to use what I pick up through my TA lens in service of what my clients want to change and move towards.
2. What do you find the most challenging about your work?
The most challenging part is when I encounter people who are looking to ‘tick the boxes’ and get quick results and do superficial work resulting only in new actions, without taking the time to courageously explore the supporting inner beliefs and experiences that might need updating before the new actions emerge and are sustainable. I often use the metaphor of the importance of updating our old ‘operating systems’! If our computers need this, so much more do we as humans!
3. What’s the biggest lesson you have learnt in recent years?
The more I am mindful of my inner world and sense of self, the more I can engage in cocreative professional relationships that impact people and the places in which they live and move and work. I realise that the quality of my connecting and way of being is in fact often more powerful than what I actually do! My old familiar pattern of striving to be good enough and be accepted in my personal and professional life is gradually shifting to an ongoing theme of surrender and letting go. The more I surrender, the more interesting and meaningful my life and work seem to become.
4. If you could wave a magic wand and have one wish for you or your coaching practice, what would it be and why?
I would wish for more people to have affordable access to the opportunity for doing inner work in coaching.
5. Tell us a fact that not many people know about you…
I have a Performers Licentiate in Pipe Organ and my greatest love is singing in choirs - currently I am a member of the Cathedral choir in Cape Town. My second favourite activity is when I am in the role of Granny with my 3 and a half year old grandson and his 1 year old sister. I have such delight in the unconditional love, endless curiosity and abundant imaginations that little people have - my best moments are playing games using basic household objects or a few stones and twigs to create a whole world of imaginative play!
“The material was presented in a very visual format which really suits me. It was very relevant and useful for coaching and life in general”
“Hearing from Karen, an expert in TA, and understanding how the different models come together as a unified framework. Having an opportunity to think deeply on a topic and make meaning from it”
“Thank you The London Coaching Group for excellent delivery”