TAworks

Combines the talents of many qualified transactional analysts with a rich breadth of TA perspectives and applications from across the world, plus the specialist applications of skilled TA learners.

• Our training calendar names the practitioners offering their talents to TAworks over the next year.

We are passionate about transactional analysis and how we can use its concepts and philosophy to realise our creative potential in the way we live our lives and to enjoy fulfilling relationships. We find TA useful professionally in ways:

• to monitor and maintain oneself — my most significant ‘tool’
• to assess the client — whether it’s an individual or an organisation
• to select and implement interventions most useful to the client — those might not in themselves be TA but will be considered from a TA perspective
• to review the quality of communication between self and the client
• to notice how we relate and consider what this means
• to consider the wider impact of the work together over time.

We aim to ‘walk our talk’ — to transparently live the values and processes which underpin TA, to continuously be learning throughout all our experiences of others and of the wider world. All who work with TAworks subscribe to the ethical codes of the transactional analysis associations and are committed to their work being supervised.

who we are

The team is led by Rosemary Napper, who is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst in the Organisational and Education fields, is British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy Accredited, and who has qualifications in Myers Briggs and NLP as well as an MA in Education. She has worked in adult learning, and a wide variety of organisations in the private and not-for-profit sectors. In addition to providing TA training and one to one work, she is director of tactical which provides management development, executive and leadership coaching, and organisational consultancy.

She also writes books on TA — including TACTICS with Trudi Newton(2000). She is passionate about working with other cultures — and so travels to teach TA and invites TA trainers from other countries to contribute their experience to TAworks. She is becoming a TIFF provider — the Temple Index of Functional Fluency is a new TA-based psychometric measure of behaviour.

The lead trainer and supervisor for the psychotherapy training is David Tidsall, who is certified in clinical applications of transactional analysis CTA(P) and as a trainer and supervisor PTSTA(P). He has been in full time private psychotherapy practice for many years and is also BACP qualified and UKCP accredited.

In his practice, Wycombe Counselling, he works with clients on short, medium and long term basis using Transactional Analysis (TA) from a relational perspective over a wide range of issues. He works with individuals couples and in group therapy marathons. He provides supervision in Oxford and High Wycombe. He also takes an active part in the TA and wider counselling and psychotherapeutic community.

A number of other TA trainers work with us at TAworks: Laurie Hawkes PTSTA(P), Charlotte Sills TSTA(P), Sabine Klineburg TSTA(O), Helena Hargaden TSTA(P), Andy Bates PTSTA(P) and Marie Norton PTSTA(P).

Some of our workshop leaders are in contractual TA training: Suna Guven, Jill Jordan, Cara Mininken; Gordon Cunningham, Cooper Thompson, John Millar, Jim Pie, Alan Edwards and Alan Buckley are qualified in various other modalities.

You may also find it helpful to check out a list of TA therapists who we are aware of locally to our trainees and in the Oxford region.