Successful completion of this advanced training can lead into preparation for the EATA examination as a Certified Transactional Analyst Psychotherapist and to application for registration with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
Please check certification for further details of certification and registration requirements of these organisations
This programme will run on weekends from 9am to 5pm monthly, divided into themed module groups of 3 to 4 sessions. This Advanced Psychotherapy training will be run over 3 years so that by the end of this period, in addition to the foundation year and tutorials, participants will have a minimum 500 hours TA learning.
Module 1 : (2011) Jan 8/9, Feb 12/13, Mar 12/13
Module 2 : (2011) April 9/10, May 7/8, June 11/12
Module 3 : (2011) Sept 10/11, Oct 8/9, Nov 12/13, Dec 10/11
This programme is open to anyone who has completed a TA foundation course comprising at least 120 hours of TA training and who meets the TAworks application criteria.
You must be in weekly TA psychotherapy with a UKCP registered TA psychotherapist during this training. It is not necessary to be in practice when beginning these modules, as the programme is designed to establish such readiness; usually within the first year.Once in practice, regular TA supervision is essential at ratio of 1 hour's supervision to 6 client hours. You must also be a student member of the Institute of Transactional Analysis.
This Training takes place at the workshop in central Oxford. There are plenty of local amenities including cafes and restaurants, and B&Bs. There is frequent transport to London, airports, Reading, Birmingham, the NE and Scotland, and the South.
A place on the programme for a year costs £1700 plus VAT fully paid in advance or £1850 plus VAT with standing orders, plus a tutorial per module costing £55. Your own weekly psychotherapy and regular supervision are additional costs as are the optional one-off Sunday workshops that we offer with links to this programme on topics such as inclusion and diversity, intersubjectivity, brief encounters and linking neuroscience with ego states.
The key approach of this programme is designed around you building on and extending what you already know about TA and through your life experience to date. We aim to provide an environment that enables such experiential learning to occur. You will have the opportunity to gain a considerable insight into unconscious processes and their implications for you and others. The process of the learning group and interaction with colleagues and trainers will provide you with chances to continue to develop awareness of your intrapsychic dialogue.
Your trainers believe that the tenets of TA such as OKness, autonomy, a capacity to think, combined with each individual's unique creative potential provide a sound basis for training — and we model these in the design and delivery of the programme and our interaction with learners. We believe that the therapeutic relationship is central to effective psychotherapy, and actively encourage a relational approach to learning through experiences both in and outside the training group.
A team of trainers under the educational leadership of Rosemary Napper TSTA (E & O) will provide this training. This team will enable insight and experience from all schools of TA held within a relational perspective, with additional optional workshops from psychodynamic and relationally orientated tutors. David Tidsall PTSTA (P) will be the leader tutor and will be available through out the programme to provide continuity. David will provide a tutorial programme for all learners to review and discuss their learning experiences in the group, in practice, and from life.
Please see booking form and include a personal statement of your reasons for applying for this learning programme and details of your experience of working with people, a current CV which sets out your educational and professional qualifications and registrations and a description of other learning and relevant life experiences, in particular working with people, together with the date of completion and place of training of your foundation year in TA.
Please also provide name, address, telephone number and email details for two referees, one professional and one personal, neither of whom should be relatives.