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 9.30am to 5pm monthly. Themed modules are 3 to 4 weekendss. 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.
2011 dates:
Module 3 :Sept 10/11, Oct 8/9, Nov 12/13, Dec 10/11
2012 dates:
Module 1 : Jan 7/8, Feb 11/12, Mar 10/11
Module 2 : May 12/13, June 9/10, July 7/8
Module 3 :Sept 8/9, Oct 13/14, Nov 10/11, Dec 8/9
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. Trainees are expected to be in a suitable placement by the end of the first year of training on this programme. At the commencement of 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, restaurants and B&Bs. There is frequent transport to London, to airports, to Reading, Birmingham, the NE, NW and Scotland, as well as the South.
The key approach of this programme is emergence, and it is designed around you building on and extending what you already know about TA and through your life experience to date. You are encouraged to adopt a research-based approach to your learning. 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 intra-psychic dialogue.
Your trainers hold the tenets of TA, such as OKness, autonomy and a capacity to think, combined with each individual's unique creative potential, provide a sound basis for training. We intend to model these in the design and delivery of the programme and our interactions. 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 traditions 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 throughout the programme to provide continuity. Briony Nichols PTSTA (P) will provide additional training input during the programme. David and Briony 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 references, one professional and one personal, neither of whom should be relatives.
A place on the programme for a year costs £1800 fully paid in advance or £2000 pa with standing orders, plus a tutorial per module costing £65/£60 depending on location. Your own weekly psychotherapy and regular supervision as set out above are additional costs as are the optional one-off workshops that we offer with links to this programme.