training for TA counselling — PEOPLE PRACTITIONER:
  a new accelerated learning route to CTA counselling

TA Works is offering the first British TA COUNSELLING programme, the only English CTA + TSTA course in the counselling field, for people with 120+ hours TA learning — we call this the PEOPLE PRACTITIONER diploma because of the range of working contexts it unusually involves.

Counselling in TA not only includes psychotherapeutic counselling but also coaching, facilitating groups and teams, pastoral work, mentoring and many other ways of working which in British culture do not necessarily get the recognition and underlying in-depth theoretical base to practice that such work deserves.

What setting do you work in? Many contexts are involved in TA counselling:

• health services – pastoral fields – advice and guidance – voluntary agencies – social and welfare – informal learning – counselling agencies – mediation – probation and social justice – complementary therapies – residential contexts – social justice and probation – youth services – stress management – personal development workshops.

In what roles? Many roles can be enhanced with TA counselling notions:

• mentor – guidance worker – tutor – support worker – social worker – carer – probation officer – adviser – provider of social and life skills – priest – coach – negotiator – keyworker – facilitator – counsellor – personal trainer – enabler – mediator – personal consultant – doctor – dentist – nurse – optician – financial advisor – osteopath – midwife – chiropractor – reflexologist – spiritual director – and so on.

People who work with people can deepen the way they think about the work they do, and choose to gain qualification in the TA field of counselling.

TAWORKS uniquely in Britain offers the PEOPLE PRACTITIONER programme designed to both CTA and BACP criteria.

This fast track programme of 15 intensive monthly modules is by entry with a TA Foundation 120 hours and includes 50 hours of web-based learning giving a total of over 450 hours. A Diploma is awarded to those completing the attendance and assignments.

For those wanting to take the CTA Counselling qualification then supervision during the programme of informal and formal practice in your role in your setting will clarify the number of hours in which you are using TA to inform your thinking about your interventions and your clients.

If seeking individual accreditation as a therapeutic counsellor with BACP then 150 hours practice of this type of supervised counselling must take place during the time on the programme and 150 hours afterwards.

TA Counselling is a new field in Britain (although common in continental Europe) and Rosemary Napper is the only British qualified trainer in this field. However there are others who are wishing to develop into this area and we have got together to provide this exciting new programme:

• Rosemary Napper is a Certified Transactional Analyst in three fields: Organisations, Education and Counselling, and a TSTA in each of these fields. She has also been BACP accredited since 1996. She works privately as a coach and counsellor
• Andy Bates is a PTSTA Psychotherapist who is extending his work into the Counselling field and works in an NHS mental health team
• Alexandra Piotrowska is a PTSTA psychotherapy trainer extending the counselling focus in Poland, and is trained in Constellations work
• Christina Wagstaff is a CTA Pyschotherapist working as a workplace counsellor within the NHS, and is also trained as a coach

Entry is with a minimum of 120 hours of TA learning

** 10% reduction if you contact Rosemary.Napper@TAmatters.com and quote this site **

• dates for 2011 are: 14-16 Oct; 18-20 Nov
• course continues in 2012 for total of 15 modules
• The next programme will begin autumn 2012 on 21-23 September for 15 monthly modules