Timetable

Beatrijs Dijkman and Cat Cornthwaite – Tending the fire while fuel runs out

In this time together we are going to "hospice" TA by unlearning its colonial, individualistic roots. Through stories and movement, we'll explore how power and privilege have shaped our thoughts in TA. Instead of fixing anything, we'll sit with complexity and move toward a relational "We" that honors our interconnected world.

Gemma Smith – Exploration of Anger, taking inspiration from Moiso's feelings loop

Taking inspiration/starting point from Moiso's feelings loop, considering functions of anger, invitations to others, power dynamics, life positions, drivers, functional fluency – but not a rected – a group exploration (or maybe a group explosion?!!)

Graeme and Dexter Summers – The Happiness Within, Around and Between: Identity, Power, and the Wisdom of Dogs

Join Graeme Summers and Dex for a relaxed conversation inspired by The Happiness of Dogs by Mark Rowlands and kindred ideas. Together we'll explore what makes us happy within the constraints and possibilities of identity and power—what shapes us, what frees us, and what joy asks of us. Adults, children, and non-humans are welcome.

Berit Fahlén and James Sweeney – Excitability tickles physis

What conditions enable excitability to express physis and growth in response to those conditions? What sort of environment enables physis to blossom and how does that impact our identity?

Sari van Poelje – Dancing your Relational Patterns

The purest form of love is the freedom to give all you wish to and letting it go, and the freedom of the other to choose to receive it or not. Nowhere is that more true than in dance. Using my 40 year's experience in TA and 20 year's experience as a salsa teacher I will offer a space for you to learn more about your holding, and you will learn some basic steps in salsa too:) Using the metaphor of the holding in salsa we will explore our capacities to give freedom and safety, and balance autonomy and interdependence in relationship. How do you invite someone into relationship? When do you lead, when do you follow? Do you maintain the bridge of communication? How do you use your potency?

Kate Hardy – Diagramming Magic: the Moment of Encounter

Don't say anything you can't diagram'. How do we visually represent the moment of encounter, when deconfusion, script change, learning happens? Within ourselves, between ourselves and especially in groups. Join me for a creative time using found objects or art materials to 'diagram' that magic moment.

Ronen Stilman – "We embody the system, and we are also the body of the system" Exploring identity and power through a socio-psycho-somatic lens

In this workshop, I will invite you to explore the ecosystem of individual and collective bodies, and how the ongoing feedback loop between these shapes how we make, take, and share space. The workshop is a movement meditation practice, followed by a short teach and group discussion. Predominantly a movement & music experience, the workshop incorporates principles from Soul Motion, which is a conscious dance and movement meditation practice.

Honza Simek – How Does the Definition of Autonomy Shape the Identity of Transactional Analysts and the Educational Culture of TA Institutes?

Aim of discussion will be to explore how different understandings of autonomy influence the professional identity of Transactional Analysts and shape teaching, learning, and authority within TA institutes and schools. We will reflect on how educational cultures in TA may support, limit, or paradoxically regulate autonomy in training and professional development.

Puren Gedikoglu – Community Sohbet; Rumi, TA and Emotions

I chose the word 'sohbet' over 'conversation' to reflect the spirit of EdFest—a term that signifies a warm, deep, soul to soul exchange of words, feelings and beings; a gathering where people connect as they are. Grounded in TA's 'I'm OK – You're OK' stance and the Sufi path of love, I invite you to ponder how to bridge ancient Eastern wisdom with Western psychology and the Sufi art of contemplative witnessing (temaşa) to oneself and the others in order to create intimacy…

In this session, we will look at one of Rumi's timeless poem in the light of Carlo Moiso's Feeling Loop model. Furthermore, we will reflect on (practise if you want to join) the dance of the Whirling Dervishes as a powerful pathway to anchoring and embodying our Integrating Adult in the Functional Fluency model.

Nicole Lenner – The Map: from hierarchy to heterarchy

This is an invitation to explore and experience the effects of a horizontal approach to structuring community, instead of a vertical one. The Map will be used as a metaphor for this change of perspective. One question that might arise: what happens to power dynamics in a setting like this?

Cathie Long – Identity, Power and Neurodiversity: Who gets to Define Reality?

This discussion explores identity, power, and neurodiversity, asking whose experiences are recognised, validated, or marginalised. Participants are invited to reflect on difference in themselves and others, and consider how relational Transactional Analysis approaches that combine empathy and clarity can support autonomy, self-trust, and meaningful participation across diverse contexts.

Roni Greenberger – The 6 Ps in Practice: A Creative Reflective Discussion

The 6 Ps is a reflective model that explores different aspects of therapeutic and professional work, including the person, process, purpose, and practitioner. Participants will learn the 6 Ps model and explore how it can be used within their own practice, with clients or students, and in supervision. Through creativity, discussion, and experiential exploration, the session offers a warm space for curiosity, insight, and reflective learning.

Sue Pine – Power vs Force / The Earth Energies and US

What are the earth energies? How do they affect humans and animals? The main types of earth energy. How to recognize beneficial and problem areas. How you can enhance the positive and neutralize the negative energies at home, at work and in your garden. Some basic dowsing.

Isa Delannoy – Embodied exploration of the theme of identity and power through drumming

Exploration of the theme of identity and power through drumming. From my experience of drumming and reflecting on what it helped me develop, I would like to share this opportunity to find out what drumming might uncover for you.

Lieuwe Coopmans – How do we say goodbye?

By times we have to say goodbye to parts of our life. This impacts both our feeling of identity and power. You can think of leaving a job, ending of a friendship, leaving a house, leaving a community, loss of health. What's needed for you to make this a strengthening experience? The conversation will be structured as a quaker-dialogue: speaking from silence.

Hayley Marshall – 'Meeting Your Power Animal'…..a shamanic journeying session

Shamanism, the oldest known spiritual approach in human culture is profoundly rooted in the natural world. It can support an important connection with personal and collective forms of wisdom. This workshop conversation will offer you a chance to explore your own relationship with your intuitive guides – one of which is known as the power animal. The aim being to help expand your sense of your own inner authority through developing a spiritual ally. This exploration will be suitable for those who are new to shamanism and those who already have some experience.

Alina Comendant – Shaping Stories: Exploring Educational Identities and Power Through Clay

In this experiential workshop, participants use clay to explore educational roles, beliefs, and power dynamics. Through symbolic sculpting, they examine how formative learning experiences shape identity, teaching, and professional practice. This process is informed by the pioneering work of Margaret Frings Key (1983). Clay, water, and towels will be provided.

Sam Ayres – A conversation looking to recreate Berne's 202 brainstorming seminars – purposeful for the Parent, objective for the Adult, fun for the Child.

One question on the board: if TA's accreditation system were a game, what would it be called and who holds the payoff?

Rosalind Sharples – The Inarticulate Cry — Listening to Identity and Power

How does the inarticulate cry shape our identity and our experience of power — within ourselves, with others, in wider systems, and across generations? Bringing our threads together, I'd like to invite a creative shared reverie about listening, eldership, and how we hold together what isn't spoken. Opportunities to make (art), wander and wonder (listening to the land), and share words to discover our meanings.