Supervision is a key aspect of learning/teaching; the authors discuss educational perspectives and the place of supervision in training and continuing professional development. The nature of supervision as a significant experiential learning process for both parties is explored and diagrammed. Some differing approaches are considered as part of a metaperspective that includes the various functions of supervision. A cocreative viewpoint and methodology are presented together with several new models that conceptualize the process and practice of supervision as an example of mutual experiential learning. As well as providing models for supervision in the educational and organizational fields, the authors argue that all supervision is primarily educational.
This article describes the authors' experiences as transactional analysis trainers and learners in the unique context created by India's social, cultural, religious, linguistic, and ethnic diversity and how this context impacts the multiple roles of trainers and learners.
This articles describes the author's encounter with two “positive” psychologies—transactional analysis and positive psychology— and some of the similarities and differences in their founding, evolution, and branding. Because transactional analysis has remarkable properties as a metalanguage, many positive psychology ideas can be considered from a TA perspective and translated into TA concepts. On the other hand, positive psychology may be able to provide research evidence for concepts from transactional analysis. This comparison highlights the contradictions deeply embedded within transactional analysis theory between a philosophical framework based on the empirical scientific paradigm of the 1950s, which focuses on “objectivity,” and a more contemporary constructivist philosophy, which focuses on “subjectivity.”
The European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA) Conference in Prague, the Czech Republic, included a roundtable on “Life Scripts” presented on 9 July 2010. The roundtable was preceded by introductory speeches given by Richard G. Erskine (convener), Maria Teresa (Resi) Tosi, Marye O'Reilly-Knapp, and Jo Stuthridge. The roundtable discussion also included comments from Rosemary Napper and Fanita English. This article presents edited excerpts from three of the introductory speeches and some of the following discussion. (Jo Stuthridge asked that her speech not be included because it duplicates material already in print.)
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