Transactional Analysis Coaching Distinctive Features

This important book distils the essence of developmental Transactional Analysis (TA) frameworks that are most useful to bring alive professional coaching competencies. Karen Pratt offers clear outlines of TA frameworks as well as describing how they are applied in coaching, with snippets of coaching conversations as illustrations of the theory in practice. Pratt highlights key TA frameworks in enough detail to be easily grasped but with a focus on application in coaching and other developmental conversations. A TA approach powerfully guides coaches in their listening and questioning. TA is not used as a coaching ‘technique’– it offers psychological understanding of human beings and the meaning they make of who they are in the world. Such awareness is key for both professionals and clients in meaningful partnerships for development. Transactional Analysis Coaching will be key reading for professionals working within present-centered contracts for change– coaches, trainers, facilitators, supervisors, teachers, mentors and managers – seeking to understand how TA can impact their development. It will be of great interest to coaches in training and will provide a useful resource for clients in their ongoing development.

Part 1: Transactional Analysis Key Concepts 1. Contracting 2. Life Positions 3. Ego states 4. OK-OK Communication Model 5. Transactions 6. Script and the Autonomy Cycle 7. Permission Wheel 8. Human psychological hungers and Strokes 9. Psychological games, Drama and Winners Triangles 10. Discounting and Steps to Success 11. Working Styles 12. Doors of Contact 13. Cycle of Development 14. Competence Curve 15. Symbiosis in systems Part 2: Transactional Analysis approaches 16. Transactional designers and cultivators 17. Learning Imagoes 18. TA as …philosophy? thinking framework? tools for coaching? Part 3: Application of Transactional Analysis in Coaching 19. Contracting in action 20. Setting the focus for coaching - the Permission Wheel in action 21. The Stroking Profile 22. Listening at the level of the ‘who’ 23. Challenging script through powerful questioning and observation 24. Inviting autonomy through the Steps to Success 25. Sharing responsibility and power in the coaching relationship 26. Using ego states - Adult to Adult language 27. The use of power in leadership - challenging the status quo 28. Coaching within diversity 29. Living TA, not doing TA - the Mindful Adult 30. Supervision

Karen Pratt is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (TSTA) specialising in the educational field. She is Chair of the South African Transactional Analysis Association and Co-Chair of the Professional Standards Committee of the International Board of Certification. Her current interest is in how the qualities of mindfulness, non-duality and presence are essential for transformational work.