Main description:

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.

Contents:

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