2008 Australasian Conference Papers
Thank you to everyone who attended the 2008 Australasian conference held in Rotorua
Papers from the conference
Thank you to those who have made their presentations available. If you were a presenter and wish to have your presentation in PDF here, please send to: info "at" nztaa.org.nz
Social Dreaming: drs Servaas van Beekum & Kathy Laverty
Past, Present, Future: Dr Linda Gregory
Brain Enhancing: Dr Odette Reader
Decontamination & Expansion of the Therapist's Adult Ego State: Maurice Vaughan
Leadership, EQ & You: Mandy Lacy
2008 Australasian Conference Programme
Conference Theme
Pikorua: the joining of cultures, two new shoots growing together -past, present, future
Honoring our past, our people, the present and the unfolding future is a natural theme for this conference. Our organisations are in the process of implementing new constitutions and a federal body. This sees a joining of two cultures with the metaphor of two new shoots growing together as the Australasian TA communities head into the future.
Eric Berne: "When anyone proposes to consider a particular organisation or group the first question should be: 'What and whom does it actually consist of?'" (The Structure and Dynamics of Organisations and Groups, 1963 p.2)
Conference Partners
The Lakes District Health Board Maori Health Team have generously offered to work in partnership with the Australasian TA Conference in the welcoming, supporting and farewelling of the conference delegates to Te Arawa.
Keynote speaker
Was Graeme Summers is the Keynote Speaker
Graeme is an associate tutor for London Business School (Executive Education), former coaching trainer for the Scottish Network of Business Psychologists, and a UKCP registered psychotherapist. He has over 20 years experience of coaching individuals and groups to deeper engagement and higher functioning. He has the ability to help people recognise their positive and negative patterns in a way that is both enlightening and empowering. As a leading published thinker in the field of Transactional Analysis, Graeme’s intention is to help people strengthen the connection between who they are and what they do. This leads to improved personal engagement that is not just a “better performance” but a genuine and powerful expression of self at work for the benefit of the individual and their organisation. www.co-creativity.com