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Blog 3 – Online Imagoes

Extracted from TA from Then to Now: Contextual Considerations The material below will be incorporated into a book called TA from Then to Now: Contextual Considerati0ns, which is published within the TTN series of free books that I am producing as reviews and critiques of TA literature over the years. Existing books in this series are available free as ppfs and epubs  at Julie’s website , or at Amazon at their cost if you want paperback or kindle). © 2022 Julie Hay I believe that a major contributor to objections about online working can be understood if we consider imagoes and Generation Z. As I explained in Chapter 9, young people tend to grow are used to interacting via screens the size of iPads and phones, so their imagoes work for such circumstances. However, older people may have imagoes that developed in the ways described by Berne (1963) – they

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Blog 2 – Reality Matrix

I was recently discussing Felipe Garcia’s (1984) material on cultural competition that prompted me to develop an updated version. The material below will be incorporated into a book called TA from Then to Now: Professional Context, which will be published soon within the TTN series of free books that I am producing as reviews and critiques of TA literature over the years. Existing books in this series are available free at https://juliehay.org/free-downloads-books-workbooks/ (or at Amazon cost if you want paperback or kindle). Reality Matrix Teaching Garcia’s material highlighted how it reflects a typical TA-based view of the world as a place where everyone can achieve what they want in an abundant, and kind, universe. Unfortunately, the world is not like that. Even the current attention to ecology and climate change caused by humans does not negate the history of Earth and its past and current calamities. Earthquakes happen, volcanoes erupt,

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Blog 1 – Adding Appropriate to Autonomy

Some of the following content is extracted from an article I prepared at the request of the organisers of the UKATA (UK Association for TA) Conference running in May 2019. It was given to all delegates, along with articles by other authors, on a USB stick, with the agreement that it can be republished by the author. The material below will be incorporated into a book called TA from Then to Now: Individual Development, which will be published soon within the TTN series of free books that I am producing as reviews and critiques of TA literature over the years. Existing books in this series are available free at https://juliehay.org/free-downloads-books-workbooks/ (or at Amazon cost if you want paperback or kindle). I am reproducing it here because I want to update it. When discussing our professional context with participants on my international webinars, I realised that we need a sixth element

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