Short News 2026

📣 Call for Language Coordinator – UK We are seeking PTSTAs or TSTAs who are interested in taking on the role of Language Coordinator – UK, following the excellent work carried out by the previous LC-UK, Helen Rowland. 🌟 We would like to extend our sincere thanks to her for the outstanding job she has done. 👏💐 We are looking for someone who is available to: 👂 listen to written examination candidates, 📩 promptly forward the necessary information and all required materials, 🤝 demonstrate patience and understanding in responding to requests, and ⚡ reply swiftly to any enquiries. It is important to maintain contact with other Language Coordinators in order to: 🔄 share information regarding forms, deadlines, and related matters. Twice a year, the Supervising Examiner organises an LC meeting, providing an opportunity to: 🤝 collaborate, 💬 exchange information, and 🌍 remain in contact. If you are interested in this role, please send your statement of motivation for undertaking the position of LC-UK to: 📧 Patrizia Vinella coc.supervising.examiner@eatanews.org

New Episode of TAP is Live! On this month’s new episode of the Transactional Analysis Podcast, hosts James and Parul are joined by Lorena Adami, a Transactional Analyst and counsellor based in Italy to explore how she integrates cinema, storytelling, and TA in her work. Lorena shares how her background in film and media led her to develop what she calls “CineCounselling” Together, they explore how metaphor, scenes, characters, and shared cultural reference points can help clients (and groups) find words, create the right distance when needed, and expand perception in the counselling context. In the episode, you’ll hear: 🔷 How Lorena connects movie script and life script 🔷 The concept of “CineCounselling” 🔷 Why cinema can offer symbolic language when a client can’t yet find words 🔷 Using film to create enough distance to speak about self through story 🔷 A group example using a movie to explore the Free Child, creativity, and expression 🔷 Lorena’s view of TA counselling as empowerment for the client 🔷 How scenes can make TA concepts more accessible Available on all the major podcast streaming platforms. With a huge thanks also to our patronage partner @ukatagram UKATA (UK Association for Transactional Analysis), our supporting partner @eata_news EATA (European Association for Transactional Analysis), and all our patreon supporters. #eata #TApodcast #transactionalanalysis #TAcommunity #TAtraining

🕯️ February 24 is a Day of Remembrance, Mourning, and Hope for a peaceful and safe life for Ukrainians. 💙💛 On this day each year, members of the Ukrainian Association for Transactional Analysis (UATA) come together to support one another, to honor those who were killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine, and to remember the most difficult moments in our history. The final days of February remain especially painful, marking a time of violence and terror of an unprecedented scale directed against the Ukrainian people. Sadly, for the fifth consecutive year, we — members of UATA, as well as others, — continue to seek ways to live and work under the difficult conditions of war and constant threat to life. Yet, despite these circumstances, our community continues to grow: the number of UATA members has increased from 250 to more than 500 — a powerful testament to resilience, solidarity, and hope. 🌱 We are proud of our belonging to the European community and of upholding humanistic values. We continue to learn and develop in order to provide qualified professional support to those who need it most. At the same time, we share our experience of how vital it is to stay connected, united, and compassionate during these tragic times for Europe. 🤍 #stopwar #ukrainewar #peace #transactionalanalysis

ITACA invites you to their Lavarone Seminar 2026 – Geometries of Identity Adolescence and young adulthood are suspended times—transitional spaces in which identity takes shape not as a fixed structure, but as a constantly evolving design. Geometries of Identity is an invitation from ITACA to explore shifting territories, lines that break and reconnect, and forms that seek a possible balance. It is a time of redecision, in which the life script is rewritten through the ongoing dialogue between the inner world and external reality—between what has been and what is not yet named. Questions arise before answers, asking to be explored, revisited, and sometimes supported within an ever-renewed contract between the individual and their context. The gaze turns inward, toward deep processes seeking coherence, continuity, and meaning. At the same time, it opens outward to a rapidly changing world shaped by digital technology, new relational configurations, and social, geopolitical, and environmental transformations that profoundly impact subjective experience and redefine its boundaries. Within this space of complexity, ITACA offers a place for listening and reflection—a space to pause amid uncertainty, to recognize the new geometries of identity, and to consider the challenges they pose to each of us today. Date and Time: Friday, August 28th, 2026, from 9:15 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday, August 29th, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Format: The seminar will be held in person only. It is open to colleagues working in the clinical, counseling, educational, and organizational fields. Speakers will present in plenary sessions, parallel sessions, and workshops. ECM accreditation will be provided for psychologists and CNCP professionals. Location: Lavarone Conference Center Gionghi District, 107 Lavarone (TN), Italy https://www.versoitaca.it/ or via EATA website

🌟 You are cordially invited to attend our first webinar on the theme of TA, AI & Humanity! 🤖💛 We are thrilled to welcome three inspiring speakers who will guide us through the exciting — and sometimes challenging — intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Psychotherapy, and Coaching: 🎤 Femma Ashraf 🎤 Jutta Kreyenberg & Andreas Hoffmann 🗓 Event Timings 15th April 2026 ⏰ 18:00 – 19:30 BST ⏰ 19:00 – 20:30 CEST ⏰ 20:00 – 21:30 EEST 🧠 Talking with Machines: Making Sense of AI, Bias & Psychotherapy Femma Ashraf Femma will offer a clear and accessible introduction to AI in psychotherapy, demystifying core concepts and addressing common concerns from a relational, ethical, and cultural perspective. The session will explore how technological approaches are beginning to shape psychotherapy training and practice — and what this may mean for therapists working with difference, power, and trauma. 🤖 AI in Coaching Jutta Kreyenberg & Andreas Hoffmann AI is a powerful tool that is becoming ever more integrated into our daily lives. Reflecting on professional and ethical ways to engage with AI is therefore increasingly important. At PROFESSIO, Jutta and Andreas have been experimenting with different ways of using AI in coaching. They will present their approach and invite discussion, taking a balanced and differentiated look at how AI can support the coaching process — and where its limitations and potential risks lie. Their perspective sees AI primarily as a support for coaches, as well as a learning aid in coaching training and supervision. This is very much work in progress, and they are looking forward to exploring new developments together with you! 💛 Want to Support EATA Webinars? Your non-refundable donation helps us continue providing these webinars and maintaining the technical infrastructure. Any amount is deeply appreciated. EATA is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting Transactional Analysis, and all donations are used exclusively for the organisation and technical maintenance of webinars. 🙏 Thank you for your support! For more details about the topics and speakers — and to book your spot — register via link in bio or EATA web.

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