TA Podcast – Dr. Valerie Batts

New Episode Live🎙️

Hosts John Fleming and Matt Taylor sit down with Dr. Valerie Batts (TSTA-P), founding Director of VISIONS-Inc. and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst who has spent over fifty years using Transactional Analysis as a lens on power, culture, and social change.

In this episode, Valerie traces her path into TA from teaching “I’m OK, You’re OK” to incarcerated young men in 1973, to founding VISIONS-Inc., to a career reading oppression through TA across four interlocking levels: personal, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural.

A huge, heartfelt thank you to Valerie for sharing her time, her wisdom, and over fifty years of applying TA to the work of equity and social change.

We are so grateful this conversation is now part of our podcast library.

In this episode you’ll hear:

✅ How Valerie first encountered TA in 1973, teaching “I’m OK, You’re OK” to incarcerated young men

✅ Is TA political? From Berne and the McCarthy tribunals to TA as a frame for social activism

✅ The VISIONS model and its four levels: personal, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural

✅ “Modern oppression” read through TA: early decisions and the dance of privilege

✅ Why pathologising a person’s script can itself be a form of oppression

🎧 S8E15: A Cultural Lens on TA: Power, Oppression & Social Justice with Valerie Batts

Available on the Transactional Analysis Podcast on all podcast platforms.

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