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President of EATA 2004 until 2007 It was a search for understanding that fortunately brought me to the TA river in 1971. I wanted to understand why people behaved in different ways, often strange ways. I needed a model to understand the complexities of human behaviour. And since that time my personal and professional life was closely connected to TA. […]

President of EATA 2001 until 2004 In my sailing boat I have a sign that says “I’m the captain of the ship and I have my wife’s permission to say so.” Although this is humorously meant, I think it fit well with my new situation in EATA. ”I was the new president of EATA and I had the Council’s and […]

President of EATA 1999 until 2001 During my presidency I was for some time also president of the German TA association DGTA and it was one of my foci to improve and facilitate the co-operation between EATA and its members (and the other multinational organizations (ITAA (International Transactional Analysis Association) and WPTA (Western Pacific Transactional Analysis Association)). The sense of […]

President of EATA 1996 until 1999 I became President of EATA immediately after the separation from the ITAA. Much of my time as president was devoted to rebuilding healthy relationships between the two associations and together with Gloria Noriega, the President of ITAA, I am proud that we were able to continue in a collegiate way. This reconstruction involved dealing […]

President of EATA 1993 until 1996 What I remember most vividly from my time as EATA President (1993 to l996) is the joy and friendship of working with so many people from so many countries and cultures. EATA faced serious challenges just as I started near bankruptcy!!! Erich Hartmann, dear friend (and Treasurer) are you there? There followed over a […]

President of EATA 1992 until 1993 I actually was president of EATA by default. Having lost an internal vote to Ann Waters (in 1991), I became president half a year later after she unfortunately suffered a stroke and had to step down from office. Let me highlight three major developments from this time: The 1992 Stockholm conference was in my […]

President of EATA 1989 until 1991 The most important theme for me in EATA was the spreading and the development of TA in Eastern European countries. In July 1989 we had the first EATA conference in an Eastern European country in Zagreb (Yugoslavia at this time). At the ITAA/EATA joint conference in Brussels, July 1990, a roundtable was conducted by […]

President of EATA 1987 until 1989 It may seem strange that I choose a photo of an elephant to illustrate my time as EATA President – but within that role I negotiated the affiliation with ITAA, and because of that role I was invited to run for election, and became, ITAA President. Because of that, I was able to persuade […]

President of EATA 1982 until 1984 In Villars, in July 1974, when I attended the first European TA Congress, I could not imagine that EATA would experience such growth and that I would later become one of the EATA Presidents. During my presidency we started new committees, defined the job description of the officers, and engaged the first permanent administrative […]