Psychopedagogy of integration and authenticity: on the relationship between Gestalt therapy and Gestalt pedagogy and educational transactional analysis (part 5)

The article discusses the links between Gestalt therapy and pedagogy and transactional analysis in its educational dimension.

Integrating TA concepts into team meetings through micro-learning approaches

Micro-learning within team meetings offers immediacy of knowledge application and integration into practice. As a pedagogical method micro-learning has grown within workplace settings through being able to deliver small amounts of knowledge often, that is relevant, upskilling and applicable directly into practice. With more meetings happening in the workplace than ever before leveraging learning opportunities has never been more important. Learning opportunities have regularly been missed during team meetings due to competing priorities, information overload, lack of shared attention, divergent mental models and failure to identify learning needs. This article covers one aspect of a PhD research project focused on learning in team meetings. Discussion are two transactional analysis concepts delivered as micro-learning topics within team meetings and applied into practice. The approach, findings and further considerations are presented.

The (un)commonness of being ill. The kaleidoscope of colours, smells, and tastes in hospital school

The research has been aimed at examining how children and teenagers perceive their everyday life during their hospitalization and to show the ways that allow these patients to leave behind unpleasant emotions resulting from both the illness itself and the monotony of being confined to a hospital. The everyday life has been presented here as both commonness and uncommonness. Furthermore, solitude and boredom have been discussed as states experienced by pupils suffering from protracted diseases, followed by a presentation of teacher-therapists’ reflections on (un)commonness of their work in hospital conditions. The research has been conducted with the participation of pupils and teachers at Special Needs Elementary School No. 38 and Special Needs Junior High School No. 38, both of which constitute departments of the Independent Public Clinical Hospital No. 1 in Zabrze

Trans-action! Seminar as an event in the light of transactional analysis

This paper is a result of analysing the academic phenomenon of research seminar in order to find elements of its structure (a set of invariable traits). This research was conducted with the help of terminology taken from Transactional Analysis, which made it possible to name a few seminar games and to discuss the issue of the very seminar description boundaries.

Communicators in e-learning – recommendations for teaching practice at the times of coronavirus COVID-19 – report from pilot research

The text presents an excerpt from qualitative research conducted in the situation of coronavirus COVID-19 at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. 50 students took part in the qualitative research. The aim of the aforesaid research was to determine the ways in which students use Internet tools for educational purposes at the time of the pandemics and what are their expectations concerning the educational use of Internet communicators by their lecturers. The research was to diagnose the state of e-learning (with respect to the group of NCU students) and, after data analysis, to make recommendations for educational practice. The results obtained show that the majority of students use communicators for educational purposes, especially to work on projects with their colleagues. They also seek help in a group of their friends, whereas lecturers rarely appreciate possibilities of using communicators in education.

Personal and social dimensions of the theatrical activity of people with autism spectrum disorder – the case study of the ‘Authentic Artists’ theatre group

The theater, in which the actors are people with autism spectrum, has not yet been researched extensively. Most of the texts consider the therapeutic contexts of theatrical activity performed by people with autism spectrum, or even interventions against them using theatrical techniques. In this article, the author looks for a different perspective on the phenomenon of theater activities performed by people with autism spectrum. The presented research was aimed at showing the activities of "Authentic Artists" theater in two dimensions: personal and social. The research method used was a qualitative study of an individual case, which was the theater group of people with autism spectrum "Authentic Artists" from Łódź. The research showed that theatrical activity can be a source of personal satisfaction and fulfillment for people with autism spectrum. The theater also turned out to be a place to establish relationships and make friends. It has been shown that the activity of "Authentic Artists" has also an emancipatory potential, being a space for searching for their own forms of identity and creativity.

Transactional Analysis in the service of the mentalisation capacity

Conceptualization of language of Transactional analysis is being discussed in this article. It seems that Transactional Analysis deliver tools, which allow mentalizing in patient-therapist relationship. In this article basic TA concepts describing internalizing relationship will be presented. This process is fundamental to mentalizing and this will be described in second part of the text. This article shows part of case study in which TA strengthened therapeutic relationship and at the end healed the patient.

“Once upon a time, in a supervisor’s office” – phenomena occurring in TA supervision at early stages of psychotherapist’s development

This article concentrates on the traits of a supervisor that are relevant at the onset of the therapeutic work as well as the phenomena that are likely to occur in the process of supervision. The authors emphasise the relevant aspects of supervision that require acknowledgement and analysis, such as entering games by taking on roles in drama triangle and experiencing fear/anxiety in relationship with a supervisor. Most importantly, the effective means of dealing with these obstacles are being presented in order to facilitate the process of establishing and maintaining a safe supervisory relationship. These include changing the drama triangle into a beneficial triangle and dealing with fear/anxiety in supervision in a way proposed by Shohet. In order to illustrate the above mentioned processes, the authors employ an original fairy tale.

Building relationships at school by responding to the individual needs of students and teachers using the Process Communication Model®

The purpose of this article is to present the basic concepts and practical application of the Process Communication Model® in the field of education. PCM® is a psychological personality model developed by the American clinical psychologist Dr. Taibi Kahler (Pauley, J., Bradley, D., Pauley J., 2002, p. xxiii). The model shows how to communicate effectively taking into account different personality types by using communication channels and gives the key to recognizing psychological needs and the resulting individual motivations specific to the base type of personality and phase, i.e. the currently dominant personality type (Kahler, 2008, pp. 45-81, 111–116). Also practical conclusions from the application of the model in the field of education in schools in the USA are presented (Donlan, 2003, pp. 48-49).