Touchstone Counselling And Transactional Analysis Training Centre

10/20/2025

A touching tribute to a remarkable grandmother. Thank you for sharing this, Shane❤️

10/11/2025

Write women; speak up, speak back and speak out!

10/03/2025

Words at Work: Stories as "Equipment for Living" started today with an amazing group of participants! So many thought-provoking gems in our discussion about the creativity and knowledge daughters receive from creative mothers. Here's a little poem about women's creativity and truth called "Motherroot"by Cherokee poet, Marilou Awaikta. This poem opens Alice Walker's beautiful little essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"

Mother Root

Creation often
needs two hearts
one to root
and one to flower
One to sustain
in time of drouth
and hold fast
against winds of pain
the fragile bloom
that in the glory
of its hour
affirms a heart
unsung, unseen

Cherokee poet Marilou Awiakta
Taken from:https://theinimitableway.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/mother-root/

09/30/2025

The power of story!

09/28/2025

Sunday Tea for 2 with my Special Guy!❤️❤️

09/12/2025

Update on Project TA101 Discussion Group
Hello TA Friends and Colleagues,
In our recent discussion group we considered frame of reference as a kind of container to hold scripts, games and rackets in place through discounts and complex redefining transactions that help maintain life scripts. We began to dig into racket theory, including substitute feelings and manipulative aspects that help maintain life script beliefs as unconscious mechanisms of survival. Participants offered excellent creative examples from both our life script fairy tales and clinical examples.
Next time we will have a look at Rackets as a system and take some time with exercises described in the course video to explore the systemic nature of rackets within the script. Here's the link to the M7 #2 Course video. Please feel free to share your examples and reflections in comments below.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLXhXlg2eLw

08/27/2025

This is a most exciting week! The Vancouver Writers’ Festival program is coming out and I can’t wait to plan my visit and meet the wonderful writers introducing new stories and poems!

06/06/2025

Assumptions about and permissions for hearing our cultural storiesTime structure

06/06/2025

Project TA101 Discussion group update!

Assumptions about and permissions for hearing our cultural storiesTime structure

04/28/2025

Psychological hungersStrokesChanging stroke rules for cultural change

04/22/2025

Today is National Librarian Day! 😁📚
We raise our favourite coffee mug to salute all the past, present and future librarians in Brantford, across Canada, and around the world.