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Donkey Bridges for Developmental TA

Making transactional analysis memorable and accessible

Julie Hay Sherwood Publishing 1996 Only £7.97  post free UK   website price £6.77

Written for people with some knowledge of TA, this book contains a myriad of ideas for teaching TA to others in ways that make it memorable and accessible. Julie Hay sets out the key principles of developmental TA. At the same time she illustrates how to explain these concepts in a style that captures the fun and simplicity of early TA writings.

Julie tells us that donkeys are friendly and hardworking but don’t always understand that there are good pastures for them across the bridge. She goes on to provide numerous examples of donkey bridges. These are the stories, gimmicks, alliteration, and so on that trainers can use to help the donkey to happily cross the bridge into the vale of learning. She relates these donkey bridges to a range of TA frameworks, moving from individual to relationship to groups and finally to organisations.

Content includes:

the key principles of developmental TA

SPIGALS - stories, pictures, involvement, gimmicks, alliteration, and labels related to popular TA concepts

The Monkey, the Parrot, the Bubble and other metaphors

Plus important new material -

* AP3 The Assessing Cube * 6P’s of Contracting * Velcro theory of games

* Potency Pyramid * C4 P5A3 of group process * Ego states of the organisation

* Sailship Success for organisational and culture change

Julie Hay is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (Organisational and Educational) and a Licensed NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Trainer. She has combined TA concepts with NLP techniques to produce a series of potent and intriguing teaching options.

Julie is the author of two other highly successful TA books: Transactional Analysis for Trainers McGraw-Hill 1992, republished Sherwood 1996, 2nd edition 2009 and Working it Out at Work - Understanding Attitudes and Building Relationships Sherwood 1993, 2nd edition 2009.

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