Conference Programme
The 2025 UKATA National Conference is an event at which anyone with an interest in Transactional Analysis can join with other like-minded people to learn, network, and celebrate all things TA. Check out the programme below!
We are offering topical keynote sessions and stimulating workshops, as well as a range of social activities to choose from. You can purchase day tickets or join us for the whole event!
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UKATA National Conference 2025
Contemporary TA: learning from across the Four Fields -
Celebrating diversity in our practice; enriching our work together
Doubletree Hilton, Swindon
Friday 11 April 2025
08.30 – 12.00 Registration desk is open to welcome you for arrival, refreshments, and networking
Pre-Conference activity (please register alongside your workshop choices)
1. UK-TASTN Network Group (09.00 – 10.45)
We would like to thank the organisers of UKATA Swindon 2025 for accommodating the UK TASTN meeting. This meeting is for suitably qualified Trainers and Supervisors of TA. Attendees usually hold a TSTA / PTSTA / CTA Trainer endorsement or are booked on a TEW workshop in the coming months. This meeting represents Trainers and Supervisors from every field. It is not attached to any one organisation, rather is a network that belongs to its members from many organisations from the UK, Europe and beyond.
2. Climate Café (09.30 – 10.30)
This session will provide a Climate Cafe© for the TA community, offering a safe, respectful, supportive space for people to voice and process their thoughts, feelings and experiences about the climate and biodiversity emergency. This will include how climate change impacts us both personally and professionally. It is not a place for advice or action. It is an action-free space. A place for deep listening and mindful sharing and part of what Jem Bendell calls ‘deep adaptation’.
11.00 – 11.15 Welcome and conference opening
11.15 – 12.15 Group Session 1:
Karen Minikin (she/her) BA (Hons) Counselling, MSc (Psych), TSTA (P)
The Four Fields in 2025: Apart-hide, Association, Alliance
“The most intense conflicts if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed"
Carl Jung on the self from "Psychological Aspects of the Self"
Volume 9, Part 1 of The Collected Works of C.G. Jung.
What makes us want to separate and hide? What brings us together and facilitates collaboration? In this opening, I will draw on my personal and professional experience of living and working in the four fields and invite us to consider how we navigate paths of separateness and togetherness at individual, group and systemic levels.
12.15 – 13.30 Lunch and networking
13.30 – 16.30 Workshop 1 (including refreshment break)
18.30 – 19.30 Chair’s Volunteer’s Reception
19.30 – 21.00 Buffet dinner and social time
Saturday 12 April 2024
08.00 – 12.00 Registration desk is open to welcome you for arrival and refreshments
09.15 – 09.30 - Welcome to Day 2 and Conference Noticeboard
09.30 – 10.30 Keynote:
James Longwell (he/him) CTA(O), PTSTA-O
Navigating AI: Ethical & practical considerations for Transactional Analysts everywhere
The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence presents a plethora of opportunities and challenges for Transactional Analysts. In this keynote, James will debunk some myths around AI, before exploring the ethical considerations, practical applications, and potential benefits of integrating AI into our work. By better understanding the strengths and limitations of AI, we can harness its potential to enhance our professional practice & effectiveness whilst maintaining the philosophical principles & ethics of TA.
10.30 – 11.00 Refreshment Break
11.00 – 13.00 Workshop 2
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch and networking
14.00 –17.00 Workshop 3 (including refreshment break)
18.15 – 19.00 Drinks Reception and UKATA Medals Presentation and Celebration of Success
19.30 – 21.00 Gala Dinner
21.00 – late Entertainment
Sunday 13 April 2024
08.00 – 12.00 Registration desk is open to welcome you for arrival and refreshments
10.00 – 12.00 Workshop 4 (including Refreshment Break)
12.00 – 13.00 Conference Closing Session
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch and networking
14.00 – 15.30 UKATA Members Forum
15.30 Conference close and depart
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