TA 707 Practitioner Training Programme

With Julie Hay TSTA  (Counselling, Organisational, Psychotherapy, Educational) (ITAA/EATA),  TA Practitioner Master Trainer/Supervisor (ICTAQ)

TA 707 (usually called TA 202/303 in the TA community) is our label for our major TA programme for ‘helping professionals’, such as coaches, trainers, educators, psychotherapists, consultants, facilitators, social workers, HR specialists, managers, mentors . . . and anyone else who helps individuals, groups, families, teams, organisations . . .  to grow and develop. We call it 707 because it is run at University Level 7, which is Master’s degree under the European Qualifications Framework. We used to link to an academic qualification but have stopped doing that because university fees are so high, and the academic requirements extend well beyond our focus on competent practice.

Associated with this programme, Julie also offers TA 909 which is meant to indicate something beyond 707 – supervision, or what Julie prefers to call super-vision to indicate that is about helping practitioners get a super-perspective on their own practice, prompted by someone challenging the supervisee to consider a wider range of options. Julie is now including some options for supervision within the TA 707, which means the workshops will be even more practical and interactive. This is because we have increasingly noticed that candidates come to us after much TA training elsewhere but have never actually applied what they have learned with clients – there is no point in learning theory if we do not also learn how to apply it to help clients. And it is no good to be ‘taught’ how to work with clients – we need a process that enables us to develop our own ways of working within our own approach.

Hence, each TA 707 webinar involves teaching of theory with an emphasis on how such theory is applied with clients, syndicate breakout rooms, supervisions of participants who opt to talk about what they are doing with clients, and of course some coffee-breaks.  Because there is so much to choose from, participants are invited to specify which theories and practices are covered within the monthly theme.  Note that Julie trains all fields and all levels together, because: we all use the same concepts; we need to know what other TA practitioners do in case we need to refer a potential client elsewhere; and we all learn at different speeds and in different ways.

Attendance at Julie Hay’s TA 707 programme, with maybe some TA 909 or 121 (one-to-one) extra supervision, means that participants can typically complete the ICTAQ (International Centre for TA Qualifications) requirements as a TA Practitioner or TA Manager and TA Advanced Practitioner/Manager during the 1^st and 2^nd years of our training, before going on to TA Master Practitioner or Manager. Those with prior TA training, practice and supervision may progress faster.  For more details, please see the ICTAQ Handbook at https://ictaq.org.  This also has a section that explains the themes that we are using in the table below that shows the topics for each month.  Note also that Julie and her colleagues at ICTAQ have removed the usual hours requirements from these qualifications because such requirements are illogical when the process is to submit portfolios and recordings that prove your competence with clients as you continue to develop your skills.

You can attend this program whether or not you want to get TA qualifications. TA qualifications are not recognised outside the TA community and they are not a license to practise unless you live in a country where the national TA association has achieved this recognition. The ‘best’ reason for undertaking TA qualifications is to know that your professional TA colleagues have confirmed that you have reached a specific level of competence in your application of TA – and, of course, to be more skilled with your customers or clients. If you are seeking CTA with EATA or ITAA, the hours with Julie will still count towards that because she has TSTA (and in all the fields recognised by those associations).

Timings:  There are two 6-hour webinars on Saturdays each month September to June (dates below), from 0900-1500 GMT/UTC.  However, you book for what you want – you do not have to sign up for the complete programme and you pay monthly for what you choose. Those who attend are provided afterwards with audio recordings. As long as you attend some webinars, you can book (and pay) to get the recordings of those sessions you miss.

Fees:  £120 for one webinar or £200 for both.  Discounts apply in many countries – Julie was EATA and then ITAA President and led those associations to introduce discounts for those who live in economically-disadvantaged areas of the world. She has continued to do that with her own webinars so typically East European countries receive about 65% discount and some South American countries get 70% or more. We use www.numbeo.com to provide purchasing power comparisons for different countries and we discount compared to the UK.

If you have questions, you are welcome to email [email protected] or book in for a (free) exploratory chat with her at https://juliehay.youcanbook.me

FREE BOOKS – As you look at the monthly titles and the likely contents, please note that Julie has been producing free books within the series that she calls TA from Then to Now and she invites participants to make a selection from the contents of these. As there are now 14 of these books issued, she hopes you will read the relevant book and indicate to her your own choices. She also intends to add new material because she consistently picks up new ideas so will be incorporating material that has been published and/or developed since each specific book was written and needs to be incorporated into revised editions. These books are reviews and critiques of existing TA and relevant non-TA non-material so they are not commercial and are available free as PDfs and EPUBs at https://sherwoodpublishing.com, and available on Amazon worldwide as paperbacks and kindles, for which Amazon will charge only their production and any distribution costs.

Booking Procedure – click here to download a booking form as a docx –  or just send us an email to [email protected] telling us which dates you want to attend or have the recording of, heading your email as TA 707 International. Julie also has run many programmes with interpreters (e.g. China, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine) – currently there are ongoing TA 707s running for Hungary, Iran and Japan.

Please note: When you are attending one of our webinars, we provide a link that can be accessed on the Internet.  We use Zoom so the first time you use it you will need a few minutes to set this up on your own computer.  This is usually a straightforward process and requires no technical ability.  However, if you encounter problems with accessing the Internet, or with using your microphone and/or camera, you will need to arrange your own technical support. We do not provide any technical support because if we did so we would need to increase the fees we charge you.