We work to help people raise consciousness and face their difficulties. This can lead to a change in perspective which in the short term adds resources. However, as script is deconstructed, deeper confrontation to defences occur and this change can feel disturbing. So, change can be experienced as disruptive, dysregulating, alongside being growthful, exciting and vitalising.

This workshops asks what is needed from the practitioner to support our clients to grow, evolve or even revolt without becoming too dysregulated? What social and psychological support do we need to bear in order to tolerate the disturbance of change?

We will explore examples of how disturbances can evoke greater consciousness or defensiveness at social and psychological levels. Thoughts about the conditions we need to bear and move with change will be discussed and shared amongst us.

Karen Minikin - CTA (P), TSTA (P), MSc TA Psychotherapy, BA (Hons) Counselling.

Karen Minikin is a psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor who integrates humanistic and radical perspectives with psychodynamic transactional analysis. She has written on radical and relational perspectives in TA and is part of the co-editing team for the TAJ, as well as being an Associate Editor for Psychotherapy and Politics International.

She lives in the south west region of the UK.