Essential Transactional Analysis:
Beyond the 101 for Coaching
Essential Transactional Analysis:Beyond the 101 for Coaching
With Jen Finney and Lucy Power
Calling coaches and Transactional Analysts!
Are you keen to take your personal and professional development to its next level?
Are you ready to understand your personal autonomy at a deeper level so that you can interact and communicate excellently using the simple and observable principles of Transactional Analysis AND the potency of coaching?
Are you ready to use these two global psychological phenomena to become an interpersonal communications master?
Are you ready to get your clients phenomenal results?
Beyond the 101 is a professional development course for coaches and Transactional Analysis practitioners ready to integrate TA into ethical, effective and psychologically grounded coaching practice.
Do you want to learn from two of the industry’s leading transactional Analysis and coaching experts?
Beyond the 101 is a structured experiential, live taught online programme for professionals who work with people in contracts for personal change and who want to bring the clarity and depth of TA into coaching and the phenomenon of coaching into TA in a way that is clinically sound and professionally competent.
Offered to you in a way that meets the requirements for counting every hour of learning with the global TA community so that this learning will count toward your training and ultimately your qualification as a Transactional Analyst.
Offered by a certified coach and certifiable as an ICF CCE so that you can use this programme toward your certification or re - certification.
You may be a qualified or trainee coach who has touched on TA and wants to go further.
You may be a TA student or practitioner beginning to use coaching as a modality and seeking an ethical and effective way to apply TA theory within it.
You may already be working with both, and now you want an cleanly integrated approach that is structured, clinically informed and rooted in client application.
This 8 module live taught course teaches you how to apply, integrate and use TA and coaching with
clear theory, applied tools and supported integration into your own client work. You will explore ego
states, belief systems, relational dynamics and client decision making through the lens of both TA and
coaching, with attention to scope, contracting and ethical alignment throughout.
Course Format
8 live weekly sessions
120 minutes per session
Delivered on Zoom
Co-facilitated by the alliance of Jen Finney and Lucy Power
Interactive, experiential and practice focused
Includes a workbook, model diagrams, reflection prompts and a curated reading list
Who is this for?
Coaches who want to work with Transactional Analysis in depth, safely and ethically
TA trainees and practitioners seeking to use TA competently within coaching or to bring coaching skills and approaches
into their current practice
Practitioners working across both approaches who want clearer integration
Professionals seeking a structured way to apply TA theory inside a coaching contract
What is included in each module?
Module 1: Introduction to TA and Contracting in Coaching
Understand the history and philosophy of TA
Explore TA’s relevance in coaching practice
Learn the administrative, professional and psychological levels of contracting
Application: Create a coaching contract that includes clear psychological expectations and ethical boundaries
Module 2: Ego States
Recognise structural and functional ego states in self and others
Identify contamination and exclusion
Explore Adult ego state presence in coaching conversations
Application: Practise coaching from a clean Adult state and help clients recognise and shift ego states
Module 3: Transactions
Understand complementary, crossed and ulterior transactions
Explore communication dynamics in client work
Learn how breakdowns happen and how to restore connection
Application: Support Adult-to-Adult communication and develop clarity around relational patterns in coaching
Module 4: Strokes and Time Structuring
Learn about strokes and their psychological impact
Explore stroke economy, permissions and social time
Understand how clients seek validation and structure relational spaceApplication: Use strokes to support motivation and observe how time structuring plays out in session work
Module 5: Rackets, Psychological Hungers and Trading Stamps
Define racket feelings and the payoff system
Identify unmet hungers in client narratives
Learn the emotional build up that leads to ruptures
Application: Recognise emotional patterns and support clients to meet needs through empowered decision-making
Module 6: Life Positions, Psychological Games and the Drama Triangle
Explore the four life positions and their influence on relationships
Understand how psychological games function and repeat
Learn the Winner’s Triangle as an alternative map
Application: Use models to support client reflection and reduce repeated drama cycles in coaching
Module 7: Scripts and Drivers
Identify life scripts and core beliefs
Learn how drivers, injunctions and permissions shape client choices
Use the script matrix to map internal narratives
Application: Help clients surface unconscious patterns and invite new beliefs into conscious choice
Module 8: Autonomy, Permission and Integration
Define autonomy as awareness, spontaneity and intimacy
Explore permission and protection in the change process
Practise integrating TA theory within coaching delivery
Application: Build a TA-informed coaching model to support your current practice and future development
What’s Included
8 x 2hour live sessions
Full workbook with models and worksheets
Printable ego state and script diagrams
Contracting checklist
Script reflection and permission work
TA coaching case studies
Curated reading list
Jen Finney CTA, PTSTA (P)
Jen is a Certified Transactional Analyst, qualified supervisor, and Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. She brings clarity, rigour and relational depth to her teaching, with years of experience supporting practitioners across coaching and psychotherapy to integrate TA with confidence and care.
Because of Jen's qualifications and position in the TA community, the hours you spend on this programme will count toward your Transactional Analysis qualification and / or your continuing professional development.
Lucy Power PCC, MSW
Lucy is a professionally certified coach with the International Coaching Federation, a qualified professional and clinical supervisor and is extensively trained and experienced in Transactional Analysis for psychotherapy, groups and organisational work. She has been training coaches in how to apply Transactional Analysis within coaching since 2016. Lucy is the founder of Therapeutic Coaching Academy and the creator of The TRP Method®. Her work focuses on bringing depth, rigour and relational potency into professional coaching contexts.
If you’re ready to deepen your coaching through the integration of Transactional Analysis, and you want to do so with precision, ethical integrity and real clinical support, this course is for you.
You will leave with a clear map, deepened insight, applicable skills and a professional framework you can use immediately in your coaching and / or Transactional Analysis practice.
You’re warmly welcome inside and we are very much looking forward to being with you.
What are the dates and times of the programe?
Start Date To Be Announced
Dates of the live learning sessions will be confirmed in due course.
All live sessions are recorded and will be available for you to replay later on the same day