This webinar will cover three interconnected topics related to working with children and adolescents. Alina Comendant will present her ideas about "Interventions of strengthening the Child ego state when working with children”- that she reached as conclusions after informal longitudinal research of a group of children (aged 6 to 11). Tatjana Gjurković will delve into the concept of Transactions, exploring their variations in working with children through the use of play as a communication medium. Additionally, Jan Šimek will share insights into the TA concepts employed in the Czech Republic to train future teachers, helping them create a secure and effective classroom environment.

This event will be translated into French, German, Ukrainian, Italian, Georgian and Russian and will not be recorded.

Alina Comendant, MSc-TA, PTSTA-P, CTA-P ( Netherlands & Romania)

For more than fifteen years, Alina has worked with kids and teens in Romanian orphanages, schools, and private practice. She focuses on working with developmental trauma and working with groups of children/ teenagers through the lenses of transactional analysis, gestalt play therapy and clay field therapy (sensorimotor art therapy).

With a passion for learning and a BA in pedagogy, Alina is an international trainer and supervisor- she facilitates experiential learning and creative supervision in child and adolescent psychotherapy. Being an expat, she is culturally sensitive to the particularities of each culture and is curious about the universal cycle that all cultures share in the upbringing of children and teenagers.

She has been a board member of the International Transactional Analysts for Childhood and Adolescence (ITACA) since 2022 with the aim of sharing with her colleagues the gift of transactional analysis used in the field of psychotherapy with young people.

Currently, Alina works both online and in her private practice, in Hilversum, Netherlands. Outside of work, she likes to go on relaxing walks by the beach, go cycling, and take pottery classes.

Tatjana Gjurkovic (Croatia) is a psychologist, CTA-P, TSTA-P, and a registered play therapist-supervisor (RPT-S). She is the author of the book 'Play Therapy: How to Develop Skills for Understanding a Child and Deepening the Relationship with Him,' co-author of many therapeutic picture books for children, and co-author of the article 'Treatment Stages in Working with Children: An Approach Rooted in Transactional Analysis and Play Therapy,' published in the Transactional Analysis Journal (TAJ). Her main area of interest is connecting verbal and expressive therapy through the present moment, linking TA theory with play therapy in her work with children and adults. She is also a co-director of Center Proventus Ltd and a leading trainer and supervisor at the Ama Dablam Institute for Relational Psychotherapy and Training, www.adtraining.com. She enjoys working with individuals from different cultural backgrounds and values connecting with colleagues across the planet we share."

Jan Simek is PTSTA (E) and has a TA training group in the Czech Republic. He worked for 16 years as a teacher of Maths, Physics and Head of Pastoral care at different types of secondary schools, and as a teacher trainer in NGO teacher training programmes. Currently, he works as a supervisor for teachers and schools and as a teacher trainer of TA, soft skills and Pastoral care.

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