Keeping the Tao Torch Alight

Using state-of-the-art articles on the theory and application of transactional analysis in organisations, you can learn how to develop leaders using the hero’s journey, how to create commitment and positive culture, and how to understand how to work with scripts and roles through coaching. Six internationally-acclaimed authors share their methods for implementing change with leaders, teams and businesses. The first in the Intact series of organizational TA books, Keeping the Tao Torch Alight: Berne After Reading is a co-creation of some of the presenters at the Montreal Organizational Symposium in 2010. Each article offers a unique contribution to organizational transactional analysis. Sari van Poelje’s article is about your hero’sjourney. Within transactional analysis script is depicted as a drama, oftenleading to a negative pay-off. However scripts are as much our success storiesas our dramas. In this article wewill explore script as a hero’s journey, a transformational path leading topositive pay-offs Understanding the twelve steps of this journey, can lead to ameaningful reinterpretation of your life. Nelly Micholt’s article is on organizationalroles. Role flexibility has become essential for organizational survival. Arole is a set of behaviours and attitudes linked to a certain position in asocial interaction. People in organizations occupy multiple rolessimultaneously – formal positional roles, informal persona’s and personal egostate roles. The context activates ourrole ranking and influences the outcomes of our transactions. In this article we explore the concept ofrole diamond, its many facets and pathologies. Understanding our role diamondhelps activate the appropriate role in interaction with others. Jacues Moreau's article gives a mythologicalview of group…