Workshop 1:  Understanding two different kinds of mind.
1.    Introduction
2.    What is Asperger’s Syndrome? What does it mean to ‘be an Aspie?’

       a.    The Medical Perspective.
       b.    Different Perspectives:
               i.    The psychology of Asperger’s
                     1.    Detail vs Context
                     2.    Mindblindness
                     3.    Empathising – Systemising
       c.    Reconceptualising Asperger’s: A different kind of Mind
3.    Other aspects to take into account.
       a.    Sensory sensitivities and perceptual issues.
       b.    Literal perception.
       c.    Dysregulation
       d.    Meltdowns and shutdowns.

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Workshop 2.  How the Mind and Personality Are Related.
1.    Introduction
2.    TA models of the structure of personality; for NTs and for Aspies
       a.    The Classical Ego-state model of Eric Berne.
       b.    Adapting TA models of the structure of personality; for NTs and for Aspies.
       c.    TA models that provide other perspectives
       d.    A TA model that captures Mindsight and Mindblindness
 
Workshop 3.   Social Interaction and Levels of Communication.
1.    Introduction
2.    A short review of the TA models of the structure of personality.
3.    TA theory of communication: the analysis of transactions.
4.    Transactions between two experiential worlds.
5.    The consequences of mindblindness: how to avoid them.

Workshop 4.  Taking the Drama Out of Relationships.
1.    Introduction
2.    Human psychological needs.
3.    Basic needs depend on the type of mind.
4.    Time structure: and thinking about how we make friends
5.    An introduction to Games..

Workshop 5.  How the Mind and Personality Develop: The impact of trauma.
1.    Introduction
2.    Ties to the past: human memory.
3.    Theory of development: How we come to be the way we are.
4.    Transference and discounts
5.    Challenging discounts: tools to create safety in relationships.
6.    Rackets and Games.
7.    How to stop Games; & a survival tool for Aspies..
8.    A theory of life patterns: Scripts.
9.    Understanding ourselves: the script system, a tool for awareness and growth.

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Workshop 6.            Life that Includes Asperger’s.
1.    Introduction
2.    TA Concepts and tools that Aspies have adapted and use: and now share.
3.    Group process.

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The information above is provided to allow those attending to have some insight into the content of the presentations.
These workshops are continuously updated and developed, in order to be as useful as possible.
The content delivered on a particular weekend may therefore have been developed and adapted and not follow exactly the descriptions above.