In Part 1 of this blog I showed how contracts range from bilateral to quite complex multi-party versions. Somewhere in the middle of that process is of course Fanita English’s (1975) three-cornered contract. In this Part I show you the complexity involved when coaching a teacher – which also illustrates why teaching can be so stressful, especially as we could add in more stakeholders – the government, the teacher’s professional association, the Parent-Teacher Committee, the media. The more triangles, the more pressures on the person at the centre – and the harder it becomes to ensure the psychological distances (Micholt, 1992) are balanced. An even more complex version existed when I was a volunteer psychotherapist within prisons. You can click on the diagram below to see a larger version of it, and you can go to the IDTA Newsletter December 2012 for an explanation of the content. References English, Fanita (1975) The Three Cornered Contract Transactional Analysis Journal 5:4 383-384 Hay, Julie (1993) What is Special Fields TA? The Script XXIII:8 Nov Hay, Julie (1995/1999) Transformational Mentoring Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill, republished Watford: Sherwood Publishing Hay, Julie (2007) Reflective Practice and Supervision for Coaches Milton Keynes: Open University Press Hay, Julie (2012) Multi-Party Contracting: A Prison Environment Example IDTA News 7:4 10-14 Micholt, Nelly (1992) Psychological Distance and Group Intervention Transactional Analysis Journal 22:4 228-233 © 2018 Julie Hay
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