North America Transactional Analysis Association

Neurodiversity isn’t “somewhere out there.” It’s in our families, our practices, our classrooms, our teams — and often within ourselves. 💛

✨ STILL TIME TO REGISTER! ✨

Four innovators share how their lived experiences with Autism Spectrum and ADHD shape both their personal paths and professional work. Through TA, relational depth, and immersive technologies, this panel explores how we can move from overwhelm to inclusion, regulation, empowerment, and genuine thriving — across both real world and digital environments.

🎯 Learning Objectives: • Explain core TA concepts that illuminate neurodivergent emotional experiences • Use regulation + executive function support strategies with clients • Integrate inclusive, tech enhanced, and immersive tools — including metaverse options — into therapeutic, coaching, and educational work

📅 May 2, 2026 | 12–2 pm ET
💻 Live on Zoom + Recording Provided
📍$35 suggested donation
📚 APA & NBCC CEs available
🔗 Register: https://tinyurl.com/nataa-workshop

A meaningful, future focused conversation you won’t want to miss. 🌿✨

Dr. Brenda Lucy Freedman Viktoriia Kotova Nea Clark Alexander Landa Antonio Fernandez Gavito

🌊 Back to Berne – Santa Cruz Gathering 2026 July 20–26 • Villa Maria Del Mar, Santa Cruz, CA
✨ LAST CHANCE! Early Bird pricing ends April 30, 2026 ✨

✅Save $200 on the full week • Save $45 on the TA 101
✅ CEs for select workshops
✅ Onsite lodging with meals
✅ 2 Day TA 101 option
✅ Non members welcome

Join us for a restorative week of community, creativity, and connection on the Monterey Bay Coast—plus an optional visit to Eric Berne’s neighborhood and gravesite. Workshops by Drs. Jonathan & Laurie Weiss, Brenda Schaeffer, Lucy Freedman, Piotr Jusik, Viktoriia Kotova & more.

Come be part of a meaningful, energizing week together.

📝 More Info & Registration: https://tinyurl.com/Backtoberne2026

✨🎉 April Who's Who in NATAA ✨🎉

Lucy Freedman, CTA-P,O,E; TAPI

As a New York-born, Midwest US-raised, and California-adopted American, I feel somewhat multicultural. My journey with TA has taken my fairly open-minded beginning and expanded it well beyond those borders, bringing me together with such valuable friends as Lucie King, Val Batts, Felipe Garcia, so many more, as a sea of faces and accents comes through my mind over so many years in so many countries.

Eric Berne said that Script Analysts would be rich and travel the world. I don’t know about getting rich but I can say for sure that I have traveled the world. I remember visiting China with Steve Karpman, Brazil with Jack Dusay, Mexico with Muriel James, Switzerland and South Africa with Vann and Chellie Joines and Josephine Lewis, the tip of India with Karen Pratt, Venezuela with Mary Goulding, Berlin with Adrienne Lee, and Jamaica with Fanita English and other friends from Jamaica, Germany, Russia, Chile, Belgium, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Canada, and more.

These days the ability to work with people from all over is providing me with delightful opportunities to teach, supervise, coach, and consult. Careers as a psychotherapist, coach, corporate consultant and facilitator of learning have allowed me to absorb a range of methods and grow in empathy for the people I work with whether in their personal, professional, or organizational settings. I get to know new people while discussing TA, so it gets very real. I like that.

Something in my … Script? Child Ego State? Core values? has me wanting to facilitate for real – to smooth out communication, to avoid unnecessary or unproductive conflicts, to see how we can make things easier all around.

As a result of that, I am involved in a lot of the organizing that helps our TA communities thrive. From being a committee member ever since Muriel James reached out to me in the 1970’s at a conference and said I should get involved, to being President of ITAA in the 1980’s when we designed the current structure of the association, to helping launch and maintain USATAA, which is now the North America TA Association, and chair or co-chair several world conferences, I hope that I have helped things run smoothly for folks all around the world.

In the 1980’s, I co-led what we then called the World Integration Committee, seeking to internationalize ITAA from its US-based origins. That seems to have been a success, as evidenced by the many time zones being managed for every meeting.

Now I serve as President of the new ITAA Foundation, learning how to complement the professional association of ITAA while preserving the resources entrusted to the Foundation. Thank heavens that we have TA people working together for the transition.

I am currently putting energy into honoring North America as the birthplace of TA as well as enjoying other beautiful spots such as at our annual Jamaica Gathering. And of course, into my California mountain home and elder cat Charcoal.

Thanks for being a co-creator of the North America TA Association! Come play with us!

✨Neurodiversity & Transactional Analysis in the Metaverse Era ✨

Supporting neurodivergent individuals requires more than theory—it requires lived experience, practical tools, and a framework that truly honors the complexity of their inner world.

Join NATAA for a powerful online workshop where four innovators blend Transactional Analysis, neurodiversity expertise, and emerging digital tools to help practitioners, educators, and coaches deepen their impact.

You’ll gain:
• Clear TA concepts that illuminate emotional and relational patterns in neurodivergent families
• Practical regulation + executive function strategies you can use in sessions or classrooms
• Inclusive, tech enhanced approaches—including immersive and metaverse based tools—to strengthen connection, autonomy, and resilience

Featuring: Nea Clark, PTSTA (P); Sandra Stafuza Fernandez, TAP; Antonio Fernandez, TAAP; and Alex Landa, TAP

📅 May 2, 2026 | 12–2 pm ET
💻 Live on Zoom + Recording Provided
📍$35 suggested donation
🌟 APA & NBCC CEs available
🔗 Register: https://tinyurl.com/nataa-workshop



Alexander Landa

Neurodiversity & Transactional Analysis in the Metaverse Era Four Innovators share how their lived experiences with Autism Spectrum and ADHD have shaped both their personal paths and professional work

NATAA member Nea Clark is offering an ADHD Group Coaching program that starts April 21st. The sessions are recorded so if you cannot make the first one, you have the opportunity to watch the session prior to the next one.

This is such a timely and important topic and Nea uses many aspects of Transactional Analysis theory in her work.

Nea is also one of the panelists in our May 2nd online workshop Neurodiversity and Transactional Analysis in the Metaverse Era.

There are now just a couple of spaces left in my ADHD Group Coaching starting on Tuesday, 21st of April - 10 sessions on Tuesdays.
https://lnkd.in/eKnxc2jb
This is a small group for adults with ADHD who want practical strategies, understanding why they are stuck and overwhelmed, to build an ADHD-friendly way of living and working.
You do not need to perform in the group. You can keep your camera off, listen, learn, and take what is useful for you.
We will look at some of the struggles that so many adults with ADHD carry every day:
getting started
procrastination
inconsistent motivation
overwhelm
time blindness
difficulty finishing things
emotional dysregulation
burnout
shame, masking, and the feeling of always trying to catch up
This is not about forcing yourself harder.
It is about understanding your patterns, reducing the pressure, and building strategies that actually fit your brain and nervous system.

Get a sneak peek to NATAA’s upcoming workshop “Transactional Analysis & Neurodiversity in the Metaverse Era”

📽 https://youtu.be/YMRN91fpUE4

Neurodiversity becomes real the moment it enters your home or practice. This panel weaves TA concepts, lived experience, and emerging digital tools to show how families and practitioners can navigate diagnosis, resilience, and connection. Discover practical ways to support neurodivergent individuals — and shape a more inclusive future.

Come learn from 4 experts in the field who have lived and professional experience!
*Nea Clark, PTSTA(P)
*Sandra Stafuza Fernandez, TAP
* Antonio Fernandez (TAAP} and
* Alex Landa, TAP

No prior TA experience needed.

📅 Date: May 2nd, 2026, 12:00–2:00 pm ET
💻 Location: Via Zoom (and recorded)
📍 Fee: $35 suggested donation (pay what you are able)
✅CEs available with APA & NBCC

🔗 More info and to Register here:
https://tinyurl.com/nataa-workshop

Nea Clark ADHD Coaching Akiva Dr. Brenda Viktoriia Kotova Freedman

Mark you calendars for these upcoming events!

More info at https://nataa.net/eventscalendar/

You move through change. You adapt. You keep going. And yet… something feels heavy, unclear, unfinished. Why?

In Transactional Analysis, grief isn't only about loss. It can arise in response to transitions, endings, and shifts in how we experience ourselves and the world.

This workshop offers a space to explore grief through both contemporary perspectives and a TA framework. We'll look at how grief is experienced, how it takes shape, and how it can be worked through — individually and in relationship.

What we'll cover:
• Different forms of grief beyond bereavement
• A contemporary model for understanding grief
• Practical ways to support yourself and others
• How grief shows up in daily life

Speaker: Alexandra Mkhitaryan, CTA-P (Psychotherapy)
Transactional Analyst working with individuals and groups. She holds TA-oriented spaces and integrates contemporary approaches to grief within a transactional analysis framework.

📆Date: April 19
🕥Time: 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time
💻Online (Zoom)

📍For more information & to register: https://nataa.net/event/ta-english-inclusive-interest-group/

🌟Introducing NATAA’s new TA Interest Group: Together in Practice! 🌟

A monthly online peer supervision space where TA practitioners of all levels can discuss cases, share reflections, and receive genuine support from colleagues who truly understand the work.

Expect a safe, respectful environment, rich discussion, and a small group (10–12 participants) so everyone has space to be heard.

FREE for NATAA members + first visit free for non members.

📅 Next meeting: Tuesday, April 28 • 10 a.m. PT
📍 via Zoom ~ 90 minutes

To learn more, contact Facilitator Natalia Lopatina, TAAP, CTAtr-P: [email protected] OR
https://nataa.net/upcoming-events/