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Obituaries to much loved TA practitioners and contributors: (Note - we keep obituaries on this site for approximately one year.) |
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Alice Stevenson TSTA - 27/10/32 - 15/2/2010 Awarded the EATA Gold medal in Malmo 2003 We are very sad to announce that Alice Stevenson TSTA died on the evening of Monday the 15th of February 2010 aged 77. Click here for the Obituary to Alice written by her family Click here to see a series of photos of Alice taken in the summer of 2008 - These were taken following one of the supervision groups Alice ran - There is also one photo of her with a few of the other Gold Medal winners.
Video: Alice closing the 2003 ITA conference - a wonderful memory of Alice... Download the video as a zip file: download
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Alice Stevenson died at home on 15th February 2010, after a valiant fight with cancer. She started her TA training with Margaret Turpin and Michael Reddy in 1977 and Michael remembers that, she stood out from my trainees as ‘different’, even a bit rebellious early on, or more politely challenging which of course was one of the things I most liked about her alongside all the charm and humour and the professionalism. In those days we all trained like «journeymen,» travelling to find our teachers and training workshops and she found the Gouldings, George Thomson, the Bader-Pearsons, the McClendons and Erskine-Trautmann and the Schiffs at Cathexis, Marge Reddington, Emily Ruppert, George Kohlrieser, Bill Cornell and so many more. She became a CTA in 1979 and then a TSTA, and
enthusiastically continued her learning and development, actively involved in
therapy, TA training and promoting TA in the UK all her life. I first got to
know her well when she was Chair of the ITA in 1981, when I saw how gracious and
humorous she was as she welcomed new members into the Council.She welcomed
everyone who met her with a smile that invited you to feel at ease and an
insightful observation that showed she really knew you, and often a glass of
wine for those of us who visited her home in Kent, that made us feel the warmth
of her generosity and the delight of being with her. Listening to her long funny
stories about people and their foibles lulled us into a world where we knew that
she would not let us get away with anything that was phoney or not true to
ourselves. Her bright wit and wicked sense of humour would challenge and delight
us. When we sat together in workshops or in meetings Alice would always turn to
me and whisper some outrageous funny joke or observation and I would splutter
with laughter and get the looks of disapproval while she grinned innocently. I
always said that had we been in school together she would have got me into such
trouble. We became good friends and TA sisters. She called me «Queen of the
North» and I called her «Queen of the South» and I remember that she
mischievously suggested we use the acronyms QON and QOS after our names in a
Conference Brochure alongside our other qualifications to see if anyone would
notice. They didn’t, and we laughed about it for years. She knew the art of
confronting people with insight mixed with humour and urged us to be the best we
could be. With her trainees, her clients and her colleagues she was able to
share her love of life and love of TA. She ran a training programme in South
East England for In 1985 she became President of
EATA and enjoyed the rich multicultural world of our international TA community.
From its inception Alice was a member of the United Kingdom Council for
Psychotherapy, serving on its Registration Board and the Professional Affairs
Committee. Alice, Ian Stewart and Ishared a commitment to facilitating
Transactional Analysts to be the best they could be, and together we devised the
Professional Excellence Workshops. We ran these together for fifteen years, two
or three times a year until Alice’s loss of health last year meant she had to
retire. Alice insisted that we incorporated EATA awarded her the Gold Medal for
outstanding service to the TA community in Sweden in 2003. In her interview with
me for the EATA Newsletter she said, «What happens between us, client and
therapist, is more important than anything I can do myself». This was also true
of her attitude to training and life in general. If you were with Alice you were
part of the story, the intuition, the tears and the laughter. She was wise,
witty, compassionate and generous. «I try to be a model for my students and
fellow members, just like being a good friend to my husband and a good mother to
my children». Alice was a beautiful woman who touched our lives with joy. She
was deeply loved by transactional analysts all over the world and we shall miss
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Pio Scilligo died on July 3rd 2009 at 8,50 in the infirmary of Salesian University. He was 81 years old and for one year he fought against cancer. Pio died in peace, surrounded by love, and was buried in his home village in Formazza-Fondovalle, in northern Italy. During his last year of life he kept on working in order to finish and publish his last books. In fact, he could see his book on Socio-Cognitive Transactional Analysis published just the day before he died. How moving for him and his friends to enjoy being together for this last accomplishment! When he knew about his illness, he also dedicated his last energies to guarantee a smooth transition process for the different activities connected to IRPIR (the Institute for Research on Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Processes founded by him in 1977) and IFREP (the Institute for Training and Research for Educators and Psychotherapists) founded in 1993 and to get in contact with all friends, relatives and colleagues that wanted to meet him. Many people had the possibility to say good bye to him, to express their love and esteem and also to receive his own love and appreciation. Pio was born in Val Formazza, in a small village of Waltzer culture, but he was a real world citizen, having lived for years in China, California and then Italy. His interest for Transactional Analysis developed in the nineteen seventies and was stimulated by the work of Bob and Mary Goulding whose contribution he always respected. Pio thought that the Redecision model was underlining the proactivity and respons-ability inherent in every human being and he always liked its “moderate” constructivism. He also thought that the “three ego states” theory was in its essence an important concept to develop, because it could mirror the complexity of human being in relationship with others. Since early seventies he started to spread out Transactional Analysis theory and training in Italy and to promote a vision of psychotherapy as a profession that required both a deep and ethical respect of the other and a solid, cultural and scientific basis. Hermeneutic and scientific analysis were the two cornerstones between which he expanded his research, well documented by several articles and books. As an academic he wanted to find a dialectic between scientific accountability and the richness of practice. He was a supporter of ITAA and had been personally involved in EATA for several years in the nineteen nineties as Italian delegate in EATA Council and as PTSC Chair. He believed in the importance of internationalism, being open to exchange with different cultures while respecting the deep roots of individual culture. He was a man who combined a profound humanity, a brilliant mind, an outstanding organizational capacity and an authentic spirituality in himself. He has left a great heredity that many of us are eager to respect and to develop. Thank you, Pio. Resi Tosi - President of EATA Further personal recollections of Pio I remember my expereince with Pio on Cagliari when we went with other colleagues for the the Psychotherapy School. We worked toghether and we also spent time in a convivial way. During the free time, he was able to move in a simply way from different perspectives: he shared some personal recollection and than some philosophical consideration or critical thought about some social behavior that excited his curiosity. He quickly hooked some psychotherapeutic and hermeneutical reflection. It seemed an easy and pleasant game to discover toghether the reality from diffferent points of view. Thanks Pio to have teached me the richness and the mystery of human reality - Susanna Bianchini ---- I’m glad I spent 30 years of my life in touch with Pio, man of science and life’s master. His dream was being missionary in China but he was missionary in Italy where, by psychotherapy schools focused on TA founded by him, he teached how to be a pro careful of people, even to the most needy and wick ones. Although he sometimes was rough and surly, he was a model of helpfulness and skill to make the people he chose to be his collaborator feel unique and indispensable to me, creating a strong and significant relationship that was over professional relation. I thank God I met him - Raffaele Mastromarino A longer article and more contributions to remember Pio Scilligo will be published on October EATA Newsletter. Those who want to send a personal remembering of him can send their writings to Dave Spenceley (Web-site) or to Jan Hennig. (Newsletter)
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