the VOLUME 8: Issue 2: Spring 2018 TRANSACTIONAL ANALYST UNITED KINGDOM ASSOCIATION FOR TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS’ QUARTERLY MAGAZINE CONTENTS News and views From the Editors, Ali Bird & Celia Simpson ...... 2 Congratulations UKATA Medals; exam success; Diplomas; Welcome new members ................... 2 D&SR update ...................................................... 2 General Data Protection Regulation GDPR and us as practitioners by Mark Head ....................................................... 3 A personal journey to GDPR compliance by Jan Baker ......................................................... 6 Focus on: Conference UKATA, 2018 ‘Beyond the Rainbow’: Opening address by Andy Williams ................................................ 8 Breaking the silence by Marion Umney ...............................................12 Gender identity and multiplicity in clinical practice by Briony Nicholls and Karen Minikin ..............14 The Muriel James Living Principles Award, 2018: awarded to Ann Heathcote by the Nominators ...............................................16 The Connections Group by Lyn Hayward..........19 Diversity & Social Responsibility Cultural Scripting: difference and diversity by Divya Sharma.................................................20 D&SR Workshops and Resources Manual.........22 Book reviews introduced by Marion Umney......23 What counsellors and spiritual directors can learn from each other by PM Gubi(ed) Reviewed by Owen Griffiths.... ............................23 This is Me! Becoming who you are using Transactional Analysis by Lieuwe Koopmans Reviewed by Giles Barrow....................................24 New writing Asperger’s in the therapy room – 9 by Dr Peter Flowerdew .......................................26 Columns Grace notes XXV by Dr Salma Siddique.......... .30 Wisdom’s children by Owen Griffiths.................31 Reflections Photograph by Celia Simpson ‘Don’t’ – a poem by Richard Bamford.................32 Liverpool, UKATA Conference, 2018. Membership survey 2018 results ......................33 Top: Receiving the UKATA medals at this year’s event are, L-R: Advertising..........................................................38 Pietro Cardile, Adrienne Lee, John Renwick and Andy Williams. Contact pages .....................................................46 ISSN 2046-2697 News and views NEWS & VIEWS ELCOME TO THE late Spring 2018 issue of the CONGRATULATIONS EXAM SUCCESS! Transactional Analyst. Our main focus this Wquarter is on the very successful conference Ales Zivkovic CTA held in Liverpool at the end of April. It was a success Anita Webster PTSTA because it embraced our diversity, challenged our Liverpool Conference exam successes thinking and deepened our experience of who we really Caroline Stanford CTA(P) are inside and outside the therapy room. In the following John Paradise CTA(P) pages you will find Andy Williams’ opening address, Anne de Graaf CTA(P) which he has very kindly agreed to publish in the Julia Tolley TSTA(P) magazine (p8). Thank you Andy, it’s a privilege to be able to share it with the Transactional Analyst readership. It CONGRATULATIONS UKATA MEDALS 2018 was a wonderful introduction to the conference themes of Kirsty Burgess ‘Beyond the rainbow: gender and sexual diversity.’ Pietro Cardile Marion Umney’s article – based on her workshop Adrienne Lee ‘Breaking the Silence’ – explores our own experience of John Renwick oppression and misuse of power, looking at both the Andy Williams pressure to speak out and to remain silent (p12). While Briony Nicholls and Karen Minikin’s article based on UKATA DIPLOMAS their workshop invites us to examine our personal and Mark Barnard Amanda Randall Gavin cultural Scripting, with respect to gender identity and Rachel Sills Svatopluk Jakob Geprt multiplicity in our clinical practice (p14). Caroline Smith Carolyn Scholes Ann Heathcote was the inspiring recipient of the 2018 Muriel James Living Principles Award, presented to her at the conference – her nominators leave us in little doubt WARM WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS as to why this award was so well deserved (p16). Eghosa Aiwuyo Kerry Holden Congratulations again, Ann. Lynn Usher Amanda Pontin Lyn Hayward’s efficient organisation of the Tracy Pallet Gemma Burnett- Connections Group at several annual conferences has Elizabeth Knight Hitchcock brought not just comfort, but friendship and confidence, Amy Miles Emma Griffin to conference-goers for years. Here she shares a bit about Chris White Louise Hall her own experience this year (p19). Sarah Howroyd Paul McManus And to GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation – Jodie Smethem Rachel Richards which came into force as we were going to press. Mark Stefan Carl-McGrath Fiona Templeton Head excellently tells it like it is (p3) while Jan Baker Anna Tuttle Debbie Bloomfield shares her amusing countdown week to compliance (p6). Anna McDonald Alison Mackiewicz So with all the usual sections: Marion’s excellent book Susan Robson Laura Knight reviews; Peter Flowerdew’s clear series on TA and Rosie Jeffery Tracy Mainolfi Asperger’s; the diversity and social responsibility section Adam Payne-Ross Nathan Chesney – in this issue Divya Sharma tells her own story of the Ryan Reed Robert Dawson journey from India to the UK; the columns – Owen Kenneth Dawson Amanda Bradley Griffith’s continuing fascination with Martin Buber, and Caroline Holden Salma Siddique’s wonderings about the link between gift giving and therapy – there is always a lot to read and DIVERSITY & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY NEWS ponder in your mag... and there’s a poem too (p32). ur aim is to keep you updated with the excellent NB Membership survey results are published on p33. work we are doing as a committee and we Best wishes from the editors, Ali Bird & Celia Simpson Owelcome any questions, comments or feedback [email protected] you may have about our workshops and Resources [email protected] Manual. •• See page 22 for full update of DSR news •• 2 THE TRANSACTIONAL ANALYST SPRING 2018 GDPR GDPR and us as practitioners MARK HEAD outlines the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into effect at the end of May which applies to all practitioners who hold data on clients. E NOW LIVE in a world that is dramatically significant changes. First, while consent has always been different from that of the last century. There is previously required this has now increased to explicit Wan ever-increasing amount of information held consent. Organisations can no longer used pre-ticked on all of us both in physical and electronic systems. In boxes but require you to explicitly opt-in. Second, it many ways this makes our lives easier, we can get access covers a wider set of manual records that includes to things and services we are more likely to want based anything that can be classified as a relevant filing system. on previous preferences. Yet at the same time this There is also a reduced period within which to provide information is open to misuse and abuse. The situation information in the event of an information request. with Cambridge Analytica is a case in point – where data The GDPR provides the following rights (ICO, 2018c) obtained via Facebook was used to covertly influence for individuals: people’s voting preferences in the US presidential elections in 2016. 1. The right to be informed On May 26 2018 the new General Data Protection 2. The right of access Regulation (GDPR) came into effect which will address 3. The right to rectification some of the issues concerning how organisations manage 4. The right to erasure data. You will have noticed the recent flood of e-mails 5. The right to restrict processing regarding GDPR from organisations, asking you to ‘opt- 6. The right to data portability in’ to them keeping your mailing and other data. 7. The right to object 8. Rights in relation to automated decision making What is GDPR? and profiling GDPR is the data protection legislation concerned with protecting the rights and privacy of an individual’s data How does it affect me? that is based in EU (and post Brexit UK) law. It is It may be at this point you are wondering how this affects concerned with personal data, which is ‘any information you. Much of the information made available by the ICO relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or is focused on organisations and indeed it is easy to see indirectly identified’ (ICO, 2018a). In the UK GDPR how GDPR has been driven by both the misuse of data by compliance is overseen by the Information large organisations and the increasing technological Commissioners Office (ICO). The GDPR operate under 5 platforms for using data. That said, this is still regulation principles (ICO, 2018b) concerning people’s data, these to which we all need to adhere, and the fact is that as are that data is: therapists we hold sensitive personal data, in terms of intake/assessment information and our client notes. Non- 1. Processed lawfully and transparently compliance can leave you open to a discretionary fine 2. Collected for specified, explicit purposes from the ICO. The maximum fine being 4% of turnover or 3. Accurate – kept up to date 20 million euros, whichever is the higher figure (BACP, 4. Presented in an identifiable form and kept no longer 2018)! than necessary Before you panic at those figures (because I don’t 5. Appropriately secure know about you, but I don’t have 20 million euros just lying around!) it is worth mentioning that the ICO seeks The previous Data Protection