Touchstone Counselling And Transactional Analysis Training Centre

04/26/2026

Friends and colleagues: Announcing the new, upcoming online Words at Work summer intersession program at Touchstone, featuring 3 transformative literary works + optional Vancouver Shakespeare festival excursion. Email jedowson@icloud.com for info and registration.

04/12/2026

Check out this remarkable poem. It offers and antithesis to Blake's Little Boy Lost.

12-time GRAMMY winner Jack White sits down for an extended interview with Stephen Colbert that touches on Jack’s early days playing music in school, memories...

04/10/2026

Colleagues and friends, In celebration of National Poetry Month, here's a little poem by William Blake. The wonderful Canadian Singer/Songwriter/Storyteller, Leroy Stagger reminded me about Blake's poetry and contemporary relevance at his recent concert in Chilliwack.

Father, father, where are you going O do not walk so fast. Speak father, speak to your little boy Or else I shall be lost, The night was…

04/09/2026

Announcing the new, upcoming online Words at Work summer intersession program at Touchstone, featuring 3 transformative literary works + optional Vancouver Shakespeare festival excursion. Email jedowson@icloud.com for info and registration.

10/20/2025

A touching tribute to a remarkable grandmother. Thank you for sharing this, Shane❤️

10/11/2025

Write women; speak up, speak back and speak out!

10/03/2025

Words at Work: Stories as "Equipment for Living" started today with an amazing group of participants! So many thought-provoking gems in our discussion about the creativity and knowledge daughters receive from creative mothers. Here's a little poem about women's creativity and truth called "Motherroot"by Cherokee poet, Marilou Awaikta. This poem opens Alice Walker's beautiful little essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"

Mother Root

Creation often
needs two hearts
one to root
and one to flower
One to sustain
in time of drouth
and hold fast
against winds of pain
the fragile bloom
that in the glory
of its hour
affirms a heart
unsung, unseen

Cherokee poet Marilou Awiakta
Taken from:https://theinimitableway.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/mother-root/

09/30/2025

The power of story!

09/28/2025

Sunday Tea for 2 with my Special Guy!❤️❤️

09/12/2025

Update on Project TA101 Discussion Group
Hello TA Friends and Colleagues,
In our recent discussion group we considered frame of reference as a kind of container to hold scripts, games and rackets in place through discounts and complex redefining transactions that help maintain life scripts. We began to dig into racket theory, including substitute feelings and manipulative aspects that help maintain life script beliefs as unconscious mechanisms of survival. Participants offered excellent creative examples from both our life script fairy tales and clinical examples.
Next time we will have a look at Rackets as a system and take some time with exercises described in the course video to explore the systemic nature of rackets within the script. Here's the link to the M7 #2 Course video. Please feel free to share your examples and reflections in comments below.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLXhXlg2eLw