A 12-day journaling exploration of strokes, recognition, and the ways we learn to be seen

In Transactional Analysis, a “stroke” is a unit of recognition. It is any acknowledgment that tells us we’ve been seen. We learn very early how to get them, and those early patterns tend to stay with us: how we ask for attention, how we respond when it’s withheld, what we’ve decided counts as “enough.”

Attention, Please! takes this idea apart over 12 days. You’ll join a WhatsApp group and receive one prompt a day, each preceded by a short teaching setting up the idea before you write.

Together, the prompts work through positive and negative strokes, conditional and unconditional strokes, strokes for being and strokes for doing, tracing how we seek, give, receive, distort, and sometimes avoid recognition, and then go further than most first introductions to strokes usually do.

There’s no set writing length or format to follow. Each prompt is meant to be sat with for a few minutes a day, not treated as an assignment.

Everyone! No prior background in TA is needed to take part.

We look forward to having you with us.

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