Who are you?
A wonderland of workshops to get closer to the answer
Imagine you are Alice in free fall, watching the sides of the wall filled with cupboards and bookshelves. And imagine the books on the shelves are our offerings. May we entice you to join some of these. That way, you don’t have to go past all these curious goodies, you can stop, engage, enjoy and be enlivened. If you are transfixed by the breadth and imagination of our offerings, well, thank you! We do our best.
Psychology Workshops at The School of You
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Clear Beginnings: The Art of Contracting in Psychotherapy
Online Via Zoom
The online session “Clear Beginnings: The Art of Contracting in Psychotherapy,” led by Aruna Gopakumar, will explore the nuances of psychotherapy contracts. Participants will learn to establish clear agreements, address common dilemmas, and manage three-party contracts, enhancing their ethical and relational confidence.
TA-101
In-person, Bangalore
A highly interactive, enjoyable and profound 2-day introduction to the core ideas in Transactional Analysis. May bring you many ‘lightbulb’ moments where you suddenly realise what needs to change in your life.
Supporting the Grieving Heart
Online Via Zoom
Grief takes many forms — death, illness, rupture, or the quiet loss of identity. This experiential workshop invites counsellors, therapists, and facilitators to explore grief not as something to fix, but as something to witness, honour, and integrate. Across two immersive days, you’ll engage in guided practice, reflective dialogue, and expressive techniques drawn from contemporary grief theory. Rooted in the work of Neimeyer, Worden, and others — it’s a space to feel, reflect, and relearn the world after loss.
The Ones Who Watch : Exploring Twelve Bystander Games in Everyday Drama
Online on Zoom
This 90-minute interactive session expands the classic Drama Triangle by introducing the often-overlooked role of the Bystander, drawing on Petrūska Clarkson’s Bystander Games and the Drama Pyramid model by Aruna Gopakumar and Aparna Vaidik. Participants will explore how cultural and systemic forces influence passive roles, reflect on their own non-involvement patterns, and learn tools to shift from silent observation to conscious, ethical engagement—without falling into rescuing or blaming.
TA-101
In Person, Bangalore
A highly interactive, enjoyable and profound 2-day introduction to the core ideas in Transactional Analysis. May bring you many ‘lightbulb’ moments where you suddenly realise what needs to change in your life.
Group Think, Psychological Safety, and Moral Courage
In Person, Bangalore
A powerful full-day workshop on truth-telling in leadership—where ancient myths meet modern dilemmas. In a world where honesty often clashes with complexity, this immersive experience explores the courage to voice hard truths with care and impact. Through psychodrama, storytelling, and self-reflection, you’ll step into timeless tales that echo real leadership challenges, uncovering your own patterns of speaking up, staying silent, or navigating grey areas. This is not theatre, it’s a leadership lab for brave leaders seeking authenticity, psychological safety, and moral courage.
The River, The Raft and The Return – A Mythic Journey into the Heart of Choice
Online on Zoom
This reflective workshop explores complex emotional terrain of choice-making—where myth, memory, and meaning converge. Through powerful stories like Sita’s quiet defiance, Odysseus’ long homecoming, and Iphigenia’s fierce sacrifice, we’ll dive into the hard questions: What do we choose when both options feel right? What happens when we have no choice at all? And what is the cost of choosing self over belonging? This workshop invites you to examine the hidden tensions behind your decisions and discover the courage it takes to choose in alignment with your truest self.
The Story of You – Uncovering Your Life Script
In person, Bangalore
A small, immersive, and cathartic workshop to explore the patterns and stories shaping your life. Expect deep insights and a sense of freedom as you rewrite your script to create a story that truly serves you.
TA-101
In person, Bangalore
A highly interactive, enjoyable and profound 2-day introduction to the core ideas in Transactional Analysis. May bring you many ‘lightbulb’ moments where you suddenly realise what needs to change in your life.
On Grief and Grieving: A Heartfelt Conversation on Loss and Support
Online on zoom
This session offers a gentle, heartfelt space to be with grief—not to fix or analyze it, but to honour it as a natural expression of love and loss. In a world that often rushes past sorrow, this gathering invites us to slow down and meet grief with tenderness, recognizing it not as a problem to solve but as a deeply personal, ever-changing experience. Together, we’ll explore the many forms grief can take, reflect on the isolation it can bring, and learn how to offer meaningful support to ourselves and others. Whether you are grieving, have grieved, or are walking alongside someone in their grief, this session is a compassionate space to witness and tend to the heart.
The Making of You: A Life Script Workshop for Teens Aged 15 – 17
In Person, Bangalore
This workshop is for plucky teens on a quest to figure themselves out—what psychology folks call individuation (fancy word for becoming your own person). It’s not about turning into someone else. It’s about becoming more you. Through psychodrama, memoir writing, sharing and reflecting, you’ll craft and examine your stories. The ones you’ve lived, the ones you’ve been told, and the ones you’re yet to write.
Positive Games — Supporting the Butterfly Effect
Online on zoom
This workshop invites us to rethink the idea that all Psychological Games have negative payoffs. We’ll explore how, with growing autonomy and healthier Scripts, Games can become positive, co-creative, and supportive of intimacy and authentic connection. Together, we’ll get curious about how to recognize and invite these Positive Games with intention—to nurture growth, intimacy, and healthy symbiosis with others.
Supervision Through Psychodrama – An Experiential Group for Coaches, Counsellors & Therapists
In Person, Bangalore
A four-day experiential group for coaches, counselors, and therapists on psychodramatic supervision will be held in Bangalore. Participants can register for individual days or all sessions, aimed at exploring client-practitioner relationships through creative techniques.
The Hero’s Journey – A Two-Day Immersive Workshop for Leaders & Coaches
In Person, Bangalore
This workshop is for leaders and coaches, focusing on mythic storytelling in leadership and coaching. Participants will explore their narratives, develop authentic leadership stories, and learn to guide others through transformation. The workshop emphasizes personal development and finding deeper purpose in leadership amidst change.
Psychodrama Magic: A three-day Residential Program
In Person, Bangalore
This workshop focuses on psychodrama’s principles and techniques to explore personal and group dynamics. Participants will learn through experiential techniques like role reversals, sociometry, and creative expression, fostering emotional exploration and authentic interactions.
Playful Myths, Divine Mischief: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
Online on zoom
This session explores mischief as a pathway to creativity, insight, and transformation. Through myth, self-inquiry, and lively discussion, participants will reconnect with their inner trickster—challenging rules, embracing spontaneity, and rediscovering the power of play and joyful resistance.
The You Festival
Ashirwad, St. Marks Road, Bangalore
The You Festival is a one-day celebration of Transactional Analysis ideas and community. Less structured than a conference yet more intentional than a casual meet-up, it is a convivial gathering of workshops, creative explorations, and spontaneous conversations.Across the day, participants can choose from eight exciting sessions (90 minutes each). Presenters bring diverse, creative approaches—offering both fresh perspectives on classic TA concepts and bold experiments that stretch its edges. The Festival reflects the vibrance and richness of our community.
Goldmine & Minefield – Humour in the Therapeutic Space
Online on zoom
This 120-minute workshop, led by Psychotherapist John Evans, explores the role of humour in therapy. It covers theories of humour and laughter from brain, psychological, and psychodynamic perspectives, showing how humour can be both harmful and healing. While often avoided by mental health professionals due to perceived risks, humour can create opportunities for connection and reframing. The session includes examples, breakout group discussions, time for reflection, and a reading list for further learning—with some lighthearted jokes along the way.
When Stories Meet: Learning to Design and Facilitate Support Groups
Online on Zoom
A 6-hour experiential training for anyone called to create spaces of care, connection, and healing. If you’re drawn to supporting others through pain, healing, and life transitions, this workshop will equip you to design and facilitate safe, meaningful support groups. Through hands-on practice, guided reflection, and practical skill-building, you’ll learn to hold space with presence, navigate group dynamics with confidence, and foster circles where people feel seen, heard, and less alone. No clinical background required—just the heart and willingness to listen, learn, and lead.
Introducing the model of Core Self and Ego States
Online on zoom
This workshop, led by psychotherapist and TA trainer Beren Aldridge, introduces the model of Core Self and Ego States. Expanding on transactional analysis theory, it explores how personality develops not only through relationships and environment but also from the essence of who we are—our gender, sexuality, neurotype, and other core aspects of self. Designed for participants with at least 100 hours of TA training, the session offers fresh perspectives to enrich psychotherapy practice and deepen understanding of the person within as well as between.
A Creative Encounter With Anger: A 30-Day Journaling Journey with Great Minds
Online, on Whatsapp
This is an invitation to explore anger not as a threat, but as a powerful teacher. Blending the insights of great thinkers like Audre Lorde, Jung, Nietzsche, and Harriet Lerner with daily creative prompts, this September journaling journey offers a space to meet anger with curiosity, compassion, and artistic expression. Through writing, drawing, movement, and more, participants will transform their relationship with this misunderstood emotion—one thoughtful day at a time.
Ish and Others – Using Stories to Help Children Celebrate Who They Are
Online on Zoom
In a world that rushes forward, our little ones need moments that slow things down: moments where they feel seen, safe, and celebrated. Through beautifully chosen picture books and playful reflection, you’ll learn how to use stories to spark honest conversations, build self-esteem, and celebrate your child’s unique spirit. Guided by Aruna Gopakumar and Deepti Marlapalle—founders of The School of You and The Reading Habit—this immersive session blends emotional insight with the joy of storytelling, launching ‘The Blooming Shelf Series’ for parents raising confident, emotionally aware kids. This workshop is your invitation to turn everyday reading into something extraordinary: a ritual of connection, curiosity, and joy.
The Neopsyche: Discovering the Integrating Adult
Online on zoom
Keith Tudor’s Integrating Adult (Neopsyche) reframes Eric Berne’s logical “computer” Adult as a subjective, relational state shaped by past and present. In a 2-hour online session, Paul Robinson (TSTA-E, UK) will show how this model expands therapy by weaving experience into a coherent self, honoring relational needs, and fostering growth in the here-and-now—offering a more nuanced, creative approach to transactional analysis.
When Stories Meet: Learning to Design and Facilitate Support Groups
Online on Zoom
A 6-hour experiential training for anyone called to create spaces of care, connection, and healing. If you’re drawn to supporting others through pain, healing, and life transitions, this workshop will equip you to design and facilitate safe, meaningful support groups. Through hands-on practice, guided reflection, and practical skill-building, you’ll learn to hold space with presence, navigate group dynamics with confidence, and foster circles where people feel seen, heard, and less alone. No clinical background required—just the heart and willingness to listen, learn, and lead.
TA-101 for Students
Online on Zoom
A highly interactive, enjoyable and profound 2-day introduction to the core ideas in Transactional Analysis. May bring you many ‘lightbulb’ moments where you suddenly realise what needs to change in your life.
Losses That Don’t Get Mourned : A Therapeutic Writing Cohort from The School of You Writing Practice
Online on Zoom
The “Losses That Don’t Get Mourned” writing cohort, facilitated by Aruna Gopakumar, addresses disenfranchised grief through reflective writing. This free, six-week online program encourages participants to explore unrecognised losses. Applicants must submit a reflective piece by April 15, 2026, and engage fully in all sessions and questionnaires.
Stories of Learning
Online on zoom
What shapes how you learn and how you see your ability to learn? This is an experiential TA-based workshop that helps you uncover the childhood learning stories that shaped how you see yourself as a learner. Using learning scripts, relational learning, and the Four Story Exercise, you’ll explore how these early patterns influence your confidence, relationships with teachers, and approach to learning today. The workshop includes a 1-hour individual supervision session with Jr-Earn Lam, a PTSTA-E based in Singapore, to help you deepen and integrate your insights.
TA-101
In Person, Bangalore
A highly interactive, enjoyable and profound 2-day introduction to the core ideas in Transactional Analysis. May bring you many ‘lightbulb’ moments where you suddenly realise what needs to change in your life.
From Defiance to Depth – Somatic Pathways for Sustainable Redecision
In-person, Bangalore
The workshop “From Defiance to Depth” will take place on March 22 in Bangalore, lasting three hours, and is specifically for students of Advanced Transactional Analysis. It focuses on understanding despair-driven decisions and their physical manifestations, introducing body-based therapeutic techniques to enhance emotional regulation and therapeutic practices. Registration is via email.
The Cultural Parent – The Invisible Parent We All Obey
Online via Zoom
This 90-minute interactive workshop explores Pearl Drego’s concept of the Cultural Parent—the internalised voice of culture that shapes how we think, feel, and act at work and in communities. Using the ETC framework (Etiquette, Technicalities, and Character), participants examine everyday organisational patterns, notice how culture lives inside their own responses, and identify practical entry points for healthier cultural change.
This, Not That : A 15-Day Journaling Journey to Discern Your Emotional World
Delivered via WhatsApp
This, Not That is a 15-day journaling journey from February 8-22, 2026, delivered via WhatsApp for ₹. 400/-. Inspired by Brené Brown, it helps participants distinguish nuanced emotions, enhancing emotional literacy and self-understanding. Daily prompts and reflections foster clarity in emotional experiences, improving personal communication and relationships.
Psychodrama with Children and Families
In-person, Bangalore
A lively, experiential workshop facilitated by Sara Crane and Simon Gurnsey that introduces the core concepts and practices of psychodrama. Through play, creativity, and group work, participants explore developmental, relational, and therapeutic applications of psychodrama to support healing, spontaneity, and healthier patterns for children, families, and the child within every adult.
Foundations of Sociometry
In-person, Bangalore
A practical, experiential workshop facilitated by Sara Crane and Simon Gurnsey that introduces sociometry as a way to understand and strengthen group relationships. Through active methods and applied theory, participants learn to make invisible social dynamics visible, reduce isolation, and foster spontaneity and authentic collaboration within and between groups.
Transforming Childhood Patterns of Relating That No Longer Serve Us
In-person, Bangalore
A professional psychodrama training facilitated by Elizabeth Synnot, focused on transforming early-learned relational patterns into more intentional, adult ways of relating. Through experiential dramatic work and guided reflection, participants explore and repair formative social and cultural influences, developing new possibilities for living and relating in alignment with their values.
Working with Creativity and Spontaneity at Our Core
In-person, Bangalore
A psychodrama workshop facilitated by Elizabeth Synnot that focuses on developing creativity and spontaneity as core capacities for effective helping practice. Through embodied, experiential methods, participants strengthen their ability to respond with flexibility, vitality, and purpose in complex professional and relational contexts.
Losses That Don’t Get Mourned : A Therapeutic Writing Cohort from The School of You Writing Practice
Online on Zoom
The “Losses That Don’t Get Mourned” writing cohort, facilitated by Aruna Gopakumar, addresses disenfranchised grief through reflective writing. This free, six-week online program encourages participants to explore unrecognised losses. Applicants must submit a reflective piece by April 15, 2026, and engage fully in all sessions and questionnaires.
Bridging Cultures with Transactional Analysis
Online on zoom
In a diverse and interconnected world, cultural differences can subtly shape how we relate, communicate, and include others. This workshop explores intercultural relationships through a Transactional Analysis lens, examining how power, language, and cultural frames of reference influence psychological patterns and misunderstandings. Through reflective and experiential learning, participants develop greater self-awareness, empathy, and practical tools to navigate cultural differences, challenge limiting scripts, and build more inclusive, respectful relationships.
Existential Living : Living with Open Questions, Freedom, and the Absurd
Online on Zoom
An existential exploration of what it means to live honestly in a finite, uncertain world—facing freedom, death, responsibility, and meaning without false comforts. Drawing on existential philosophy, psychology, and embodied practices, the program invites participants to confront anxiety and absurdity and to choose a life that is consciously lived and unmistakably their own.
In Your Own Words – Guided Autobiography
In-person, Bangalore
A four-hour Guided Autobiography session where you write and share stories from your life — exploring Branching Points and Spiritual Life and Values. In a small, trusted group of 4–6, stories are written and read aloud, received with presence and without judgement. A rare few hours to slow down, look back, and be genuinely heard.
What They Don’t Tell You About Marriage
Online on Zoom
Marriage is often spoken about in idealised ways – but what about everything that comes after? The conflict, the unmet expectations, the daily work of staying together? Yashodhara Lal, author and couple therapist, joins Aruna Gopakumar of The School of You to discuss her latest book exploring what long-term relationships actually ask of us, from unconscious patterns and conflict to money, sex, in-laws, and betrayal. Honest, grounded, and practical. For anyone about to commit, already married, or looking to reconnect.
Boundary Violations – How They Begin
Online on Zoom
Most boundary violations don’t arrive suddenly. They begin as small, barely noticeable shifts. Drawing on Marilyn R. Peterson’s At Personal Risk, this workshop invites practitioners to look earlier: at slow relational drift, the pull of power, and the vulnerabilities we bring to our work. Facilitated by Aruna Gopakumar, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. Open to all modalities and experience levels.
Imperfect Parenting, Real Love
In Person, Bangalore
A one-day workshop exploring how everyday interactions between parents and children shape a child’s inner world. Drawing on Transactional Analysis, it looks at how children form early beliefs about themselves, the messages families pass on, and what children need at different stages of development. Rather than offering formulas for perfect parenting, the workshop invites awareness — helping parents nurture resilience, autonomy, and emotional health through small, meaningful shifts.
Transactional Analysis with Children: Contemporary Perspectives and Clinical Applications
Online on zoom
This interactive workshop traces the evolution of Transactional Analysis from Eric Berne’s original adult-focused psychotherapy to a contemporary, relational approach for children, integrating developmental, attachment-informed, and play-based methods. Through clinical examples and experiential learning, participants will explore script formation, assessment, contracting with families, and child-adapted interventions that combine classical TA concepts with modern relational practice to support safe, effective therapeutic change.
When Stories Meet: Learning to Design and Facilitate Support Groups
Online Via Zoom
A 6-hour experiential training for anyone called to create spaces of care, connection, and healing. If you’re drawn to supporting others through pain, healing, and life transitions, this workshop will equip you to design and facilitate safe, meaningful support groups. Through hands-on practice, guided reflection, and practical skill-building, you’ll learn to hold space with presence, navigate group dynamics with confidence, and foster circles where people feel seen, heard, and less alone. No clinical background required—just the heart and willingness to listen, learn, and lead.
TA-101
In-person, Bangalore
A highly interactive, enjoyable and profound 2-day introduction to the core ideas in Transactional Analysis. May bring you many ‘lightbulb’ moments where you suddenly realise what needs to change in your life.