okayness - transactional analysis
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Stewart and Jones (1987) defined the degree of OKness a person feels as the "essential value".TRANSCRIPT
Okayness
Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar
School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114
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Content
• Definition.– Stewart and Jones (1987).– Claude Steiner (1974).– Novey (1993).– Harris and Harris (1985).
• Planetary Okayness.
Okayness
• Stewart and Jones (1987)
seemed to define the degree
of OKness a person feels as
the "essential value" (that
one perceives in oneself and
others.
• This implies that it is more
than just behaviour.
Okayness• Steiner (1974) gave a more
philosophical definition of OKness. • He said that Berne had a conviction
and "'faith in human nature“ about the OKness of people.
• As a result, we all are OK, even those who commit the most heinous deeds.
• Such individuals are not responsible for their genes or early backgrounds and thus are OK, even though their behavior is not.
Okayness
• For his part, Novey sees OKness
as meaning "I am an acceptable
human being, with the right to
live and meet my needs, and you
are an acceptable human being
with the right to live and get
your needs met.“
• For him, "rights" and
"acceptability" are used in
defining OKness.
Okayness
• Harris and Harris (1985) saw
OKness almost as a comparison
of following between a child and
his or her parents:
– Strength
– Power and
– Dependency
Planetary Okayness
• Another aspect of life positions is
taken up by Pearl Drego (2008).• He talked about the environmental
crisis affecting the earth as “scripty and suicidal”. It is a position of the extreme antisocial (I+ U-T-) or hopelessness (I-U- T-).
• Issues such as climate change, water shortages, marine pollution etc. are all global problems – that can overwhelm us with their scale and complexity.
Planetary Okayness
• It is at the small group level that
we can create and maintain
healthy life positions including
other groups, nations and
importantly future generations.
• Then maybe we can step back
from the hopelessly suicidal and
antisocially homicidal positions.
Thank You
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