Connexus Institute

Connexus Institute Based in Brighton and Hove.
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Connexus Institute offers accredited psychotherapy and counselling training, CPD workshops and organisational consultancy — rooted in Transactional Analysis and the wider psychologies of relationships and change.

You know that moment when the praise lands and something in you is already looking for the catch?It's not imposter syndr...
01/09/2026

You know that moment when the praise lands and something in you is already looking for the catch?

It's not imposter syndrome in some vague, abstract way. In transactional analysis, it has a more specific name: script beliefs. These are conclusions we drew about ourselves early on, often without words for them, that settled into something that feels like fact. Beliefs about what we're allowed to be. What we've really earned. Whether we're the sort of person things like this happen to.

The strange thing is that evidence doesn't touch them. More qualifications, more good feedback, more years of experience, and the feeling is still there, wearing your work lanyard. That's the clue that it was never really about the evidence in the first place.

Once you have a name for it, it becomes a little easier to notice when it's operating. Not to argue with it, necessarily. Just to recognise it for what it is.

If this is something you're curious about exploring, our TA 101 weekend is where a lot of people first encounter this way of seeing themselves and others. Details at connexusinstitute.com.

Has this ever come up for you, or for someone you work with? We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

Patrick Brook is the trainer behind our Mental Health Familiarisation day on 16th October 2026.Patrick is a TSTA, which ...
01/09/2026

Patrick Brook is the trainer behind our Mental Health Familiarisation day on 16th October 2026.

Patrick is a TSTA, which means he holds a teaching and supervising qualification in Transactional Analysis. He brings that grounding in TA alongside a clear understanding of what trainees need to meet the UKCP's Mental Health Familiarisation requirements.

If you've been wondering whether this course would feel relevant to where you actually are in your training, it might help to know a bit about who's leading it.

We'd love to hear what questions you'd want to bring to a day like this. Drop them below.

Find out more at https://www.connexusinstitute.com/our-courses/professional-development-courses/course/opening-the-doors-to-the-asylum-65/

The next edition of the Connexus newsletter is almost here, going out in the first week of next month.If you're between ...
31/08/2026

The next edition of the Connexus newsletter is almost here, going out in the first week of next month.

If you're between training weekends and want to stay connected with what's happening at Connexus Institute, it's a good way to keep in touch. Nothing overwhelming, just a monthly note from us.

Sign up at connexusinstitute.com/newsletter if you'd like to be on the list.

What helps you stay connected to your training between the in-person days? We'd love to hear what works for people.

A great way to re-start at Connexus after a much-needed break - a fabulous bank holiday 101 with Patrick and with Nicki ...
30/08/2026

A great way to re-start at Connexus after a much-needed break - a fabulous bank holiday 101 with Patrick and with Nicki Wisbey shadowing. How lovely it was as well to have Eben back, even just for a weekend, though this time as a participant on the 101 so this time on the receiving end of drinking the coffee rather than making it! Thanks to all for making this such a rich learning experience.

Our next TA101 course takes place Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th September 2026 with Lisa.

Ten compliments land and disappear. One criticism sticks around for days.There's a concept in transactional analysis cal...
24/08/2026

Ten compliments land and disappear. One criticism sticks around for days.

There's a concept in transactional analysis called strokes: units of recognition, the things people say or do that tell us we exist and matter. And it turns out we don't receive all of them equally. When our early script tells us we're not quite good enough, not quite competent, not quite likeable, recognition that confirms that belief tends to get through. Recognition that contradicts it often doesn't.

So the maths isn't really one to ten. It's that the filter is already deciding what counts as real.

This is the kind of thing that, once you've heard it named, you start noticing in all kinds of conversations. The colleague who deflects every piece of praise but replays the one difficult email. The client who can list ten things that went well and one that didn't, and knows which one they're going home with.

Knowing the term doesn't undo the filter, but it does make it a little easier to see when it's running.

If you're curious about this way of looking at everyday interactions, our TA 101 weekend is where a lot of people first encounter these ideas. Find out more at connexusinstitute.com

Does this resonate? We'd love to know if you've noticed the filter at work, in yourself, in clients, or in the people around you.

Rebecca trained with us in Stage Two last year, and this is what she wrote in her end-of-year evaluation."High quality, ...
21/08/2026

Rebecca trained with us in Stage Two last year, and this is what she wrote in her end-of-year evaluation.

"High quality, experienced and frankly inspirational teaching."

We don't take that lightly. Good teaching in transactional analysis training asks a lot, of students and tutors alike, and it means a great deal to hear it lands the way we hope it does.

If you're curious about what training at Connexus looks like, you're welcome to take a look at connexusinstitute.com/courses.

What's made the biggest difference to your own learning, in training or in CPD? We'd love to hear.

When someone brings a relationship into the room, they bring two people's histories, two sets of family patterns, and of...
19/08/2026

When someone brings a relationship into the room, they bring two people's histories, two sets of family patterns, and often years of accumulated hurt, all at once.

One of the ideas at the heart of couples work is that partner choice is rarely random. Family-of-origin dynamics, unresolved conflict, even inherited patterns across generations, these all play a part in who we end up with and what gets replayed between us. Understanding that isn't about assigning blame. It gives the therapist somewhere to look.

For practitioners thinking about moving into this area, that shift in perspective, from individual to relational system, is part of what the work asks of you.

Annette Jones's Certificate in Working with Couples explores this and a lot more across six days in Hove. September to November 2026.

Find out more at https://www.connexusinstitute.com/our-courses/professional-development-courses/course/certificate-in-working-with-couples-61/

Congratulations to Helena Hendin, who has passed her viva and completed her NCPS-accredited Diploma in Psychotherapeutic...
12/08/2026

Congratulations to Helena Hendin, who has passed her viva and completed her NCPS-accredited Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling with us. Helena is now a qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor.

Our thanks to her examiners, Carol Pearson and Emma Robotham-Tame, and our warm congratulations to Helena.

We're always delighted to mark these moments with our students. If you have been thinking about a career in counselling and psychotherapy, get in touch!

There's something worth sitting with in the question of why certain people feel immediately like home.Not home in a safe...
11/08/2026

There's something worth sitting with in the question of why certain people feel immediately like home.

Not home in a safe, settled way, necessarily. More like recognition. A sense of already knowing someone before you really do. Transactional Analysis has an explanation for this, and it's one that tends to land differently the more you sit with it.

We each carry a kind of inner blueprint for what love is supposed to feel like. It gets written early, from whatever closeness looked like when we were young, and it shapes who we're drawn to long before we've consciously thought any of it through. If closeness once came with anxiety, or distance, or having to earn it, then someone calm and straightforwardly available can feel oddly flat. While the one who keeps us slightly off-balance, slightly unsure, can feel like coming home.

Familiar and good aren't the same thing. Familiar is just known.

It's part of why someone can leave a difficult relationship and find themselves in something remarkably similar not long after, certain this time is different. The people change. The casting call, as transactional analysts would put it, tends to stay the same, until the script itself gets examined.

That examination isn't about treating every attraction with suspicion, or picking apart a relationship before it's started. It's more like learning to notice the pull. To recognise the role you're being offered, and the one you tend to offer back. That noticing is often where things start to shift.

Find out more about the work we do at Connexus Institute: connexusinstitute.com

Has this ever come up for you, in your own life or in your work with clients? We'd love to hear your thoughts below.

Transactional Analysis is one of those things that, once you come across it, you start seeing it everywhere: in the conv...
10/08/2026

Transactional Analysis is one of those things that, once you come across it, you start seeing it everywhere: in the conversations you have, the patterns you keep repeating, the dynamics that seem to play out the same way no matter how many times you try to do things differently.

The TA 101 is a two-day introduction to TA, and it runs most months here in Brighton and Hove. It's an internationally recognised course in its own right, not just a stepping stone, though it is the natural starting point for anyone thinking about further training in counselling or psychotherapy.

What it's really about, though, is understanding yourself and the people around you. Not in a clinical or theoretical way, but in an ordinary, everyday way. The kind of insight that actually changes how you see a conversation you had last week, or why a particular relationship keeps feeling the same.

It's genuinely for everyone. You don't need to be in the helping professions, or training for anything. You just need to be curious about people, including yourself.

Find out more and book your place at connexusinstitute.com/ta101.

Is there a relationship pattern in your own life that you've always found a bit puzzling? We'd love to hear what draws people to this kind of material.

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