2024 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Keynote Speakers

Anna Fleming

Tēnā koutou katoa. Ko Anna Hinehou Fleming tōku ingoa, he uri ahau no Ngāpuhi, no Ngāti Hine, no Tūhoe hoki.

Anna Hinehou Fleming (she/her/ia) is wahine Māori registered psychotherapist, living and working in Tāmaki Makaurau. Beginning her career as a social worker, then training in psychotherapy at AUT, Anna has worked with individuals and whānau for nearly 20 years. Her therapeutic approach combines her working and personal experiences with a focus on attachment and developmental theory particularly from a Māori perspective.

This focus on indigenous health informs Anna’s roles as a Psychotherapist in private practice, Lecturer in the Department of Psychotherapy and Counselling at AUT, Tumuaki of Waka Oranga – National Collective of Māori Psychotherapy Practitioners and Council Member of APANZ – Association of Psychotherapists Aotearoa New Zealand. Anna lives with her whānau alongside te awa o Wai o Taiki in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.

Karangarua – Standing in a Double Relationship

Karangarua refers to the call of the karanga, the first voices heard upon entering a marae. These calls are an exchange, the first calls into relationship, the beginnings of asking who we are and what it is we bring as we venture closer together.

Relationship is a fundamental concept both in Psychotherapy and in Te Ao Māori. In Te Ao Māori, relationship is fundamental to wellbeing and includes not only relationship to ourselves and those closest to us, but also to the spiritual realm, the environment around us and the knowledge that we hold.

In this presentation, Anna will explore the relationships that underpin concepts of connection in Te Ao Māori. She will also explore the shadow side of disconnection, which have impacted Māori most particularly through colonisation and urbanisation. Understanding of these concepts and relationships supports us as we navigate the psychotherapeutic encounter, making visible the connections both to the internal and to the external which exist in those we see.

Jo Stuthridge

MSc, NZAP, Jo is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst and a registered psychotherapist in Aotearoa, New Zealand. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Dunedin and is director of the Physis Institute. She has published several articles and book chapters on transactional analysis, with a special interest in trauma and is a past a co-editor for the Transactional Analysis Journal.

Currently she juggles professional interests with an enduring love for the mountains and bush, attempts to grow fruit trees and the wonders of grandchildren.

Goosebumps: Moments of Truth in Psychotherapy

My reflections on karanga led me to the heart of the psychotherapy endeavour: an encounter with the other. Karanga involves an encounter between people in the physical realm and also an exchange between the physical and spiritual realms. A relational approach to transactional analysis involves a meeting between self and other and an exchange between conscious and unconscious realms. The alchemy of this encounter can produce transformation for the client in moments of truth, sometimes heralded by goosebumps: a prickling sensation at the back of the neck. This keynote speech will address some fundamental questions: ‘How do we invite the client to meet their own unconscious?’ ‘What is this mysterious realm?’ and, a perilous concept these days, ‘What is truth?’

Keith Tudor

PhD, MSc(Psychotherapy), CTA(P), TSTA(P), Keith is Professor of Psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology where he also co-leads Moana Nui – Research in the Psychological Therapies.

Keith has been involved in TA for over 35 years, in which he is also a well-published author.

He has a strong interest in the racial psychiatry tradition within TA and a strong commitment to bicultural and cross-cultural engagement.

Karangarua – Being Analytic and Transactional, Psychological and Social, International and Local

Eric Berne founded transactional analysis (TA) in response to psychoanalysis, and referred to TA as a social psychiatry and, by implication, a social psychology, a perspective taken up by some early transactional analysts. Yet Berne himself focused his theory and practice primarily on transactions between therapist and patient in the clinic. Similarly, and notwithstanding the radical psychiatry tradition in TA, and presence and contributions of colleagues in the fields of education and organisations, transactional analysts in the fields of psychotherapy and counselling generally privilege the psychological over the social. Finally, as it was founded in the Western – and Northern – intellectual tradition and, specifically, that of American ego psychology, it needs to consider whether its theory and practice applies to and in other cultures and contexts. This keynote speech will consider various aspects of these double relationships.