TA communities have developed in distinct cultural, linguistic, and institutional contexts. Nordic TA associations, present since the 1970s and now joining forces across three countries, embody this reality: a long-standing tradition, a specific cultural identity, and an ongoing relationship with the broader international TA community.
How do we navigate the encounter with different TA traditions, theoretical schools, and cultural frames of reference?
This workshop draws on Perry’s Scheme of Cognitive and Ethical Development — linked to TA concepts — as a map for exploring how TA communities and their members experience and respond to plurality. Perry’s stages (Dualism, Multiplicity, Relativism, Commitment in Relativism) offer a developmental lens that connects to the Physis impulse: the drive not merely to adapt, but to grow into greater complexity without losing coherence.
Building on reflections that emerged at the 2025 EATA World Conference in Montpellier, this workshop extends that conversation into the Nordic context and its specific relationship with the wider TA world.
Through a co-creative and experiential format, participants will explore their own position within Perry’s framework, reflect on how their community relates to broader TA culture, and consider what ethical development looks like when practised collectively — across communities, countries, and traditions.
Karolina Ehretsmann Thouvenin
CTA-O, coach and facilitator
CTA-O, coach and facilitator based between France and Munich. At the crossroads of French, Icelandic and British cultures, she has lived and worked across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She trained in TA at ATORG-Paris, TAWorks-Oxford and Intact Academy-Utrecht, and brings an intercultural lens to her organisational work through her company Ibasho Consulting. She is a delegate of IFAT, France.
Luca Fornari
PTSTA-O, Executive Coach (PCC-ICF), Change Management Practitioner (PROSCI), MA in Intercultural approach to social management
PTSTA-O and PCC ICF executive coach based in Milan, member of the Social Engagement Committee of ITAA. He works with leadership development, organisational change and team coaching, with a particular focus on cross-cultural contexts.