Speaker
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Maja DelibašićPsychologist, certified transactional analyst-psychotherapist (CTA-P), and provisional teaching and supervising transactional analyst (PTSTA-P) with the EATA and ITAA. Aside from TA, she is trained in, and uses play therapy and gestalt in her psychotherapy work with groups and individuals. In 2021. she became interested in eco TA method and is currently establishing her practice in village of Gornji Matejevac in the south of Serbia. Maja started to work as a psychologist at a mental health clinic, and then moved on to work in different NGOs as as a counselor and a psychotherapist with vulnerable groups like students, LGBTQ+ community, women who survived violence… In 2017. she established her private practice Centar Novi list where she works as a psychotherapist, teacher and supervisor. She is engaged in different pro bono activities – building supportive communities for women, coordinates international poetry festival ‘Woman Scream’ in Serbia, promoting sustainable living and ecological empathy.
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Dec 04 - 06 2026
- Time: 11:00 am - 6:00 am
Winter Dance of Darkness and Light
Dates: 4–6 December 2026
Friday, 17:00–21:00
Saturday, 13:00–20:00
Sunday, 9:30–12:00
Duration: 18 academic hours
Location: Centar Proventus, Zagreb
Method: Eco-TA, grounded in transactional analysis theory
During this three-day gathering, held in the darkest part of the year, we aim to create space for you to encounter both familiar and unfamiliar aspects of your personal, ancestral and collective history—and to explore how we might create new meaning from them together.
In ancient cultures, whose echoes we can still hear today, this was a time for remembering our ancestors, visiting the dead, and honouring supernatural beings, knowledge and practices. It was believed to be a time when the veils between worlds grew thin, when we were at our most vulnerable in the natural world—and therefore a time for ritual, connection and protection.
The world as it is organised today leaves little room for sitting in darkness, pausing before growth, or honouring everything that came before us. There is no time for rituals that bring light into the darkness while we wait for the days to grow longer.
For us as human beings—and particularly for those of us who are therapists—it is essential to develop the capacity to embrace the complexity and interconnectedness of darkness and light in the world, in others and within ourselves. We need to be able to resist the pressure to escape into superficial positivity and constant action.
We invite you to challenge this demand and join us in turning towards the darkness, the cyclical rhythms and interconnectedness of nature, and the magic of this time of year—a magic far deeper and older than the neoliberal magic of festive lights and shopping.
We will explore the archetype of the female healer and its history in this region; the magic of words spoken with intention; curses and blessings, and the place they hold within us, our relationships and transactional analysis. We will engage with intuition and explore the deep, universal knowledge that lives within us. We will also reflect on communities and the creation of communities that can hold and support all these processes.
We will work with space, plants and history through storytelling, searching for answers, rituals, expression and creativity.
I look forward to meeting you in Zagreb.
Fees:
We are offering eight places for TA trainees at a special rate of €190.
Early registration by 31 October 2026: €240
Registration by 30 November 2026: €290
The workshop is led by Maja Delibašić, PTSTA-P, who has been enthusiastically practising eco-TA since 2022 in the village of Gornji Matejevac near Niš, both in therapeutic work and in her educational practice. She presented the results of her pilot study on the effects of an eco-TA personal growth group as a poster presentation at the WTAC conference in Montpellier. In recent years, she has actively presented eco-TA through workshops and lectures at various professional conferences in Serbia and Croatia.