Karen Bergstrom, Ph.D. & John Townsend, Ph.D. The Townsend Personal and Relational Assessment Tool Training Friday, December 13, 2024, 2:00-3:00 PM ET

The Townsend Personal and Relational Assessment Tool Training 

Friday, December 13, 2024 

2:00 – 3:00 PM ET 

Webinar Presenters 

Karen Bergstrom, Ph.D., is a passionate and long-established thought leader. She optimizes her over thirty years of experience as an executive in nonprofit agencies and enjoys her role as a leadership coach. In the past decade, she helped develop, launch, and currently co-leads Safe Families for Children (SFFC), which received the Peter F Drucker Non-Profit Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Her most important role is co-parenting her four adult children with her husband Rick. Karen successfully completed the Townsend Leadership Program and the credentialing process to lead the TLP. Now a licensed team director, she is well trained and qualified to lead a TLP group. Karen is also a therapist in private practice who specializes in working with adolescents, families, and women. Karen received her bachelor of science in human services from California State Fullerton (1979) and her doctorate in psychology from California Graduate Institute in Westwood, California (1993). 

John Townsend, Ph.D., is a New York Times bestselling author, business consultant, leadership coach and psychologist. He has written 35 books, selling over 10 million copies, including Leading From Your Gut, People Fuel, and the Boundaries series, which has been translated into 40 languages. Dr. Townsend engages with leaders, organizations, and individuals around the globe, offering life-changing solutions to their challenges. He and his organization provide team coaching, executive coaching, corporate consulting, and give conference presentations. John also personally coaches leaders, families and family businesses. Dr. Townsend founded the fully accredited Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling at Concordia University Irvine, offering Masters degrees and certificates in Organizational Leadership, Executive Coaching and Counseling, as well as a Ph.D. program in Counseling Supervision and Education. Forbes Magazine designated the Ph.D. program as the #1 online doctorate in counseling in the country. John founded the Townsend Leadership Program, a team-based holistic group which develops leaders in the US and Canada. Dr. Townsend has personally trained the TLP Directors, and they focus on the necessary task and people skills of the leader. Dr. Townsend and his team have created the Townsend Personal and Relational Assessment Tool (https://tprat.com), a 10-minute online, research-proven reliable and valid instrument, which measures the internal character capacities of an individual. 

Summary 

The Townsend Personal and Relational Assessment Tool (TPRAT) has been established as a reliable and valid measurement of an individual’s character structure. Character structure is defined as that set of capacities required to meet the demands of reality. Psychological and emotional disorders often function as symptoms of deeper issues derived from character deficiencies. There are four character capacities which comprise character:    

• Attachment, which incorporates the attributes of bonding, healthy need-based relationships, vulnerability, and emotional access;  

• Separation, which involves determining self-definition, owning one’s “voice,” establishing personal boundaries, and confronting competently;  

• Integration, which focuses on managing the positive and negative aspects of oneself, others, and the world, dealing well with failure, imperfection, and loss, and minimizing narcissism;  

• Adulthood, which addresses clarity in one’s life purpose and career, maintaining a mutual stance with those in authority, and having a mature perspective on one’s sexuality.  

Drs. Bergstrom and Townsend will provide attendees with a foundation for competence in using the TPRAT with their clients.   

Learning Objectives 

Participants will… 

1. Describe the four character capacities assessed by the TPRAT: Attachment, Separation, Integration, and Adulthood. 

2. Evaluate the role of character structure in contributing to psychological and emotional challenges, differentiating between symptoms and root character issues. 

3. Analyze how each character capacity—Attachment, Separation, Integration, and Adulthood—presents in clients’ lives and relates to their overall mental health. 

Continuing Education  

At this time, there will be no Continuing Education (CE) credits offered for this webinar.