Introduction
The TIFF Network is the organisation of people dedicated to the provision of TIFF as a tool for personal development. The director is Susannah Temple PhD CTA.

 

Susannah has been developing the concept of functional fluency for many years, and in 2002 gained a doctorate for her creation of The Temple Index of Functional Fluency (TIFF). She has had a long career in education in a wide variety of schools and other settings. Her focus throughout has been on human development and how to enhance positive learning for life. Susannah was a schools counsellor for seven years, then ran her own psychotherapy practice and worked as a child therapist for the local Joint Agencies Child Abuse Team. Susannah is a certified educational transactional analyst and designed and taught the educational TA modules on the Integrated Masters Programme of the Faculty of Arts and Education at the University of Plymouth over a ten-year period. The functional fluency model is a development of TA theory. Susannah’s doctoral research, culminating in TIFF, won a European Association of Transactional Analysis silver medal in 2003.

TIFF Providers
The purpose of the TIFF Network is to licence TIFF Providers, then support and enhance their provision of TIFF for the benefit of clients. In order to do this, TIFF Network membership provides a cooperative and collaborative partnership of encouragement and inspiration based on the functional fluency philosophy and principles and the use of the model.

TIFF Providers enjoy the support and challenge of regular meetings and the ongoing sharing of creative ideas for developing, improving and using TIFF.

The TIFF Network is expanding to include practitioners from different countries and those wanting to use TIFF with specialised groups. Appropriate specialised TIFF versions and translations are being developed. Making Contact. 

Becoming a TIFF Provider
Prospective TIFF Providers undertake a comprehensive training process to become licensed to use TIFF as part of their professional practice.

This means that in addition to their respective qualifications as professionals in their own field, they complete appropriate study of transactional analysis, demonstrate proficiency in counselling skills and meet the TIFF licensing criteria.

TIFF licensing criteria
To become a TIFF Provider, licensed to use TIFF professionally, practitioners need to be well prepared so that they understand fully how the TIFF instrument works, what its potential is and how to make best use of it on behalf of their clients.

Click for a summary of the “Criteria for Becoming a TIFF Provider”.

Click to read about what it means to "Become a TIFF Provider".

Click to read the "TIFF Values and Intentions Statement". 

The TIFF Licensing Process
Training takes place in open or in-house groups of between five and ten people over a period of about six months – or longer, if that suits the group. Group support and challenge is important.
The process consists of a variety of activities including:
•    Personal completion of TIFF with individual feedback and ongoing use of the experience as part of the group work.
•    Input in the form of workshops, seminars and tutorials.
•    Using TIFF with “practice clients”.
•    Supervision to prepare for delivering TIFF and for debriefing.
•    Case studies, experiential exercises and discussion.

These activities form nine elements of study organised into five modules, which include seven workshop days. There is some flexibility in the timing and arrangement of the elements to suit particular groups.

TIFF Licence is granted at the discretion of the Network Director, when the Criteria have been suitably met by the individual.

Information on becoming a TIFF Provider
Contact the TIFF Network for more information about the TIFF training process and the TIFF Licence.