The Service Award is established to recognize members who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of the association and to its development as an organization that promotes transactional analysis in the region, supports its members, and offers a social benefit to the public in accordance with its vision. They will be recognized for their commitment, the nature of their service, and the “I’m OK, You’re OK” manner in which they conduct themselves in the process of offering that service.

Awardees

2022 - Suriyaprakash C

Suriyaprakash C receiving the Award

SURIYAPRAKASH, PhD, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Jansons School of Business, has International Accreditation as Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (TSTA) in the organisational field. He is a Master Practitioner in NLP. He has nearly three decades experience in the industry, teaching MBAs, and industrial training, counselling, coaching and consultancy. His specialties include Organisational Behaviour, Applied Behavioural Sciences and Human Relations Development. His research interests are on personality and leadership studies from the Indian philosophical perspective. He was the Co-chair of the Training Standards Committee, Training and Certification Council of Transactional Analysts, USA (T&CC).  He was Vice-President-Operations (2007-2009) and Vice-President, Research and Innovation (2010-2012), President (2015-2017) of the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA). Currently he is Vice President - Professional Standards of the ITAA , VP - Research and Trustee, South Asian Association of Transactional Analysts (SAATA). He is Trustee of Child First Society and Yellow Train School. He received the Muriel James Living Principles Award 2013 of the ITAA, and his passion includes study in the fields of personality, leadership, wellbeing and Indian philosophy. Starting off as an engineer and shifting gears to a completely humanistic profession you have been an inspiration and a role model to many including me. I would like to acknowledge that his contribution to SAATA and ITAA is commendable and invaluable.  SAATA is his brain child and I would like to put forth all that he has laboured for it in the past 16 years of its existence: It was his idea to create a regional body to hold the TA community in India. He authored the SAATA By-laws.  He was  the founder VP of Research and publication.  He’s been the secretary of SAATA formally from 2012-2016 and then 2018 -2022 (and informally always:) The idea of awards, both Professional Excellence and Service was his idea., along with putting down the guidelines.  He  along with Susan worked and created the procedure of the SAATA Diploma exam. Has been part of the scientific committee for Conferences ensuring quality of the workshops offered. He has been Instrumental in the operational aspects of the conferences too. Has  been the record keeper of all SAATA documents and minutes. He was the first President of ITAA from India, paving the way for others. Last and not the least he’s the 'go to' person for all of us at SAATA when in doubt.

2020 – Rema Giridhar

Rema Giridhar receiving the Award

2018 – I.A. Mohanraj

I.A. Mohanraj receiving the Award