Warm Fuzzies and Cold Prickles
Parable by Claude Steiner
Stroke Economy
(Eric Berne, Transactional Analysis)
Five Injunctions
Don’t give strokes you want to give.
Don’t accept strokes you want to get.
Don’t ask for strokes you need.
Don’t reject strokes you dislike
Don’t give yourself strokes
Two Kind of Strokes
Positive
Negative
Stroke Profile
Exercise 1
Pair
Draw Your Stroke Profile
TALK!
Exercise 2
Pair
Ask: Write down 5 ‘Positive Strokes’ you want for yourself
Give: Write down 5 ‘Positive Strokes’ for your partner
TALK!

Warm fuzzies