Workshop Discription:

This training is focused on both academic knowledge and also hands on practice and experience. This will allow the students to move from knowing to practicing, practicing to evaluating to see the gaps needed for development in practice. Reading about sand tray is easy, providing quality sand tray therapy is very difficult. 

We will cover the history and foundation including Dora Kalff. We will cover the partnership between Kalff and Margaret Lowenfeld (World Technique). The course will cover how it came to the US and how's it's been adapted over time to work with various population, issues and modalities. The course will also cover special topics such as legal and ethical issues including connection to the NASW code of ethics, cultural adaptations and considerations, and throughout the training the students will focus on the therapeutic powers of play.

Learning Objectives For Sand Tray Therapy. 
* To learn and understand the history of play therapy and sand tray therapy. 
* To learn the basic principles of Play Therapy skills and the founding members of play therapy.
* To review and learn APT best practices in play therapy, and learn about the APT organization and credentialing process. 
* To learn basic language and communication skills of a play therapist, and to practice them throughout the workshop. 
* To be able to distinguish between sand tray therapy, general modality approaches (CBT, SFT, etc) and sand play therapy. 
* To be able to understand the basics of how to set up a sand tray therapy room including all equipment including miniatures, trays and additional items, etc. 
* To be able to explain and give rational for why we use play therapy including sand tray therapy and be able to explain that to clients, parents and families. 
* To understand and distinguish the difference between directive and non directive play therapy approaches.
* To understanding the limits of sand tray therapy and when it should and shouldn't be use in play therapy practice. 
* To understand legal limitations and that this course does not train or prepare any provider to use sand tray therapy as a means to interpret trays formally or informally for any reason. (Court, abuse, etc)
* To build skills in providing and processing both directive and non-directive trays. 
* To learn additional skills to help the therapist deepen the trays for clients, couples, families and groups focusing on The Powers Of Play. 
* To build skills in providing and processing trays with individuals both youth and adults, then couples and families, as well as special topics such as change processes, grief and loss, internal conflicts, blending sand tray with other modalities - CBT, EMDR,SFT, etc, and enhancing internal positive resources and strengths. 
* To learn the skills of how to document play therapeutic techniques and photograph sand trays for the chart in professional and ethical ways

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Payment and Cancelation Policy 

* Full payment is due at time of reserving your slot. 
* You can get a full refund until 7 days to the start of the workshop. 

* Once we are in 7 days the fee is then non-refundable