The Center for Culture and Sandplay: Training

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Provider Numbers
Association for Play Therapy provider #05-161
National Association for Social Workers provider #886477192
National Board for Certified Counselors #6305

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2010 SPRING Training Schedule

Last updated: January 11, 2010

Personal Consultations in Sand Therapy for Clinicians and Supervisors

A Time To...

Nourish Your Psyche, Re-Engage Personal Insights, Re-Energize for Clinical Practice, and Rejuvenate Creativity and Inspiration . . .

Explore Theory, Practice Ways of Responding to Sand Scenes . . .

Journey into Your Creative Heart, to Horizons You Have Yet to Explore . . .

Personal Consultation for Play Therapists and Play Therapist Supervisors: Creating a Safe Space for Sand and Play Therapy

Private consultations for individual and small groups of up to three clinicians/ supervisors. CEUs depend on face-to-face contact; one hour equals one ce. Locations in Virginia and Maryland by appointment. Fees: Sliding scale.

Description:

Supervision and clinical work with sand are interconnected and those who supervise play therapists using sand need specialized training in order to appropriately explore the process. The purpose of consultation is to provide clinicians and supervisors an opportunity to work with problems that may arise when using sand trays, especially regarding boundaries, understanding symbolic work, and case conceptualization during play therapy. Private consultation is especially useful for supervisors who mentor graduate students and colleagues seeking certification in play therapy. It is essential for clinicians who seek to deepen their capacity and insight.

All clinicians who use sand in clinical work are enriched through their own process in sand. Play therapists and play therapist supervisors deepen insight and enhance skills by creating personal sand scenes. Consultation most often involves creating sand scenes about issues in one's play therapy practice, exploring client experience, and honoring moments of transformation in one's personal journey. The emphasis in consultation is on creating a safe space and building skills.

To witness and behold one's own work in the sand, along with a non-judging, compassionate, informed colleague is empowering . . .

As a result of this training-consultation-supervision participants will be able to:

Explain the value for the clinician and supervisor for creating personal sand scenes.
Explain the meaning and importance of a non-judgmental, compassionate, competent, and insightful witness to hold the safe space for all clinical work in sand.
Discuss the implications for using sand tray work in the supervision of play therapists.
Describe case examples that illustrate problems when using sand tray work in play therapy and supervision of play therapists. (one case example per consultation)
Describe the role of power in sand therapy, play therapy, and supervision, and point out the dangers and challenges that require special preparation and ethics.
Describe the value and meaning of one's personal experience creating sand scenes in terms of building competency and insight.

* * * Workshops and Conferences * * *
(be sure to note the different locations!)

JANUARY

Sunday, 24th Noon to 6:00 p.m., 6 CE credits, College Park, MD

Heal the Healer: Personal Renewal for Play Therapists, Supervisors, and Clinicians

The centered therapist balances awareness of a client's process with their own internal experience. Being mindful in sand therapy requires a quiet patience; the ability to hold a complex, dynamic process, with deep respect for unique symbolic expressions. The clinical act of witnessing requires a type of focus and ability to resonate that can be draining. The process requires energy and awareness from the clinician that can diminish one's normal alert presence - physically and emotionally. The focus of this training is on ways to revitalize the clinician's inner source for such depth and creative attending.

This is a workshop for renewal from the stress of clinical work and an opportunity to practice ways to be present and grounded during the creation of, and reflection on, sand scenes. Bringing energy to play therapy is possible when the clinician takes time to play, reflect, and share support. Play therapists who work with stressful populations will have an opportunity explore ways to maintain boundaries in sand. Participants will explore techniques to foster progressive levels of integration, recovery, and renewal for healing the clinician within. Patience, self-reflection, and ways to center during sand therapy will be explored. We seek to nourish the Self in order to attend and respond from balance.

Purpose: This training is designed to help participants

Understand the philosophical roots of a mindful use of sand in play therapy.
Begin practices to increase immediacy, authenticity, and the skill of clinical witnessing.
Explore ways to create presence and safety including containment of judgments, projections, and interpretations for all forms of play therapy.
Increase patience and a mindful attitude during the unfolding layers of the symbolic process
Practice responding with increased respect, spontaneity, and connection to the client and the sand scene.
Develop approaches to tap into one's creative energy, release diminishing stress, and nourish the creative self.

Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop participants will be able to

Define a mindful, centering practice and give two implications for work in sand and play therapy.
Describe four ways to respond to the client, the sand scene, and oneself that will foster immediacy, spontaneity, authenticity, balance, and connection.
Describe four journaling practices that help the play therapist develop a mindful attitude towards his/her self.
Honor colleague's sand scenes on the journey between burnout and rejuvenation.
Describe the way projection, interpretation, and judgment seep into play therapy and distort and limit work in the sand.
Describe the value of the clinician's own sand scenes for more effective play and sand therapy.

For those who wish to use the convenience of a credit card through PayPal, please check to make sure a workshop is still open by emailing Loraine Hunsaker at sandplayvoices@cultureplay.com. Loraine maintains the most up-to-date registrations that come in by phone or mail. For quality and individualized training, we keep all workshops held in College Park under 10 participants. Thank You.

To submit payment via PayPal (personal checks also accepted) for Heal the Healer: Personal Renewal for Play Therapists, Supervisors, and Clinicians

FEBRUARY

Friday, 12th 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. & Saturday, 13th 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Virginia Beach, Virginia

*New*

http://vapt.cisat.jmu.edu/winterconference10/index.html

Narratives in the Sand: Composing Metaphors in Play Therapy

As clinicians, we have opportunities to witness our client's story, support their journey to reclaim integrity and meaning, and help them construct healing narratives. In play therapy, working with clients across the age span, we use metaphors and symbols to ground our understanding and direct our interventions. The narrative play therapist works must be aware of three emerging worlds: the client's, the clinician's, and the collective cultural world. Narrative techniques (such as poetry, journaling, and fairy tales) and cultural myths and symbols will help us explore these worlds in sandplay and play therapy.

Learning Outcomes Participants will be able to:

Explain the theoretical rationale for the use of metaphor in sandplay and play therapy;
Identify and compose metaphors from symbols in play therapy and narrative sand therapy;
Explain how diverse cultures are reflected in narrative sand techniques in play therapy;
Examine the ethical use of narratives, symbols, and metaphors in play therapy

Exploring Sand Therapy in the Supervision of Play Therapists

Supervision and clinical work with sand are interconnected in ways that are as complex as sand therapy itself. Hence, those who supervise the use of sand need specialized training in order to fully appreciate the process. The purpose of this training is to provide supervisors an opportunity to work with problems that arise when using sand, especially regarding boundaries and case conceptualization. Case examples and experiential work will guide participants as they explore ethical principles for supervision and use of sand.

This training is especially useful for supervisors who mentor graduate students and colleagues seeking certification in play therapy. Participants will explore boundaries for supervision, ethical considerations, and clinical skills to create a safe space for supervision, and respond to sand scenes.

Learning Outcomes Participants will be able to:

Cite the implications for using sand in supervision and its clinical in play therapy.
Describe two case examples that illustrate problems when using sand in supervision.
Describe the role of power in sand therapy, play therapy, and supervision, and point out the dangers and challenges that require special preparation and ethics.
Describe supervisor skills when sand is a part of therapy and also when sand is used solely for supervision, and not with clients.

MARCH

Sunday, 14th Noon to 6:00 p.m., 6 CE College Park, MD

Ethics, Supervision, and Clinical Practice: Three Dimensions for Play Therapists and Supervisors

Training, supervision, and clinical work with sand are interconnected in ways that are as complex as sand therapy itself. Hence, clinicians and those who teach and supervise the use of sand need specialized training in order to fully appreciate the process. A supervisor will want to be knowledgeable and skilled specific to sand therapy, and prepared to address the layers of co-transference when guiding the clinician. The clinician must be grounded enough to respond to ambiguities and layers of process - reactions in her clients and within herself.

The purpose of this training is to give clinicians, educators, and supervisors an opportunity to work with problems that arise when using sand, especially regarding boundaries and case conceptualization. Our work centers on sand as a projective process involving perceptions of experience, as well as unconscious images and themes. Key ideas to be examined include how the creation of a sand scene precipitates shifts in states of consciousness, attention, and memory and the implications for supervision and training in sand therapy.

There are layers of story represented in sand that must be recognized and respected; the verbal and nonverbal, the mundane and deeply transpersonal, sounds and movement, and that which is expressed as well as hidden. Case examples and experiential work will guide participants as they explore ethical principles for training, supervision and use of sand.

This training is especially useful for supervisors who mentor graduate students and colleagues seeking certification in play therapy. Participants will explore boundaries for supervision, ethical considerations, and clinical skills to witness, create a safe space for supervision, and respond to sand scenes.

Purpose: This training is designed to help participants

Conceptualize the use of sand in play therapy and supervision.
Understand principled clinical practices and ethical training standards when using sand in clinical practice and in supervision.
Understand the importance of a code of honor when using sand in play therapy.
Understand the significance of co-transference in case conceptualization and while responding to sand scenes.
Practice responding as a supervisor and supervisee when using sand.
Develop ways to journal to increase clinical competence as a play therapist and as a play therapy supervisor.

Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop participants will be able to

Define a code of honor and the implications for using sand in supervision and in the clinical use of play and in play therapy.
Describe three case examples that illustrate problems when using sand in supervision and in work with clients.
Describe the role of power in sand therapy, play therapy, and supervision, and point out the dangers and challenges that require special preparation and ethics.
Describe supervisor skills when sand is a part of therapy and also when sand is used solely for supervision (not with clients).
Describe the value of creating sand scenes for personal insight for both clinician and supervisor.

To submit payment via PayPal (personal checks also accepted) for Ethics, Supervision, and Clinical Practice: Three Dimensions for Play Therapists and Supervisors

Friday, 19th 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 6 CE Gainesville, VA

Phoenix Family Counseling & Play Therapy Center, PLL
Identifying Archetypes in the Sandtray: An Experiential Exploration for Clinicians and Supervisors in Play Therapy *New*

Registration and Information: contact Liz Fong to register at eliteprogram@gmail.com

A Jungian understanding of sand therapy encompasses three elements: unconscious activity such as archetypes and complexes, the context of the client's life-world, and the dynamics between clinician and client. In play therapy, archetypes such as the Child, Creativity, Play, and the Journey emerge in purposeful sand scenes. Special attention will be given to the role of projection, boundaries for play therapists and supervisors, and skills for amplification. In this experiential training participants will examine the power of archetypal activity, for the client, the play therapist, and the play therapist supervisor.

Learning Outcomes

After the session, participants will be able to describe the role of unconscious activity in play therapy, specifically archtypes, symbols, and myths in a client's sand scene
After the session, participants will be able to describe the role of projection and boundaries for supervision and play therapy.
After the session, participants will be able to describe techniques to develop a deeper understanding of archetypal activity including the ethical and cultural dimensions relevant to sand.
After the session, participants will have insight into their own interpersonal process with sand.

APRIL

Sunday, 11th Noon to 6:00 p.m. 6 CE College Park, MD

Grief and Loss: Reflective Practice for Play Therapists and Play Therapist Supervisors
Fee: $160

All therapy is in some way about grief and loss. Our experience of loss begins as infants and continues into our clinical practice. Sand therapy offers a medium to honor dimensions of grief including familial, cultural, identity, relational, and intra-psychic loss. In this workshop participants will explore ways to support grieving, allowing the process to unfold naturally, at the pace of the client. For play therapists, the silence and ritual-like process of sand are especially helpful for clients who need a nonverbal component to therapy.

Clinicians must also have a space to express the loss they experience in their practice. Grief carried by the clinician will be considered as a source for healing, compassion, and authentic connection with the client and the sand scene. Part of the purpose of this training is to create a holding space for the clinician. When the therapist is able to express loss, freely, without judgment, without some invasive explanation, he recollects the ground and receptivity for offering a healing experience for clients.

Purpose: This training will help participants

Understand how sand therapy offers a medium to express grief and loss throughout the life span.
Attend to expressions of loss symbolized in sand scenes including aspects of mind, body, spirit, relationship, identity, and culture.
Identify markers for loss in the constellation of symbols in sand, and practice ways to witness and validate expressions of grief.
Gain insight into the healing qualities of the clinician's grief; exploring mindful ways to honor loss in the sand.
Integrate the use of sand for grief in play therapy.

Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop participants will

Define sand as a projective technique appropriate for grief, and name three qualities of sand therapy that allow for respectful, non-invasive expressions of grief.
Describe an example of a symbol or symbol cluster a client might use to represent loss related to mind, body, spirit, culture, or self.
Give three examples of responses appropriate to honor grief in sand scenes.
Explain two ways the use of sand enhances clinician awareness of their own grief and the implications for co-transference and clinician competency.
Explain types of loss that are likely to emerge in your play therapy practice and how sand can support your work with clients in grief and loss.

To submit payment via PayPal (personal checks also accepted) for Grief and Loss: Reflective Practice for Play Therapists and Play Therapist Supervisors

MAY

Sunday, 16th Noon to 6:00 p.m. 6 CE College Park, MD

Transformation for Play Therapists and Play Therapist Supervisors: Spiritual Journeys in the Sand
Fee: $160

When we speak of the essence of being human we include conceptions of psyche and spirit. We are creative beings, able to represent a past, envision a future, and craft images to reflect meaning throughout life's journey. Woven into our constructions of meaning are hopes and beliefs. Across cultures we anchor our life rituals to our experience and conceptions of the transpersonal. In those clinical practices where transpersonal perspectives provide a lens to view clinical process, the idea of wholeness includes personal conceptions of a life-purpose beyond the mundane. We seek transformation and wholeness.

In this workshop, participants will explore representations of Spirit, religious icons, ideas about life-purpose, and constructions of transpersonal meaning in sand scenes. Key ideas such as transformation, the transpersonal, synchronicity, belief, and hope will ground our experiential journey in sand. Participants will examine the role of the transpersonal in their practice and in the work of their clients.

For play therapists the importance of incorporating transpersonal ideas goes beyond constructions of religion. Play therapy can offer a safe space where the clinician-witness honors the client's representations, listens attentively to stories from his creative soul, and validates the potential for healing beyond concrete treatment goals. Being fully present, non-invasive, non-judgmental, and allowing philosophical questions to emerge creates a medium wherein transpersonal experience is expressed in the sand.

Purpose: This training is designed to help participants

Understand the importance of spiritual identity and purpose in the lives of clients and clinicians.
Explore representations of hope, belief, life-purpose, and the transpersonal.
Examine the assumptions, expectations, and pre-suppositions that distort our understanding of transpersonal representations in sand scenes.
Understand the ritual nature of creating sand scenes, the role of the clinician, and the revitalizing experience of witnessing beliefs and hope in sand.
Understand approaches to incorporate transpersonal expression into play therapy.

Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to

Describe the relevance of transpersonal representations in sand scenes.
Name 4 diverse types of religious icons and 4 non-specific symbols useful for sand therapy.
Amplify two representations of belief and hope, and describe the possible connections for client and for clinician.
Describe at least two ways to acknowledge and validate transpersonal experience in play therapy.
Describe the relevance of personal experience in sand for explorations of transformation.

To submit payment via PayPal (personal checks also accepted) for Transformation for Play Therapists and Play Therapist Supervisors: Spiritual Journeys in the Sand

JUNE

Thursday, 3rd and Friday, 4th Boulder, CO

Sandplay Therapists of America Conference
Amplifying Cultural Worlds: Meaning and Integrity in Sandplay

Registration and Information: http://www.sandplay.org

Dora Kalff carried on Jung's respect for global cultures in her delineation of Sandplay as a ritual space, wherein cultural traditions can be expressed, honored, and contained. Joseph Campbell provided guidance to amplify and cull the depths of cultural myths and traditions, creating a dialogue with the unconscious. This workshop will demonstrate the amplification of culture in indigenous, multicultural sand scenes from Navajo, Cherokee, Jewish, Anglo, and Hawaiian cultural worlds.

Describe the importance of anchoring and cultural amplification in sandplay.
Explain the value and suggested types of qualitative research methods useful for studies in sandplay.
State the relevance of altered states of consciousness in sandplay for ethical practice, witnessing, and holding the process, and explain the role of the clinician regarding ethnocentrism, alienation and marginalization.

Sunday, 13th and Monday, 14th Noon to 6:00 p.m. 12 CE College Park, MD

Advanced Sand Therapy for Play Therapists and Play Therapist Supervisors
Sunday: Understanding Sand Scenes in Play Therapy *New*
Monday: Understanding Sand Scenes - The Meaning of Symbols in Play Therapy

Containment, Reflection, Amplification, and Facilitation are core components for effective sand therapy - both sandplay and sand tray. This workshop presents theory and clinical interventions beyond one's initial work with sand. Feedback is individualized so that each participant can focus on those areas where new skills and insights are most needed. Our goal is safe and competent sand therapy regardless of the clinician's theoretical orientation, as well as increased depth and balance in the sand therapy process.

Participants will explore two of Jung's vital constructs, the complex and archetype, and how the amplification of symbols and myths is used to understand these constructs in sand. Principles for an ethical, self-aware approach to conceptualize sand scenes, and praxis to understand and respond to rich images will accompany experience in the sand. Case examples will link theory and clinical practice with personal insight.

Critical questions we will consider: Where does sandplay fit in play therapy? How must the role of the clinician change? What aspects of play therapy traditions might enhance the clinical use of sand? What additional training does the play therapist need in order to discern the critical differences in sandplay and play therapy, and respond appropriately when combining the two in her practice?

Purpose: This training will help participants

Understand the role of complexes and archetypes in sandplay therapy.
Develop skills for amplification of symbols and myths in sand scenes.
Incorporate principles for an ethical, self-aware practice of Jungian Sandplay.
View one's own sand scene with an eye on the constellation of archetypes and aspects of complexes related to the professional role of the clinician.
Develop an appreciation for the powerful dynamics activated by images, icons, and Voice as sand scenes evolve.
Discern differences in principles and practice for play therapy and analytic work with sand.

Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop participants will

Define archetypes and Jung's concept of complexes and give an example of each as they may emerge in the creation of a sand scene.
Describe four steps for symbol amplification and give an example of this process as it reflects the activity in a sand scene.
Name three principles for a code of honor for sandplay therapy.
State boundaries for the use of sand in play therapy.
Reflect on the personal experience of creating a sand scene and state the relevance of experience for competency as a Jungian oriented sandplay clinician.

To submit payment via PayPal (personal checks also accepted) for Advanced Sand Therapy for Play Therapists and Play Therapist Supervisors

JULY

Sunday, 11th & Monday, 12th Noon to 6:00 p.m. 12 CE College Park, MD

Ethics, Supervision, and Clinical Practice: Three Dimensions of Sand for Play Therapists and Supervisors and Amplifying Cultural Worlds: Meaning and Integrity in Sandplay (Combined Training with 3rd Day Personal Consults)

See descriptions above.

Registration is required for all training events. For College Park workshops, email sandplayvoices@cultureplay.com to request registration. Our workshops are small for individualized attention and spaces are limited. For registration and information about other listed training events, see the listed website.

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