Certificate in Sandplay Therapy & Symbol Work with Children, Adolescents & Adults
AUGUST 11 - 15 PERTH 5 days Wollaston Conference Centre, Mt Claremont $1,195
Workshop One: Foundation Skills
This course teaches you to use Sandplay Therapy and Symbol Work exercises, along with Dreamwork, active imagination and creating stories in counselling with children.
Sandplay forms a bridge between verbal therapy and the expressive therapies, combining elements of each. Sandplay allows the deeper aspects of the psyche to be worked with naturally and in safety, and is highly effective in reducing the emotional causes behind difficult behaviours. With an extensive research and literature base, Sandplay is a powerful therapeutic method for use by established professionals. It has been used with children, adolescents and adults, in schools, hospitals, welfare agencies and private therapy practices. This is the most extensive training in Sandplay therapy available in Australia. Fifteen days over four workshops.
- WORKSHOP ONE - Five days
- Introduction to Sandplay Therapy and Symbol Work - practical experience, history and theory
- Review of research and relevant literature
- Role-play techniques to support integration
- The use of drawing in counselling
- Input on sandplay equipment
- Contra-indications for use of symbolic work and role-play
- Creating mythological stories for self-understanding
- Illustrated case studies
WORKSHOP 2 Advanced Skills, Psychological Frameworks - 4 days
Psychological mechanisms activated by sandplay
Concepts from Jungian Psychology supporting sandplay
Use of mandala artwork for integration
Interpretation of spatial arrangements in the tray
Categories of tray types
Early research of the pioneers
Dr Lowenfelds theoretical framework
Skills practice and case illustrations
WORKSHOP 3 Research, Theory & Development of Practice - 3 days
Use of sandplay with special client populations
Use of Symbol Work in group programs
Review of Dora Kalffs theoretical framework
Indications for analysis of sandpictures
Working with dreams in the sandtray
Co-transference in the sandplay session
Refinement of facilitation skills
WORKSHOP 4 Transpersonal Aspects, Supervision - 3 days
Case presentations by students
Group supervision
Beyond the Shadow completion trays
Skills development
