Training Opportunities for Therapists

3 day sandtray training with Eliana Gil at my office in Boynton Beach

This course will explore the assessment and therapeutic potential of sand therapy integrated with play therapy, reviewing the theoretical models of Lowenfeld and Kalff. Information will include a description of how to set up a sand therapy practice, as well as ways to invite individuals, groups, and families. The primary emphasis will be on learning through doing (experiential work); as well as clinical discussion of how to read sand trays, and how to deepen therapeutic connection and understanding.

Specifically, the program objectives are to:

1. Provide opportunities for experiential learning

2. Review the theoretical (pioneering) models of sand therapy

3. Help participants understand the potential for symbolic communication in sand therapy as well as other play techniques

4. Provide guidelines for observing and documenting sandtrays

5. Discuss how metaphor language is incorporated and promotes therapy goals using sand and general play therapy theory and technique

6. Discuss the integration of sand therapy with other play therapy techniques

7. Provide information on setting up a sand therapy practice, including selection and placement of miniatures; height and dimensions of sandtrays; and other basic information including categories of miniatures, recording sand tray information

8. Clinicians will have opportunities to assess how to use their theoretical orientation to invite and engage clients, and how those theoretical underpinnings shape the way clinicians interpret, make meaning, inquire, and craft clinical interventions

9. Finally, participants will have opportunities to do countertransference work to enhance connection and deepen understanding

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