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Sandtray Basic Tools & Methods
Sandtray Level: 1 – Foundations
Dates: Feb. 2-3, 2024
Times: 9:15am-5:15pm ET
Location: Bloomington, IN
Instructor: Heather Maritano
Contact Hours: 12 CEUs/ 2 days
Prerequisites: None
Description
This 2-day workshop introduces the basic tools and methods of sandtray play therapy for both children and adults.
Participants will explore various elements of the sandtray process in the context of clinical practice. This training interweaves didactic discussions with hands-on exercises using miniature figurines and sand trays.
The purpose of the exercises is to demonstrate how relational play may be used as a neural exercise to address the stress that arises in the nervous system during traumatic or other problematic experiences. From these exercises, workshop participants will explore and discuss how sandtray play helps to develop flexibility in the nervous system. Participants will have opportunities to practice and refine basic skills and to ask questions in a small-group setting.
Objectives
- Learn the history and theoretical background for sandtray therapy.
- Identify the difference between sandplay and sandtray play therapy
- Identify the differences in sandtray play therapy with children and adults.
- Learn how to create and maintain a sandtray play therapy clinical space
- Utilize sand and symbols to explore depth and meaning in sandtray play therapy
- Develop beginning skills for facilitating sandtray play therapy in clinical practice
- Identify sandtray play therapy process from a science informed perspective
- Articulate how trauma is stored and processed through image and sensory means.
- Identify ethical practices, competencies, & risks in sandtray play therapy
Prerequisites
None
Prior knowledge or experience with the sandtray process is helpful but not necessary.
Training Checklist
All sections must be marked as complete to receive certificate.
Inner Resources Training Institute is an approved provider for the following organizations:
Indiana Professional Licensing Board has approved this organization to provide category 1 continuing education hours for LSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, and LMHCs. Provider # 98000765A
NBCC, ACEP No. 7363
Association for Play Therapy Approved Provider #07-200
Registered Sand Therapist Trainer RST-C/T
World Association of Sand Therapy Professionals
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