Beginning Express Sandtray

About this event

In this workshop participants will learn the method of sandtray therapy through demonstrations and the opportunity to personally experience your own sandtrays. Through the use of sand, water, and miniatures, you will learn how the unconscious manifests itself and how to bridge the play into conscious awareness. You will also learn how to witness and honor the creative play process. You will personally experience a variety of expressive play therapy modalities and learn how to integrate them into a sandtray session. No prerequisites are required. John utilizes a client-centered sandtray approach.

At the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

• Explain the use of sandtray in a play therapy session through personal experiential exercises

• Demonstrate how to create and set up a play therapy sandtray room

• Asses how to witness and honor the play therapy process

• Explain the use of sand and water in play therapy

• Summarize how to document and photograph a sandtray play therapy session

• Discuss and practice the role of a therapist during the play therapy sandtray session

• Explain how to incorporate expressive play therapies in the sandtray session