Title:
Sandplay Secrets: a two-day program for clinicians in a Queensland Sunshine Coast haven
Format:
in-person
Dates and Times:
14th & 15th March 2026 (Saturday and Sunday)
9 am – 4 pm
Sunshine Butterflies Training Facility
468 McKinnon Drive, Cooroibah, QLD 4565
(5 minutes from Noosa, parking on site)
Description:
Sandplay Therapy is confirmed by clinicians and researchers as a powerful, transformative therapy that WORKS for a broad range of clients, – children, adolescents and adults. A trained Sandplay Therapist helps their clients discover, disclose or work through what is hidden so they find healing, sustained change and growth – regardless of their ability to verbally communicate. Children refine pathways to manage behaviour or distress, adolescents refine identity, and adults find meaning.
Participants can engage in respectful, non-confrontative activities through which they will experience sand, water and created images. They will explore how and when to make sandplay magnetic in their own settings, and to distinguish themes and clinical clues as therapy progresses. Heather will share her 20 years of Sandplay Therapy experience. She will ensure that all questions, from beginners or experts, find answers. Participants will also examine a completed Sandplay Therapy case, with full clinical outline and sandplay case photographs.
STANZA Certification hours:
12 STANZA and Professional Development hours
Cost:
$395
CPD Learning Objectives:
In this program participants will:
- enhance and enliven their Sandplay work with their clients
- deepen their competence to engage clients in mental, emotional and physical healing
- develop their clinical understanding of IMAGE and SYMBOL in depth therapy
- increase their understanding of Jungian analytical psychology, on which authentic Sandplay is grounded
Presenter’s Details
Presented by:
Heather Lesley-Swan
Professional Qualifications:
Dip Law, Grad Dip Comm.M, Grad Dip Couns. M.app Psochoth, ISST-CST, TM, IAAP, Juingian Analyst, CG Jung Institute Zurich
Presenter Bio:
Heather is a Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst, Psychotherapist, Sandplay Therapist and Teaching Member of ISST, based in Sydney. For several years she developed the Sandplay Therapy community through her Australia New Zealand Sandplay Therapy Institute, with the mission of forming a professional body of trained Sandplay Therapists, STANZA. Heather then served as STANZA’s first Chair.
Heather has broad life experience, as a mother and grandmother, senior corporate executive, leading her own global consultancy, and now 20 years clinical Sandplay practice. She is a Board Member of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy, established by Sandplay Therapy’s founder, Dora Kalff.