Fundamentals of Sandplay Therapy
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Completion required prior to Advanced Learning Weekends
Learning Weekends:
(Special arrangements may be made for individual faith observances)
ANZ-STI’s 2021 Faculty includes exemplary international Sandplay Therapy Teachers
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Introduction to Sandplay Therapy’s history and development, its theoretical foundations and key practice elements (introduction to clients, building a collection, documentation, record-keeping, therapist observations). The Jungian lexicon will be introduced and the nexus of conscious and unconscious processes outlined. The role of symbols in psychotherapy and sandplay, and the essential elements of a sandplay ‘process’, including differentiation of Sandplay and Sand Tray therapy and other treatment modalities will be presented. Integration of Sandplay with other therapies and treatment modalities will be demonstrated.
Clinical consideration of attachment and trauma issues and the Sandplay process will be outlined, supported by recent and relevant neuroscience findings.
This program is a prerequisite for all subsequent 2021 learning modules.
To be announced
Heather Lesley-Lesley-Swan will lead a two day workshop on the psyche’s symbolic expression in Sandplay.
This program will explore symbolic appreciation of Sandplay images, using both theoretical and experiential approaches. The subjective manifestation of patterns of meaning connecting myth, fairytale and archetypal energies in Sandplay images to psychic structure will be illustrated. Reverie, transference, counter-transference and contemporary neuroscience will be referenced. The Therapist’s ability to be informed by and to respond to Sandplay images will be enhanced.
20, 21 November 2021
This program will present theoretical and practical approaches to working through Sandplay Therapy with children healing from trauma and/or suspected abuse.
Practical considerations of communicating, setting boundaries and holding the therapeutic frame will be addressed. Aspects of the Therapist’s role in the non-verbal therapeutic relationship will be fully addressed, and case material will show stages of transformation through the Sandplay Therapy process.
The power of image, the language of children, will be amplified for clinical application.