Beneath the Surface: Unearthing Trauma and Loss Through Sand Tray Play

This interactive and engaging class will deepen your understanding of how to apply Adlerian concepts, skills, and techniques to the practice of sand tray play therapy with clients who have experienced grief/and or trauma. You will hone your ability to use sand trays to (a) build a relationship with clients; (b) explore clients’ lifestyle patterns; (c) help clients gain insight into their patterns; and (d) make changes in their thoughts, feelings, attitudes, behaviors, and relationships. You will strengthen your ability to conceptualize and treatment plan based on the content and process of your clients’ sand trays, and you will consolidate your ability to use sand tray as a vehicle for consulting with caregivers. Built into this workshop are opportunities for you to do personal sand trays, serve as a witness and facilitator with a partner’s sand trays, and role play as clients for one another. By the end of this class, you will have sharpened your sand tray play therapy proficiency, and you will have practical tools for using your own personal trays outside class for self-supervision, personal growth, and structuring sessions to help your clients explore and process their trauma and well as increase resiliency.

12 Non-Contact CE Hours (includes 1 hour on Play Therapy Seminal or Historically Significant Theories, 9 hours on Play Therapy Skills and Methods, and 2 hours on Play Therapy Special Topics)

APT Approved Provider 99-055

League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists (LEAPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7402. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists (LEAPT) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

OBJECTIVES: At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Participants will be able to explain rationale for using sand tray play therapy when working with clients who have experienced trauma and/or loss.
2. Participants will describe two methods for using the sand tray play therapy process to build relationships with clients who have experienced trauma and or grief/loss.

3. Participants will be able to describe two methods for using the sand tray play therapy process to and to explore the unique lifestyle and lifestyle elements of clients who have experienced trauma and or grief/loss.

4. Participants will be able to describe two methods for using the sand tray play therapy process to and to help clients who have experienced trauma and/or grief/loss to gain insight. 

5. Participants will be able to describe two methods for using the sand tray play therapy process to and to help clients who have experienced trauma and/or grief/loss to learn and implement new ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.

6. Participants of this workshop will be able to do describe the rationale for creating sand trays for clients and/or co-creating sand trays with clients.

7. Participants of this workshop will be able to describe the process of using sand tray play therapy with clients to develop rituals to process past trauma.
8. Participants of this workshop will be able to use the sand tray play therapy to process their own vicarious trauma from working with clients who have experienced trauma and loss.
9. Participants of this workshop will be able to use sand tray play therapy to explore early recollections with clients.

10. Participants of this workshop will be able to describe one method for using the sand tray play therapy process to help caregivers explore and support client’s traumatic experiences. 

11. Participants of this workshop will be able to generate appropriate sand tray prompts for clients to explore and counter mistaken beliefs about self, others and the world.

12.Participants of this workshop will be able to describe two methods for using sand tray play therapy to create a safe space to process and explore grief/loss.

8:00 AM Start

10:15 AM Break 1 (15 mins)

12:00 PM Lunch

12:03 PM Resume Class

2:00 PM Break 2 (15 mins)

3:00 PM End