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About The Founder
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| Introduction |
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Gisela Schubach De Domenico is a
transformational healer and a psychotherapist. As healer, she is a
life-long student of human consciousness, and a shamanic and spiritual
practitioner. She provides rituals and rites of passage for individuals,
families and communities. As psychotherapist, she is a licensed
Marriage, Family, and Child Therapist, and a registered Play Therapist
Supervisor. She consults with educators, mediators, mental health
professionals, and transformational facilitators.
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| History |
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In the 1960's she was involved with
classical- and sacred dance, language, German literature, mythology,
cultural anthropology, history, philosophy, and biochemistry.
By the early 1970's she envisioned ways
to expand the healing methods of insight-oriented, traditional
psychotherapy and began her studies of traditional East-West
psychological methods at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in
Menlo Park, California .
In the late 1970's, she used the
sandtray in child-centered psychotherapy and conducted a four year long
phenomenological research study of normal pre-school children's sandplay
journeys, which along with her exploration of adult sandplay, her work
with John Hood-Williams and Dora Kalff, continuing study of mystical
traditions and human consciousness, and the daily practice of single
mothering a very special child became the foundation of
Sandtray-Worldplay and Dynamic Expressive Play Therapy.
In 1980's Gisela pioneered experiential
sandplay training methods to teach her work with Sandtray-Worldplay and
Dynamic Expressive Play Therapy. Vision Quest Into Symbolic Reality
training program for psychotherapists opened in 1984. Since then she has
trained many mental health professionals and educators.
She has lectured about Child and
Adolescent Psychotherapy at San Francisco State University and currently
presents at conferences throughout the United States and abroad.
As a founder and council member of The
Sandtray Network, she hosts public presentations. In addition, she is an
editor and writer for the Sandtray Network Journal. Her phenomenological
and hermeneutic methods are used in settings ranging from educational to
religious, and from transformational to corporate.
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| The Growing Edge of
the Work |
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Dr. De Domenico seeks contracts to
expand her transformational sandplay work to include joining efforts of
those who offer groups and retreats for:
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parents
of pre-and peri-natal children to promote parent-child and
couple-family bonding
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families
in crisis seeking respite at holistic treatment retreat centers
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high
school students to facilitate their exploration of the meanings of
life and death, resourceful ethical foundation, and their individual
and communal senses of self
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young
men and women in their twenties who are searching for their place in
community, trying to clarify their goals and objectives, and facing
the task of balancing economic, spiritual, communal and familial
visions
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advanced
graduate students enrolled in child education, business, play
therapy, counseling, psychology, and psychiatry programs who seek to
balance their learned skills with their own inner wisdom and who
want to support the emergence of that self-guiding wisdom in their
students, clients and associates
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educators
who seek curricula that include Transformational Sandtray-Worldplay
and Dynamic Expressive Play Therapy Techniques to supplement the
Western 'first world' educational system
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men
and women, transitioning from workplace to retirement communities,
who strive to integrate their life-experiences, prepare for their
death while still looking for ways to better the quality of life for
everyone on the planet
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victims
and victimizers so that they may use particularly effective
Sandtray-Worldplay methods to mediate violence and aggression
towards Self and Others
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groups
of people of diverse cultural, spiritual, economic, educational, and
racial backgrounds, so they use play to share and exchange culture,
language and customs in a way that facilitates loving care for our
global community and the break down of divisive cultural boundaries
that promote violence
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