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Archive of Past Workshops and Retreats

Finding the Healing Story and Transformational ST-WP Weekend Retreat

March  28-30th, 2003 

Charlottesville, VA 

Hours unavailable 

CE information unavailable 

Cost unavailable

On March 28th: Finding the Healing Story & March 29-30th: Transformational ST-WP Weekend Retreat.

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LEVEL 4 SandTray-WorldPlayTM

January 23-27th, 2003 

Louisville, KY 

Hours unavailable 

CE information unavailable 

Cost unavailable

 

Meetings with the Other

November 16-17th, 2002 

Greensboro, VT 

Hours unavailable 

CE information unavailable 

Cost unavailable

Transforming Rage, Outrage, War and Aggression Into Gentler Relational Styles in Safety of the Sandplay Room

Sandtray-WorldplayTM Practicum

November 13-15th, 2002 

Greensboro, VT 

Hours unavailable 

CE information unavailable 

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Explorations & Reflections to Nourish your Body-Mind-Heart-Soul-Spirit

 

Transformational Sandtray-Worldplay Days in Oakland:

 

October 5th, 2002: Bridging Rage and Aggression 

December 1st, 2002: Meetings with Change 

February 1st, 2003: Awakening the Personal Shadow 

July 19th, 2003: Embracing Tranquility and Compassion 

September 6th, 2003: Celebrating the Feminine Mysteries

1pm-6:30pm 

$85 (Pre-Registration) 

$100 with 5 CE hrs 

In this series, we align ourselves with the wisdom of our psyche as we explore Self and relationship to Others. We interface the remarkable transformational methods of personal and group sandplay with focused meditative reflection, art, music, ritual, movement, shamanic descent and ascents, and personal and transpersonal mythic stories. We focus on the transformational portals that appear during individual and group sandtray play. Please bring camera, flowers, poems, dreams or stories that touch the theme of the day.

 

 

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Explorations & Reflections to  Nourish Your Body-Mind-Heart-Soul-Spirit

 

12:30 pm-6:30pm each day

$85. $100 with 6 CE hrs 

No previous experience required. Welcome to all.

 

$125 - 1hr private Journey Session/Consultation

$250 - 2 hr private Journey Session/Consultation

 

We align ourselves with the wisdom of our psyche as we explore Self and our Relationship to Others.  We enter the transformational portals that appear as we use individual and group Sandtray - Worldplay methods with focused meditative reflection, art, music, ritual, movement, shamanic descent and ascents, and mythic stories. 

March 27th, 2005 in Oakland: 

Spring -Easter Celebration

 Journey of Awakening. Ripening of the Seeds of Our Transformation 

 

We explore the strength and trust to confront our fears, to enter into the sacred Space (womb of Creation), to acknowledge the core of our growing edge and to let the seeds of Change resurrect our Spirit, our Vision and the Doings that have been lingering in our Dream Time. 

As you join this circle of celebration bring your winter dreams and visions of your Resurrection.

 

 

April 16th, 2005 in Oakland:  

Opening Sacred Space. Entering infinite Time. 

Raising the Fire of Creation. 

 

 

 Explore the transformative power of active and dynamic play, as we create and  play with our Worlds in the Sand. Elemental play, the dance of Space, Time, Light and Fire support us as we meet and transform the obstacles that appear along our transformational path.

As you join this charismatic play with Fire and Light, bring your current struggles and prepare to awaken the inspirational power of the Light in your own Heart. 

 

Sponsored Sandtray - Worldplay Retreats*

Advanced Sandtray-Worldplay Retreats* 

Wilderness and Sacred Site Sandtray-Worldplay Journeys*

*workshops sorted by calendar dates

LEVEL SIX Sandtray-WorldplayTM

February 17-21st, 2005 

Louisville, KY 

9am to 5pm 

 

30 CE hrs through the Kentucky Play Therapy Association 

For more information contact KAPT Past-President, Terri Fontenot  

Introduction to  Sandtray-WorldplayTM, 1 Day 

March  18th, 2005 

At peaceful Round Oaks Creative Center, Charlottesville, VA 

9-5pm. 6.5 CE hours through Vision Quest Into Symbolic Reality. $10 CE fee. 

$125 Tuition. Deposit $50.

Introduction covers theory and method and emphasizes the manner in which ST-WP facilitates personal story telling and mythmaking. 

Bring 12 images for our sandtray collection and include at least 5 images that evoke a personal/familial/ancestral story for you. 

For more information and to register contact the co-sponsor, Phyllis Frame in Virginia.

Spring Equinox 2005: Celebrating Woman's Soul and Women's Spirit

March 19-20th, 2005 

At peaceful Round Oaks Creative Center, Charlottesville, VA 

13 CE hours through Vision Quest Into Symbolic Reality. $10 CEU fee. 

$265

We weave community using movement, sandplay, meditation and communion with nature.  Explore the sacred spaces of peace within yourself, in individual and communal Worlds, in Nature and the dreamtime. Touch your Soul and our Spirit.

Bring 25 images for the sandtray collection.  Include at least 5 images that evoke Woman's Soul and Woman's Spirit. Bring your journal, your favorite music, a dream or a poem to share.

Bring Femo or plasticine to sculpt Soul-Spirit Beings for your own sandplay collection.

For more information and registration materials contact the co-sponsor, Phyllis Frame in Virginia.

Transformational Sandtray-Worldplay Group:   Exploring Woman's Life Journey in Play

 

May 5-7, 2006 

At peaceful Round Oaks Creative Center, Charlottesville, VA 

15 CE hours through Vision Quest Into Symbolic Reality. $10 CEU fee. 

$290

             

As we enjoy the pastoral beauty of Round Oaks, you are initiated into experiential adult group – play processes that directly support individual and communal growth/healing of girls and women of all ages. 

 

Come so you may

Honor and experience the many stages of a Woman's Life in different times and cultures: explore your life's journey as Girl, Maiden, Amazon, Lover, Wife, Mother, Destroyer, and Healer. Celebrate the Woman Elder, the Crone. 

We use diverse Sandtray-Worldplay group methods, nature quests, play with music, embodiment and movement, meditative image play and initiation rituals in the community of caring, daring women.

Touch your Soul and our Spirit. Replenish your Womanhood. Vision your Womanhood. Strengthen your resolve to support the transformation and growth of your female clients.

This transformational workshop is open to all Women: Grandmothers, Mothers, Daughters and Granddaughters. Play Therapists, Counselors, Psychologists, Mediators, Art-and Expressive Therapists are invited to come and re-vitalize their work with Women.

For more information and registration materials contact the co-sponsor:

  Phyllis Frame in Virginia.

 

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Level One Sandtray-WorldplayTM, 5 Day 

April 8-12, 2005 

East Lansing Michigan 

9am to 5pm

 

30 CE hours through Vision Quest Into Symbolic Reality. $10 CE fee. 

$645  by 3/7/05(Tuition, the ST-WP Book and Video). $685 after 3/7

 

Bring 15 special images for our sandtray collection; include 20-25 inexpensive, small to medium sized plastic images of the kind found at garage sales, flea markets or second hand stores for energetic play. For more guidance se: Articles by Dr. De Domenico  

For more information and to register contact the co-sponsor: Growing Edge Adventures  in East Lansing. 517-339-5154.

Level Two Sandtray-WorldplayTM Therapy, 5 Days 

 

April 28-May 2, 2006 

East Lansing Michigan 

9am to 5:30pm

 

32-35 CE hours through Vision Quest Into Symbolic Reality. $10 CE fee. 

Pre-requisite: completion of Level One Sandtray-Worldplay

 

Bring 10 special images, images that inspire you, for our sandtray collection; add 10 images that speak to your latency and adolescent experiences; bring 10 images that speak to some of your major life experiences; bring 5 images that speak to the darkness in your life.

Ideas for images to bring for our collection: Articles by Dr. De Domenico  

For more information and to register contact the Sponsor

  Growing Edge Adventures  in East Lansing. 

517-339-5154

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LEVEL TWO  Sandtray-WorldplayTM

July 14-18, 2005 

Louisville, KY 

9am to 5pm 

 

30 CE hrs through the Kentucky Play Therapy Association 

For more information contact KAPT Past President Terri Fontenot.

 Introduction to  Sandtray-WorldplayTM, 2 Days    

July 22-23rd, 2005 

Atlanta, Georgia 

 

12-13 CE hrs through the Georgia Play Therapy Association at www.gapt.org

 

The Dynamic Expressive Play Therapy and ST-WP Intensive. 5 Days.  

 

November 6-10th, 2005

At the spacious People Barn nestled in rural  Greensboro, VT 

 

9-5pm every day. Minimum 32 CE hrs . CEU fee $10. 10-16 Participants.

$640 tuition and lunch. $30/night shared dorm type room. You bring breakfast and dinner foods and a cooler. You receive further instructions when you register. 

 

Open to all who wish to journey into the World of Play and Sandtray-Worldplay in a small group setting. Students enrolled in the Level 1-6 ST-WP Course meet partial requirement for Level 3 ST-WP when attending this course and can complete day 6 and 7 in Oakland, Maine, Kentucky or with Auguste Elliott in Vermont.

Reading the ST-WPTM Manual and viewing of the first ST-WPTM Video is helpful. Visit Vision Quest Images link for ordering info.  

For more information contact sponsor and ST-WP L1 Trainer Auguste Elliot 

 

Entering Darkness and Coming into the Light

November 11-13th, 2005 

 

A Transformational Sandtray-Worldplay Retreat

with

Gisela Schubach De Domenico and Auguste Elliott

 

At the spacious People Barn nestled in rural  Greensboro, VT 

 

Friday Night: from 5pm to Sunday afternoon 4pm 

15 CE hours through Vision Quest Into Symbolic Reality

Tuition TBA. $35/night shared dorm type room.

 

We continue our yearly exploration of Nature, the changing Seasons, the movement into the Womb of the Great Mother, the awakening  of the Divine Spark, and the summoning of the Elementals who empower our Seeds to incubate and grow in the Invisible Realms before they emerge in the Spring.

 

Bring a drum or rattle, 16 to 24 images and several stones, shells, candles, plants, a sandtray, camera, journal, photographs, stories, and songs that speak to your experiences of Harvest, Autumn, Thanksgiving, Days of the Dead, Halloween and Meetings with the Shadow. 

 

 Bring your family's favorite seasonal  dish to share for Saturday evening's potluck meal.

 Bring Femo and Plasticine for our yearly miniature making evening: Fall and Winter Spirits. 

 

Contact co-sponsor and co-presenter ST-WP L1 Trainer Auguste Elliot for more details and  guidelines for this exciting retreat. Space is limited at this wonderful Retreat Center to 18 and early registration is recommended.

 

 

 

 

 

Vision Quest Days:  

A Day of Sandtray-Worldplay

 

March 3rd, 2007 

October 6th, 2007 

 

1pm-6:30 pm  Tuition: $85 by 2/10 and $100 after 2/10.  5 CE hrs add $15. 

 

Expect 4-12 Journeyers. 510-530-1383

 

Create your own sandtray, open your heart, clear the mind and travel to your deepest place of consciousness. Freely explore the wisdom of your own psyche in a supportive environment. Bring your Quest. Receive the Vision to guide you in the months ahead. Your personal sandplay journey is supported with natural rhythmic movement, music, meditation, and  special group ritual at the beginning and the end of the day. Please bring camera , personal journal, and whatever images, poems and stories that support you on your quest. 

 

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Winter Weekend Transformational Sandtray-Worldplay Group Retreat

 

December 8-9, 2007 in Oakland: 

 

Welcoming Winter Solstice 2007

 

Finding the Crystal Light in the Darkness

 

Explorations & Reflections to  Nourish Your Body-Mind-Heart-Soul-Spirit

 

 

Come and join us in transformational play time! 

Be adventurous and treat yourself to a very unique experience.

Using individual and group Sandtray-Worldplay we  seek  direct experience of the interplay between Light and Dark, Summer and Winter, Fall and Spring.  We re-align ourselves with our inner Star. 

Journey to the depths of your Being in the community of caring men and women. 

Bring forth and share your ways-of-being and the ancient wisdom of your Soul and Spirit. 

 

Please bring camera, journals, flowers, poems, your winter dreams or stories that touch your vision for this weekend.  We usually share beautiful and healthy pot-luck foods. Expect a group of 4-12 travelers.

  Everyone is invited. No prior experience required.

 

12:30 pm-7:30pm each day.$220 

No previous experience required. 

510-530-1383

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