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We offer You:

The Six Level Sandtray-Worldplay and

Dynamic Expressive Play Therapy Training Program

Transformational Sandtray-Worldplay Vision Quests  and Advanced Sandtray-Worldplay Retreats

 

Continuing Education Hours for Professionals

 

All Workshops, Training Intensives and Transformational Journey Days meet continuing Education Criteria for the following Organizations: 

 

CA-Board of Behavioral Sciences LCSW a. MFT (Prov # PCE 732); 

National Board of Certified Counselors (Prov # NBCC 5411); 

The Association of Play Therapy for Play Therapy Courses

(Play Therapy Provider # 985-018). 

 

Average 6. 5 hrs/day.  See Course Outlines and Registration Form.

 

 

Reviews, Course Goals and Objectives

Workshops are for the journeyer who explores human consciousness, human potential, and transformational healing of Body-Mind-Heart-Soul-and-Spirit: the educator, parent,  child-adult-family-group psychotherapist, counselor, psychologist, mediator, developmental specialist, transformational group leader, minister, mediator and business consultant are welcome into the training community

The Sandtray-Worldplay Training Program

What learners have shared:

     The demonstrations, the modeling, and the direct practice of the Sandtray-Worldplay Method are helpful in learning how to be with clients in the sandplay room. Movement supported me in learning how to experience.  Am adding deep sandtrays and wet sandtrays to my sandtray room now... am understanding projection in a new light.

   I grew so much personally. I know how to support the spiritual strivings of my clients and my staff. I am at home.

     My therapeutic skills have been enhanced and I  know can work on a deeper level with all my clients.  I feel a renewed connection with nature.  Great to learn about the cycles of life. Now I acknowledge them when they emerge in the play.  Loved the experiential.  Slides were helped  connect me to the clinical aspects of sandplay sessions.  

     I learned how important it is to go slowly.  Learning takes time and we have the time.  I will use less interpretation and judgment. I am becoming more authentically curious and am asking more questions, instead of suggesting answers. I can learn more about my own journey and my clients’ journey.

 We are all intertwined – just stop! Listen! Watch.  Our play Worlds and our lives weave together. I want to bring this weaving way to teachers and troubled teens so they learn how to come together.

  The actual work in the sandtray was most useful for me. I will be back for more. I understand now how the images come alive in the sand. I look forward to learning more about the many different ways of using sandtray. Want to use it in my consulting practice.

  The emphasis on being-with the play rather than doing, finding the ‘knowing’ rather than thinking in check-list diagnostic style allowed me to follow the actual play. I get how experimentation with old and new beliefs happens during the play - this has opened new vistas. I  see what I have been missing in my sandplay sessions. Can't wait to get back.

  I am going home with a sense of excitement: I commit myself to my own trays and honoring my own journey this year. To start my own journey into Sandtray-Worldplay. The best training experience!  Thank you so much.    

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Please scroll down this page to view Course  descriptions for Introductory and  Levels 1-6 Sandtray-Worldplay and Dynamic Expressive Play Therapy 

 Introductory ST-WPTM Training 


In this introduction to Sandtray-Worldplay, we explore the healing power of human consciousness, and how it manifests in sandplay. Orientation to the Sandtray-Worldplay environment, method and diverse application is  followed by a demonstration and an opportunity to experience the empowerment offered by play with sand, water and images.                            

This workshop can prepare you for the ongoing monthly Sandtray-Worldplay journey consultation group. If undecided about starting Level One Sandtray-Worldplay, this workshop gives you an excellent basis for making an informed decision.  Bring a journal and camera. 

1 -2 Days experiential

6.5 CE hrs per day 

$85 to $145 for one day 

6-16 participants. 

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Level One Sandtray-Worldplay Therapy Training


           Explore the Sandtray-Worldplay Room and the basic principles of Sandtray-Worldplay; Comparative and historical sandplay studies; Sandtray-Worldplay, human consciousness, awakening perception, practice presence; The possibilities of ST-WP: view different types of Worlds; Demonstration of a ST-WPTM session: the way of the witness and the way of the builder;  How to use 'living' language to explore Worlds with clients; How to avoid interpretation of the play; Direct experience of sand, elemental, nature, and image play; Identify and practice different play styles; Exploration, enactment, and witnessing of normal pre-verbal a. early childhood developmental sandplay patterns in the work of children and adults; Experiencing the growing edge; Learn basic ST-WPTM observational techniques; Photograph Worlds-in-Sand; The art of presence and note-taking; Practicum studies and consultation: we experience or create 2-4 individual or group sandplayworlds daily.    

                                               

5 days experiential

32.5CE hrs

$655 to $800

Three 2-day experiential Session Format: $295 to $350

You receive the ST-WPTM Manual , ST-WPTM Video/DVD Lecture 1, and hand-outs in this course. Everyone begins the 6 Level Experiential Intensive with Level One: no exceptions please. Augment your training with a private ST-WP Journey Session and a Supervision/Consultation Session. 

           

Level Two Sandtray-Worldplay


 

       Latency-Adolescent developmental sandplay patterns; The sandplay journey over time: Lowenfeld's, Kalff's and De Domenico's Sandtray-WorldplayTM perspective; Motifs, themes; Psycho-mythology, story-telling; Archetypal patterns, and polarities; The art of assisting creator-builder experience and enliven the playworld; Phenomenological techniques for harnessing different states of consciousness to explore Worlds-in-sand; Accessing the various dimensions of reality that exist in Worlds-in-sand; Special didactive and problem-solving sandplay techniques; Interpretation and diagnosis; Educational- treatment- and transformational planning; Practicum studies: everyone has 1-3 individual, joint or group sandplayworld experiences per day.   

 

5 days experiential

32.5 CE hrs 

$655 to $800

Prerequisite: Level One Sandtray-WorldplayTM .

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Dynamic Expressive Play Therapy - first 5 days of Level 3 

       Level Three Sandtray-Worldplay - seven days 

 

Dynamic Expressive Play therapy is part one (days 1-5) of the Level 3 ST-WP Course. 

Level 3 ST-WP is a seven day course: 5 days Dynamic Expressive Play Therapy and 2 days ST-WP practicum. 

 

Newcomers to VQISR register for the Dynamic Expressive Play therapy only.

Level Two ST-WP graduates enroll for all 7 days (part 1 and 2) of this training. 


  • The Dynamic Expressive Play Therapy Training (5 days)

In this experientially based workshop: Weave community as we connect individual-and group psyche through group play; Interface sitting in circle, sandtray-worldplay, drama, movement, music, art, drawing-storytelling, games, shamanic journeying and ritual suitable for individuals and groups of all ages; Engage in individual, dyadic and group play; Track the play journey and learn what it means to 'follow psyche' and to 'let psyche take the lead'. 

We learn: Special developmental plays, bonding games, multicultural plays and termination plays. How to identify and track the concerns of our habituated ego (the small self), our superego, and our deeper Self (the big I) as we experience transformative empowerment derived from play. Participants chronicle their play journey and write their own play therapy text. 

5 days experiential

32.5 CE hrs 

$665 to $810

This course is open to everyone regardless of prior experience with Sandtray-WorldplayTM and Play Therapy.  There are no pre-requisites for this course.  Reading the ST-WPTM Manual and viewing of the first ST-WPTM Video is recommended. 

  • Level Three Intensive ST-WPTM Practicum Training

      Explore the inner core of the Sandtray-WorldplayTM method. Follow Psyche as it weaves meaning during the sandtray session. Explore research & special ST-WPTM techniques. Learn how to take process notes. Facilitate your own Sandtray-Worldplay Journey. 

The sandtray process emerges as a highly intelligent, idiosyncratic cognitive process that reveals the different steps of the individual's transformational and healing path.

2 days

13 CE hrs 

$255  to $350

Complete Levels 1-2 ST-WP and enroll/complete the 5 day Dynamic Expressive Play Therapy Course (part 1 of Level 3 described above) before you attend this practicum session

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Level Four Sandtray-Worldplay Training


 

You now enter the intermediate phase of training. This level descends into the core work. Time to play with the play.  

Explore ST-WPTM principles for witnessing, supporting and documenting dyadic and group sandplay; Play processes and bonding techniques for couples, and family; Milieu and educational sandplay; Observe and support 'communal psyche'; Methods for encouraging interpersonal skill building; Use ST-WPTM to enrich language skills and ability to construct story; Shamanic descent into mind-soul-spirit experience using special ST-WPTM amplification techniques, methods of embodiment and enactment; Multiple- sandtray work; Navigate descent, ascent, stuckness; Personal practicum journey.

5-6 days

32.5 CE hrs 

$655 to $800

Pre-requisite: completion of Levels 1-3 ST-WP

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 Level Five Sandtray-Worldplay Training


The Mandala of group play: transformational groups, sandplay circles, group bonding, group rituals; Combining individual, joint, and group sandworldplay. Advancing the art of the experiencing, conscious Witness; Witness sharing techniques; Self-witnessing and working the countertransference in individual, couple, group, and family practice; Practical methods for using Sandtray-Worldplay in clinical supervision; Facing your own relationship fears; Avoiding and treating vicarious therapist traumatization; Personal practicum journey. 

5-6 days

32.5 CE hrs

$655 to $800

Level 1 through 4 Sandtray-WorldplayTM and the Dynamic Expressive Play Therapy Training need to be completed before you may enter this course.

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Level Six Sandtray-Worldplay Training


This is the last of the core courses. Advanced and individual explorations follow.  

Working with the 'Big experiences of life': Individual and group ST-WPTM techniques for individual, intergenerational, and multicultural trauma, emergency, death, grieving, disaster; Explore the effects of familial and social taboos on the sacredness of Self, sacred Space and sacred Relationships; Practice visioning and re-visioning; Work with time, space and memory in the sandtray; Meet and be with the mystery, the void, the dark days of the Soul, and the hidden abyss; Learn how play can be used to break through habitual and hurtful patterns; Access the ancestral, archetypal, nature and psychospiritual realms to support clients' facing the great suffering and the deep darkness of their own life and the lives of their people;  Ritual of completion of our studies; Review of the Level 1-6 Sandtray-Worldplay training journey.

5-6 days

32.5 CE hrs 

$655 to $800

Levels 1-5 ST-WP are pre-requisites

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Transformational Sandtray-WorldplayTM Workshops

In small groups, we explore Special Seasonal Topics that awaken different states of Body-Mind-Heart-Soul and Spirit Consciousness. We use the many creative Sandtray-Worldplay methods to play and refresh our psychospiritual states and attitudes. In a non-interpretive setting, we align ourselves with the wisdom of our individual and group Psyche: we renew relationship to Self and the Other as we explore specific developmental, psychological, social, cultural, spiritual issues that are an integral part of the great turnings of the Wheel of Life. 

We often amplify the remarkable transformational methods of personal and group Sandtray-Worldplay sandplay with meditation, art, movement, art, shamanic descent and ascents, and the creation of personal and transpersonal mythic stories: expect to play and enter on a deeply moving Vision Quest. 

These 1-5 day long workshops offer wonderful opportunities for beginning and continuing your personal Vision-Quest in a creative and supportive Play Group Setting. Explore new dimensions and enrich your life and work.  

These Experiential Sandtray-Worldplay Group Play Days are open to all.  Often friends, couples, and colleagues find opportunity to deepen and expand their relationship as they journey together.

 ST-WP students are encouraged to attend  during and after their training as participants are exposed to a wide variety of group Sandtray-Worldplay methods and experience the interface of individual and communal sandplay at its best. Those who take these courses for CE and Play therapy Training hours will be asked to journal and document their play and answer a set of reflective questions exploring the direct experiences and learnings of the day(s). 

All participants are invited to bring a digital camera, journal, music, poems,  recent dreams, and rattles/drums. It is requested that everyone bring a small  favorite food offering to share each day.

1-6 days

6-8 CE hrs per day 

$75 to $175 per day

There are no pre-requisites for this workshop

 

Sandtray-Worldplay Journey Workshops, Vision Quests, and Explorations of Life Themes and Cycles of Nature are generally offered 4-6 times a year in Oakland, in Maine during May-June, and with Sponsors in Vermont,  Atlanta, Michigan, Kentucky, Virginia , and N. Carolina. 

 A Special transformational Journey can be scheduled for groups of six or more.

 

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Advanced Sandtray-WorldplayTM and Dynamic Play Therapy Retreats

The  Advanced Sandtray-Worldplay Retreat


 

An exploratory, experiential workshop for experienced Sandtray-WorldplayTM practitioners and teachers: we explore the newest methods and findings of Sandtray-WorldplayTM and Dynamic Expressive Play in diverse settings: Vision Questing combined with consultation, detailed demonstrations, group supervision, fine-tuning skills, and opportunity to journey in the presence of experienced Sandtray-Worldplay practitioners. We will meet in a residence nestled in a natural setting selected for its conduciveness for mind-body-heart-soul-and spirit renewal.

Required: Level 1 through 6 Sandtray-WorldplayTM, including the Dynamic Expressive Play Therapy Training.   9-13 participants. 

5 Days

32 CE hrs 

$655-$800

 

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