Using a Neuroscience & Attachment Lens with Sand Tray in Play Therapy

11/2/24 - 9 AM - 4:30 PM
12 CEU
Organization: Renewing Hearts Play Therapy Training
Provider Name: M. Catherine Spooner
Phone: (702) 377-
Address: 507 Rancho Santa Barbara Dr Mesquite, NV, 89027-7604 Website: https://www.rhplaytherapytraining.com
Email: info@rhplaytherapytraining.com

REGISTER: https://www.rhplaytherapytraining.com/courses/using-neuroscience-and-attachment-lens-with-sand-tray

Over the past several decades, neuroscientists and mental health professionals have discovered how our early childhood experiences are processed and stored in the brain and how those experiences influence our daily lives and relationships. Attachment theory and neuroscience provide a well-grounded framework for conceptualizing and helping your clients in play therapy resolve factors contributing to their presenting issues. This 2-Day in-person training provides play therapists and social workers with a neuroscience and attachment-informed lens that integrates Jungian concepts to understand and process client sand trays. Play therapists and social workers will learn what to look for in client sand trays to identify clinically relevant themes, what to say to clients to help them process their sand trays, and how to effectively process client sand trays using a framework grounded in neuroscience, attachment, and basic Jungian-informed principles of sand tray. Play therapists and social workers will also understand how the therapeutic powers of play are accessed using sand tray in play therapy. Participants will: 1. Describe the concept of mentalizing and the role of memory as it relates to conceptualizations of self, others, and relationships and themes in the sand tray in a play therapy setting 2. Identify the benefit of sand tray in the play therapy process for the mind-body connection and integration in the healing process 3. Explain at least three therapeutic powers of play accessed by using sand tray in play therapy 4. Describe specifically what to look for in client sand trays in play therapy sessions to identify clinically relevant themes 5. Recognize themes within client sand trays based on an attachment and neuroscience-informed lens in play therapy 6. Describe how to therapeutically hold and process sand trays in play therapy with clients 7. Describe the Jungian theory of archetypes and shadow in sand tray in play therapy