Group, Couple & Family Expressive Sandtray Therapy. October 24th & 25th, 2025
This experiential workshop will teach each participant how to integrate a variety of play therapy modalities in the therapeutic setting when working with groups, couples, or families. An emphasis will be on using sandtray with these populations. Each participant will be able to experience the use of art, music, writing and other expressive play modalities and how to integrate them with sandtray. John utilizes a client-centered sandtray approach. The Beginning Expressive Santray Therapy workshop and Advanced Expressive Sandtray Therapy workshop are required prerequisites for this course.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Demonstrate how to effectively use a variety of expressive play therapy modalities when working with a group, couple, or family
• Asses the role of the therapist when working with more than one client when using play therapy
• Explain the use of directed and non-directed expressive play therapy when working with a group, couple, or family
• Discuss the use of play therapy sandtray when working with a group, couple, or family
• Critique group play therapy sandtray processes by experiencing 2-3 group sandtrays
The workshop will be held at 871 South Orem Blvd., Orem, Utah. Registration is 8:30am-9:00am. It will start at 9:00 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m.
This experiential workshop will teach each participant how to integrate a variety of play therapy modalities in the therapeutic setting when working with groups, couples, or families. An emphasis will be on using sandtray with these populations. Each participant will be able to experience the use of art, music, writing and other expressive play modalities and how to integrate them with sandtray. John utilizes a client-centered sandtray approach. The Beginning Expressive Santray Therapy workshop and Advanced Expressive Sandtray Therapy workshop are required prerequisites for this course.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Demonstrate how to effectively use a variety of expressive play therapy modalities when working with a group, couple, or family
• Asses the role of the therapist when working with more than one client when using play therapy
• Explain the use of directed and non-directed expressive play therapy when working with a group, couple, or family
• Discuss the use of play therapy sandtray when working with a group, couple, or family
• Critique group play therapy sandtray processes by experiencing 2-3 group sandtrays
The workshop will be held at 871 South Orem Blvd., Orem, Utah. Registration is 8:30am-9:00am. It will start at 9:00 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m.
This experiential workshop will teach each participant how to integrate a variety of play therapy modalities in the therapeutic setting when working with groups, couples, or families. An emphasis will be on using sandtray with these populations. Each participant will be able to experience the use of art, music, writing and other expressive play modalities and how to integrate them with sandtray. John utilizes a client-centered sandtray approach. The Beginning Expressive Santray Therapy workshop and Advanced Expressive Sandtray Therapy workshop are required prerequisites for this course.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Demonstrate how to effectively use a variety of expressive play therapy modalities when working with a group, couple, or family
• Asses the role of the therapist when working with more than one client when using play therapy
• Explain the use of directed and non-directed expressive play therapy when working with a group, couple, or family
• Discuss the use of play therapy sandtray when working with a group, couple, or family
• Critique group play therapy sandtray processes by experiencing 2-3 group sandtrays
The workshop will be held at 871 South Orem Blvd., Orem, Utah. Registration is 8:30am-9:00am. It will start at 9:00 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m.
The workshop will be held at 871 South Orem Blvd., Orem, Utah. Registration is 8:30am-9:00am. The workshop starts at 9:00am and ends at 4:30pm. both days.