The workshop will focus on understanding how to use expressive play therapy with children and adolescents, with an emphasis on using sandtray. Typical child and adolescent sandtray patterns will be discussed. Each participant will complete 2-3 individual sandtrays daily and learn how to incorporate different expressive modalities with this population. John utilizes a client-centered sandtray approach. The Beginning Expressive Sandtray Therapy workshop is a required prerequisite for this course.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Explain adolescent developmental play therapy sandtray patterns
• Discuss the use of the Hero’s Journey in expressive play therapy
• Explain latency age developmental play therapy sandtray patterns
• Demonstrate the therapist’s roles while working with children and adolescents in play therapy
• Apply the use of art, puppetry, writing, music, and other expressive modalities in conjunction with sandtray when working with children and adolescents in play therapy
The workshop will focus on understanding how to use expressive play therapy with children and adolescents, with an emphasis on using sandtray. Typical child and adolescent sandtray patterns will be discussed. Each participant will complete 2-3 individual sandtrays daily and learn how to incorporate different expressive modalities with this population. John utilizes a client-centered sandtray approach. The Beginning Expressive Sandtray Therapy workshop is a required prerequisite for this course.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Explain adolescent developmental play therapy sandtray patterns
• Discuss the use of the Hero’s Journey in expressive play therapy
• Explain latency age developmental play therapy sandtray patterns
• Demonstrate the therapist’s roles while working with children and adolescents in play therapy
• Apply the use of art, puppetry, writing, music, and other expressive modalities in conjunction with sandtray when working with children and adolescents in play therapy
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.
