Certificate in Sandplay Therapy & Symbol Work with Children, Adolescents and Adults Widen your skill base! Expand your creativity as a counsellor! Sustain your passion to help people! Counselling and Therapy Training for Counsellors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Guidance Officers, Family Therapists, Welfare Officers, Youth Workers, Chaplains. Recognised for professional development by the
Sandplay Therapy is a hands-on, expressive counselling and psychotherapy modality that has been in use for over seventy years. Sandplay forms a bridge between verbal therapy and the expressive therapies, combining elements of each. Sandplay allows the deeper aspects of the psyche to be worked with naturally and in safety, and is highly effective in reducing the emotional causes behind difficult behaviours. With an extensive research and literature base, Sandplay is a powerful therapeutic method for use by established professionals. It has been used with children, adolescents and adults, in schools, hospitals, welfare agencies and private therapy practices. About Sandplay This course provides a thorough training, with extensive practical experience and supervision in the Expressive Therapies approach to Sandplay Therapy and Symbol Work. The method of Sandplay that will be introduced was developed by Dora Kalff in the late 1950s, from Dr Margaret Lowenfeld s play therapy. Kalff, a colleague of the famous Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, created Sandplay based on Analytic Psychology. Sandplay is now taught and practised around the world, supported by the International Society for Sandplay Therapy. Many school counsellors, psychologists and therapists around Australia have now trained with the Institute in the Expressive Therapies style of Sandplay, and find it a highly effective way to work, with many benefits for client and counsellor alike. The Expressive Therapies approach combines Jungian and Gestalt theory and applies this to working with small symbolic objects, either in a sandtray or on a drawing book. The play aspect of this approach makes it inviting and nonthreatening. Sandplay has an important role in helping clients deal with emotional problems and can be incorporated into traditional counselling with children, adolescents and adults. It can offer ways to help clients resolve family issues, contact and deepen personal resourcefulness, and promote emotional resiliency. It is an effective support for transpersonal exploration.
Sandplay and Symbol Work exercises have been found to support insight into emotional problems -helping with the release of emotional stress that can drive acting out - and supporting clients with limited access to verbal skills. By utilising a number of intelligences - as identified by Harvard researcher Howard Gardner - activities involving the use of sand and symbols can provide a powerful means for emotional transformation and psychological healing. Based on twenty years of experience and development, this course provides advanced training in understanding clients sand creations. It provides clear guidelines and contraindications that support therapeutic confidence in using these interventions that can access deeper layers of emotion and support transformation of unconscious processes in the psyche. This is a highly experiential, interactive program that will provide many skills to support your clients move into resilience and emotional fluency. Participants will have the experience of following their own personal growth journey using the processes for personal experience at each workshop. There will be illustrated case studies. A manual will be provided for each workshop. Participants with prior training in the helping professions will receive the Certificate in Sandplay Therapy & Symbol Work, other participants will be awarded a Statement of Attendance.
Course Structure & Requirements Duration 12 days: Four x 3-day training workshops (84 hours). Course texts: This course includes three recommended texts you will be required to read. Requirements: Completion of two short written assignments and attendance at all training days. It is a principle of Expressive Therapies that facilitators personally experience the exercises they will use with clients in order to present them safely and confidently. Course Components The four 3-day workshop topics are described below. WORKSHOP 1 3 Days Foundation Skills Introduction to Sandplay Therapy and Symbol Work - practical experience, history and theory Overview of literature Role-play techniques to support integration Input on Sandplay equipment Contraindications for use of symbolic work and roleplay Illustrated case studies WORKSHOP 2 3 Days Advanced Skills, Psychological Frameworks Psychological mechanisms activated by Sandplay Concepts from Jungian Psychology supporting Sandplay Interpretation of spatial arrangements in the tray Dr Lowenfeld s theoretical framework Skills practice and case illustrations
In Sandplay, the adult plays, as does a child, with seriousness. The playing aspect seems to provide access or an initiatory rite of entry for adults into feeling, affect and the world of childhood. Lost memories are found again, repressed fantasies are released and possibilities for reconciliation occur. - Estelle Weinrib, Images of the Self, Sigo Press, USA, 1983. WORKSHOP 3 3 Days Research, Theory & Development of Practice Review of Dora Kalff s theoretical framework Indications for analysis of sand pictures Working with dream symbols Co-transference in the Sandplay session Refinement of facilitation skills WORKSHOP 4 3 Days Transpersonal Aspects, Supervision Case presentations by students Transpersonal and perinatal influences on the psyche Beyond the Shadow Dora Kalff on completion trays (DVD) Skills development
What other participants say... For me the workshop was worth every effort taken to be here in creative bliss & safety. Such an inspiring and gently undertaken facilitation - trust, spirit, diversity, support, calm professionalism all carried in one person. Monique is unique! Robyn Sheptooah, Family & Relationships Counsellor Brisbane, Qld. This workshop was so personally rewarding that it felt like soul development rather than professional development. Something I'm looking forward to sharing with and creating for my students. Monique makes this training engaging and her passion and enthusiasm for this process is infectious. Lisa O'Brien, Psychologist/Youth Support Coordinator Bundaberg, Qld. Thank you for the introduction to Sandplay the gentle way you as facilitators approached our learning, I believe, had a huge impact on how excited I am to have knowledge of this therapy. I have used it with a few of my young clients and the impact it has had on them is incredible. Carol Long, Centacare. I want you to know that your training changed my work practice and also my life practice. The biggest thing I learned was to trust the process. Katherine Soper This course is the missing link to Social Work practice and helping people. Carol Pinfield, Student Social Worker, CAIRNS
Your Trainer: Monique Rutherford M Ed (SGC); M Ed (BM); B Ed/B Arts (Psych); Adv Dip ET; Dip ET; Grad Cert ET; Cert IV TAA; Cert ABFE; PMACA Monique, a descendent of the Kamilaroi peoples of NSW, is a mother of two, a registered Teacher, a Child Psychotherapist, a certified Trainer and an accredited Expressive Therapies Counsellor in private practice. She has experience working and living in an Aboriginal community as a classroom Teacher, with children at-risk in schools as a Behaviour Support Advisory Teacher and with children and families affected by abuse or neglect as a Child Protection Child & Family Therapist. Monique currently works on the Sunshine Coast, Qld, in northern NSW and in New Zealand as a senior psychotherapy and counselling trainer through the Expressive Therapies Institute of Australia. She also conducts programs for various welfare agencies and education departments around Australia. Her passion lies in supporting children, parents and professionals who work with families affected by loss, dislocation, abuse and trauma. Monique has undergraduate training in education and psychology and holds two Masters Degrees majoring in Behaviour Management and Guidance & Counselling. She also has advanced post-graduate qualifications in Expressive Therapies including Sandplay Therapy and Transpersonal & Emotional Release Counselling and is a Professional Member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA). Monique is the Founder & Director of INSIDE OUT Counselling & Training. About the Founders This program has been run for over 18 years in Australia by the Expressive Therapies Institute of Australia. The Institute's Director's Mark Pearson (M. Ed.(BEM); Dip T.; Cert HB & TP; Dip. ERC) and Helen Wilson (M. Couns. B. Bus. (HRM) G. Dip. ERC. Cert SP Cert. HB & TP Cert. ERC) have trained over 1,000 graduates from many parts of the world in the various modalities of Expressive Therapies (ET). Course Creators: Mark Pearson and Helen Wilson. Authors of: SANDPLAY & SYMBOL WORK (ACER Press, 2001).
About INSIDE OUT Counselling & Training INSIDE OUT Counselling & Training offers services inspired to support the emotional and behavioural well-being of children and parents as well as enhance the personal and professional learning journey of child & counselling professionals in Australia and New Zealand. INSIDE OUT Counselling & Training also offer a range of other training, workshops and services including: Training Certificate in Expressive Therapies for Children Certificate in Sandplay Therapy & Symbol Work Certificate in Emotion-Focussed & Transpersonal Expressive Therapies for Adults Connecting with Kids Workshops Parenting from the Inside Out The Search for Identity Caring for the Carers Counselling Expressive Therapies Sandplay Therapy Emotional Release Play Therapy Family Constellations Vibrational Essences Specialising in loss, abuse & trauma in children How to Register To register for this course or to get more information on other training, workshops or counselling services, contact Monique: Phone: (07) 5476 8084 Mobile: 0439 456 335 Email: monique@insideout-counselling.com.au www.insideout-counselling.com.au INSIDE OUT - Expressive Therapies Counselling Service ABN 46 215 770 445