Expressive Therapies Training Rooms, Redcliffe QLD or Singapore
9am - 4:30pm
Morning & afternoon tea provided
BYO Lunch
Trainer: Mark Pearson or Helen Wilson
Expressive Therapies as Awareness and Communication Catalysts
This three-day training will empower you to use Expressive Therapies in counselling with couples and families. You will learn ways to invite couples and families to engage with creative arts, somatic focus, symbol work, and role-play as part of their journey in counselling. The program builds on the long history of activity-based interventions from the many schools of family and couple therapy. Given the highly charged atmospheres encountered in family and couples' sessions, it makes sense to include a range of interventions that engage deeper self-reflection and emotional awareness, to bring clarity to interpersonal dynamics. Experiential understanding motivates development of new positive relating.
We will integrate evidence-based methods from Emotion-Focused Therapy, Experiential Family Therapy, as well as research insights from the Gottman's. While expressive, creative counselling methods support clients of all ages, this training will also include ways to effectively include children in family sessions. There will be a focus for couples on ways family-of-origin experiences and attachment patterns can influence current relating.
10-12 JUNE 2024
SG$1,265
Singapore
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4-6 OCTOBER 2024
$895
Redcliffe, QLD
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Wonder, Awe and Nourishment in the Land of Sands
Sandplay opens the door to full connection with our human experience in all its complexity, light and shade. Importantly Sandplay very obviously also shines direct light on the beauty, purpose and meaning of life. We should not miss focusing on these.
During these three days, we will explore what Katherine May (2023) speaks of as a desire to "reawaken our innate sense of wonder and awe". In this course our journeying in the Land of Sands can lead us to something akin to a 'walk into the wilds' of our uniqueness. That walk ensures we find our way 'home' to peace and tranquillity – a state in which we can observe easefully, with wonder and awe, the often-mysterious unfolding of a client's process. As well as professional and personal refreshment, this training will offer time for restorative nourishment and reconnection with wonder and awe, through the power of time spent in the Land of Sands.
29-31 AUGUST 2024
$895
Redcliffe, QLD
Prior completion of the ETA Certificate in Sandplay Therapy & Symbol Work (or equivalent), is a prerequisite for registration.