Child & Adolescent Expressive Sandtray 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 patterns of sandtray will be discussed. Each participant will do 2-3 individual sandtrays daily as well as experience how to use art, puppets, writing, music and other expressive modalities with this population. John utilizes a client-centered sandtray approach. The Beginning Expressive Sandtray 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:
• 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 patterns of sandtray will be discussed. Each participant will do 2-3 individual sandtrays daily as well as experience how to use art, puppets, writing, music and other expressive modalities with this population. John utilizes a client-centered sandtray approach. The Beginning Expressive Sandtray 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:
• 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 patterns of sandtray will be discussed. Each participant will do 2-3 individual sandtrays daily as well as experience how to use art, puppets, writing, music and other expressive modalities with this population. John utilizes a client-centered sandtray approach. The Beginning Expressive Sandtray 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:
• 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
Note: Beginning Expressive Sandplay Therapy and Advanced Expressive Sandplay Therapy are both required prerequisites for this workshop.
The workshops are held at 871 S. Orem Boulevard in Orem, Utah. The workshops begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. on both days. If you have any questions, feel free to contact John at 801-225-7805 or at sandmanutah@gmail.com.
Cancellation Policies
Registration cancellation must be submitted in writing to John Burr. The registration fee, minus a $50 administrative charge, will be refunded only if the request is postmarked 30 days prior to the date of the workshop. No refunds will be issued for any requests posted less than 30 days before the workshop. Registration may be transferred to another person without penalty only if the original registrant notifies John Burr.
John Burr reserves the right to cancel any workshop due to any unforeseen circumstances. If the workshop is canceled you will receive a full refund. All attempts will be made to notify you of any cancellation within 10 days prior to the workshop.
Due to the experiential nature of the workshops registration is limited. A minimum of 10 registrations must be received or the workshop will be rescheduled.
Twelve Continuing Education credits are available. The Center For Sandplay and Expressive Therapy is an APT-approved provider 15-404.