Master Class: Enter the Metaphorical Journey: Inquiry Skills for Play Therapists

This training program is for Play Therapy practitioners who use expressive arts, projective activities and sandplay with their clients. Inquiry is an essential skill for practitioners who work with various metaphors represented in art, clay and sand and other materials. This play therapy training program will introduce the play therapist to an array of questions that may be utilized when engaging with children youth and adults during an exploration phase of an expressive-based activity. Through the inquiry skills training, therapists will be encouraged to “stay out of the way” of interpretation and instead assist the client to explore their scene or product while remaining in the metaphor.

Play therapy participants will have the opportunity to create their own expressive product(s) and work with a partner to practice a number of inquiries. In pairs and small groups,therapists will explore the power of assisting clients to journey through their personal expressions. Play therapists will also learn how to weave from one part of an art product or sand scene to another.

This training program will:

• Help you to “stay out of the way” of interpretation
• Show you ways to examine scenes or product with your clients while remaining in the metaphor
• Explore working with various metaphors represented in art, clay, sand and other materials

This 6-hour master class is for Play Therapy practitioners who use expressive arts, projective activities and sandplay with their clients and introduces play therapists to an array of questions that may be utilized when engaging with children, youth and adults during an exploration phase of an expressive-based activity. Through the inquiry skills training, therapists will be encouraged to “stay out of the way” of interpretation and instead assist the client to explore their scene or product while remaining in the metaphor.

Cost: $350 +GST