The past years has been turbulent for families across the globe; many have faced a pandemic, loss of loved ones, unemployment, financial downturn, displaced families, homelessness, natural disasters, racial discrimination and other crises. For both children and families these traumatic experiences can have a lasting impact encoding deep within their bodies and cognitive and emotional processes. These traumas can cause disruption in parent-child attachment relationships and within integrational family systems. Discover how to address them in this workshop.
$200.00
Presented from an informed neuroscience perspective, this webinar will examine attachment-based expressive and body-oriented play therapy approaches to heal the complex and shocking traumas facing children and families. You will learn several resiliency focused approaches to repair relational trauma and disconnection. Drawing upon the wisdom of the body, you will learn how nurturing touch parent-child play therapy interventions can enhance and repair attachment relationships, increase a neuroception of safety, decrease anxious states, and foster co-regulation.
Specifically, you will be introduced to an embodied Ericksonian-based therapeutic approach developed by Dr. Courtney, called FirstPlay® Kinesthetic Storytelling. Additionally, through experiential engagement, you will learn several play therapy and expressive arts strategies to interrupt trauma-reactive patterns and to formulate new narratives of connection and healing. This workshop will teach you how to create a space of presence and safety for your patients. You will learn to by stimulate the vagus nerve which then impacts the parasympathetic nervous system by guiding parents and children in self-soothing and mindfulness activities to regulate arousal states (such as FirstPlay® Kinesthetic Storytelling).
As the use of virtual therapy is still popular, this workshop contains a discussion on how the techniques presented can be adapted for both online and in-person practices.
Janet A. Courtney, Ph.D., LCSW, RPT-S is Director of Developmental Play & Attachment Therapies, Inc. A center established for training professionals in a variety of Play Therapy techniques for working with children; their practices also promote more conscious and connected relationships between parents, care-givers and children. Dr. Courtney’s Doctoral dissertation focused on the training of practitioners in Developmental Play Therapy where research outcomes demonstrated that training helped to sensitize the practitioner to the attachment needs of the child as well as to the practitioner’s own needs of attachment. Dr. Courtney has been teaching advanced practical courses since 1998. She lectures internationally on topics such as Developmental Play Therapy, Earth Science & metaphorical interventions, general Play and Art practice, Family Play Therapy, and Gestalt Therapy.
$200.00
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As mental health practitioners we have seen a dramatic surge in clients suffering from increased anxiety, depression, isolation, somatic symptoms, domestic violence and suicidal ideation as a result of traumatic experience. This can have an impact on attachment. Discover how you can treat children and families who have been affected.
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