StoryCrafts: Creative Activities for Replenishing our Wellspring of Play Therapy Approaches
Presented by Joyce C. Mills, PhD, LMFT, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor™
All of us are dealing with the on-going global effects of Covid in one way or another, often leaving us feeling creatively and energetically drained. Now, more than ever as play therapists, we need to replenish our wellspring of compassionate and creative play therapy approaches that will reawaken, reinvigorate, and regenerate a sense of inner strength, hope, and resilience with the children and families with whom we work.
Utilizing the resiliency-focused StoryPlay® process, this 3-hr. play therapy presentation will provide participants with experiential and creative activities designed to help children and teens reduce anxiety, transform fears into resources, nurture courage, connect to self-determination, embrace a playful nature, and enhance the flow of inner peace in the face of life’s challenges and uncertainties. In addition to use in private practice, examples will be woven throughout this webinar showing how specific activities have been successfully implemented with children and teens throughout the world in a variety of settings, cultures, languages, and age groups.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Access Inner Resources of a child or adolescent during the first session of Play Therapy.
- Utilize a creative activity that can awaken goals, identify obstacles, and activate inner resources in a play therapy.
- Design a collage using images to represent determination for building self-confidence and success during the play therapy session.
- From a play therapy perspective, Recognize how to utilize the elements of our natural ecology as metaphors in the quest for positive change and healing.
Level of training: Intermediate-Advanced
3 APT CONTACT CE - Play Therapy Skills and Methods
About our presenter: Founder of StoryPlay® Global, award-winning Play Therapist, author of eight books, and considered an expert in metaphorical interventions, Dr. Joyce Mills is an internationally recognized storyteller, consultant, workshop leader, program development specialist, and keynote speaker to medical, psychological, and educational organizations. With “resiliency” and “creativity” at its heart, Dr. Mills developed StoryPlay®, a new Ericksonian Indirective model of Play Therapy helping children, adults, families, and communities heal from trauma and disaster. In addition to her training programs, Dr. Mills is a Co-Director of the Phoenix Institute of Ericksonian Therapy, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a registered Play Therapy Supervisor. Her books include: Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within (Second Edition); Reconnecting to the Magic of Life; Butterfly Wisdom; Little Tree, Gentle Willow; and Sammy the Elephant and Mr. Camel.
AZAPT Members $50; Nonmember Guests $60
Limited to 40 participants.
VIRTUAL: This will be a virtual meeting. Per APT guidelines, video cameras must be on throughout the presentation for contact CE. Participants will be awarded APT CONTACT CE upon successful completion of a post test. Due to COVID-19 health concerns, this one-time online event has been approved by APT for 3 CONTACT CE Hours.
AZAPT is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to Play Therapy. APT Approved Provider 97-035. AZAPT maintains responsibility for the program. Registrants understand and agree that any photograph, video or audio recording of themselves may be used to further promote AZAPT.
Cancellation Policy: All cancellations must be requested in writing and received no later than June 1, 2022. Cancellations are subject to a $15 processing fee. Substitutions (someone else attending) or transfer of registration to another training date may be requested. No refunds after June 1, 2022.
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