Sand Tray Therapy: An Introduction with Practical Applications

Course review:

This six day course has been developed and extended following student feedback from our previous popular three day course. The course explores how Sand Tray Therapy encourages the non-verbal expression and construction of images which have both special personal and collective or cultural meanings. Participants are introduced to practical ways of working with sand tray through exploration of the following themes:

• History and development of sand play therapy.
• Imagination and creativity within the therapeutic process.
• Story-making, narratives and dramatic structure.
• Imaginative and symbolic thinking.
• Introduction to Jung and Jungian sand tray.
• Sand tray as a psychological therapy: clinical applications and case studies.
• Play Therapy approaches to sand tray including: The Sensory Sandtray.
• Art psychotherapy approaches to sand tray: the role and significance of sand itself; making figures for the tray.
• Introduction to archetypes, change, transformations, loss and endings in creative work.

Learning will be through a mixture of presentations, experiential exercises and discussion. Materials, handouts and lunches are included.

This course provides education about sand tray therapy. All education about therapy inevitably provokes some personal resonances and draws on some personal experiences. However the course has educational aims and is not a substitute for personal therapy.