In Touch Again: Multi-sensory Play Therapy Strategies for Healing Attachment Wounds (16.5 hours, 16.5 CE credits)
Dates: 6 Thursdays in 2023 – January 19, 26, February 2, 9, 16, 23
Time: Each module will run for 3 hours with a 15-minute break.
4-7 pm Pacific time
5-8 pm Mountain
6-9 pm Central
7-10 pm Eastern
1-4 pm Hawaii time
9 am – noon (Friday) Australia
11 am-2 pm (Friday) New Zealand
7-10 am (Friday) Singapore, Taiwan
Description: This training is based on the In Touch Again approach developed by Dr. Agnes Bayley, ISST. It includes multisensory play therapy activities that follow stages of brain development and will provide participants with a method for assessing attachment of their clients across the lifecycle. A theoretical structure for the process of the work of In Touch Again will be outlined and followed throughout the sessions. During the 6 modules, participants will identify materials to introduce these In Touch Again play therapy strategies to their clients with understanding, confidence, cultural and ethical awareness. Using these play therapy strategies in the age of telehealth will also be discussed. Each workshop module will incorporate, validate, and support diversity/inclusion, promote psychological growth, and embrace recovery, taking into account the social-emotional state of the child or adult.
This training will demonstrate a child-centered play therapy approach that can enable children and adults to repair traumatic experiences or experience missing developmental skills in the context of relationship. Participants will learn, through didactic and experiential presentation, the skills to apply this work with multicultural clients of differing ages and clinical needs. We will also reflect on the experience from mindfulness and somatic perspectives.
Event Flyer: ITA Online Flyer – January 2023