In Touch Again: Multi-sensory Play Therapy Strategies for Healing Attachment Wounds
Sponsor: In Touch Again, Inc., St. Paul, MN
Presenters – Ellen H. Saul, MS, LP, CST-T & Nancy Hawkins, PsyD, LP
Dates: 6 Mondays – January 18, 25, February 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021
Time: Each module will run for 3 hours:
5-8 pm Pacific
6-9 pm Mountain
7-10 pm Central
8-11 pm Eastern
3-6 pm Hawaii
6:45-9:45 am Tuesday Nepal
9 am- 12 Tuesday Shanghai, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong
10 am-1 pm Tuesday Tokyo
12-3 pm Tuesday Australia
2-5 pm Tuesday New Zealand
Sandplay Therapists of America: 2.75 hours/module. 16.5 hours total
Association of Play Therapy (Approved Provider #13-343) contact hours: 2.75 hours/module. 16.5 hours total
Due to COVID-19 health concerns this interactive, live workshop has been approved by STA and the Association of Play Therapy (Approved Provider #13-343). STA maintains responsibility for the program.
Format: Online, interactive, live webinar over Zoom.
Description: This training is based on the In Touch Again approach developed by Dr. Agnes Bayley; 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 children’s social-emotional state.
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 multi-cultural clients of differing ages and clinical needs. We will also reflect on the experience from mindfulness and somatic perspectives.
This course is appropriate for post-graduate mental health professionals, play therapists, and early childhood specialists in agency, private practice or school settings who are interested in an embodied learning experience of attachment repair through play therapy. All modules adhere to legal, ethical and professional standards.
Registration and more Information:In Touch Again Online Flyer – Jan 2021