Rituals and Ceremony in Sandplay Therapy: Mysteries of Passage and Pilgrimage
Presenter: Judy Zappacosta, LMFT, CST-T
Careful attention has always been offered to reflect the roots of sandplay therapy that include safe and protected play, Jungian theory, and the practice of contemplative presence in our sessions. We have witnessed success in diverse populations and multi-cultural settings. Dora Kalff’s life and travels mirrored her belief in this possibility. Consideration is offered on the themes of ritual and ceremony as it appears in sandplay process. The ideas of passages, and pilgrimage are often thresholds crossed in both inner and outer ways. We will discuss and see case work that offer a First Nations woman, born in the Arctic tundra, an opportunity to reconnect with rituals and spiritual practices that helped to heal her grief, her deep alienation, and abandonment. She wandered for many years before finding her inner spiritual home, and her own deep indigenous perspective that then guided her life in new and transformative ways.
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