Symbols and Symbolic Process in Sandplay (18 hours)
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The infinite holding and integrative powers of the symbol are key in sandplay. In this training, we experience several symbols in depth, and discuss Jung’s ideas about the symbol, the 
archetype, and the flow of psychic energies. These concepts will be applied to case material. The instructional level is Beginning.
This course may be taken at any time, and by non-sandplay therapists, too.
Educational Goals: To learn and experience the importance and transformative power of symbols, to be able to research symbols, and to be able to work with symbolic process.
Learning Objectives: By the end of this weekend course, students will be able to
1. Explain the importance of the symbol in healing
2. Demonstrate the ability to “play” with symbolic meaning
3. Describe the visceral and emotional power of the symbol
4. Explain how to investigate a particular symbol from personal, cultural and archetypal sources
5. Discuss how to write a symbol paper
6. Describe an archetypal pattern of healing
This course meets qualifications for 18 hours of education credit toward certification for Sandplay Therapists of America / International Society of Sandplay Therapists (STA/ISST).
Linda Cunningham is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs.
Linda Cunningham maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Provider #017288
Linda Cunningham, Ph.D., MFT, CST-T is a Certified Teaching Member of Sandplay Therapists of America and International Society for Sandplay Therapy. She is the author of Sandplay and The Clinical Relationship (2013) as well as Relational Sandplay Therapy (2005) and a chapter, “Attuning to the Flow of Relational Energies in Sandplay: Healing Complex Trauma in Adults” in The Routledge International Handbook of Sandplay Therapy (2017). Over the past twenty-five years, Dr. Cunningham has written many articles for the Journal of Sandplay Therapy on the topic of the therapeutic relationship in sandplay. Dr. Cunningham created Sandplay Training Worldwide in 2013, offering sandplay trainings for professional therapists and trainees. Since then, she has introduced sandplay and depth psychotherapy to hundreds of therapists and counselors. Dr. Cunningham has taught sandplay as for many years in both graduate and postgraduate settings and was adjunct faculty in the Sonoma State University M.A. Depth Psychology Program and at the California Institute of Integral Studies. In addition to the Sandplay Training Worldwide offerings, Dr. Cunningham has provided special trainings for sandplay therapists in United States, Ukraine, Taiwan, Chile, South Africa, China, and Russia, and has introduced sandplay to residents in psychiatry at Walter Reed Medical Center. Dr. Cunningham is a frequent presenter at sandplay conferences. You can read about Dr. Cunningham’s teaching style here. She practices in Gig Harbor, Washington, specializing in anxiety, preverbal trauma and blocked creativity. For more information, call Dr. Cunningham at 415-346-6363, or email Linda@drlindacunningham.com Website: sandplaytrainingworldwide.com
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