Workshop Title: Sand Tray Therapy in the Playroom
Facilitator: April Duncan, DSW, LCSW, RPT-S
Workshop Dates: May 23rd & 24th, 2024 
Workshop Time: 9:00am-6:30pm EST
Location: 200 E Joppa Rd, Suite 101, Towson, MD, 21286
APT Continuing Education Hours: 16.0
 
Workshop Description: 
Sand tray therapy is an intervention that can be used with clients of all backgrounds in the playroom. It provides a non-verbal medium for clients to work through a variety of issues like trauma, anxiety and grief, in play therapy sessions. This 2-day workshop will provide the play therapist with the foundational knowledge and skill to implement sand tray interventions into their play therapy practice. Time will be spent exploring various theoretical applications to sand tray too including Child Centered Play Therapy, Adlerian play therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy and Gestalt Play Therapy. This highly experiential workshop will prepare play therapists to integrate sand tray therapy in a variety of settings.
 
Learning Objectives: 
Discuss the history of sand tray in play therapy.
List categories of sand tray miniatures in the playroom.
Apply cultural inclusivity in play therapy sessions with sand tray therapy.
Discuss ways to implement sand tray therapy when providing mobile play therapy.
Compare the use of sand tray therapy in play therapy sessions with clients at different developmental levels.
Analyze sand tray therapy as a play therapy assessment tool.
Apply sand tray therapy skills in play therapy sessions.
Write play therapy documentation notes for play therapy sessions implementing sand tray therapy.
Compare play therapy seminal theories in sand tray sessions.
Discuss sand tray prompts to use for Adlerian Play Therapy sessions.
Explain the use of Child-Centered Play Therapy with sand tray in play therapy sessions.
Analyze Gestalt Play Therapy techniques to address discrepancies in sand tray.
Discuss Ecosystemic Play Therapy as an assessment tool in sand tray therapy.
List sand tray prompts to use for Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy sessions.
Identify the therapeutic powers of play in sand tray therapy in the playroom.
Assess the use of seminal play therapy theories across developmental levels.
 
Agenda
Day 1:
9:00 am-9:15 am Introductions/review learning objectives
9:15 am-11:00 am Lecture & experiential learning
11:00 am-11:15 am Break
11:15 am-1:00 pm Lecture & experiential learning
1:00 pm-2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm-3:45 pm Lecture & experiential learning
3:45 pm-4:00 pm. Break
4:00 pm-6:15 pm. Lecture & experiential learning
6:15 pm-6:30 pm Wrap up and Q&A
 
Day 2: 
9:00 am-9:15 am Introductions/review learning objectives
9:15 am-11:00 am Lecture & experiential learning
11:00 am-11:15 am Break
11:15 am-1:00 pm Lecture & experiential learning
1:00 pm-2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm-3:45 pm Lecture & experiential learning
3:45 pm-4:00 pm. Break
4:00 pm-6:15 pm. Lecture & experiential learning
6:15 pm-6:30 pm Wrap up and Q&A