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Working with Wounded Children: Creative tools to externalize the wound and speak the unspeakable - 6 hours CPD for mental health practitioners and therapistsWhat is this training about?
This workshop will give you both the knowledge and practical tools to work creatively and safely with client’s untold and untellable stories. When trauma is beyond words, we need to provide non-verbal and psychologically safe methods of expression and sharing. People are relieved when offered the opportunity to approach their painful experiences step by step, starting by using symbols and metaphors that keep them at a safe distance from unprocessed and overwhelming emotional pain.
Using the Play Therapy Dimensions Model as a trans-theoretical knowledge base, we will identify where our work is with a client and when and how to move the client closer or further away from their trauma narrative to maintain psychological safety. We will learn practical skills and tools drawn from Sand Play, Focusing, Art Therapy, Metaphor Therapy, Play Therapy, and Jungian approaches to support processing ‘in the metaphor’.
This workshop combines both theory and experiential elements including small group and pair work. You will learn tools that can be used with clients both face to face and in online therapy work.
Who is this training for?
This workshop will be useful both to those working therapeutically with children and young people, as well as to those working with adults who have unhealed childhood wounds that would benefit from a creative and playful approach.
No previous experience with play therapy, expressive arts therapy, or trauma informed approaches is required; however, participants are expected to have basic counselling skills.
What will you learn?
By participating in this workshop, you will achieve the following Learning Objectives:
-Understand the importance of working in right-brained ways with trauma
-Learn practical skills and tools for working creatively with developmental trauma
-Explore direct and indirect ways of working therapeutically with symbol and metaphor
-Use the Play Therapy Dimensions Model to make intervention decisions
-Apply the use of creative metaphors and symbols to support self-reflection and self-supervision
Who is this training by?
Stephanie Jarosova is a child and adolescent therapist, trauma specialist, SEMH consultant, and mental health trainer. She is accredited by the Australian Counselling Association (ACA), Australian Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools (APACS), and the International School Psychology Association (ISPA) as well as being a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Stephanie has over 17 years of experience supporting children and young people directly in schools across Asia and Europe, and has also trained hundreds of adults in working therapeutically with vulnerable CYP. Now based in London, Stephanie leads Growtherapy, an independent mental health and wellbeing project.
Dual qualified in SEN and mental health, Stephanie is interested in the intersections between mental health, challenging behaviour, and learning difficulties. She specializes in working with complex developmental trauma, and her approach is trauma-informed, eco-systemic, relational, and integrative. She is passionate about the healing power of creative play and expressive arts and works to build capacity for creative therapeutic interventions and interactions in CYP services.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Online Event, EC1V 4PY London, UK, London, United Kingdom