IN PERSON: Engaging the Body in Play Therapy *MASKS REQUIRED*

[12 Credit Hours]

**MASKS ARE REQUIRED FOR THIS TRAINING**

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PRESENTED BY:

Robyn Gobbel, LMSW-Clinical

GOALS

This training will include didactic and experiential learning; participants should dress comfortably and be prepared to move and play. Activities will allow the participants to experience ways to incorporate music and movement into the play therapy process with children. Attendees will leave this training with practical tools, strategies and applications that enhance the client's capacity to connect with others, process trauma without being overwhelmed, and facilitate healing.

OBJECTIVES

1. Attendees will be able to explain the importance of working through a client's dysregulation in the play therapy room with connection and attunement instead of limits and consequences. 

2. Attendees will be able to define sensory integration and understand how this relates to regulation. 

3. Attendees will demonstrate how to incorporate movement, rhythm, and sensory play into their play therapy process to help their client be more regulated in and out of session. 

4. Attendees will demonstrate how to help clients expand their skills in noticing, tracking, and tolerating sensations. 

5. Attendees will learn play therapy interventions to help children increase body awareness. 

6. Attendees will be able to apply a system to teach children through play therapy to monitor and modify their inner state.  

7. Attendees will be able to create play therapy treatment plans based on viewing challenges behavior as dysregulation of the nervous system as opposed to misbehavior.  

8. Attendees will identify ways to approach play therapy assessment and treatment planning through a developmental, neurosequential approach. 

9. Attendees will be able to demonstrate ways to invite the hypo- and hyper-aroused nervous system back into the window of tolerance using movement, rhythm, and sensory play in the play therapy room. 

10. Attendees will assess how the person-of-therapist impacts utilizing body-based play therapy techniques. 

11. Attendees will demonstate the ability to track play therapy themes that are expressed. 

12. Attendees will be able to identify why it is important to engage parents through parent coaching and/or family play sessions.

CANCELLATION POLICY:

Workshop Withdrawal:

Withdrawal requests should be submitted by email to trainings@watersedgecounselingnwa.com no later than 7 calendar days prior to the  scheduled workshop date in order to receive a full refund of the paid workshop fee.  Withdrawal requests that are submitted after 7 calendar days prior to the scheduled workshop date will result in a refund of the paid workshop fee minus a $50  administrative fee for 2 day training, and a $25 administrative fee for a 1 day training.

Participants who do not attend a workshop and do not submit a withdrawal request as  outlined in the previous section prior to the completion of the workshop will receive a  refund of the paid workshop fee minus a $100 administrative fee. Refunds are  processed within 7 business days of the completion of the workshop.

Workshop Cancellation:

Water’s Edge Counseling, Play Therapy & Training reserves the right to cancel a workshop due to insufficient enrollment. Water’s Edge Counseling, Play Therapy & Training will email workshop students at least 5 calendar days in advance of the scheduled workshop date to notify students of the cancellation. Notice will be provided  with the option to reschedule for a future course date or to receive a full refund of paid workshop fees.

Water’s Edge Counseling, Play Therapy & Training reserves the right to cancel a workshop due to inclement weather, instructor illness or instructor family emergency. If  a workshop is canceled, students will be notified via email prior to the workshop start  time. Water’s Edge Counseling, Play Therapy & Training will notify the students of a reschedule date for the workshop within 10 calendar days of the cancelled workshop or  as soon as the reschedule date is known.. Notice will be provided with the option to reschedule for the future course date or to receive a full refund of the paid workshop fee.