certificate in integrative sandplay
certificate in integrative sandplay training

Sandplay Training: Certificate in Integrative Sandplay

Starting 24th September 2022

Five weekend modules over 10 months

10am-4pm UK time all days

Cost from £1800

 

This is our most popular sandplay training course, leading to becoming a sandplay therapist. It is suitable for registered counsellors, psychotherapists and play therapists. Our groups are always small, with never more than 10 students on a course. So, this gives you lots of one-to-one support and encouragement. You will learn the key Jungian sandplay theories of Dora Kalff from the teacher.

 

The focus is on experiential creative learning, so you will learn our evidence-based sandplay therapeutic method, with lots of practical advice and a chance to try sandplay. We will also use other creative arts therapies such as music, mindfulness and meditations to nurture ourselves in a free, protected space.

 

Accessible and affordable sandplay training skills for working with children, adolescents and adults.

 

Sand tray is powerful as a way of accessing unconscious memories and feelings. Therefore, personal and group sandplay process is an important part of all our arts therapy training.  Exploring our own material supports us and helps us in our professional practice (and in life). We may recommend that you are in personal therapy. In addition, there is ongoing support from the teaching staff and supervisors, all of whom are BACP and/or UKCP therapists and supervisors.

Dates:

Starting 24th September 2022

Five weekend modules over 10 months

Venue

ONLINE courses via Zoom Meetings. Face to face courses will resume when its safe.

Times

10-4pm all days

Cost

For all certificate and diploma courses, payment in full is now £1800 paid two weeks before the course starts. Or instalments of 5×350, one before each of the five modules again 14 days in advance. Monthly payment plans are available by discussion with Jill.

We will be interviewing online or by phone for places on this course. Email Jill for a booking form then we will be in touch once you have completed and returned it. Please don’t send us any money until your place is confirmed.

It is useful to have done the Introduction weekend course first (though not essential). To conclude, there are more details of all our sandplay training courses here.

Terms

This course needs 6 people in order to go ahead on planned date. If less than that, we can offer other dates, other courses or a full refund.

Jill Carter Training Limited cannot help with the cost of accommodation or travel in any circumstances.

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what is sandplay therapy

This sandplay training course is for you if:

  • You work as a counsellor, psychotherapist, clinical psychologist, play therapist, wellbeing or mental health practitioner.
  • You are a professional, student or volunteer in an educational /mental health setting, e.g. school, nursery, SEN or CAMHS.
  • Adding sandplay work and play therapy skills appeals to you

The three levels of Sandplay Therapy Training:

 

Check this general overview on how to become a sandplay therapist.

Benefits of this course:

  • This course is a good way of looking after yourself, in fact many students come for that reason. Moreover, you can also use it for continuing hours of education or Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours.
  • If you want the Certificate, you need to have a counselling qualification (or similar).  Or be on a suitable therapy or counselling training course.
  • You can become a Certified Sandplay Therapist on completion of the taught hours, 50 client and 8 training supervision hours. You will be assessed by your supervisor and teacher during the teaching.
  • There is no written work on this course, although a small amount of reading is set throughout the sandplay training.
  • In addition, students are encouraged to present client material in group sessions during the weekends.
  • We work specifically to BACP standards and can help you to find a suitably qualified supervisor. Also, you may be able to use your own supervisor (check with Jill) if she/he has suitable experience and qualifications in sandplay training.

Tutor:

Helen Hawkins is a BACP registered and adult, child, adolescent and family therapist who has been practicing in schools and private practice for eight years. Before this she was a PSHE and SENCO teacher in primary, secondary and special schools for twenty years. She loves to work with sandplay, meditation, visualisations art, play and storytelling. Helen works with sandplay with children, teenagers and adults in a person-centred way. She enables clients of all ages to process their problems through play helping them to develop a stronger sense of self. Helen supports students by teaching the theory of sandplay through doing sand trays in a small supportive group.

Booking:

For all certificate and diploma courses, payment in full is now £1800 paid two weeks before the course starts. Or instalments of 5×350, one before each of the five modules again 14 days in advance. Monthly payment plans are available by discussion with Jill.

We will be interviewing online or by phone for places on this course. Email Jill for a booking form then we will be in touch once you have completed and returned it. Please don’t send us any money until your place is confirmed. 

It is useful to have done the Introduction weekend course first (though not essential). To conclude, there are more details of all our sandplay training courses here.

Get in touch!

Certified Sandplay Therapy Training Courses Jill Carter
If you have any questions or would like to book this course, the best way to get in touch is to email Jill on jill@jillcarter.co.uk or call on 07932694779
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The course will give you:

  • Our sandplay course can be used for BACP/UKCP Continuing Personal Development
  • The Certificate will give you all the skills you need to confidently use sandplay therapy
  • And the confidence to go on to the Diploma in Sandplay Therapy

Weekend content:

  • Weekend One: Introduction to the group and working with sand, getting started (equipment, rooms, having confidence in what we do), BACP confidentiality, boundaries, ethics, contracting. Being present with child and adult clients.  An introduction to our theoretical model. Reading and supervisors lists.
  • Weekend Two: Working with children in schools, NHS and private practice. Being with the child in front of you, based on work of Violet Oaklander. Practical skills and support on dealing with parents, head teachers and other colleagues, e.g. how to answer the ‘what is it that you DO?’ question. Case studies and examples of sand play with 3-11 age group. An introduction to children’s’ developmental stages and object relations’ theory.
  • Weekend Three:  Being not doing. The creative world of Jung and the healing power of the unconscious. The union of opposites – anima (female), animus (male) and shadow parts of our clients and ourselves. Exploring potential meanings and interpretations of Archetypes, universal meanings common in sand and other play therapy creative work. Mandalas – the symbol of wholeness – in sandplay and in expressive art. Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey in sand (see my blog https://jillcartertraining.co.uk/blogs/joseph-campbell-hero-journey/)
  • Weekend Four:  Working with Teenagers and Trauma. Encouraging creativity and story telling in sandplay with adolescents. Rites and initiations: the battle between Eros (life/love) and Thanatos (death/destruction).  The therapist as fellow traveller. An introduction to using sandplay with both simple and complex trauma. The work of Bessel van der Kolk.
  • Weekend Five: Remembering who we are.  Helping adult clients to reconnect to their hearts through sandplay. Simple ways of making creative work less challenging and practical ways of encouraging clients to do sand. An introduction to the transpersonal writings of Almaas. Bodywork and mindfulness exercises and ways of supporting ourselves after the course.

Support and Community:

  • Closed online groups, webinars, podcasts and videos.
  • Group supervision days in Ealing

What to do next:

Get in touch!

Certified Sandplay Therapy Training Courses Jill Carter
If you have any questions or would like to book this course, the best way to get in touch is to email Jill on jill@jillcarter.co.uk or call on 07932694779
EMAIL JILL

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I was impressed and inspired by Jill’s professionalism, her excellent handouts, her encyclopedic knowledge but most of all the personal qualities that she brings, such generosity of spirit and warmth of heart. The pace is gentle yet firm, her holding of the space exceptional and after experiencing Psychotherapy training in other institutions I would rate Jill’s approach as masterful and highly competent. The handouts are eloquent and erudite, the symbol collection second to none and the opportunity to learn experiential as well as via lectures deeply effective and in my case, life changing.
Kate