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Play Therapy Conference 2018 - "Keep In Touch"
Beaumont Estate, Old Windsor, Near London, Berkshire SL4 2JJ
8th to 16th June 2018
Plenary Day 9th June 2018
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Introduction by Monika Jephcott
I am delighted that we will be covering ‘Touch’ as the theme of the 2018 Conference as it is a socially
sensitive area but at the same time the use of appropriate touch is a valuable addition to our skills. I am
very excited to be able to present the world’s foremost speakers on the subject, Dr. Janet Courtney and Professor
Francis McGlone. Dr. Courtney will talk about the practice-based application of touch and Professor McGlone will
present the latest neurobiological evidence that explains the importance of the use of touch.
I hope the wide choice of workshops will enhance your practice.
I look forward to meeting you all in Windsor - Monika Jephcott (Chief Executive, PTUK Ltd.)
Introduction to the Conference
"Keep In Touch" is often something we say to each other when we are saying goodbye, hoping that the relationship we have
with the other person can be maintained regardless of the distance that may be between us and the additional priorities
in our lives. Sometimes the contact is kept and our voices can be heard over the miles to let that person know they
are important in both our professional and personal lives. This is not always easy and not always necessary. However,
we can be reminded of how important it is for a person to be remembered with memories of a shared moment.
I am thrilled that Monika has secured Dr. Janet Courtney and Professor Francis McGlone for the June 2018 Conference,
to share with us their work in “Touch” so that we can be reminded of how we, as professionals, can recognise the
need for touch from our clients and how we can benefit from the power of touch ourselves.
I hope you will enjoy this year’s Conference and take away a real, warm hug that is full of joy and learning and meet
old friends who will, of course, keep in touch.
- Evelyn Saunders
Contents
8th June 2018
Pre-Conference One-Day Training Courses
- Supervisor Follow-Up Day
- Filial Play Coaching Follow-Up Day
- Counselling Children and Young People Follow-Up Day
Follow-Up days are for those who have previously completed the PQ courses
- Supervisor Top-Up Day (for Approved Supervisors)
- Sand Play Skills Theory Day (compulsory before starting Sand Play Skills Part 1)
9th June 2018
Morning – Plenary Session
- Introduction by Monika Jephcott
- Key Note Address by Dr. Janet Courtney
- Key Note Address by Professor Francis McGlone
Afternoon - CPD Workshops
- W1 Nurturing Experiences of Touch through FirstPlay® Kinesthetic Storytelling Implementing the Magic Rainbow Hug©
with Children and Caregivers
- W2 Further Insights into the Neurobiology of Touch
- W3 Touching Clay
- W4 Finding the Inner Fairy Tale
- W5 Working with Children in Foster Care
- W6 From Mandalas to Mandorlas
- W7 Working with LEGO
- W8 The Importance of Prioritising Self-Care as a Practitioner
- W9 Creative Supervision
- W10 Play Therapy and Mental Health
From 10th June 2018
Post Qualifying Courses
- PQ Certificate in Clinical Supervision
- PQ Filial Play Coaching
- PQ Certificate in Sandplay Skills Part 1 and Part 2
- PQ Certificate in Counselling Children and Young People
These PQ courses enable you to fulfil your CPD requirements for the whole year. They will significantly enhance your
skills and aid your career development and CV. All courses are recognised by Leeds Beckett University as Post Qualifying
courses. CPD for PQ courses can be carried over 2 years.
Eight CPD points may be claimed for every full day of attendance on any part of the Conference.
*Please be aware that Conference running order may be subject to change
PTUK CONFERENCE - 9th June 2018
08.30 - 09.00
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Arrival and Registration (Refreshments available)
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09.00 - 09.15
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Welcome by Monika Jephcott, Chief Executive, PTUK
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09.15 - 11.00
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Keynote Address by Dr. Janet Courtney Keep in Touch: Its Ethical and Clinical Use in Practice
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11.00 – 11.15
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Refreshments
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11.15 – 13.00
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Keynote Address by Professor Francis McGlone The Neurobiological Basis of Affective Touch: A Review
of Current Evidence
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13.00 -14.00
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Lunch
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14.00 - 15.15
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CPD Workshops
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15.15 - 15.45
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Refreshments
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15.45 -17.00
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CPD Workshops
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KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Janet Courtney
Keep in Touch: Its Ethical and Clinical Use in Practice
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Dr. Janet Courtney, Ph.D., LCSW is the founder of FirstPlay® Therapy, is certified as an Advanced Infant
Massage Educator and has also received training from the Touch Research Institute at the University of
Miami. As Director of Developmental Play & Attachment Therapies and Adjunct Professor at Barry University,
Miami Shores, Florida, Janet’s career has focused on attachment and bonding between young children and
their parents.
Dr. Courtney has been a long-standing supporter of PTI and first presented at the PTUK/PTI World Congress
in Chichester in 2004 and in Marrakech in 2010. She has also held workshops at other PTUK Conferences.
She is an internationally recognised Play Therapist and has been invited to speak on topics of infant
and childhood mental health in England, Ireland, Morocco, Russia, Ukraine and the Cayman Islands.
Dr. Courtney is a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor through the Association for Play Therapy and has developed
a new process of storytelling called Kinesthetic Storytelling® which merges imagery relaxation skills
with joyful first-play touch activities. Her interactive storybook, “The Magic Rainbow Hug”, makes this
technique directly accessible to professionals, parents and the children who can most benefit from its
use.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Francis McGlone
The Neurobiological Basis of Affective Touch:
A Review of Current
Evidence
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Professor Francis McGlone is the Head of the Somatosensory & Affective Neuroscience Group at the School of
Natural Sciences & Psychology and Professor in Neuroscience at Liverpool John Moores University.
Professor McGlone’s primary area of academic research is characterising the role of C-fibres and C-Tactile
afferents in humans, investigating their role in pain, itch (for which an IgNobel prize was awarded!)
and the pleasure of touch. Techniques used in his research include microneurography, psychophysical measurements,
functional neuroimaging, behavioural measures and psychopharmacological approaches to investigate the
role of the brain transmitter, serotonin, in touch.
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CPD WORKSHOPS – 9th JUNE 2018
Numbers for each workshop will be restricted because of their therapeutic and experiential nature. All workshop allocations
will be on a “first come, first served basis”.
W1. Nurturing Experiences of Touch Through FirstPlay® Kinesthetic Storytelling®: Implementing the Magic Rainbow Hug©
in Practice with Children and Caregivers Dr. Janet Courtney
This workshop will give participants an understanding of how FirstPlay® is adapted developmentally to an Infant Play
Therapy model.
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Dr. Janet Courtney, Ph.D., LCSW is an internationally recognised Play Therapist and Registered Play Therapy
Supervisor through the Association for Play Therapy.
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W2. Further Insights into the Neurobiology of Touch
Professor Francis McGlone and Dr. Susannah Walker
This workshop will include:
- The Biological Role of Oxytocin in Social Behaviour
- Insights into the development of touch preferences
- Affective Touch Perception Across the Lifespan
- Is it you or is it me? Differentiating between self & other touch
- A Father's Role in Attachment & Touch - Fathers’ caregiving behaviour and its contribution to child development.
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Professor Francis McGlone is the Head of the Somatosensory & Affective Neuroscience Group at the School of
Natural Sciences & Psychology and Professor in Neuroscience at Liverpool John Moores University.
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After completing her PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews in 2002, Dr Susannah
Walker spent 6 years as a Research Associate in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University
of Cambridge where she studied the neural and neurochemical basis of executive control behaviours mediated
by the prefrontal cortex.
Her research is now focused on how exposure to biologically salient sensory stimuli influences emotional and cognitive behaviour.
She is a member of the Somatosensory & Affective Neuroscience group with the LJMU project, investigating
the role of 5-HT (Serotonin) in psychological responses to affective touch.
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W3. Touching Clay:
A deep way of working that is physical and that can often be an emotional, metaphorical and
spiritual experience
Lynne Souter-Anderson
This workshop is likely to appeal to practitioners of all levels who are interested in extending their understanding
of working in depth with clay during sessional work with children and adolescents.
Using clay in play therapy work with children and adolescents has proven to be extremely beneficial because it enables communication
to take place when worries and problems are difficult to put into words. Touching clay offers a universal language
when working with anger, trauma, bereavement, loss, attachment, bullying, conflict, sexual identity, shame, guilt
and so on.
During the workshop, experiential work will be accompanied by theoretical input and time will be given for discussion
within the group. No previous experience is necessary but a willingness to possibly getting messy helps!
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Dr. Lynne Souter-Anderson is a Fellow of the National Counselling Society, a BACP senior accredited therapist,
accredited senior supervisor with PTUK and registered sandplay therapist with the AST. As founder of
the Clay Therapy Community, in 2012 she established pioneering clay therapy training in the United Kingdom.
Lynne’s private practice is in Cambridgeshire, UK where she offers psychotherapy for children, adolescents,
adults, couples and families, clinical supervision and consultancy work. Her expertise in the field of
clay therapy, the creative arts and sandplay therapy is acknowledged through invitations to present training
and conference workshops across the globe. Lynne is author of Touching Clay, Touching What? The Use of
Clay in Therapy (2010) and Making Meaning: Clay Therapy with Children and Adolescents (2015) and loves
being a Grandma!
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W4. Finding the Inner Fairy Tale:
The Use of Fairy Tales in Play Therapy using Imagination, Life Experiences and
the Soul
Clare Francica
Fairy Tales have been a very important part of my own personal process as a Jungian-oriented therapist. The aim of this
experiential workshop is to give the opportunity for participants to understand the archetypal contributions of stories
better, through how they touch their personal lives and how these tales eventually become knowledge which informs
play therapists of their clients’ process.
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Claire Francica is an Accredited Play Therapist with PTUK. She offers play therapy for children and adolescents,
both in private practice and in schools, on an individual basis and in groups. Her area of specialisation
is working with children with an early onset of mental health issues. She is also an Existential Coach
and is a registered member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). Claire is currently
finishing off her Doctorate degree in Counselling Psychology and Existential Psychotherapy with the Existential
Academy in London. She is also an advanced candidate in Jungian Sandplay with the British Irish Sandplay
Society (BISS) which is also situated in London.
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W5. Working with Children in Foster Care
Bonita Fradd and Joanne Bolter
This workshop aims to give therapists an understanding on working with children who have been removed from their birth
families and placed in foster care or kinship care. Our experiential workshop will briefly look at how early trauma
effects the development of the brain and impacts attachment as well as exploring some of the themes presented within
therapeutic sessions.
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Bonita Fradd has been working therapeutically with children and adolescents since 2002. Initially trained
as an Integrative Counsellor, Bonita is now an Accredited Play Therapist (PTUK), Filial Coach (PTUK),
and Supervisor (PTUK). Over the past 8 years, Bonita has worked in schools and Independent Foster Agencies
providing play therapy, filial play, training and consultations. Presently, Bonita works for an Independent
Foster Agency based in Worcestershire where she delivers Attachment and Trauma training to social workers
and foster carers, provides play therapy for “looked after” children, engages families in attachment
focused therapy (filial and DDP) and offers consultations to all professionals involved with the children
in order to support them both at home and in the school environment. Bonita works with Dr. Kim Golding
and is currently being supervised by Kim for her clinical work as well as for her training in Dyadic
Developmental Psychotherapy which she is currently undertaking.
Joanne Bolter commenced her therapeutic journey in 2009 working with children identified as having emotional,
social and behavioural difficulties in a mainstream setting. Since 2014 Joanne has been providing full
time therapeutic support in a Specialist Social, Emotional and Mental Health School, across both primary
and secondary phases, with pupils presenting challenging behaviours and primarily under Local Authority
Care. Interventions include 1-1 play therapy, group therapy, outdoor therapeutic interventions and family
support. Joanne is a Play Therapist (PTUK), Outdoor Forest School Practitioner, Trainee Filial Coach
and Trainee Supervisor (PTUK).
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W6. From Mandalas to Mandorlas
Anne Ambler
If you are already familiar with Mandalas and use them for yourself or in your practice maybe it is time to explore Mandorlas?
Never heard of them? Well you are not alone in that! They have great therapeutic use, but do require a more directive
approach in therapy. However, they are also very accessible and helpful to use for our own reflections and personal
growth too. Is your curiosity roused? Come along to this experiential workshop and reconnect with the magic of Mandalas
and find something new in Mandorlas too.
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Anne Ambler is an Accredited Play Therapist (PTUK), Clinical Supervisor (PTUK), Filial Play Coach (PTUK),
Course Director for APAC and Clay Therapist. She has worked therapeutically with children and young people
for more than ten years in schools, children’s centres and in private practice. Anne has taught courses
in creative counselling for children and young people both in a local FE college and privately and has
delivered workshops at various venues in England and Morocco for PTUK/PTI as well as delivering the Certificate
in Therapeutic Play Skills.
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W7. Working with LEGO
Aoife Kelly
LEGO is a well-known and creative medium that can be used in Play Therapy. It provides the child with an opportunity
to explore and express themselves both on a conscious and unconscious level. LEGO relies on the use of metaphor,
physical manipulative skills and imagination. Many studies have shown how it can easily engage a child and help them
in their process.
This workshop will explore how it can be used both in individual and group play therapy sessions to help children presenting
issues such as anxiety, anger, hyperactivity, communication/socialisation, bereavement, adjustment, lack of imagination,
parental separation and many more. LEGO can also be used in conjunction with other mediums such as sand, clay, water,
etc.
LEGO can also be used in clinical supervision as a creative medium to assist a supervisee to explore issues that they
may bring to supervision.
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Aoife Kelly is a Certified Play Therapist and Clinical Supervisor (PTIrl). Aoife works with individuals and
groups both in schools and in private practice. At present, she is completing her MA in Practice Based
Play Therapy researching the ‘Effectiveness of using LEGO in Play Therapy’. Aoife is also an APAC Course
Director for the Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills and a Course Director for the PQ Certificate
in Clinical Supervision.
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W8. The Importance of Prioritising Self-Care as a Practitioner
Amber Cawley and Avalon Thomas
The workshop on self-care will look at the different methods available for self-care, including developing our inner
supervisor. It will highlight why it is important and why it is one of our ethical principles. We will use creative
externalisation tools to look at what we need as individuals to self-care, focusing on our mental, physical and emotional
nourishment. The workshop will include creative visualisation and movement as part of this process. Our aim is to
support and remind practitioners to continuously prioritise their self-care and share some ideas of simple strategies
to use every day whilst working with clients.
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Amber Cawley is a Certified Play Therapist and Creative Clinical Supervisor (PTUK) and in addition has completed
the initial training to become an Assistant Course Director with APAC. She has been in private practice
as a Play Therapist for 2 years working with children from 4 to 16 years with complex needs, including
ASD, ADHD, anxiety related difficulties and looked after children. Amber works in mainstream schools
with specialist provision for children excluded from mainstream education in South West London.
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Avalon Thomas is a Certified Play Therapist and Creative Clinical Supervisor (PTUK). She has also completed
the initial training to become an Assistant Course Director with APAC. Avalon has been practising as
a Play Therapist for over 5 years, she specialises in working with children in care and adopted children.
She also works in Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties (BESD) schools and mainstream primary
schools in the South West of England. She also provides therapeutic life story work to children in care
and adopted families.
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W9. Creative Supervision
Evelyn Saunders
This workshop will look at how and why we need to work creatively with our supervisees and what types of activities can
be used in both individual and group supervision.
The focus of the workshop will be experiential and hopefully will enhance your knowledge and skills in supervision giving
you opportunity to enjoy your work.
This workshop will be a small taster of a CPD workshop due to be advertised soon.
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Evelyn Saunders is a Senior Course Director with APAC who has been working with children and families for
many years. She has been a qualified Play Therapist (PTUK) since qualifying with APAC after completion
of one of their early courses. Her interests in training and providing opportunities for play therapists
to gain a greater understanding of their clients and their own model of working has been demonstrated
through the CPD workshops in topics such as sand, art, small world play and containing the mess, all
of which aim to aid the client’s move towards autonomy.
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W10. Play Therapy and Mental Health
Beth Wiseman and Lauren Lamberton
Have you ever thought one of your clients might meet diagnostic criteria? Are you unsure of who would be the most appropriate
person to refer on to? 10% of children and young people (aged 5-16) have a clinically diagnosable mental health problem
(Mental Health Foundation). By coming along to our workshop, we will help you identify when a diagnosis may be considered
and what you need to do to help your client get the assessment they need. Sometimes, additional intervention from
other agencies would enhance the care and treatment for your client; this workshop will help you make these considerations.
It will also increase your knowledge of what you need to consider and the best approaches to use. Overall aims of
the workshop: When to refer to CAMHS / Social Work, common mental health conditions, Process and Procedure (Scotland
/England/ Northern Ireland), Should Play Therapy continue? Managing Expectations, Integrated Working, Sharing information/
Confidentiality.
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Beth Wiseman is a registered mental health nurse, Play Therapist and Clinical Supervisor (PTUK) who has worked
in Mental Health for the last 20 years. Starting her journey in Adult Acute Admission wards, she has
for the past 8 years been the Team Manager for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in
Ayrshire and Arran (Scotland). Her role has covered both regional and national work improving patient
safety through identifying areas of ‘harm’ and how this can be improved; addressing issues such as transition
of care, interagency working and clearer multiagency pathways.
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Lauren Lamberton is a Play Therapist (PTUK), Clinical Supervisor (PTUK) and Social Worker. She is currently
the Team Leader of Step 3 CAMHS service in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has 15 years experience working
with children and young people in a variety of contexts including play therapy, CAMHS, looked after children,
young adults leaving care and community work. Lauren has a special interest in attachment and trauma
within mental health. She has worked in Northern Ireland, England as well as internationally including
in Africa, South America and Asia.
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POST QUALIFYING COURSES
Post Qualifying Certificate in Clinical Supervision
10th – 16th June 2018 (7 Days)
The role of the Clinical Supervisor will become even more important with ‘Right Touch’ regulation. This course will enable
you to leverage your play therapy experience to help many more children by advising and supporting other practitioners
through clinical supervision to maintain high standards of practice.
PTI/PTUK accredited training courses are now run at 10 venues in the UK, 3 in Ireland, 1 in France and in 6 other countries,
producing a stream of Play/Creative Arts Therapists who require clinical supervision. This course is designed to
help to fill the shortage of suitably trained supervisors. Becoming a Certified Clinical Supervisor is also an essential
step on the way to becoming a PTUK Certified Play Therapy Trainer. Both of these career opportunities will provide
extra job satisfaction and additional income.
The course is designed for those who have at least 200 hours experience of working with children or adolescents using
play/creative arts therapy as well as experienced, accredited counsellors. It includes:
- A model for the supervision of play and creative arts therapies
- Agreeing contracts
- Using creative arts for supervision
- Using the Play Therapy Dimension Model for supervision
- Supervisees’ training requirements
- Dealing with supervisees’ career development issues
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Susannah Bradley is an Accredited Play Therapist and Certified Supervisor (PTUK). She began her play therapy
journey in 2006 completing her MA in 2012. She has worked with children of all ages in a variety of environments.
Currently she is self-employed, working in a number of local schools and doing some charity work. Susannah
works with varying levels of need, largely in disadvantaged areas. She is also a school governor and
trustee of a local children’s charity. She is a Clay Therapist and loves working with clay which she
finds a really powerful medium.
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Aoife Kelly is a Certified Play therapist and Clinical Supervisor (PTIrl). Aoife works with individuals and
groups both in schools and in private practice. At present, she is completing her MA in Practice Based
Play Therapy researching the ‘Effectiveness of using LEGO in Play Therapy’. Aoife is also an APAC Course
Director for the Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills and a Course Director for the PQ Certificate
in Clinical Supervision.
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Post Qualifying Certificate in Filial Play Coaching
10th to 16th June 2018 (7 Days)
- Days 1 – 4: Filial Play Coaching
- Day 5: One Day of Additional Practice
- Days 6 and 7: Filial Play Coaching for Groups
The PQ Certificate in Filial Play Coaching has been restructured for 2018 to include one additional day of practice with
two further days for practitioners to gain additional skills working with groups/families. There will be an opportunity
later in 2018 for those who have attended previous 4-Day Filial Play Coaching courses to attend the new, additional
2-day course to add to their skills.
Filial Play Coaching is a natural career development for Play Therapists and other practitioners who wish to work with
parents and families.
The PTUK model places an emphasis on working with socially deprived families. The purpose is to provide practice-based
training to enable participants to coach parents/carers to use filial play effectively with their children, including
the use of touch.
You should be able to incorporate the techniques taught on this course into your work to open up new career opportunities.
During the first 4 days, the course content will include:
- An understanding of the main models of filial play, their pros and cons
- How to assess the parents and children being considered for filial play
- Teaching parents the importance of play, the main types of play and their purpose so that they can achieve a suitable
balance with their children
- How to ensure that parents know how to structure a filial play session
- How to coach parents in the four key skills of filial play
- How to ensure that parents know how to focus on the child during a filial play session
- Demonstrating the use and applicability of the main filial play tools: art media, music, movement, sand tray, storytelling
and puppets, clearly indicating which are appropriate for use at home and those that may be used in the therapist’s
play room
- Advising parents on acquiring, making and using appropriate equipment, materials and toys during their home play
sessions according to their circumstances
- How to ensure that parents know how to use encouragement during a filial play session
- Advising parents on how to make notes on home play sessions suitable for use during the coaching discussions
- How to integrate the use of filial play with play therapy if this is being used concurrently
- Maintaining suitable records of progress and carrying out quality management of filial play work
- How to brief other involved organisations and colleagues upon the purpose and methods of filial play
On Day 5 you will be able to practice the skills you have acquired during the first part of the course. On Days 6 and
7 practitioners will learn how to apply the four key skills: boundary setting, focusing, reflecting and predictability
to working with groups of parents/carers. The Filial Play Coach will help parents/carers to develop insight and have
the opportunity to share their experiences about their relationship with their child. Facilitation of the group process
will include demonstration and modelling of the four skills. Emphasis will be placed on empowering the parents/carers
to be the agents of change in their children’s lives.
There will be a Follow-Up Day in 2019 for those who attend the 2018 course.
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Karen O'Neill is a PTUK Accredited Play Therapist and Senior Certified Clinical Supervisor. She is a Senior
Course Director with the Academy of Play and Child Psychotherapy (APAC), Course Director of the new Advanced
Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People and Associate Tutor with Leeds Beckett University. For
the past 10 years, she has delivered training on a range of courses for APAC, accredited by PTUK/PTI
in the UK and overseas. She also has an MA in Practice based Play Therapy. In addition, she is a BACP
Senior Accredited Counsellor, with over 15 years experience. Karen offers a range of attachment focused
interventions to children and families, with an interest in attachment and trauma.
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Post Qualifying Certificate in Sandplay Skills Programme Part 1
10th to 13th June 2018 (4 days)
NB. Attendance at the Theory Day on 8th June 2018 is compulsory before attending Sandplay Skills Part 1
Post Qualifying Certificate in Sandplay Skills Programme Part 2
14th to 16th June 2018 (3 days)
NB. Attendance at the Theory Day on 8th June 2018 is compulsory before attending Sandplay Skills Part 1
If you are a play therapy practitioner, counsellor, psychotherapist or other mental health practitioner who wishes to
extend your skills in the therapeutic medium most frequently chosen by children and also to use Sandplay Therapy
with adolescents and adults, choose this programme.
In Sandplay therapy the client sets up a world in a sand tray that corresponds to their inner state, using objects/figures
and in the arrangement of the sand. In this manner, through free, creative play, unconscious processes are made visible
in a three-dimensional form. Through a series of images that take shape in this way, the process of individuation
described by Carl Jung is stimulated and brought to fruition. Sandplay has been termed an ‘X-ray of the Psyche’.
You can see the changes in the clients’ processes and progression.
Experiential Training
Doing one’s own Sandplay work is essential. In order to engage in the medium of Sandplay with a client, the therapist
must have experienced the movement of his or her psyche by the same means. To attempt to engage in Sandplay with
a client without having undergone one’s own Sandplay work would not be safe.
The 7-day experiential training that is required is offered in two parts:
- Certificate in Therapeutic Sandplay Skills - Part 1. This four-day course, preceded by the compulsory theory day,
will enable you to start practising
- Certificate in Therapeutic Sandplay Skills - Part 2. This 3-day course is for those who have previously completed
Part 1 and have at least 20 hours of Sandplay Therapy practice.
Theory
It is vital that Sandplay therapy practitioners have an embedded knowledge of the underlying theoretical principles.
This is most effectively accomplished by reading ‘The Handbook of Sand Play Therapy’ by Barbara Turner in advance
of the Theory day. (The cost of the book is not included in the Conference progamme but may be purchased through
the Amazon link on the PTUK website www.playtherapy.org.uk ). This theoretical part of the programme does not, on
its own, provide the competencies required to practice as a Sandplay therapy practitioner.
Certificates of Attendance will be issued after each experiential training course. The final award of PTI/PTUK ‘Certified
Practitioner in Therapeutic Sandplay Skills’ will be made upon satisfactory completion of both Part 1 and Part 2
of the training and 50 clinically supervised hours of practice.
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Eunice Stagg, MA is an Accredited Play Therapist, Senior Supervisor PTUK and Senior Trainer for Play Therapy
International (PTI), MBACP (Senior Accredited), AST STR-Supervisor, Dip Theology, Registered Sandplay
Therapist and Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist with the British Association of Counselling
and Psychotherapy (BACP). Eunice is a teaching member of, and serves on the council of The Association
for Sandplay Therapy (AST). In the past, she has been an Associate Lecturer for both Canterbury Christchurch
University in the UK and the National University of Ireland, Galway through working for APAC and has
conducted Sandplay training in the USA, Africa, India, New Zealand, Malaysia, Romania, Singapore and
many other countries throughout the world.
Eunice is a contributing author to The International Book of Sandplay Therapy (Routledge 2017) and has published
articles in The Journal of Sandplay Therapy and The Jungian Sandplay Therapy Almanac. She lives and works
in the United Kingdom and has a private Sandplay Practice working with both adults and children.
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Post Qualifying Certificate in Counselling Children and Young People
10th to 16th June 2018 (7 Days)
We all know that young children often do not use talking as a way to resolve their issues but as they grow older this
changes. This new course is designed for Certified or Accredited Play Therapists who wish to extend their skills
to use talking therapy with children and young persons as well as creative arts media.
You will learn how to:
- Communicate effectively using listening, reflecting, empathy, attending, observing, paraphrasing and summarising
skills with children and young people in the therapeutic relationship
- Have a better understanding of transference and counter-transference as it arises in the therapeutic relationship
and how to respond effectively
- Identify the ways in which children and young people manage and process their emotions, including the ability
to recognise situations where they are finding it difficult to access these emotions
- Help the child or young person to find appropriate words to describe their emotions
- Help the child or young person to verbalise the key concerns, meanings and memories which emerge out of emotional
arousal
- Help the child or young person identify and verbalise the wishes, needs, behaviours and goals associated with
feelings and emotions
- Integrate the use of therapeutic creative arts media (from your Play Therapy experience) directively with talking
therapy skills
- The course will help you increase your self-awareness and understand how this can help or hinder the therapeutic
relationship
There will be a Follow-Up Day in 2019 for those who attend the 2018 course.
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Jessica van Maanen is an Accredited Play Therapist, Supervisor and Filial Play Coach (PTUK). Jessica
has 17 years’ experience working with vulnerable children and families. She provides play therapy
and counselling services to foster children and their families, children on the autistic spectrum
both in mainstream and special needs schools. Jessica also provides supervision to trainee and Accredited
Play Therapists and works as a Course Director for APAC, delivering the Certificate in Therapeutic
Play Skills and Diploma in Play Therapy courses.
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Renate Andrews is a Play and Creative Arts Therapist (PTUK) and Counsellor who is committed to improving
access to quality services and in helping to change policy, developing projects and delivering therapy
and training. She develops and delivers effective, safe services to children and young people as
a voluntary sector manager and independent practitioner. She co-runs an independent In-School Counselling
service in Orkney offering Creative Arts Counselling, Play Therapy, Peer Mentoring and staff support.
This is now in its 7th year and has become an integral part of the local education department. Renate
is also an APAC Course Director, Supervisor and COSCA Accredited Trainer with a diploma in training.
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Conference Programme – June 2018
Pre-Conference One Day Training Courses
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8th June 2018
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09.00 – 17.00
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Supervisor Follow-Up Day Filial Play Coaching Follow-Up Day Counselling Children and Young
People Follow-Up Day Supervisor Top-Up Day Sand Play Skills Theory Day
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PTUK Conference 2018
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9th June 2018
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08.30 – 09.00
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Arrival, Registration and Refreshments
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09.00 – 09.15
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Welcome by Monika Jephcott, Chief Executive PTUK
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09.15 – 11.00
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Keynote Address by Dr. Janet Courtney
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11.00 – 11.15
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Refreshments
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11.15 – 13.00
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Keynote Address by Professor Francis McGlone
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13.00 – 14.00
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Lunch
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14.00 – 15.15
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CPD Workshops
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15.15 – 15.45
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Refreshments
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15.45 – 17.00
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CPD Workshops
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17.00
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Conference Ends
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