I run workshops for counsellors and trainee counsellors in sandplay therapy.
Sandplay Therapy provides:
a means of self-discovery, healing and integration
a transformation or redirection of blocked energy
access to the childhood world of imagination and play, re-awakening our own creative nature
a means by which children and adults, unable to articulate their feelings and experiences, can find expression and integration
safe entry into the deeper archetypal, mythic and transpersonal realms of the psyche
an activation of our natural, self-healing capacity
an opportunity for a creative non-rational experience, as a balance to society's overemphasis on the ego's intellect
Sandplay seems to access areas of human suffering which have otherwise always resisted psychotherapeutic treatment. Recent research in neuroscience explains why this is possible: trauma is not remembered in verbal form which has never been articulated in words nor ever shaped cannot be outwardly expressed. In sandplay, however, it manifests itself as a form, shaped by the hands. The inexpressible can be seen and touched therefore, it can be transformed. |
