Free Member Training

Doll Making – Join us in this exciting experiential component to the free member training where Cynthia Swan will share her creativity and expertise in making Psychedolls.  Each Psychedoll or assemblage art doll is a unique, one-of-a-kind image that captures the imagination and creativity of others.Clients may be drawn to them, or repulsed.  Many use them in sand.  When the doll is seen as a stand-alone projective image, clients tell important stories, are reminded of life’s significant relatives, and memories emerge.  They can also be a desired addition for sacred space or personal altar.  Psychedolls were shown on Etsy.com and a Crafts and Creativity group meet to assemble the miniature doll, quickly becoming a feminine gathering for sharing, support, and creativity  Over the years Psychedolls held the imagination of dream workshop participants; Crafts and Creativity workshops; community building gatherings and an exhibit at the Erie Public Library.  Creating the assemblage art dolls is now a regular activity of those who live In Eagle Place Senior Housing.  A local coffee shop will be exhibiting the assemblage art dolls in the near future.  Creativity and community provide hope, deepen friendships, and supports the creative impulse that gives us Psychedolls.

Cynthia Swan, LPC is passionate and dedicated to providing a context in which clients can overcome obstacles and create successful connections with Self and others.  As a therapist in private practice, she meets with those who are in emotional distress, relationship conflicts, or are on a journey to “find congruence with their inner gold”.  She offers Sand Tray methods with adults and sees significant shifts emerge among those who engage with the sand.Case Consultation – With facilitators Laurel Howe MS, STA-T and Shannon Yockey LCSW, STA-Candidate,  We will take an in depth look at case material presented by CSTA members in order to grow in our understanding of the Sandplay Process.  We will explore the themes presented in sand scenes, areas of transference and countertransference and the symbolic process as it unfolds.  Consultation is important and necessary for a deeper understanding of the Sandplay process for both Sandplayer and clinician.If you are interested in presenting a case for the consultation part of the Free Member training, please contact us at info@sandplaytherapy.org.  There are a limited number of time slots available. Specific guidelines are required, but anyone is welcome to present case material. 

Shannon Yockey, LCSW, STA Candidate, has over 20 years of experience working with children, teens and adults in mental health agencies, church communities, overseas military settings, and private practice. She specializes in parenting and family issues, childhood trauma, gifted and talented youth, and early attachment wounding. Shannon is a certified EMDR practitioner and consultant in training. She began Sandplay training in Germany with senior ISST member, Sigrid Loewen-Seifert, and has been using Sandplay for the past seven years in her private practice. Shannon is the current president of Colorado Sandplay Therapy Association (CSTA) and is a candidate for clinical membership with the Sandplay Therapists of America.  She utilizes Sandplay, EMDR, and Mindfulness based practices.  For more information on Shannon, please visit http://www.childandfamilysolutions.com/shannon.htm
Laurel Howe, M.A., STA-T is a Jungian Analyst and sandplay therapist in private practice in Denver. She earned her analytic diploma from the Centre for Research and Training in Depth Psychology, Zürich and is a teaching member of the Sandplay Therapists of America. She does analytic work as well as sandplay therapy with adults and children, and provides mentoring, process, and consultation for sandplay therapists. She lectures internationally on Jungian psychology and is a regular instructor at the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado and the Colorado Sandplay Therapist Association. Laurel has a master’s degree in transpersonal counseling psychology from Naropa University and maintains a strong interest in contemplative psychotherapy. Laurel’s extensive examination of a young boy’s sandplay case with striking alchemical symbolism has appeared in the Swiss journal, Jungiana and in Psychological Perspectives, the journal of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. Besides alchemy, Laurel is interested in the disappearance and reappearance of the feminine principle in Western religion and culture, including Mary Magdalen and her far-reaching presence in art, legend and contemporary culture. Her article, “Mary Magdalen: Lover of the Dying and Resurrecting God-Man,” will appear in Psychological Perspectives in the winter 2013 issue.  For more information on Laurel please visit http://www.laurelhowe.org.

*This training counts towards STA certification.  For more information please visit www.sandplay.org.

To Register for this training:
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