Day 1, Friday June 11
9:00 am – Play therapy as the setting for trauma work
- Emotional safety in the playroom
- AIP and the therapeutic power of play
- 8 essentials for integration of EMDR and play therapy
- Understanding the meaning of the child’s behaviors using a self -guided case consultation format. This format will be referred to throughout the presentation
- Demonstration of a play therapy approach to gathering trauma history from a child
10:30 – Break
10:45 – Play in the preparation phase
- Using movement in resource development
- Preparing EMDR tools through play
- Options for BLS in the playroom
- Games for soothing and grounding “state change”
- Somatic resources and “bottom up” repair
12:15 pm – Lunch
1:15 – Post traumatic play and bridges to assessment and processing
- Video/transcript examples of building the bridge to EMDR processing
- Using play for emotional distancing in child sensitive standard protocol
- Involving parents
- Parents in the Closure and Re-evaluation phase, “Popcorn night”
2:45 – Break
3:00 – Recognizing and repairing attachment wounds
- Attachment theory and tools for assessment
- Attachment repair in preparation phase
4:30 – Close
Day 2, Saturday June 12
9:00 am – Complex trauma and dissociation
- Attachment wounds as the origin of dissociative symptoms
- Signs and symptoms of dissociation in children
- Using dissociative lens to understand behavior and help parents increase safety
- Dissociation
10:30 – Break
10:45 – Guided experience of applying expressive techniques and play to identify the dissociated parts of the self which is especially applicable for older children and adolescents
- Dissociation doll demo
- Using drawing/art as the medium
- EMDR interweaves using parts
12:15 pm – Lunch
1:15 – The problem of hostile introjects and how to recognize and manage
- Extended case presentation on child DID case –
- Understanding the formation of hostile internal parts
- Differentiating between angry and “monster” parts, etc.
- Experiential exercise to revisit the guided art project from above to attend to those internal parts experientially
2:45 – Break
3:00 – In depth exploration of using sandtray prompts and miniatures for the playroom process for exploring parts of the self
- Resourcing the parts
- Cooperation between parts
- Acceptance of parts
- Last 45 min – case presentation and consultation using case consultation format we have been using throughout
4:30 – Close |