Using the Sand Tray in Therapy
This workshop with Ani de la Prida explores how to use the sand tray as a therapeutic tool from a person-centred and pluralistic perspective
Working with a sand tray in therapy is a powerful therapeutic tool where clients are invited to play, or create a scene, pattern or a story using objects and miniature figures in a tray filled with sand.
This workshop will explore the practice of working with sand tray from from a person-centred and pluralistic perspective. It is designed to help develop skills to work empathically, non-directively, non-interpretively and collaboratively with symbolic materials and processes.
Using the sand tray is an expressive, non-verbal, creative approach that can be used with people of all ages. What is created can represent a clients personal world in symbolic form. It can promote exploration of conscious and unconscious material. Thoughts and feelings may emerge and become visible through the symbolic representation. Sessions can feel very deep and powerful. It can help with processing emotional material and it can help clients develop valuable insights leading to growth, self-awareness and integration.
Participants will gain hands-on experience supported by theoretical understanding in order to develop the confidence to incorporate this approach into their therapy practice.
The day will include visual presentation, demonstration and experiential practice along with discussion.
The group size will be limited to a maximum of nine participants to allow for a supportive, intensive learning experience.
The workshop is suitable for student and qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, and art therapists.
Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Participants are asked to being their own lunch.
Feedback from a previous workshop;
" It was informative and practical, the opportunity to practice was I thought particularly valuable ...a very worthwhile experience. Lisa.B.
I learned all I needed to know to put this learning into practice and I now feel confident to introduce this way of working. The day was great value for money. Micaela.S.
Tickets are just £85 for APCCA Members, and £95 for non-members.
Ani de la Prida, MA, MBACP is a psychotherapist, creative arts counsellor, supervisor and author who brings a person-centred and pluralistic philosophy to her work. She is passionate about creative approaches to therapy with over twenty years’ experience working with children, young people, adults and groups in a wide variety of settings.
Ani is co-founder of the Association for Person Centred Creative Arts (APCCA ). She teaches at APCCA where she is course director, and occasionally lectures at the University of East London, and Roehampton University.
She currently has a small private practice and her research interest is in creative arts and the use of digital media in therapy. You can read A Qualitative Study of Experiences of Digital Technology Through Using an iPad in Therapy here.
She is currently writing Person Centred Creative Arts Therapy: contemporary theory and practice (expected 2024) for Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Her recent publications include The Pluralistic Therapy Primer, What Works in Counselling and Psychotherapy Relationships, and Demedicalised counselling and psychotherapy with children and young people in People not Pathology.
Upcoming work includes;
(2023) Person-Centred Creative Arts Therapies in The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy & Counselling. (Sage)