Advanced Self Mastery Program

A Personal Experience for Certified SPTers Ready to Go Deeper Within

September 16–19, 2027 • Boulder, Colorado • Limited to 40 Participants

This Program Is Not for Your Clients. It's for You.

The Advanced Self Mastery Program is a four-day, in-person experience created exclusively for Certified Synergetic Play Therapists/Providers who are ready to deepen their relationship with themselves, their nervous system, and the experiences that have shaped who they are.

At the heart of this experience is a question we return to throughout our lives:

“Who am I?”

Throughout your SPT certification journey, you’ve explored nervous system regulation, interoceptive awareness, authenticity, congruence, and the relationship between the body and mind. You’ve learned to recognize activation, understand the relational process, and deepen your capacity to be present with others.

Self Mastery invites you to turn that same curiosity toward yourself.

What happens when you begin to explore your own nervous system, perceptions, emotional charges, and the stories you carry? How have your experiences shaped the way you see yourself and the world? And what might become possible when you begin to understand those experiences from a different perspective?

Self-mastery involves more than understanding how to regulate the body. It also asks us to explore how the mind creates meaning from our experiences and how our perceptions influence the way we live. As we deepen our relationship with both the body and mind, we create opportunities to experience ourselves, our relationships, and the roles we hold in new ways.

This is personal development work. It’s an opportunity to step away from your everyday responsibilities and make space for yourself.

Why Self Mastery Matters

During your certification journey, you learned how to:

Track nervous system activation and develop interoceptive awareness

Understand the relationship between the body, mind, and our internal experiences

Explore authenticity and congruence

Recognize how our experiences and perceptions shape the way we relate to ourselves and others

But what happens when we turn those same principles toward ourselves?

What happens when we become more curious about our own activation, our own stories, and the experiences that have shaped us? What might we discover about the ways we see ourselves, relate to others, and move through the world?

That’s where Self Mastery begins.

This program invites you to take that exploration further—not just conceptually, but experientially. It’s time to turn your attention inward, make space for your own process, and explore the question that sits at the heart of this work: Who am I?

Four Days. Just for You.

For four days, you’ll step away from clients, schedules, responsibilities, and the pace of everyday life to focus on your own personal development.

Through neuroscience, nervous system awareness, interoception, self-inquiry, reflection, embodied experiences, and an experiential creative process, you’ll explore the relationship between your body and mind, the stories you carry, the perceptions that shape those stories, and the patterns that may continue to influence how you move through the world.

The four days build on one another, creating space to explore, reflect, experience, and integrate rather than rushing toward an answer.

And you’ll do this alongside other Certified SPTers who understand this work from the inside out.

What You’ll Explore

Together we'll explore:

How the nervous system and brain respond to experiences, and how this understanding can deepen our relationship with ourselves

Your own nervous system patterns, activation cycles, and protective strategies

Interoceptive awareness and the information we receive through our internal experiences

The science of perception and how the mind creates meaning from our experiences

The Four Perceived Challenges in SPT and how they show up in your own life

Plus ....

Relationship dynamics, attachment patterns, and human behavior

How emotional charges, long-held narratives, and past experiences can shape the way you move through the world

Authenticity and congruence, and what they mean in your own life

Why self-mastery involves learning to work with both the body and the mind

This isn’t about finding everything that needs to change or turning your life into another project. It’s about becoming more curious about yourself, developing a deeper understanding of your experiences, and making room for new perspectives.

Day 3: Unraveling the Charge - An experiential creative process for exploring an emotional charge

Day 3 has been completely redesigned for 2027. If you’ve attended Advanced Self Mastery before, this will be a new experience.

We’ll spend the day exploring an emotional charge through an experiential creative process. Rather than relying on talking about an experience or analyzing it intellectually, you’ll have the opportunity to explore it through your body, movement, objects, clay, paint, and other creative materials..

You’ll follow an emotional charge from where you experience it in your body into the stories and perceptions connected to it. You’ll have space to explore how that experience has shaped you, what it may have cost you, and what you may have gained along the way.

As you engage with the process, you may notice parts of your experience you haven’t fully considered before, discover a different perspective, or begin to understand something about yourself in a new way.

And before you wonder whether you need to be artistic, let me reassure you: you don’t. This isn’t art therapy, and it isn’t about producing something beautiful. The creative process offers another way to explore our internal experiences and notice what unfolds when we engage with them differently.

You’ll create something tangible as part of your process, but the focus isn’t on what you make. It’s on what you experience and discover along the way.

Throughout the four days, we’ll move from exploring the body and its patterns of activation into the mind and the perceptions that shape our experiences. Day 3 brings those understandings into an experiential creative process, and our final day gives us space to integrate what we’ve discovered and consider how we want to live it forward.

More Than a Program: A Community Experience

There is something different about stepping away from everyday life and gathering in person with people who already understand the language of this work.

Advanced Self Mastery brings Certified SPTers together to explore, reflect, create, connect, laugh, and simply be with one another.

You’ll have opportunities to:

Connect with Certified SPTers from around the world.

Spend time with a community that understands this work from the inside out

Make space for personal reflection, restoration, and play

Step away from your usual responsibilities and reconnect with yourself

Build relationships that may continue long after the program ends

There’s something meaningful about being in the same physical space, sharing conversations and meals, and discovering the common threads that connect us. Alongside the personal exploration, there is room for the moments that happen naturally when people gather—conversations, laughter, walks, and the experience of being with others who understand this part of your life.

We’ll gather at the Hyatt Place Boulder, with lunch included each day. You’re also welcome to consider bringing your partner or family if that works for you and your plans, creating an opportunity to combine your time in Boulder with connection and rest.

This is time you’re giving to yourself. And that matters.

A Program You Can Return to Again and Again

Advanced Self Mastery was never intended to be a one-time experience.
We’re not the same person year after year.
Each time you return, you bring different experiences, different questions, and a different relationship with yourself. Something that felt important during one season of your life may look different in another. You may notice a pattern you weren’t ready to see before, find new meaning in an experience you thought you understood, or simply discover that you have more to explore.
The 2027 program has been substantially redesigned, including a completely new Day 3 experience, Unraveling the Charge. So even if you’ve attended Advanced Self Mastery before, there is something new waiting for you.
You may return because there’s another layer you’re ready to explore. Or you may simply want to give yourself four days to reconnect with yourself and your community again.
The journey of self-mastery doesn’t really have an ending. Our experiences continue to shape us, and our relationship with ourselves continues to evolve.

You never leave the same person who arrived.

What Participants Say

“A dazzling few days full of paradigm shifts, connection to self and others.”

– Machen Champion

“I entered guarded and left lighter, more open, and less entangled in old stories.”

– Barb Miles

“A beautiful invitation to be held and grow in community.”

– Kim Buller

Many participants choose to return to Advanced Self Mastery as their self-awareness evolves and different questions emerge in their lives.

Ready to Go Deeper?

If you’re ready to continue the journey—not just as a therapist or play provider, but as a human being—this is an invitation to give yourself four days that are truly about you.
Come explore your nervous system, your stories, your perceptions, your patterns, your creativity, and your relationship with yourself.
Come spend time with a community of Certified SPTers who understand the work you do and the importance of continuing to explore your own experience.
And perhaps, most importantly, come explore the question:
Who am I?

Register for Advanced Self Mastery 2027

September 16–19, 2027 • Boulder, Colorado • Limited to 40 Certified SPTers