Synergetic Play Therapy Institute

2nd Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy Video Released
2018-03-16
Synergetic Play Therapy will take you on a journey to deeply understand yourself. With an emphasis on therapist authenticity, SPT is designed to help therapists birth their authentic selves so that they can help their child clients do the same. SPT recognizes that therapist authenticity and attunement in the playroom is integral to the healing of the child.
The six-month course includes three, one-hour LIVE webinars with Lisa Dion, six 2.5-hour recorded videos and monthly 30-minute consultations with an SPT Supervisor/Consultant to help you integrate what you are learning.
Learn more here.

Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy Intensive - March 9-11 and 16-18
2018-03-09 09:00 - 2018-03-18 18:00 UTC | Play Therapy Colorado, 2845 Wilderness Place, Suite 208, Boulder, CO, 80301, United States
Join one of our regularly-held, six-day intensive for Masters-level therapists (or equivalent) and clinicians. Jump in and really experience the magic of Synergetic Play Therapy! We limit this Play Therapy Training Program to four people in order to permit extensive skill practice with individualized coaching and feedback. Each participant will be paired with a child client, with whom they will work every day during the training, under direct supervision as part of a therapeutic observation team.
Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy 0bjectives:

Understand some of the neuroscience behind identifying a child’s states of dysregulation and how these influence the symptoms and play in the playroom
Learn how Synergetic Play Therapy tools such as the Nervous System Chart, The Process of Change, and explaining the Synergetic Play Therapy Stages can help a parent understand the play therapy process and keep them engaged
Begin to understand how to identify a child’s emotional age in their play
Understand how mindfulness and self-awareness in the playroom is an essential component to helping widen a child’s emotional window of tolerance
Understand how to work with parents in the play therapy process and keep them engaged
Understand how to use boundaries to help reduce emotional flooding and overwhelm in both the child and the therapist, as well as how to set them without shaming or shutting down the child’s play
Understand the projective process and how children engage in “The Set Up” as a way to integrate their perceptions of what is challenging them
Understand how the therapist’s authenticity and attunement supports the attachment process in play therapy
Understand the importance of being regulated in the midst of challenging play as an essential component of becoming the child’s external regulator in the playroom
Understand how to use regulation to support a child’s ability to learn how to regulate during a play therapy session

Prerequisite Training:

Participants should have completed or be enrolled in a Master’s Degree (or equivalent) program in counseling, social work, or education.
Previous experience working with children and families is also required.
A basic understanding of play therapy and play therapy skills is required.

For availability and registration details, please contact the Institute at 720-458-9597 or email info@playtherapycolorado.com.

North Carolina Association for Play Therapy Spring Conference - Keynote Speaker
2018-03-09 - 2018-03-10 | Center for Community Leadership, 711 Hillsborough St, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27603
The Neurobiology of Play Therapy: A Synergetic Approach for Integrating Aggression and Trauma at the NCAPT Conference
Presented by: Lisa Dion, M.A., LPC, RPT-S
Program Description
This two-day workshop is designed to help play therapists understand aggressive play from a neurobiological perspective. With the help of neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology, and a Synergetic Play Therapy framework therapists will learn how to effectively work with this type of play in a way that supports nervous system regulation, reorganization of the child’s lower centers of the brain and decreases compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.
This fun two-day workshop will take participants to new possibilities as they explore a science-based process for working with children at the deepest, most profound levels while staying safe and sane. They will learn the art of sword fighting, gun play, bop bag play, and more while understanding what it takes to maximize growth and integration for their clients and for themselves.
Get more details or sign up here.

A Neurobiological Approach to Using Sand in Play Therapy
2018-03-02 08:00 - 15:30 | DOUBLETREE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT, 835 AIRPORT BLVD, Burlingame, CA, 94010
In this workshop, you will have a one of kind experience as you explore a new and fresh way of using sand non-directively in your play therapy sessions. You will be introduced to using sand through the lens of Synergetic Play Therapy, the first research-informed play therapy model to blend together neuroscience, attachment/attunement, therapist authenticity, physics, emotional congruence, nervous system regulation, and mindfulness. Through didactic and experiential teachings, you will learn cutting-edge research on interpersonal neurobiology, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and brain development as the research is translated into innovative ways of using the sand to help re-pattern your child client’s nervous systems. You will also learn what it means to attach to one’s self as the cornerstone for all healing, the importance of congruent emotional expression in the playroom, how to identify types of dysregulation in the child’s sand trays, how to model regulating activities, and ultimately how to re-pattern a child’s nervous system while taking care of your own nervous system to prevent vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue.

A Neurobiological Approach to Using Sand in Play Therapy
2018-03-01 08:00 - 15:30 | EMBASSY SUITES SILICON VALLEY, 901 EAST CALAVERAS BLVD, MILPITAS, CA, 95035

A Neurobiological Approach to Using Sand in Play Therapy
2018-02-28 08:00 - 15:30 | DOUBLETREE CONVENTION CENTER, 2233 VENTURA ST, Fresno, CA, 93721

Conscious Education Conference 2018
2018-02-24 | Monterrey, Mexico
Understanding Children’s Moods and Behaviors: A Neurobiological Perspective for Teachers and Educators
Designed by play therapists, this presentation assists teachers and educators in learning how to support the nurturing of social-emotional development in a group and classroom setting. Participants are introduced
to a fresh perspective on why children are feeling and acting the way they are, based on neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology. Participants will have many “A-ha” moments as the relationship between brain
development, perception, nervous system regulation and their impact on a child as an individual and in a group are explored. The teacher and educator’s roles in helping re-pattern a child’s nervous system will also
be explored.
Interested in a presentation like this for your organization? Please contact us at info@playtherapycolorado.com for more information.

The Neurobiology of Parenting
2018-02-23 17:00 - 20:00 | Monterrey, Mexico
Did you know when your child acts out their most problematic moods and behaviors, that’s actually their incredibly wise way of communicating with you in their lives? In this course, Lisa Dion, licensed professional counselor and registered play therapist, will teach you how to use the insights of modern neuroscience to better understand and shape your children’s moods and behaviors, while developing their brains! You will learn what it takes to truly raise children that are not only successful in life, but thrive. You will also learn how to understand what is happening in the minds and bodies of your children and what it takes to maximize their brain and emotional development and in yourself!
Topics include:
1. Why understanding your child’s nervous system will help you be a better parent.
2. Powerful techniques to understand tantrums and misbehavior.
3. The ability to clearly understand what your child is trying to communicate when they are misbehaving.
4. Techniques for helping your child manage their own nervous system and reduce problematic behaviors.
5. Easy to implement strategies to make you a more effective and attuned parent.
6. Powerful experiential exercises to help you deal with the challenges of parenting.
7. How to identify what is most important to your child and how to understand where they will be most successful in life
8. Understanding anxiety, depression, addictions, and other emotional struggles in children and how you can support them as the parent
In this course, Lisa makes the growing field of neuroscience accessible and relevant to parents of all backgrounds. This course caters to both experienced and new parents, and will help parents manage toddler tantrums, teenagers getting in trouble, or just the everyday stresses of parenting. Parents will leave with this course with a powerful new perspective on parenting.
How is this course different than other parenting courses?
This course focuses on the role of Neurobiology and is thus scientifically-backed. Many parenting classes and books have not yet integrated this new and extremely important research. Lisa Dion, a licensed counselor and extremely skilled presenter, simplifies this research into easy to implement parenting tips and techniques.
Check out this video for more information.

Colorado Association for Play Therapy 24th Annual Conference - PLAY PATROL
2018-02-23 - 2018-02-24 | Denver First Church of Nazarene, 3800 E Hampden Ave,, Denver, CO, 80113
We’ll be at the annual CAPT conference, will you? Embrace the chance for play therapists to come together!
Stop by our booth to learn about our upcoming courses, our services, and Synergetic Play Therapy. Get information, ask questions, or register for one of our classes.
To learn more about this conference, please go here.

Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy Live Webinar and Release of First Video
2018-02-20 14:00 - 15:00
Synergetic Play Therapy will take you on a journey to deeply understand yourself. With an emphasis on therapist authenticity, SPT is designed to help therapists birth their authentic selves so that they can help their child clients do the same. SPT recognizes that therapist authenticity and attunement in the playroom is integral to the healing of the child.
The six-month course includes three, one-hour LIVE webinars with Lisa Dion, six 2.5-hour recorded videos and monthly 30-minute consultations with an SPT Supervisor/Consultant to help you integrate what you are learning.
The 2018 February-July course launches with a LIVE webinar at 2:00 PM on February 20th.
Learn more here.

A Neurobiological Approach to Using Sand in Play Therapy
2018-02-16 08:00 - 15:30, 2018-02-04 08:00 - 17:00 | LAKE NATOMA INN, 702 GOLD LAKE DR, Folsom, CA, 95630

A Neurobiological Approach to Using Sand in Play Therapy
2018-02-15 08:00 - 15:30 | COURTYARD SANTA ROSA, 175 RAILROAD ST, SANTA ROSA, CA, 95401

A Neurobiological Approach to Using Sand in Play Therapy
2018-02-14 08:00 - 15:30 | 2600 DURANT AVE, Berkley, CA 94704, 2600 Durant Ave, Berkley, CA, 94704

Lessons from the Playroom Webinar
2018-02-12 12:00 - 13:00
The Play Therapy Institute of Colorado’s “Lessons From the Playroom” webinar is a series of FREE, LIVE webinars designed to offer a larger piece of the little lessons kids teach us inside the playroom. Log on to interact with Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S for an hour of power, purpose, and perspective. Ask questions, join the discussion, and gain professional and personal insight.
The February 12th webinar topic is Play Therapy in Non-Traditional Play Therapy Settings.
Sign up here!

Synergetic Play Therapy and EMDR
2018-02-08 09:00 - 2018-02-10 16:30 | Play Therapy Colorado, 2845 Wilderness Place, Suite 208, Boulder, CO, 80301, United States
In this workshop, therapists will have a one of kind experience exploring the basic components of play therapy from a neurobiology perspective as they get introduced to Synergetic Play Therapy and learn how it applies to the EMDR process with children. Through didactic and experiential teachings, participants will learn cutting-edge research on neural anatomy, mindfulness, attachment theory and brain development as the research is translated into practical ways of working with children and parents. Participants will gain an understanding of the Adaptive Information Processing Model (AIP) in EMDR as it relates to Synergetic Play Therapy.
Learn more here.

Growing Up in Play Therapy
2018-02-03 09:00 - 16:00 | Robson Square Campus, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, V7Z 3B7, Canada
Join us as we go back in time and revisit the early developmental stages of human development and how it impacts the play therapy process. During this six-hour workshop, you will learn to recognize each stage within your child client and yourself, so that you can begin to assess a child’s emotional age versus their chronological age.
Learn more here.

Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy Intensive
2018-01-26 - 2018-02-04 | Play Therapy Colorado, 2845 Wilderness Place, Suite 208, Boulder, CO, 80301, United States
PTIC’s Lead Supervisor and Synergetic Play Therapy Instructor, Kathryn Clarke, LPC, RPT-S, heads this course. We limit this Play Therapy Training Program to four people in order to permit extensive skill practice with individualized coaching and feedback. Each participant will be paired with a child client, with whom they will work every day during the training, under direct supervision as part of a therapeutic observation team.
Learn more here.

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2018-01-09 08:00 - 17:00 | Play Therapy Colorado, 2845 Wilderness Place, Suite 208, Boulder, CO, 80301, United States
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