Synergetic Play Therapy Institute

2021 Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive
2021-07-17 - 2021-07-23 | Play Therapy Connection, 8 W Dry Creek Cir, Littleton, CO, 80120, United States
July 17th – 23rd, 2021 – (one day off in the middle)
The Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive allows you to jump in and really experience the magic of Synergetic Play Therapy®! We hold these intensives regularly throughout the year, limiting this 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. Dive into SPT and see if it’s right for you!
Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive objectives:

Explain some of the neuroscience behind identifying children’s states of dysregulation during play therapy and how this influences the symptoms and play in the playroom.
Describe how Synergetic Play Therapy® tools such as 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 assess a child’s emotional age in their play during the play therapy process.
Demonstrate how mindfulness and self-awareness in the playroom is an essential component to helping widen a child’s emotional window of tolerance during play therapy.
Demonstrate how to work with parents in the play therapy process and keep them engaged.
Apply the use of boundaries to help reduce emotional flooding and overwhelm in both the child and the therapist during play therapy.
Demonstrate how to set boundaries in play therapy without shaming or shutting down the child’s play.
Describe the projective process and how children engage in “The Set Up” during play therapy, as a way to integrate their perceptions of what is challenging them.
Use the therapist’s authenticity and attunement to support the attachment process in play therapy.
Use regulation, in the midst of challenging play, as an essential component of becoming the child’s external regulator in the playroom.
Use regulation to support a child’s ability to learn how to regulate during play therapy sessions.

Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive 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.

Get all the details and register here!

2021 Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive
2021-07-09 | Lutheran Community Services, 435 NE Evans St # A, McMinnville, OR, 97128, United States
The Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive is over two weekends (July 9th-11th and July 16th-18th) and allows you to jump in and really experience the magic of Synergetic Play Therapy®! We hold these intensives regularly throughout the year, limiting this 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. Dive into SPT and see if it’s right for you!
Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive objectives:

Explain some of the neuroscience behind identifying children’s states of dysregulation during play therapy and how this influences the symptoms and play in the playroom.
Describe how Synergetic Play Therapy® tools such as 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 assess a child’s emotional age in their play during the play therapy process.
Demonstrate how mindfulness and self-awareness in the playroom is an essential component to helping widen a child’s emotional window of tolerance during play therapy.
Demonstrate how to work with parents in the play therapy process and keep them engaged.
Apply the use of boundaries to help reduce emotional flooding and overwhelm in both the child and the therapist during play therapy.
Demonstrate how to set boundaries in play therapy without shaming or shutting down the child’s play.
Describe the projective process and how children engage in “The Set Up” during play therapy, as a way to integrate their perceptions of what is challenging them.
Use the therapist’s authenticity and attunement to support the attachment process in play therapy.
Use regulation, in the midst of challenging play, as an essential component of becoming the child’s external regulator in the playroom.
Use regulation to support a child’s ability to learn how to regulate during play therapy sessions.

Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive 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.

Get all the details and register here!

Northern California Play Therapy Conference KEYNOTE- Playing Perfectly: A Play Therapist's Guide for Working with OCD in Play Therapy
2021-06-26 | Online
From perfectionism to anxiety to self-doubt, the world of a child struggling with OCD can be incredibly overwhelming. Come explore how to support these children in play therapy and discover how their need for perfection is in fact perfect.
Drawing from Gestalt, Cognitive Behavioral, and Synergetic Play Therapy theories, this workshop is filled with non-directive and directive play based interventions to help support play therapists on a path to understand the perfection in these children’s perfection, while teaching the child how to do the same. Play therapists will take a deeper look at the regulatory function of the child’s behaviors that manage the internal conflicts and anxieties these children often carry. Through discussion and experiential exercises, play therapists will learn how to separate the underlying drivers from the wisdom of the rituals themselves. With this knowledge, play therapists will learn how to use themselves and many forms of play to help these children access an understanding of the greatest perfection that exists, the child just as they are.

2021 Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive
2021-06-26 - 2021-07-02 | Brain Drops, 209 E Plum St., Fort Collins, CO, 80524, United States
June 26th – July 2nd, 2021 – (one day off in the middle)
The Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive allows you to jump in and really experience the magic of Synergetic Play Therapy®! We hold these intensives regularly throughout the year, limiting this 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. Dive into SPT and see if it’s right for you!
Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive objectives:

Explain some of the neuroscience behind identifying children’s states of dysregulation during play therapy and how this influences the symptoms and play in the playroom.
Describe how Synergetic Play Therapy® tools such as 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 assess a child’s emotional age in their play during the play therapy process.
Demonstrate how mindfulness and self-awareness in the playroom is an essential component to helping widen a child’s emotional window of tolerance during play therapy.
Demonstrate how to work with parents in the play therapy process and keep them engaged.
Apply the use of boundaries to help reduce emotional flooding and overwhelm in both the child and the therapist during play therapy.
Demonstrate how to set boundaries in play therapy without shaming or shutting down the child’s play.
Describe the projective process and how children engage in “The Set Up” during play therapy, as a way to integrate their perceptions of what is challenging them.
Use the therapist’s authenticity and attunement to support the attachment process in play therapy.
Use regulation, in the midst of challenging play, as an essential component of becoming the child’s external regulator in the playroom.
Use regulation to support a child’s ability to learn how to regulate during play therapy sessions.

Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive 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.

Get all the details and register here!

Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy® January 2021: Class 6- Aggression, Art and Sand in Synergetic Play Therapy
2021-06-25 | Online
Aggression, Art and Sand in Synergetic Play Therapy (Class 6) is part of the Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ course, January 25th – June 25th.
Class 6 Objectives:

Explain how to use regulation as a way to help integrate aggressive energy in the playroom
Describe how to facilitate the use sand from a Synergetic Play Therapy perspective in the playroom
Explain how to facilitate the use of art from a Synergetic Play Therapy perspective in the playroom
Explain the concept of flooding in the playroom for both you and the child and list ways to create a neuroception of safety.

For more information about this Level 1/Introductory level course or to be part of the next one, click here>>>
Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ is a six-month online course that includes three, one-hour LIVE webinars with Lisa Dion, six 2.5-hour recorded videos, and monthly one-hour group consultations with a Synergetic Play Therapy™ Supervisor/Consultant. Consultation is a mandatory part of the course to help you integrate what you are learning.
Special topics such as tracking the play, attachment, facilitating sand, art, trauma, and aggressive play are covered from the perspective of nervous system regulation, attunement, mindfulness, and authenticity. Participants will also learn how to track their client’s changes for caregivers, teachers, agencies, and themselves. And, we’ve added a bonus recorded webinar just for you and to support you during these times – SPT in Teletherapy.

Northern California Play Therapy Conference KEYNOTE: Working with Aggression and Intensity in the Playroom
2021-06-25 | Online
Aggression is a part of play therapy and knowing how to make it therapeutic is often a challenge. Using neuroscience, come learn how to help your child clients work through their aggression and intense play leading to healing and transformation.
This workshop is designed to help play therapists understand aggression and death play from a neuro-biological perspective and a Synergetic Play Therapy lens. With the help of neuroscience and theoretical bases in Experiential and Relational/Humanistic theories, 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 workshop will take therapists 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 how to make aggressive play therapeutic while understanding what it takes to maximize growth and integration for their clients and themselves.

Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy® June 2021
2021-06-21 | Online
This six-month online course includes three, one-hour LIVE webinars with Lisa Dion, six 2.5-hour recorded videos, and monthly one-hour group consultations with a Synergetic Play Therapy® Supervisor/Consultant. Consultation is a mandatory part of the course to help you integrate what you are learning
Special topics such as tracking the play, attachment, facilitating sand, art, trauma, and aggressive play are covered from the perspective of nervous system regulation, attunement, mindfulness, and authenticity. Participants will also learn how to track their client’s changes for caregivers, teachers, agencies, and themselves. And, we’ve added a bonus recorded webinar just for you and to support you during these times – SPT in Teletherapy.
Curious what this class is all about? Get more details here. Ready to sign up? Register here!
This course takes place from June 21st, 2021- November 19th, 2021

2021 Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive
2021-06-12 - 2021-06-18 | Play Therapy Connection, 8 W Dry Creek Cir, Littleton, CO, 80120, United States
June 12th – 18th, 2021 – (one day off in the middle)
The Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive allows you to jump in and really experience the magic of Synergetic Play Therapy®! We hold these intensives regularly throughout the year, limiting this 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. Dive into SPT and see if it’s right for you!
Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive objectives:

Explain some of the neuroscience behind identifying children’s states of dysregulation during play therapy and how this influences the symptoms and play in the playroom.
Describe how Synergetic Play Therapy® tools such as 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 assess a child’s emotional age in their play during the play therapy process.
Demonstrate how mindfulness and self-awareness in the playroom is an essential component to helping widen a child’s emotional window of tolerance during play therapy.
Demonstrate how to work with parents in the play therapy process and keep them engaged.
Apply the use of boundaries to help reduce emotional flooding and overwhelm in both the child and the therapist during play therapy.
Demonstrate how to set boundaries in play therapy without shaming or shutting down the child’s play.
Describe the projective process and how children engage in “The Set Up” during play therapy, as a way to integrate their perceptions of what is challenging them.
Use the therapist’s authenticity and attunement to support the attachment process in play therapy.
Use regulation, in the midst of challenging play, as an essential component of becoming the child’s external regulator in the playroom.
Use regulation to support a child’s ability to learn how to regulate during play therapy sessions.

Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive 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.

Get all the details and register here!

Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy® January 2021: Class 5- Understanding Attachment & The Self-Object
2021-05-21 | Online
Understanding Attachment & The Self-Object (Class 5) is part of the Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ course, January 25th – June 25th.
Class 5 Objectives:

Discuss Synergetic Play Therapy’s definition and perspective on attachment
Explain and demonstrate how to use the self-object as a way to support the client attaching to self
Describe the link between a child’s attachment styles and their nervous system states

For more information about this Level 1/Introductory level course or to be part of the next one, click here>>>
Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ is a six-month online course that includes three, one-hour LIVE webinars with Lisa Dion, six 2.5-hour recorded videos, and monthly one-hour group consultations with a Synergetic Play Therapy™ Supervisor/Consultant. Consultation is a mandatory part of the course to help you integrate what you are learning.
Special topics such as tracking the play, attachment, facilitating sand, art, trauma, and aggressive play are covered from the perspective of nervous system regulation, attunement, mindfulness, and authenticity. Participants will also learn how to track their client’s changes for caregivers, teachers, agencies, and themselves. And, we’ve added a bonus recorded webinar just for you and to support you during these times – SPT in Teletherapy.

The Need for An External Regulator in Traumatic Play - SECASA: Melbourne, Australia
2021-05-19 | Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA), Australia
Lisa will be presenting The Need for an External Regulator in Traumatic Play workshop for South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault & Family Violence (SECASA)
May 19th, 2021, 9:30am-12:30pm Australia time (AEST).
Objectives:

Explore the role of the clinician as the child’s external regulator.
Explore how an external regulator helps a child integrate traumatic thoughts, feelings and sensations.
Explore the correlation between a child’s autonomic nervous system activation and their play.

AIRS Keynote Presentation- Leadership Starts with You: Becoming Your Business's Emotional Regulator
2021-05-14 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Online
The focus of this 1 hour keynote presentation is to inspire leaders to understand the critical role they play in the health and well-being of their organization in a way that they may have never considered. That they are indeed the “emotional regulator” for their teams and staff, helping ground the organization itself and the individuals working in it. They will be invited to view their organization through the lens of neuroscience and nervous system regulation, as they learn about the brain, stress, and the impact their own nervous system activation has on others and even on the growth of the organization. Most importantly, they will be inspired as they learn about self care, the management of their own internal states, their ability to regulate other’s emotions and how to help the organization stay steady. The result of this powerful keynote presentation is a deeper awareness of what self care for themselves and their staff really is and ultimately, what it means to be a leader.

MD/DC APT Workshop: Healing Medical Trauma in Play Therapy
2021-04-23 09:00 - 16:00 UTC | Online
In this 6-hour workshop, play therapists will explore medical trauma from the perspective of neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology while drawing from Gestalt Play Therapy, Synergetic Play Therapy and Nature Based Play principles. Using creative play-based ways to support children and their family’s healing process, participants will learn how to create emotional and relational safety for trauma integration. They will learn what it means to become a child’s external regulator to help integrate the activation in a child’s nervous system while safely allowing the child to access the stored trauma in their body from the medical trauma. As children are not the only ones affected by medical trauma, care for their caregivers will also be addressed, as well as an exploration of creative play-based ways to help the entire family system heal.
In addition to learning about medical trauma and its symptoms, this workshop will also explore the difference between the role of a play therapist and the role of a Child Life Specialist in a medical setting allowing play therapists a greater knowledge in knowing how and when to collaborate with the medical team if a child is going to be experiencing a medical procedure or if the child is in on-going medical care.
If you would like your school or organization to receive training, please contact the Institute at info@synergeticplaytherapy.com

Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy® January 2021: Class 4- Working with Caregivers
2021-04-23 | Online
Working with Caregivers (Class 4) is part of the Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ course, January 25th – June 25th.
Class 4 Objectives:

Discuss the implications for caregivers being in their own grief process when they bring their children to play therapy.
Describe how to have a successful play therapy intake.
Discuss the importance of setting goals and speaking in terms of what is important to the caregiver.

For more information about this Level 1/Introductory level course or to be part of the next one, click here>>>
Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ is a six-month online course that includes three, one-hour LIVE webinars with Lisa Dion, six 2.5-hour recorded videos, and monthly one-hour group consultations with a Synergetic Play Therapy™ Supervisor/Consultant. Consultation is a mandatory part of the course to help you integrate what you are learning.
Special topics such as tracking the play, attachment, facilitating sand, art, trauma, and aggressive play are covered from the perspective of nervous system regulation, attunement, mindfulness, and authenticity. Participants will also learn how to track their client’s changes for caregivers, teachers, agencies, and themselves. And, we’ve added a bonus recorded webinar just for you and to support you during these times – SPT in Teletherapy.

What is Synergetic Play Therapy? - Live Virtual Webinar (UK)
2021-04-22 | Online
Join Lisa Dion, creator of Synergetic Play Therapy, as she provides a beginning overview about the Synergetic Play Therapy model. She will explore what it is and what it is not. She will introduce therapists to the tenets that guide the model, the role of the therapist, it’s primary influences, what it means to attach to oneself, the cornerstone of healing and so much more.
22nd April 2021 – 6:00pm – 8:00pm UK
Hosted by PIP Solutions. Get all details and register here: https://pipsolutions.co.uk/products/live-webinars-with-lisa-dion

PACE Program Workshop: The Neuroscience of Connection- Understanding Regulation for Ourselves and Others
2021-04-21 13:30 - 15:00 (America/Vancouver) | Online
This is a virtual training for the PACE Program in Vancouver, BC.
If you would like your school or organization to receive training, please contact the Institute at info@synergeticplaytherapy.com

Play Therapy with Pre-Teens and Teens: Workshop - New York APT Conference
2021-04-16 | Online
Join Lisa at the 2021 New York APT Conference!
From twelve-year-olds to seniors in high school, adolescence is a time filled with change. This can make the notion of bringing play therapy to this population a challenge. Do we play? Do we talk? Using neuroscience, developmental theory and Synergetic Play Therapy® theory, participants will explore these questions along with what is the most important goal when working with this population, how to maximize engagement in sessions, how to work with older children using directive and non-directive play techniques, the role of the play therapist during this important developmental phase, and how to turn the awkwardness into authenticity and healing.

Describe why it is important not to have a script for when to apply directive and non-directive play therapy interventions with pre-teens and teens
Discuss the importance of assessing the pre-teen or teen’s emotional age in the play therapy process
Explain the most important goal when applying play therapy to your work with pre-teens and teens

Get more info or sign up here.

AGATE Institute Workshop: X-Files- Complex Clinical Cases
2021-04-15 15:00 - 17:15 (America/New_York) | Online
From Detached to Attached: A Complex Clinical Case Study using Synergetic Play Therapy
Join Lisa Dion for this special presentation as she walks you through her healing journey with Sarah, an eleven year old girl adopted from China diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder, Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Autism. During this discussion, Lisa invites you into her clinical process as she worked towards integration, regulation and re-patterning Sarah’s activated nervous system. Lisa will share how she used Synergetic Play Therapy principles to help her conceptualize treatment for this complex case and ultimately how Synergetic Play Therapy was used clinically. She will discuss the interventions used as she weaved together non-directive play, directive play, and parent/child relationship play to support the integration of underlying trauma, re-pattern Sarah’s ability to attach, and ultimately support her ability to connect to herself, the people in her life and the world around her.
Learning Objectives:

Participants will analyze how Synergetic Play Therapy principles helped conceptualize treatment and ultimately how Synergetic Play Therapy was used clinically.
Participants will examine how non-directive, directive and parent/child play were used to support healing and integration.

Aggression, Art and Sand in Synergetic Play Therapy, (Class 6): Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ October 2020 - March 2021
2021-03-26 | Online
Aggression, Art and Sand in Synergetic Play Therapy (Class 6) is part of the Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ course, October 2020 – March 2021
Class 6 Objectives:

Explain how to use regulation as a way to help integrate aggressive energy in the playroom
Describe how to facilitate the use sand from a Synergetic Play Therapy perspective in the playroom
Explain how to facilitate the use of art from a Synergetic Play Therapy perspective in the playroom
Explain the concept of flooding in the playroom for both you and the child and list ways to create a neuroception of safety.

For more information about this Level 1/Introductory level course or to be part of the next one, click here>>>
Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ is a six-month online course that includes three, one-hour LIVE webinars with Lisa Dion, six 2.5-hour recorded videos, and monthly one-hour group consultations with a Synergetic Play Therapy™ Supervisor/Consultant. Consultation is a mandatory part of the course to help you integrate what you are learning.
Special topics such as tracking the play, attachment, facilitating sand, art, trauma, and aggressive play are covered from the perspective of nervous system regulation, attunement, mindfulness, and authenticity. Participants will also learn how to track their client’s changes for caregivers, teachers, agencies, and themselves. And, we’ve added a bonus recorded webinar just for you and to support you during these times – SPT in Teletherapy.
The next Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy course will be June 2021.

Fremont County School District Private Training: Becoming Your Child's External Regulator (Closed Training)
2021-03-20 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-03-13 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-02-20 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Online
Private Training for the Fremont County School District, WY

Topics to be covered:
-How a child processes information
-The 4 threats of the brain and how to create safety
-What Regulation is and what it isn’t
-Understanding your child’s nervous system activation and their behaviors- what are they really saying?
-Building your child’s regulatory capacity
-Becoming your child’s external regulator to re-wire their brain and nervous system activation

If you would like your school or organization to receive training, please contact the Institute at info@synergeticplaytherapy.com

Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy® January 2021: Class 3- Understanding What Regulation Is and What It Isn't
2021-03-19 | Online
Understanding What Regulation Is and What It Isn’t (Class 3) is part of the Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ course, January 25th – June 25th.
Class 3 Objectives:

Explain what regulation is and isn’t according to Synergetic Play Therapy
Discuss what it means to “overcome a challenge” in the play therapy process
Describe what it means to become the external regulator in a session to help a child integrate their challenges
Explain why you, the therapist, are the most important toy in the playroom

For more information about this Level 1/Introductory level course or to be part of the next one, click here>>>
Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ is a six-month online course that includes three, one-hour LIVE webinars with Lisa Dion, six 2.5-hour recorded videos, and monthly one-hour group consultations with a Synergetic Play Therapy™ Supervisor/Consultant. Consultation is a mandatory part of the course to help you integrate what you are learning.
Special topics such as tracking the play, attachment, facilitating sand, art, trauma, and aggressive play are covered from the perspective of nervous system regulation, attunement, mindfulness, and authenticity. Participants will also learn how to track their client’s changes for caregivers, teachers, agencies, and themselves. And, we’ve added a bonus recorded webinar just for you and to support you during these times – SPT in Teletherapy.

The Business of Play Therapy™
2021-03-15 | Online via Zoom
The Business of Play Therapy™ is custom designed for Play Therapists like you, who are deeply committed to being a leader – a leader in your business, your life, and most importantly, in the world. Whether you’re brand new to business or established and ready to grow, the Business of Play Therapy will help take you and your ideas to the next level. It’s designed to help you build your business, challenge your fears, listen to your intuition, and go after your mission.

Over 7- weeks, you’ll learn how to clarify your dream and the building blocks to help launch it in the world. Lisa will offer you the education you may have never received in graduate school and teach you the business-side of being a Play Therapist. She’ll introduce you to everything from how to create a congruent vision, to how to overcome fears that might be getting in the way, to creating an entrepreneurial mindset, plus so much more.
Perhaps like yourself, Lisa did not have business training in graduate school. She has had learn on her own, seek out mentors and training in order to build her businesses. In this course, Lisa will teach you the key ingredients she’s discovered along the way and guide you through how to go from not just a good idea, but how to launch it into the world. If you have a dream inside, Lisa wants to help you manifest it.
This course is perfect for you if you’re starting out in private practice, have a dream to offer a product or service, wanting to build a larger business, or are already running a (mostly) successful business, but want to take your business to the next level.
Registration and details to come the second week of January 2021 … Course launches March 15!

Understanding Attachment & The Self-Object (Class 5): Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ October 2020 - March 2021
2021-02-26 | Online
Understanding Attachment & The Self-Object (Class 5) is part of the Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ course, October 2020 – March 2021
Class 5 Objectives:

Discuss Synergetic Play Therapy’s definition and perspective on attachment
Explain and demonstrate how to use the self-object as a way to support the client attaching to self
Describe the link between a child’s attachment styles and their nervous system states

For more information about this Level 1/Introductory level course or to be part of the next one, click here>>>
Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ is a six-month online course that includes three, one-hour LIVE webinars with Lisa Dion, six 2.5-hour recorded videos, and monthly one-hour group consultations with a Synergetic Play Therapy™ Supervisor/Consultant. Consultation is a mandatory part of the course to help you integrate what you are learning.
Special topics such as tracking the play, attachment, facilitating sand, art, trauma, and aggressive play are covered from the perspective of nervous system regulation, attunement, mindfulness, and authenticity. Participants will also learn how to track their client’s changes for caregivers, teachers, agencies, and themselves. And, we’ve added a bonus recorded webinar just for you and to support you during these times – SPT in Teletherapy.
The next Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy course will be June 2021.

Supporting & Regulating Children's Emotional Flooding - Live Virtual Webinar (UK)
2021-02-24 | Online
Emotional flooding happens! Sometimes it is just too much! In this 2-hour discussion, Lisa will guide therapists towards a greater understanding of how to work with a child’s and their own window of tolerance, how to recognize signs of emotional flooding and what to do when emotional flooding happens. Come join a very important discussion that will help you learn how to regulate a child more effectively, so that the child can integrate and heal more quickly.
24th February 2021 – 6:00pm – 8:00pm UK
Hosted by PIP Solutions. Get all details and register here: https://pipsolutions.co.uk/products/live-webinars-with-lisa-dion

Acorn Preschool Private Training - Boulder
2021-02-23 18:00 - 21:00 UTC
Understanding Children’s Moods and Behaviors: A Neurobiological Perspective
This is a therapist-designed course that assists teachers, early-childhood educators, and caregivers in learning how to support the nurturing of social-emotional development in a group and classroom setting. Looking for a fresh explanation on why children feel and act the way they do? Curious about the relationship between brain development and perception? Want to know how the nervous system lives up to its name? Learn this and more!

Participants will be able to identify how the brain processes information, activates the different states of the nervous system and the impact this has on children’s behaviors
Participants will understand the role they play in teaching children self-regulation
Participants will learn how the environment contributes to a child’s ability to self-regulate

If you would like your school or organization to receive training, please contact the Institute at info@synergeticplaytherapy.com

Synergetic Play Therapy® Supplemental Course
2021-02-22 | Online
The Synergetic Play Therapy® Supplemental Course is open to those who have already completed a two-day training with Lisa Dion. It is an online course that supplements the information not received during the two-day training you’ve previously completed. It involves the review of key points as well as new information aimed at providing you with the missing pieces of the SPT puzzle.
Synergetic Play Therapy® Supplemental Course Prerequisites:

Completion or enrollment in a Master’s Degree (or equivalent) program in counseling, social work, or education
Previous experience working with children and families
A basic understanding of play therapy and play therapy skills
Attendance and completion of a recent Lisa Dion two-day training

This course includes nine hours of recorded content and six monthly group consultations** with a Synergetic Play Therapy® Supervisor/Consultant to help you integrate what you are learning.
This course allows you to go at your own pace: you’ll receive all the videos the day your course is scheduled to launch, and you can learn as fast or as slow as you like. You will start your group consultations as quickly as possible.
You can find more details and register here!

Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy® January 2021: Class 2- Exploring the Nervous System in the Playroom
2021-02-19 | Online
Exploring the Nervous System in the Playroom (Class 2) is part of the Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ course, January 25th-June 25th.
Class 2 Objectives:

Explain the link between nervous system states and the symptoms that show up in the playroom
Describe the importance of regulation in the playroom
Demonstrate how the therapist can become the external regulator so that the child can begin to learn how to regulate
Explain what regulation is and isn’t according to Synergetic Play Therapy

For more information about this Level 1/Introductory level course or to be part of the next one, click here>>>
Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ is a six-month online course that includes three, one-hour LIVE webinars with Lisa Dion, six 2.5-hour recorded videos, and monthly one-hour group consultations with a Synergetic Play Therapy™ Supervisor/Consultant. Consultation is a mandatory part of the course to help you integrate what you are learning.
Special topics such as tracking the play, attachment, facilitating sand, art, trauma, and aggressive play are covered from the perspective of nervous system regulation, attunement, mindfulness, and authenticity. Participants will also learn how to track their client’s changes for caregivers, teachers, agencies, and themselves. And, we’ve added a bonus recorded webinar just for you and to support you during these times – SPT in Teletherapy.

Private Event: Revolutionizing Play and Therapeutic Practice with Children
2021-02-18 - 2021-02-19 | Online
This is a private training for the Southcentral Foundation.
If you would like your school or organization to receive training, please contact the Institute at info@synergeticplaytherapy.com

Crofton House School Private Training: Becoming Your Child's External Regulator for Conflict Resolution (Closed Training)
2021-02-16 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Online
Becoming your child’s external regulator for conflict resolution:

As children work through the challenges and conflicts in their lives, learning how to self-regulate is a requirement for effective conflict resolution. However, children aren’t born understanding how to self-regulate and navigate challenges well. The capacity for self-regulation is learned over time and often relies on the adults around them. This 1.5 hour presentation will help parents begin to understand what it takes to help their children increase their self-regulation and navigate the waters of conflict that they will inevitably face as they grow up.

If you would like your school or organization to receive training, please contact the Institute at info@synergeticplaytherapy.com
