Hosted by Playful Connections Sandtray Institute, join Lisa for a one-day workshop: Working with Aggression and Intensity in the Playroom. 

Although aggression and death are a common part of the play therapy process, many therapists don’t have a clear understanding of what to do and how to facilitate the intensity when it enters the playroom during play. The result can lead to inadvertently promoting aggression and increasing low brain disorganization. It can also lead to the therapist feeling beat up, exhausted, and hyper-aroused themselves, which can over time, significantly impact their longevity in the field, as well as their ability to stay attuned and present to a child in the playroom.

This workshop is designed to help play therapists understand aggression and death play from a neurobiological perspective and a Synergetic Play Therapy lens. With the help of neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology, therapists will learn how to effectively work with this type of play in a way that supports nervous system regulation, repatterning of the child’s autonomic activation patterns and decreases compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.

Here’s what will be covered: 
1.Identify strategies for maintaining regulation in the midst of intense play, aggression and death in the playroom
2.Identify at least 2 strategies for working with aggression in the playroom without experiencing your own nervous system shut down leading to vicarious trauma
3. Explain the link between a child’s dysregulated states of their nervous system and their aggressive and traumatic play
4. Examine the Synergetic Play Therapy concept of “The Set Up” in the playroom as a way to understand what the child is trying to communicate
5. Demonstrate at least 2 strategies for setting boundaries without shaming or shutting down a child’s play
6. Describe the importance of becoming the child’s external regulator for trauma integration Working with Aggression and Intensity in the Playroom

Get all the details and register here.