SPT - 2016 Bi-Annual Meeting

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Thursday, June 2 9:00AM - 12:15PM AM Pre-Conference

Thursday, June 2 1:30PM - 4:45PM PM Pre-Conference

Thursday, June 2 7:30PM - 9:00PM Dora Kalff Honorary Lecture

Friday, June 3 8:30AM - 10:00AM Plenary

Friday, June 3 10:30AM - 12:00PM Sessions

Friday, June 3 1:30PM - 4:45PM 3 hours/1.5 hours Sessions

Friday, June 3 1:300PM - 3:00PM 1.5 Sessions (CAN'T ATTEND IF YOU ATTENDED 3 HOUR SESSION ABOVE)

Friday, June 3 - 7:30PM - 9:00PM Sessions

Saturday, June 4 - 8:30AM - 10:00AM Plenary

Saturday, June 4 - 1:30PM - 4:45PM 3 hours/1.5 hours Sessions

Saturday, June 4 - 10:30AM - 12:00PM Sessions

Saturday, June 4 - 3:15PM - 4:45PM 1.5 Sessions (CAN'T ATTEND IF YOU ATTENDED 3 HOUR SESSION ABOVE)

Sunday, June 5 - 8:30AM - 10:00AM Sessions

Sunday, June 5 - 10:30AM - 12:00PM Closing Presentation

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Please rate the speaker(s) as a group. You will have the opportunity to elaborate on an individual speaker in the following question.

Objective 1: Apply sandplay as an approach to psychological healing and growth that takes into account body, mind, and spirit

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

If you have additional comments regarding the session or individual speaker(s) - e.g. teaching ability, expertise, organization of materials, etc. - please use the space below:

Please rate the following:

The program was relevant to my work.

Content matched stated objectives.

Usefulness of handouts/AV.

Quality of facilities.

How well did the educational sessions give a balanced view of therapeutic options, including the use of generic names?

If you rated any of the above questions with 'fair,' 'poor,' 'disagree,' or 'strongly disagree' please explain in detail (e.g. session title, speaker name, situtation):

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Objective 3: Incorporate practices of active imagination, movement, and mindfulness into the clinical work of sandplay and play therapy

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Explore the history of sandplay therapy, the Jungian foundation of Kalffian play therapy and the basic aspects of a sandplay process

Review the similarities and differences among sandplay and other play therapy modalities using sand

Define the role of complexes in developmental trauma

Explore hidden healing potential through written exercises and artistic expression

Identify symbolic representations of the "axis mundi" in sandplay, art and therapy.

Describe Kalff's theory of psychic totality in relation to Taoist and Buddhist concepts and relate to Jungian active imagination and the transcendent function.

Observe the expressive body and somatic co-transference in play and sandplay and integrate embodied play and active imagination with sandplay.

Learn helpful strategies with resistant child clients to foster increased trust in the therapeutic relationship

Identify and describe how one's own negative counter transference can impact the ?free and protected? space in the Sandplay process

Explain how to use sandplay from theoretical and practical applications in sandplay practice

Explore the history of sandplay therapy, the Jungian foundation of Kalffian play therapy, and the basic aspects of a sandplay process

Review the similarities and differences among sandplay and other play therapy modalities using sand

Summarize the role complexes play in everyday relationships and in developmental trauma

Discuss Jung's theory of complexes from Jungian, psychoanalytic and neuroscience perspectives

Explain the role of sensation, image, behavior, affect and meaning in complexes

Name skills used in teaching sandplay to those unfamiliar with sandplay

Practice skills with partners on how sandplay creates a safe and protective space

Identify the fundamentals of Dora Kalff's tradition

Understand how sandplay and play therapy heal through imagination and projection.

Learn what the alchemists mean by ?imagination,? and how it applies to healing in witnessed play.

Learn how to encourage clients to engage the imagine realm.

Describe the neural integration process and Jung's individuation process as it develops in sandplay therapy.

Relate animal symbolism in sandplay therapy to evolutionary aspects of brain development.

Integrate concepts of neural integration, individuation, and animal symbolism into the process of sandplay therapy through case study and discussion

Use a theoretical psychological model to be applied in the understanding of patients with organic diseases.

State the importance to use sandplay in the treatments of tachycardia and other organic clinical cases

Transduct a symptom from the organic to symbolic level.

Examine the connection of body, mind, Spirit and nature in the case of Dan.

Explore the role of African Elephants in Dan's healing process.

Explore the value of what CG Jung called "connecting with one's bush-soul".

Relate the following quote from Jung to the serpent in sandplay: "Thus evil, as though cognizant of its imperfection, strives to be made perfect through rebirth."

Explain the concept of restoration of the healthy instincts.

Provide an example of the healing property of the symbol of the serpent.

List five attributes of Kali

Explain how Kali's Dance of Death is in the service of Life

Compare and contrast two women's use of Kali in their Sandplay process.

Name three triads of equilibrium

State examples of triple spiral utilized in the sandplay therapy creations of several adult women

List three essentials required prior to beginning a process in the sand

Discuss and compare individual sand creations with compare a series that completes a psychological and dynamic process to one that remains static.

Discuss the differences between ego development and Self knowledge.

Summarize the basics of Jung?s concept of active imagination

Practice active imagination using journal writing and image making

Practice working imaginably with unconscious contents

List the major stages of Neumann's evolutionary journey to consciousness

List phases of psychic development as outlined by Dora Kalff

Describe the phenomenon of "Coming Full Circle"

Identify challenges in sandplay research and review STA research guidelines.

Compare quantitative, qualitative and mixed designs in sandplay research.

Discuss current research in sandplay.

Differentiate developmental stages of children's play and emotional development as observed in sandplay and play therapy .

Identification of Mother earth elements/symbols as clinical and spiritual interventions in children's play therapy.

Identify multicultural children's play/themes in relation to mother earth symbols. (cultural awareness, diversity)

Identify criteria for successful completion of the preliminary paper;

Identify criteria for successful completion of the case report & preliminary paper;

Identify resources available for completing the preliminary paper and case report and identify readers for both of these.

State a alternative conceptualization of the Oedipus myth

Understanding Neumann and Kalsched's conceptualization of the psyche's ability to deal with early trauma.

Explain how both these theories fit with current neuropsychological theories and research.

Describe the first presentation of WW as strong, brave, and hard working Super Heroine

Contrast the second presentation of WW as the tired, broken, and physically exhausted

Review the incubation period of WW as the sandplayer allows awareness of her primal wound

Define the "free and protected space" in relation to clinical work in sandplay.

Describe co-transference in the sandplay process.

Identify issues of confidentiality that may arise in sandplay consultation.

Describe the impact of their presence as Therapist in optimal therapeutic practice

Identify areas for personal attention to enhance the Therapist/Client unconscious healing connection

Explain recent neuroscientific evidence in relation to embodiment of Sandplay Therapy's 'safe and protected space'.

Interpret symbolic material in conjunction with clinical practice

Explain how to amplify symbolic material

State how symbolic material can be relevant to clinical work

Define the role of synapses in transformative change, and describe somatosensory and neurosensory feedback loops in sandplay.

Identify four aspects of sandplay therapy that promote neurodevelopment.

Demonstrate neuropsychological principles through case study and experience-related case consultation exercise.

Define early trauma and its long-lasting effects based on modern research.

Explain how trauma can disconnect us from ourselves and from others and how the same brain parts and instincts that are traumatized are the source of healing.

Describe a situation in which trauma was healed by reconnection body and soul and spirit with the use of Sandplay in conjunction with SE- Somatic Experiencing.

Articulate the phenomenon of Type 1 Diabetes as an autoimmune disorder and its relationship to fundamental archetypal tensions

Articulate the role of Sandplay in expressing the indwelling conflicts related to an autoimmune disorder, specifically type 1 Diabetes

Articulate the symbols associated with the transcendent function emanating from the conflicts expressed in a pilot sample of individuals living with type 1 Diabetes

State the meaning and significance of the spiritual anatomy, particularly its chakras and kundalini energy

Identify when a chakra is expressed in sandplay, whether or not it is blocked, and when released

Explain the rising of kundalini and what that might mean in the psychology of that individual

Explain the unfolding myster in in our work and how we may nurture its emergency through the psyche

Explain the consciously felt embodied dark feelings

Discuss the pantheon of dark goddesses, their stories and their psychological meaning

Explain somatic as it is seen in sandplay

Discuss their own body wisdom to map the psyche-soma process

Use breath, somatic awareness and movement to guide right action in moments of distress.

Explain Dr. Dan Siegel's Window of Tolerance and how that applies to deep work in play therapy and sandplay

Summarize meaningful and practical ways to involve parents and guardians in their child's inner healing journey

Develop a guided mindfulness and EMDR resourcing strategies in their own practice with children

Identify the theoretical basis for vocal psychotherapy

Explain how vocal psychotherapy can be utilized together with sandplay therapy

Demonstrate one of the techniques utilized in vocal psychotherapy

Explain the pressures and challenges of an ancient collective culture on contemporary children, on their body, mind and spirit

State how sandplay can be useful to a boy in developing his own sense of self and also adapting to such cultural pressures in a more healthy and constructive way.

Tell how a contemporary Chinese mother facing her challenge to raise a child under such ancient culture pressure, especially when she has professional work in a modern society

Define the archetypes of mother, father and child and be familiar with sandplay embodiments.

Explain how modern neuroscience and informed the social and behavioral expression of these through biological neural substrates.

Explain how the concept of the archetype can intersect and evolve within a cultural context in terms of changing norms of sexuality, identity and what it means to be a family.

Identify the basic elements of the Black Madonna archetype as it appears in many cultures throughout history

Understand the many guises through which the Black Madonna archetype can be seen in therapy

Use awareness of the meaning of the dark sacred feminine as a way to hold therapy relationship

Explain animals symbolism through the lens of embodiment and symbolic presence in sandplay

Summarize the cases of the 6 immigrants presented

Tell how the 6 immigrant's journey makes use of Jung's and Neumann's theories

Name four symbols found in alchemical imagery and associated with psychological transformation: the alembic, the Philosophical Tree, the egg, and the hermaphrodite.

Identify symbols as they appear in patients' sandplay, and you will respond with a deeper clinical understanding of their meaning and enriched nonverbal resonance with affects expressed by your patient through the sandplay.

Identify two universal human themes expressed symbolically by the alchemists and found in patients' sandplay: the conflict between the human striving to alter the natural environment and the need to live harmoniously with the natural world and (2) The redemption of the Feminine Principle of relatedness and non-hierarchical processing of experience.

Identify somatic awareness of image and impulse in the body and how new consciousness can emerge.

Identify somatic felt-sense awareness in sandplay vignettes.

Practice and identify how images can move and change with body sensing and movement toward embodied consciousness.

State the meaning and significance of the spiritual anatomy, particularly its chakras and kundalini energy

Identify when a chakra is expressed in sandplay, whether or not it is blocked, and when released

Explain the rising of kundalini and what that might mean in the psychology of that individual

Objective 4: Familiarize yourself with the process of sandplay therapy and the way it facilitates symbol formation

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Objective 5: Learn from case presentations how sandplay therapy can establish a re-connection with lost parts of the Self, with the natural world, and with relationships to others

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Objective 6: Apply knowledge from contemporary neuroscience and research in sandplay to the treatment of somatic and emotional disturbance

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Please answer the following:

Do you believe this activity was appropriate for the scope of your professional activities?

Was the educational content scientifically sound?

If faculty spoke about off-label or investigational uses of a product, was that information disclosed to you?

Was the mode of education effective to learning?

If you answered "No" to any of the above questions, please explain.

Did you perceive any product/service/company/commercial bias in any educational session you attended or materials you received?

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How much did you learn as a result of this education program?

What specifically did you learn during this activity that you intend to integrate into your practice?

What questions have arisen in your practice for which you need answers/strategies that you can implement?

What patient/client problems or patient/client challenges do you feel you are not able to address appropriately or to your satisfaction?

What problems are your patients/clients communicating to you that need attention or follow up?

Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?

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What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?

How can this training (the overall meeting) be improved to better impact competence, performance and/or patient/client outcomes?

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