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We hope that you are safe and well and finding your way through these difficult times. We are so excited about our wide range of upcoming online CPD courses. We are delighted that we can continue to deliver high quality CPD training at this time. We are honoured to have so many phenomenal trainers on board to facilitate our upcoming workshops. From Paris Goodyear Brown in the USA, to Professor Sue Jennings in the UK to our very own Edel Lawlor in Ireland, there is something for everyone! Check out some of the courses we currently have on offer below. You will find full course details, and information on our other courses, on our website www.childrenstherapycentre.ie
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Who are these workshops suitable for?
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The following workshops are part of a series of training events which support the diversification of practice by play therapists and other suitably qualified professionals, including teachers, psychotherapists, social workers, psychologists, early years teachers, family support workers and project workers. All of the courses will take place online so you can continue to engage in CPD training from the comfort of your own home.
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Space and technology requirements:
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- Sound cancelling headset or confidential room to participate in
- A computer or other suitable device (e.g. i pad), ideally, but not essentially, with built in (or external) microphone, speaker and camera.
- Uninterrupted internet connection
Note: If you have difficulties with sound (microphone or volume) on computer, use of external microphone and/or speakers may work better than adding a second devise.
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'Stories for LIFE, Stories for LIVING': Story Building and Storytelling for Therapists, Teachers, & Carers with Professor Sue Jennings
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Dates: 6th May and 13th May
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This innovative, fun, and experiential online training course, facilitated by Dr. Sue Jennings, introduces participants to a new system called ‘Story Building’ for creating and building stories that can be a part of therapy, education or parenting. Stories are an important part of life in all cultures. They can be told to inform, resolve and to re-assure. They can contribute to the building of attachments. They can be created as therapeutic stories, for gaining insight and understanding, or shared for building communities. Participants will gain experience in storymaking throughout the course and the stories will be utilised to enhance group learning.
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Delivering Therapeutic Mental Health Programmes in Primary Schools.
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This experiential online training day addresses all that is involved in planning, developing, and delivering therapeutic mental health programmes for children in primary school settings. It focuses on two creative arts-based programmes: Happy Hearts, Happy Heads - a mental health programme for primary schools, and To Leave with Ease – making the transition from primary school to secondary school.
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Putting it all back together – a limbic model of construction play with Dr Sue Jennings
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In the limbic model of construction play there is the opportunity to ‘put everything back together’ both in the lives of children and young people, and in the surroundings which may feel hostile. The limbic area of the brain is where we experience nurture, feelings and the building of relationships. It may feel that the world has fallen apart and lacks coherence after trauma and this can be experienced through generations as well as developmentally in people’s lives. In this one-day course we shall explore the underlying theory of mess avoidance and its possible early roots in early adverse experience. Too much mess and chaos can be very scary; lack of order can be overwhelming to the child who feels their world has crumbled; sticky substances could have scary associations. This will be Sue’s final CPD training day in Ireland before she emigrates to India.
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Winning the Worry Wars Facilitated by Paris Goodyear-Brown Online Course
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Course Times: 2pm-5:30pm (Ireland)
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This innovative course facilitated by Paris Goodyear-Brown will synthesize the current research and literature on treating anxiety disorders into a developmentally sensitive play therapy approach. Fighting our fear can be difficult, especially for children who may need to externalize the fear, who literally need to put a face on it, in order to begin mastering it. Participants will learn dozens of techniques to help children articulate their worries, interventions that aid in relaxation and stress management, and strategies for including parents as partners in the process. Clinicians will learn play-based interventions that help craft "boss back" talk and counter cognitive distortions. Playful tools for designing and tracking gradual exposures will also be covered. Specific play therapy techniques will be augmented by detailed case examples, video clips, slides of children’s completed therapeutic creations and experiential learning.
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PLEASE NOTE: Paris Goodyear Brown’s training is suitable for qualified and trainee psychotherapists, play therapists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, nurses, social care workers and clinicians trained and approved to therapeutically work with children and teens.
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Understanding Childhood Trauma and Promoting Emotional Well-Being Through Play
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This experiential online training focuses on understanding childhood trauma and promoting emotional well - being through play. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the impact of childhood trauma. They will explore creative and play based interventions and techniques that can be used when working with children and teenagers who have experienced childhood trauma. This workshop is suitable for variety of professionals working with children and their families, including play therapists, psychotherapists, social workers, teachers, family support workers and project workers.
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Using Play and Creative Approaches when working with adolescents
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This experiential online training focuses on engaging adolescents in play and creative activities. The teenage years can be very challenging, so too can working with adolescents. It can be difficult to find suitable, engaging, developmentally appropriate activities and techniques to use in our work with adolescents, and indeed pre-teens. This interactive workshop is designed for professionals working with adolescents who are interested in developing their skills for engaging adolescents in playful, creative, activities which are designed to meet developmental and relationship-based needs. A variety of play and creative approaches and techniques will be explored as a means to engage teenagers and address those needs.
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Through the Fairy Door: An adventure in storytelling with Dr Sue Jennings 9th June 2020
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This is an attachment-based play course, that develops our right-brain potential for play and stories. Whereas our left-brain supports our logic, numeracy and literacy, our right brain stimulates our magical worlds of ‘let’s pretend’, taking us on a myriad of dances, images and pictures. We shall discover creative ideas that we didn’t know we had, and sample delights that fly with our imagination. The underlying theory is the established embodiment-projection-role paradigm, but it is taken to new heights through attachment-based play.
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Please let me know if you have any queries. My email address is ctcsiobhan@gmail.com
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Check out our latest course dates
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