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I hope you are well and enjoying the last of the summer sun. We are delighted to have a wide array of quality CPD courses lined up for the coming months. Please see below for details on a few of the great options we have coming up facilitated by Edel Lawlor. Edel is a highly experienced child and adolescent psychotherapist and play therapist and an extremely talented facilitator. Feedback on her training courses is always outstanding. These courses run as live online training courses and are part of a series of training events which support this 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.
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Superheroes and Disney in Play Therapy
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Date: 26th September 2020 LIVE ONLINE COURS Fee: €110
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This one day workshop provides and introduction into using Superheroes and Disney in therapeutic work with children. The facilitator has seen, first hand, how children have used these metaphors in Play Therapy. She will share her experiences on the beautiful ways in which children can heal and use the power of these wonderful characters and stories, such as The Lion King, Inside Out, Wonder Woman, Batman and so many others. This will be an experiential workshop exploring the roles of Superheroes in Therapy and discovering our own Hero’s Journey.
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Using superheroes in the playroom can help children in a number of ways just as superheroes have origin and transformation myths, clients both young and old continually attempt to understand their own origin. Superheroes are transformed by circumstances beyond their control, so too, are clients altered by life events and traumatic experiences that include abuse, separation, illness, loss and relocation.
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The day will provide rich learning in a fun, interactive way and will enhance skills and confidence for those in attendance.
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Full details and online booking available here
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Using Play and Creative Approaches when Working with Adolescents
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Engaging Adolescents through Play & Creative Activities
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2nd October 2021 LIVE ONLINE COURSE Fee: €110
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This experiential 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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Full details and online booking available here
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Delivering Therapeutic Mental Health Programmes in Schools
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Dates: 6th November 2021 LIVE ONLINE TRAINING Fee: €110
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This experiential 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 that Edel developed:
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- Happy Hearts, Happy Heads - a mental health programme for primary schools. This programme is designed and delivered to raise awareness about mental health in children. A 3 tier approach is used, involving children, parents and teachers, so that everyone gets to learn about mental health and ways big people can look out for little people's hearts and heads. The children’s sessions include the use of stories, arts and puppets.
- To Leave with Ease – making the transition from primary school to secondary school.This full day programme involves a full school day creative workshop with 6th class students. The idea is to help students with concerns they may have about secondary school, celebrating change and recording positive memories of primary school through creative activities. It also includes a parents workshop (evening) - helping parents to help their children with transition and exploring the world of teenagers.
Full details and online booking available here
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Looking forward to seeing you online this autumn! If you have any queries please pop me an email. All help in spreading the word about our upcoming courses is much appreciated.
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