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I hope that you are well and enjoyed the long weekend. I am delighted to let you know that our Therapeutic Play Skills training is starting again live online this coming January.
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CTC’s Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate is a fantastic course for professionals working with children, or parents/carers, interested in developing new skills to make more therapeutic use of play within their current professional role. It is also ideal foundation level training for anyone considering applying for our MA course. On successful completion of our Therapeutic Play Skills training students receive the Children ‘s Therapy Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills. Please see below for full details. Over half of the spaces have filled already so if you do want to join us in January now is the time to apply!
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CTC’s Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills
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Online Training Course – “Remote” Live Training
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Starting January 20th 2024
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CTC’s Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills is offered on a part-time basis and equips participants with the relevant knowledge, skill and competencies to plan, deliver and evaluate both group and individual play based interventions. It is a “remote” live online learning programme with experiential learning opportunities built in throughout. Participants engage in creative activities that enhance personal development, develop insight and awareness, and contribute to understanding, and meeting, the needs of all children including those living in adverse circumstances. Course content includes coverage of many therapeutic play interventions, including creative visualisation, interactive play, use of puppets and creative storytelling, skills to support self-directed play and running groups for personal and social development. Directive and non-directive therapeutic approaches are addressed.
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This programme aims to enhance the professional practice of participants by building on core skills to work creatively and play effectively with children, adolescents, and sometimes adults, with reference to their age, stage of development, and current needs and priorities. We aim to enhance your capacity to incorporate play, and creative interventions to support holistic development, build resiliency, and address challenges within the role you hold by virtue of your current career in education, social care, childcare, or any area connected with health and wellbeing. The programme delves deeply into the impact of play in:
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· promoting positive mental health;
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· facilitating social and emotional development,
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· overcoming struggles and stressful experiences; and
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Participants will engage in theoretical learning and experiential creative activities. Assessment is based on demonstration of achievement of the required learning outcomes through activity based tasks.
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This programme is suitable for those who:
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- Have a particular interest in the therapeutic powers of play, and creative interventions, and wish to acquire skills to facilitate children, adolescents, and/or adults to overcome negative influences and circumstances in their lives, and facilitate them in achieving their potential.
- Wish to further their own knowledge and understanding of what play is; how it supports children’s social and emotional development; and learn more about the influences of the environment on this.
- Wish to enhance a professional career in working with people in a range of settings.
- Wish to further their own knowledge and understanding of play, and creative interventions, and associated developmental, educational and therapeutic applications.
- Would like to upskill to enhance employment prospects and/or job satisfaction and promotion opportunities
This award (CTC’s Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills) will be of interest to a range of healthcare, social care, and education professionals who wish to incorporate the use of play and creativity into their practice with adults, adolescents or children. This includes teachers, childcare workers, playworkers, social workers, counsellors, psychotherapists, expressive arts therapists, and others working in any area connected with health and wellbeing, whose professional life brings them into regular contact with people, including those considered to be vulnerable and at risk/in crisis.
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To access this programme, learners should have reached the standards of knowledge, skills and competence associated with level 5 on the National Framework of Qualifications. This may have been achieved through a formal qualification or through relevant life and work experiences.
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Cost: €680 (Payment plan options available on request)
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Venue: ONLINE TRAINING COURSE
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Unit 1 – Professional Practice
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Unit 2 – Understanding Play
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Unit 3 – Plan for and Support Self-directed Play
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Unit 4 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Self-directed play
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Unit 5 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Creative Visualization
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Unit 6 – Planning and implementing Play Interventions: Interactive Play
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Unit 7 – Working with Groups for Personal and Social Development
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Unit 8 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Therapeutic Storytelling
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Unit 9 – Planning and Implementing Play Interventions: Therapeutic Use of Puppets
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The course will run between January 2024 and March 2024 and includes 7 full days of online attendance (10am-5pm). The course runs on Saturdays and Sundays (see dates below). Sufficient numbers are required for the course to go ahead on planned dates.
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Dates for Live Online Classes: January 20th & 21st, February 3rd & 17th, March 2nd, 3rd & 9th . Assignments due in on or before April 9th.
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Online: Each learner will also have access to the online platform with additional resources for this course over a three month period.
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Participants are required to have the following tools.
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· A confidential room to participate in.
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· Sound cancelling headset if required.
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· A computer or other suitable device that can use Zoom (e.g. i pad), with built in, or external, microphone, speaker and camera.
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· Stable internet connection (download speed of 1.5Mbps)
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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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And if possible, creative materials that include:
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· A4 paper and a scissors
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· Art material - e.g. crayons, colouring pencils, markers
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The trainer will advise participants of additional resources to have to hand for each session.
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Edel Lawlor, MA, MIAPTP, ECIP, is the founder and Director of Expressive play. She has over twenty years working in a variety of therapeutic support roles with both children and adults. Edel is highly skilled at encouraging everyone to reach their own unique potential. Edel has a Edel has an a MA in Psychotherapy and Play Therapy and has also trained in Sandtray Therapy, Art Therapy, Puppetry and Social Care. Edel is a highly skilled, and natural, therapist and trainer: she truly is a joy to learn from.
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Applications are accepted by letter/email giving details of the applicant’s name, address, email and phone numbers, educational background, current employment, and reasons for wishing to complete the course.
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Applicants residing in Ireland must indicate if they have recently been Garda vetted and if they have access to children in a suitable work (paid or voluntary) setting within which they could complete play sessions. If recent Garda Vetting is not in place, this must be secured in accordance with the policies in place in the practice setting.
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Email application to ctcsiobhan@gmail.com. We look forward to welcoming more students to our expanding CTC crew!
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Check out our latest course dates
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