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I hope you are well. This week we are joining our international colleagues from around the world in celebrating International Play Therapy Week. CTC is Ireland’s longest established, and foremost provider, of training in play therapy, therapeutic play and creative child and adolescent psychotherapy. We are proud of the training we provide and forever grateful for all of you who continue to support us and join us for training. We have some wonderful training opportunities for professionals working with children and teenagers, and for parents and carers, coming up over the coming weeks and months. From introductory courses, to skills building sessions, to specialised CPD opportunities for therapists and other mental health professionals we really do have something for everyone.
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Please see below for details on some of the great courses we have on offer, make sure to read right to the end as we really do have quite an array!
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An Introduction to Play Therapy – 1.5 hour Live Online Course
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Course Fee: €35 15th February 2024 7:30-9pm
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This live online course will provide participants with a great introduction into the world of Play Therapy. During the webinar participants will:
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· Experience the therapeutic powers of play in action.
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· Learn about non directive therapeutic play, explore necessary play skills and learn how to set up a non-directive play session.
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· Learn therapeutic play techniques which will encourage expression and communication.
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· Explore adult led activities and therapeutic play tools.
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· Learn about and practice relaxation and regulating activities.
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Building Inner Besties: Strategies to Boost Children’s Self-concept and Self- Esteem
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Course Date: Tues 20th February 2024 Course Fee: €35 Session Time: 7:30pm-9pm
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This live online course will look at how we can help children develop positive self-concept and self-esteem. It is suitable for parents and carers and also for professionals working with children. The webinar will be facilitated by a highly experienced child and adolescent psychotherapists with a specialisation in play therapy. During the webinar we will:
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· Explore – esteem and self-concept.
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· Look at how we nternalize messages about ourself.
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· Learn how to use and develop affirmations.
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· Learn how to support talking back to our inner critic.
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The course is designed to equip professionals, and parents and carers, with helpful tools for the children in their care.
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The Impact of Domestic Abuse on Child Development: Live Online Course
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Course Date: Thurs 29th Feb 2024 Course Fee: €35 Session Time: 4pm-5:30pm
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This live online course will look at how living with Domestic Abuse impacts child development. It is suitable for parents and carers and also for professionals working with children. The webinar will be facilitated by a highly experienced child and adolescent psychotherapists with a specialisation in play therapy. During the webinar we will:
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- Explore the impact of living with Domestic Abuse on development.
- Identify common coping strategies and skills used by children.
- Learn how to talk about the domestic abuse experience.
- Learn how to provide safe ways to give opportunities for revisiting affected developmental milestones.
The course is designed to equip professionals, and parents and carers, with helpful tools for the children in their care.
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Live Online Course Course Fee: €35
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Course Date: Tuesday 5th March 2024
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This live online course explores the importance of sensory play and practical ways to increase engagement in this type of play. It is suitable for parents and carers and also for professionals working with children. The webinar will be facilitated by a highly experienced child and adolescent psychotherapist with a specialisation in play therapy. During the webinar we will:
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· Learn about the senses, and their role in how we access information about our environment.
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· Explore what sensory play is.
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· Learn about the positive impacts sensory play can have on brain development and regulation.
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· Learn how to increase sensory play opportunities in structured and non-structured ways.
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The course is designed to equip professionals, and parents and carers, with helpful tools for the children in their care.
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Specialised Courses for Parents, Carers and Professionals
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Course Date: Thursday 14th March 2024
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This live online course will look at how we can help adults to support children in their care who are experiencing big or overwhelming feelings. It is suitable for parents and carers and also for professionals working with children. The webinar will be facilitated by a highly experienced child and adolescent psychotherapist with a specialisation in play therapy.
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During the webinar we will:
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· Learn about the how feelings are processed in the brain.
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· Look at how to grow the child’s capacity to experience big feelings without experiencing overwhelm.
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· Learn how to soothe and regulate the child while the big feelings are present.
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· Learn how to support yourself in regulating the child.
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The course is designed to equip professionals, and parents and carers, with helpful tools for the children in their care.
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Course Date: Saturday 23rd March 2024 Course Fee: €120 10am – 5pm
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This experiential day will introduce participants to play, its therapeutic powers, and a variety of techniques used by play therapists and therapeutic play workers. It is an introduction and skill building session that will introduce the therapeutic powers of play and a range of therapeutic play techniques. Participants will develop skills which can be used to enhance relationships with children with whom they have contact in their personal and/or professional life. There will be lots of play and experiential learning built into the day – take home skills galore! It is an ideal introduction to the field and will aid decision-making in regard to possible subsequent training in the field.
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Positive Discipline: A Child Centred Approach to Setting Limits and Boundaries
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Course Date: Tues April 23rd 2024 Course Fee: €35 Session Time: 7:30pm-9pm
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This live online course will look at how we can set limits in a therapeutic way with children. It is suitable for parents and carers and also for professionals working with children. The webinar will be facilitated by a highly experienced child and adolescent psychotherapist with a specialisation in play therapy. During the webinar we will:
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- Explore the purpose of limits.
- Look at our ideal outcomes regarding discipline/ consequences/ limits.
- Learn how to set a limit without shaming a child, which will result in most effective communication.
- Identify how to match redirection with need fulfilment for children.
The course is designed to equip professionals, and parents and carers, with helpful tools for the children in their care.
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Children’s Therapy Centre - 2 Day Training Event
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Enhancing and Deepening the Play Therapy Process: These are the Questions….
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Dr. Sue Bratton, PhD, LPC-S, RPT-STM
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Castletroy Park Hotel, Limerick 9th & 10th June 2024
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Strong empirical evidence exists to support the use of play therapy to facilitate children’s often complex journey toward healing from a range of adverse experiences. The process may be helped or hindered by important factors that may inadvertently be taken for granted or ignored when exploring the individual child’s unique healing journey and supporting the professional development of the therapist. Assumptions are best explored and examined to see what constitutes best practice for the individual child client relative to the individual therapist’s congruent use of self. So, what are the questions we should seek to answer?
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Together, we will explore the following as well as questions generated by participants from their own experience and how an understanding of dynamics related to the child, the therapist, and the therapeutic relationship informs the course of play therapy.
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Venue: Castletroy Park Hotel, Castletroy, Limerick
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Date and Times: 9th June 2024 10am – 5pm
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10th June 2024 10am - 4pm
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Fees: Standard Fee €350, Early Bird Rates Available
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- Early, Early Bird (Booked and paid in full by 1st March 2024)……. € 305
- Early Bird (Booked and paid in full by 1st April 2024)………….... € 325
- Standard Fee ……………………………………………………..……… € 350
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Tea/coffee and hot lunch provided on both days.
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Bookings: All bookings require a €100 deposit payment. Booking and details HERE
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CTC’s Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills
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Starting Live Online in February, March, April & June
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Starting in person in Kilcock in February and in Limerick in April!
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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 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.
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CTC Professional Certificate in Creative Care
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Creating Joy in Social Care Settings
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This blended learning course will be ideal for all those working in social care settings who wish to bring fun and creativity into the lives of services users whether they are children, adolescents or adults. Imagine a childcare setting, residential unit, daycare facility, special needs unit, or mental health setting where everyone can laugh, connect, be actively engaged and have fun regardless of whether they are of pre-school age or in their nineties! A place where music, dance, art, drama, and games are used to enrich lives and promote emotional health and wellbeing. Don’t know where to start to achieve this? Well, the good news is that this course will be the ideal launch pad.
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Restoring calm for the overwhelmed child
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4 Part Online Training Course Course Fee: €150
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Starting Tuesday 2nd July 7:30pm-9pm
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Dates: 2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd July 2024
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This innovative course, which runs over four weekly sessions, explores creative tools to support and foster co-regulation and self-regulation. Developmentally appropriate, supportive therapeutic tools are presented, practiced and explored. The course focuses on using materials commonly found at home and basic art materials to support regulation and restore calm for the overwhelmed child or adolescent. Key techniques are introduced and demonstrated by the trainer and participants have opportunities to practice using these therapeutic approaches themselves. We explore how anxiety, and other big feelings, impact on the brain and behaviour. We focus on developing new skills and providing creative approaches to calm the brain, ground the body and foster more adaptive behaviours. The course is designed to equip professionals, and parents and carers, with tools for themselves and the children and teenagers they support and care for.
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We really hope to see you at one of our trainings soon!
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Check out our latest course dates
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