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I hope you are well. 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. Make sure to read right to the end as there is an incredible new one coming up with Dr. Sue Jennings!!! All of these courses run as live online training courses. These courses 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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For full details and to book your place please click 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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For full details and to book your place please click here
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Children’s Therapy Centre - 2 Part Online Training Event
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'From Messy Play to Monsters'
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A playful dance through Neuro-Dramatic Play, Embodiment-Projection-Role, and the Theatre of Resilience
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Dates: 23rd and 24th Oct 2021 Course Times: 2pm-5pm each day (Ireland) Fee: €110
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A two part live online training workshop on the three strands of ‘DNA’ that constitute the play experience from conception to 7 years. Throughout dramatic play is the dominant theme, whether verbal or non-verbal. Dramatic play needs to be understood as a powerful drive in child development through which the infant develops empathy, increases their flexibility and becomes resilient to the ups and down of life. We shall follow the continuum from 'mess to form' and from 'chaos to order' as we create havoc and then calm. Be prepared to make a mess and challenge your basic play formalities!
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This experiential online course includes a PowerPoint presentation and practical experience of 'actions and reactions' in the stages of drama and role development. It includes the 'slime-sticky-slippery' creation play, role-reversal, sensory re-enactment and story. Participants will have notes of new techniques and role observation tools for application in their practice.
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For full details and to book your place please click 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.
For full details and to book your place please click here
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Dates: 27th and 28th Nov 2021, Course Times: 2pm-5pm each day (Ireland) Fee: €110
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A two-part live online training workshop exploring Infant Mental Health.
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Recent years has raised much greater awareness of the importance of Infant Mental Health. It is never too young to start, and a baby’s mental health is just as important as their physical health. The brain starts to grow shortly after conception, and during the first three years it is growing at its fastest rate.
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This course provides an intensive training in Infant Mental Health with both contemporary theory and practical application.
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We shall learn about the baby’s need to be sociable and that their brains are wired to connect. To maximise mental health babies need to establish and sustain healthy attachments and live in a predictable environment. This security enables them to feel adventurous and to begin to explore. It is essential for their social and emotional development.
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However it all starts during pregnancy and we shall discover techniques that will help mothers to interact with their unborn child and to establish pre-birth communication.
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During this course you will learn:
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- Brain and body information that contribute to mental health
- Understanding of attachment formation
- Relaxation and Mindfulness for mother and baby well-being
- Developmental progression of infant mental health
- Strategies for assisting over-anxious parents
- Stories to calm and soothe
For full details and to book your place please click here
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Looking forward to seeing you online this autumn!
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