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Honoring the Story of the Military Family


Playing with Words: Combining Play Therapy and Therapeutic Writing


Using Games in Play Therapy with Siblings and Groups


Treating Trauma Using Play Therapy


Love Blooms: Transforming Grief into growth using play therapy (with Dr Bree Conklin)

In this workshop, participants will learn how to identify and recognize the characteristics of traumatic grief in children and their caregivers. This workshop includes a focus on the relationship between children and their caregivers as well as the relationship between the family and the therapist. Participants will be introduced to the GREEN care and ATTEND models and learn how to integrate both with play therapy theories. Participants will leave with a variety of play therapy interventions designed to facilitate posttraumatic growth related to traumatic grief.

Objectives:

  1. Identify and recognize three characteristics of traumatic grief in children, adults and in parent/child relationships.
  2. Analyze the three primary areas of the Green Care Model and the application of each one in play therapy theory and interventions.
  3. Apply the six components of the ATTEND Model to practice self-regulation, attunement and connection of the play therapist with their clients during play therapy sessions related to traumatic grief.
  4. Identify and practice at least three play therapy interventions related to “being with” grief for emotional identification and awareness.
  5. Identify and practice at least three play therapy interventions related to “doing with” traumatic grief in order to maintain the connection with your loved one and facilitate post-traumatic growth.
  6. Identify and practice at least three play therapy interventions related to “surrendering to” traumatic grief and increasing distress tolerance and acceptance of feelings. 

Course Topics Taught by Jen Taylor


  • Honoring the Story of the Military Family
  • Playing with Words: Combining Play Therapy and Therapeutic Writing
  • Using Games in Play Therapy with Siblings and Groups
  •  Treating Trauma Using Play Therapy
  • Love Blooms: Transforming Grief into growth using play therapy (with Dr Bree Conklin)

    In this workshop, participants will learn how to identify and recognize the characteristics of traumatic grief in children and their caregivers. This workshop includes a focus on the relationship between children and their caregivers as well as the relationship between the family and the therapist. Participants will be introduced to the GREEN care and ATTEND models and learn how to integrate both with play therapy theories. Participants will leave with a variety of play therapy interventions designed to facilitate posttraumatic growth related to traumatic grief.

    Objectives:

    1. Identify and recognize three characteristics of traumatic grief in children, adults and in parent/child relationships.
    2. Analyze the three primary areas of the Green Care Model and the application of each one in play therapy theory and interventions.
    3. Apply the six components of the ATTEND Model to practice self-regulation, attunement and connection of the play therapist with their clients during play therapy sessions related to traumatic grief.
    4. Identify and practice at least three play therapy interventions related to “being with” grief for emotional identification and awareness.
    5. Identify and practice at least three play therapy interventions related to “doing with” traumatic grief in order to maintain the connection with your loved one and facilitate post-traumatic growth.
    6. Identify and practice at least three play therapy interventions related to “surrendering to” traumatic grief and increasing distress tolerance and acceptance of feelings. 
     

TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR PLAY THERAPY

Love Blooms was more than just a training, it was a wonderful experiential training focused on our internal growth as well how to support traumatic grief work with clients. Jen Taylor and Bree Conklin are a dynamic duo!! A big thank you to all the participants who allowed themselves to be vulnerable.
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John Doe 8

John Doe 8

Company at XYZ

Well done!! I know this was a new presentation - thank you for sharing it with us!!! It's so valuable and useful and FUN!!
John Doe 7

John Doe 7

Company at XYZ

Rockstar!
John Doe 6

John Doe 6

Company at XYZ

Thank you for a most enjoyable and productive day. I was looking for some fresh ideas and tools to work with certain siblings and families where I feel stuck. I very much appreciate that you honor the theoretical framework of play therapy and made clear that you are offering us tools to help us with clinical goals. I also appreciated how we differentiated between competitive vs. collaborative play and how we might use different modalities depending upon our therapeutic goals. The experiential parts were well done and impactful. It is not often that one can immediately apply what they have learned at a workshop. Jenn provided that today. The workshop felt playful and light as well as thoughtful and steeped in theory.
John Doe 5

John Doe 5

Company at XYZ

Such an amazing session! We didn't just talk about using journaling - we were given opportunities to journal for ourselves!
John Doe 4

John Doe 4

Company at XYZ

Interesting, informative
John Doe 3

John Doe 3

Company at XYZ

I also attended Jenn's morning workshop and I would say that this afternoon training also met my needs. Like the morning training, we learned new ways of working with children on the continuum of child centered play therapy as well as prescriptive play therapy. We experience firsthand in the workshop how writing can help us go from the unconscious to the conscious level where we can then make decisions to improve our lives.
John Doe 2

John Doe 2

Company at XYZ

This was exceptional!! Jen is engaging and dynamic - while providing fun activities that I can immediately use in my practice!!
John Doe 1

John Doe 1

Company at XYZ

I thought Jennifer did a wonderful job today in enriching our play therapy practice to include using games to meet therapeutic goals.us with a theoretical framework for how to use games as a tool in o
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