Newsletter: August 2024
Thankyou!
And so we reach the summer holiday time! We have had such a good time over the last month.
We have hosted the wonderful Dr Robert Jason Grant for two days teaching AutPlay Therapy. This was such a success on so many levels, but most of all it was great to be able to welcome 22 participants in the room and another 18 online. Box End Park in Bedford was a sunny, water sport venue for us to enjoy; and Susanna’s sound bath at the end of day one was just what the therapist ordered!
Some feedback from our AutPlay Therapy delegates:
“High quality training delivered in a lovely venue. The team were great: welcoming and very well organised. I loved the extra touches: fidgets on the table and the sound bath. This felt so nurturing ”
“This was an excellent training, it felt valuable, empowering and supportive for me. Clearly the School of Play and Creative Therapies wants to support play therapists in a professional manner ensuring positive training that is purposeful, valuable and well organised. There was a positive atmosphere and clear enthusiasm to provide quality training.”
Other courses that have run this month include One small step forward into your world of private practice. The course provided a detailed insight into setting-up a business, free resources were provided to those who attended. This feedback is from one of our delegates,
“The depth of the course content was more than anticipated, and I really valued the comprehensive resources mailed out following the training itself.”
Once upon a Metaphor, we spent a day online exploring metaphor and how it can be applied to our lives and our practice. We had great feedback from the delegates. “Pure CPD gold” was one comment.
We have also facilitated Elevenses offering a space to share and discuss topics relevant to our audience. This month we were exploring outdoor play therapy. As usual it was relaxed and informal. It was wonderful to have so many new people join us. Feedback included
“Thank you so much, so much knowledge there that I am able to learn from, and some pointers to training for the future”.
“Such a helpful and inspiring session, sparking interest in training and giving me some practical ideas to consider too. Thanks Eileen and Alun so much”.
“Thank you so much Alun and Eileen. I’m excited to learn more about outdoor play therapy”.
Once again we are sending a big hearted thank you to you all for supporting us in the way you have! Reading our newsletters or emails, joining our training, Elevenses and taster sessions, sending us emails, liking and sharing our social media posts or telling friends and colleagues about us! We are so very grateful.
This months top news
We are delighted to announce…….
We are partnering with the CPD Standards Office to ensure that our CPD and Post Qualifying courses are of the highest standards. (See article below for more info)
Save the dates…. 08/03/2025 – 09/03/2025
New dates for AutPlay Therapy training with Robert Grant.
Coming soon...
ast date for the Early Bird Discount is 30/07/2024
Web Therapy: Supporting Families in Crisis
Facilitated by Alun John
When: 07/09/2024 – 08/09/2024
Time: 9.00-4.00pm
CPD Points: 12
Online: £140.00. Early Bird discount rate, £125.00 ends 30/07/2024
Are you working with traumatised children? Do you feel able to offer support to parents? What are the benefits of working with the parents of your clients?
Web therapy takes you through a system that will empower you to work with clients and parents.
We will explore how families, schools and professionals can contribute to the well-being of your client.
In this two day online course we will explore trauma and behaviour. We will discover how to communicate with, and enable the parents and family to work with, and support the child.
We will learn to use observational assessment tools with the family, the school, and within therapy.
You will learn strategies that can be embedded into your practice.
Alun was the Clinical Director of Catchpoint CIC. Catchpoint was a registered post adoption therapeutic company. Alun has over 15 years’ experience of working with post adoption and fostered children.
Exploring the Therapeutic Benefits of Clay to Develop Resilience.
Facilitated by Eileen Braham
When: 21/09/2024
Time: 9.00-4.00am.
Venue: Eastry Village Hall, High Street Eastry, Kent, CT13 0HE
Cost: £98.00
CPD Points: 6
Once Upon a Trilogy ®
Facilitated by Alun John
Once Upon an Anti-Hero
When: 05/10/24
Time: 9.00 – 4.30
Venue: Online
Cost: £88
CPD Points: 6.5
Once Upon an Archetype
When: 11/01/24
Time: 9.00 – 4.30
Venue: Online
Cost: £88
CPD Points: 6.5
New Course…… Dramatic Play
When: 14/11/2024 and 21/11/24
Time: 6.30 – 8.30pm
Venue: Online
Cost: £45.00
CPD Points: 4
Considering our Clients Through Creative Expression of Art and Masks
Facilitated by Eileen Braham
When: 18/01/2025
Time: 9.00-4.00am.
Venue: Eastry Village Hall, High Street Eastry, Kent, CT13 0HE
CPD Points: 6
Early bird rate applies, see website for further details
New Course…… PQ Certificate Relational Play and Creative Therapy, young people.
This course is a must for therapists and adult counsellors looking to widen their therapeutic skill set to work with young people.
This course is designed by therapists and counsellors who have hands-on experience of working with young people and who understand the complexities that they face. This amazing new PQ course Relational Play and Creative Therapy for Young People, provides the essential theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to work ethically, safely and legally with young people. The age range covered will be 12 – 18 year olds and up to the age of 25 years for those young people who have Special Educational Needs or who are Care Leavers.
The course is facilitated over 7 days 14/02/2025 – 20/02/2024, after which you will undertake 60 clinical hours with young people. You will benefit from termly online sessions with your tutor.
Supervision is a requirement of this course and is not covered within the course fees.
Accredited by CPD Standards Office
Facilitated by Alun John, Eileen Braham, Jill Cooper
When: 14/02/2025 – 20/02/2025
TIME: 9.00 – 5.00pm
Venue: Box End Park, Box End, Bedford, MK43 8RQ.
Cost: £975.00
CPD Points: 49
Payment plans are available for many of our courses, please email [email protected] for more information.
What has been achieved in recent months
Hot off the press….
The School of Play and Creative Therapies are proud to be partnering with the CPD Standards Office.
We feel passionately about bringing high quality courses to those working with children, young people, parents and adults working and supporting the mental health of their clients. We believe that having our CPD and Post Qualifying courses rigorously assessed by independent assessors, ensures they are of the highest possible standards. Verifying the quality of our courses and providing confidence and assurance to those who attend our training. We therefore have chosen to have our courses independently accredited by the CPD Standards Office.
CPD Standards Office is a global organisation, with providers in over 55 countries, and approximately 300,000 individuals that undertake CPD Standards Office approved courses/learning activities per annum.
CPD Standards Office accreditation is the trust mark to demonstrate the high value of a learning experience you can expect from our courses. The accreditation focuses on the ability to deliver training that enables our learners to achieve their professional goals.
When you choose to train with us, you can be confident that not only will the content be of the highest quality, but the course will be delivered by recognised professionally qualified teachers.
Something to ponder on...
Bringing consciousness to the already known
It’s funny what comes up when you’re talking nonsense with friends.
During the recent AutPlay training I was talking with my friend Emma Nagel as we were being driven to the venue. Our conversation was vaguely around some of the concepts that Dr Robert Grant had been teaching the day before. We agreed that he had touched on things that we both already knew about, but that hearing it from a different perspective had sparked a response of understanding that made the knowledge new and exciting. We coined the phrase “Bringing consciousness to the already known”
Reflecting on this, I can remember times when this has happened before. Like when I first read about the way the teenage brain is developing. I had worked with and experienced the sometimes bizarre behaviour of young people. On top of this, I was also once a teen a long time ago. I knew that teens thought differently to others of our species and could even sometimes be described as a different species altogether, but it was just something that I accepted as a truth but didn’t challenge. The knowledge that I received as I read the book made what I already knew concrete and conscious. Learning something new can mean that you learn about something you already know.
Maybe this should be called a revelation. Revelations can be enlightening and painful. As we work on ourselves as therapists and professionals, we will often catch a glimpse of the shadow that lies beneath and there is a need for us to bring consciousness to what is already known but buried.
“Bringing consciousness to the already known” I’m not sure this will become a phrase that will take the therapeutic world by storm, but it is worth pondering on!
Alun John.
August 2024
“Bringing consciousness to the already known”
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