Newsletter: January 2025

Booking closes on 09/01/2025

Once Upon a Trilogy ® – Once Upon an Archetype

Facilitated by: Alun John

An archetype is a character type, storyline, or event that is notably recurrent across the human experience. In the arts, an archetype creates a sense of familiarity, allowing an audience member to easily comprehend an event or character.

During the day we will walk through the woods with wolves and bears. Giants will haunt us and witches will die. Princes will rescue and maidens will find the resources and resilience to defeat even the most ugly of characters.

When: 11/01/24
Time:  9.00 – 4.30
Venue:   Online
Cost: £88
CPD Points: 6.5

Booking closes 16/01/2025

Considering our Clients Through Creative Expression of Art and Masks

Art and masks are a powerful combination of creative expression, enabling image and metaphor to emerge from the unconscious. This hands-on course offers you the opportunity to explore the therapeutic benefits of using art and creative expression to gain a deeper insight into our clinical work.

Facilitated by Jill Cooper
When: 18/01/2025
Time: 9.00-4.00am.
Venue: 33-39 High Street, Kempton, Bedford, MK42 7BT
CPD Points: 6

L6 Diploma – Relational Play and Creative Therapy, Children and Young People.

January Special offer £300 discount 

This innovative exciting programme will teach you the fundamentals of play and creative clinical practice with children and young people 4-18 years old, up to the age of 25 years for young people who are Care Leavers or those who have Special Educational Needs. Drawing on thought provoking theories which will enable you to develop your clinical understanding. This programme offers you the opportunity to apply your knowledge and newly learnt skills to working clinically with children. Play and creative media offers safety for children and young people to explore their experiences from their subconscious process, bringing it into conscious awareness while the therapist witnesses and holds the space. Within this programme you will learn non-directive play therapy and directive counselling techniques to work with a broad spectrum of mental health conditions, including neurodiversity and attachment difficulties. 

Facilitated by Alun John, Eileen Braham, Jill Cooper
Taught over 2 years, commencing:
01/02/2025 in Bedford
22/03/2025 in Bristol.
Dates for both courses can be found on our website.
Time: 8.30 – 5.30pm
Venue: Bedford and Bristol
Accredited by: CpCAB
Total Cost for 2 years: £6960 (equates to Year 1 £3480, Year 2 £3480 including CpCAB registration fee for both years).

Payment options are available for many of our courses, please email [email protected] for more information.

Free Introduction Sessions

Join us online to find out more about the NEW L6 Diploma – Relational Play and Creative Therapy, Children and Young People. 

DO YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO COULD BECOME A GREAT PLAY THERAPIST? Point them here! This is a unique course which will enable you to become a Relational Play and Creative Therapist to work with children and young people.  

This session is ideal for those who are interested in:

• A possible career change
• Play Therapy 
• Working therapeutically with children and young people 
• Understanding how trauma can impact on behaviour and mental health
• Using play and creative therapies to support children and young people

Join us to find out more about our training programme and meet the team. 

The School of Play and Creative Therapies team will provide information about this course, how you will undertake studying, our accrediting organisation CpCAB and answer any questions you may have. 

During this session we will talk about the entry requirements, how you will develop knowledge through theoretical and experiential learning, clinical placements, personal therapy, support and guidance you will receive during the two-year course, payment plans, bursaries and how to apply including the interview process.

If you are interested in undertaking this training, we look forward to you joining us at one of the Introductory sessions below:

• • 15 January 2025 7.00-8.00pm
  • 19 February 2025 7.00-8.00pm
  • 6 March 2025 7.00-8.00pm

One Small Step Forward into Your World of Private Practice. 

Maneuvering through the logistics of setting up a business may feel daunting! This course will explore, equip and empower you with all you require for these next steps of your quest into Private Practice.

This course will cover the fundamentals of:

• Business planning
• Marketing
• Sales
• Clinical requirements
• Policies
• Legal requirements
• Self-care

You will creatively explore this new part of your journey and who and what you would like your business to offer as you move forward. In addition, you will be able to take away templates of contracts and seven essential policies to utilise within your new practice.

Facilitated by Jill Cooper & Eileen Braham
When: 08/02/2025
Time: 9.00-4.00am.
Online: £70.00
CPD Points: 6

Accredited by CPD Standards Office

Only one place available

PQ Certificate Relational Play and Creative Therapy, Young People  

Relational Play and Creative Therapy for Young People provides the essential theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to work ethically with an older age range. This course will explore the legal requirements of working with an older age range of clients, including consent, risk assessing and safeguarding responsibilities.

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
Accredited by CPD Standards Office

AutPlay® Therapy Training

Facilitated by Robert Jason Grant renowned International Trainer and Creator of AutPlay® Therapy. 

AutPlay® Therapy training is a neurodiversity paradigm informed framework for implementing play therapy with neurodivergent children and their families. This course will enable you to better understand neurodivergence in addressing the unique needs of neurodivergent children and adolescents (sensory differences, Autistic, ADHD, learning disorders, intellectual developmental disorder, etc.).  

The AutPlay Therapy framework highlights neurodiversity affirming and informed constructs within the therapeutic powers of play and seminal play therapy theories and approaches.

If you would like to understand and address mental health needs for neurodivergent children and adolescents please follow the link below to book this course. https://schoolofpact.com/courses/autplay-therapy-full-course/

When: 08/03/2025 – 09/03/2025
Time: 9.00 – 4.30pm
Delivered Live face to face at Limes Country Lodge, Solihull and online.

Join us for a Complimentary Sound Bath for those attending in person on the Saturday after training. 

Cost: £450.00 

CPD Points: 12 for the training days, if you wish to become certified, please see our website for full details of the requirements.

Web Therapy: Supporting Families in Crisis

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND……… NEW DATES Available! Early Bird rate £140.00 book by 01/02/2025

Facilitated by: Alun John
When: 15 & 16 March 2025
Time: 9.00-4.00pm
CPD Points: 12
£160.00 or apply for the Early Bird rate of £140.00 book by 01/02/2025, see website for further details.

Post Qualifying Creative Therapeutic Life Story Work 

BRAND NEW COURSE!

Help your clients safely explore their story of origin. January Sale 15% off

This 8-day comprehensive programme offers a clear framework for professionals who want to develop their therapeutic skills offering Life Story Work to children and young people who have been adopted or are in foster care. 

Children and young people who have been removed from their families of origin often do not have a clear understanding of their story. This can impact on their identity and overall well-being causing confusion and impact their mental health.

This course will focus on the importance of children and young people having the opportunity to construct a concrete sequential narrative of their history to the present day. You will gain the knowledge and skills to professionally undertake Creative Therapeutic Life Story Work with children and young people, key theories will underpin the process of how to ethically undertake life story work. These therapeutic skills will enable children and young people who are adopted or in care and are not able to live with their family of origin to gain facts about their history through the safety of creative media.

Creative therapeutic life story work will offer the opportunity for children and young people to gain an age-appropriate understanding of their history through the safety of creative therapeutic art. 

Designed in consultation with Adoptive Parents, Post Adoption Support Social Worker and Play Therapists who specialise in working with adopted children and young people.

Facilitated by Eileen Braham, Alun John

Online:
29 and 30 March 2025
27 and 27 April 2025
31 May and 1 June 2025
14 and 15 June 2025
Quarterly tutorials: Dates and times will be agreed with the cohort

Was £1250.00  January Sale* Price £1062.00 

More details can be found at https://schoolofpact.com/courses/post-qualifying-creative-therapeutic-life-story-therapy/

Once Upon a Trilogy ® January Sale 15% off

(*15% off applies to the month of January only).

Three day course:
Day one: Once Upon an Archetype
Day two: Once Upon a Metaphor
Day three: Once Upon an Anti-Hero

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a child playing?

Within this three day course we explore Archetypal Energy, Metaphor and Anti Heroes and the way they can present within our clients play. Have you ever wondered about the repetitive play of your clients? The same characters being used? The same themes coming up week after week? What processes are happening? How can you become involved? When should you join in or be a silent witness?

This course will enable you to gain a deeper understanding of how Archetypes, metaphor and Anti-heroes become powerful concepts within your client work. When you are the observer of your client play, watching a play narrative unfold this course will help you to consider these concepts to gain a deeper understanding of your clients process and the transference which arises.

What to expect when we explore these individual topics. 

Facilitated by Alun John

When: 03/05/2025, 22/06/2025, 28/06/2025
Time: 9.00 – 4.30
Venue: Online
Cost: Was £264.00 January Sale* Price £224.00
Accredited by: CPD Standards Office
CPD Points: 19.5