Newsletter: October 2025

Commencing October 2025 –Unlock New Possibilities in Creative Supervision!

Delivering Creative Supervision – Online and In-Person

Join us for a dynamic two-hour interactive webinar designed for clinical supervisors in the creative arts. As play therapists, we know creativity transforms the therapeutic space—this training shows how to bring that same energy into supervision, whether in-person or online.

Led by Emma, you’ll explore how creative approaches can deepen reflection, enhance engagement, and foster professional growth in supervisees. Discover practical strategies to confidently integrate creative techniques into your supervision, adaptable for both remote and face-to-face sessions.

You’ll leave with a refreshed approach, a toolkit of ready-to-use creative activities, and the confidence to engage supervisees—even those hesitant about creative methods. Gain ideas to strengthen connection, spark insight, and make supervision more meaningful.

Whether you’re new to creative supervision or seeking to revitalise your practice, this webinar will equip you with the skills and inspiration to lead engaging, reflective, and effective sessions.

Register today to secure your place.

Date: 03/10/2025
Location: Online
Cost: £40.00

Level 6 Certificate, Relational Play and Creative Therapy, Young People  

The Relational Play and Creative Therapy for Young People Qualification is designed to expand play therapists’ skills and confidence in working ethically with clients aged 11–25. 

This course deepens your theoretical understanding while providing practical tools for safe, effective practice. You’ll explore key legal aspects such as consent, safeguarding, and risk assessment. This course is ideal for those supporting adolescents, Care Leavers, or young people with Special Educational Needs. 

Full details of this qualification can be found at https://schoolofpact.com/courses/post-qualifying-relational-play-and-creative-therapy-for-young-people/

Accredited by CpCAB.
Dates: 25/10/2025 to 31/10/2025.
Quarterly tutorials: Dates and times will be agreed with the cohort
Location: In Person – Mercure Bristol North the Grange Hotel, Old Gloucester Road, Winterbourne, Bristol, BS36 1RP

November 2025 –Unlock the Power of Symbolic Play: Archetypes, Metaphor & Anti-Heroes

Once Upon a Trilogy®

This three-day course explores how archetypal energy, metaphor, and anti-heroes reveal themselves in therapeutic play from recurring characters to repeated storylines.

Day One: Once Upon an Archetype
Discover how timeless archetypes in fairy tales and myths shape our psyche and appear in client narratives, offering pathways to healing through the unconscious.

Day Two: Once Upon a Metaphor
Explore how metaphor creates a safe space for clients to share complex or painful experiences, using symbols, puppets, and stories to express what words cannot.

Day Three: Once Upon an Anti-Hero
Examine complex characters where light and shadow meet, and consider how clients’ own origin stories shape identity, resilience, and transformation.

Gain insight, practical tools, and a deeper understanding of the symbolic worlds your clients inhabit.

Accredited by CPD Standards Office
Dates: Day 1: 15/11/2025. Day 2: 13/12/2025. Day 3: 07/02/2025
Location: Online
Cost: £244.00

Geek Therapy® 

Working in collaboration with Josué Cardona, MS we are delighted to bring Geek Therapy to the UK!

This certification course introduces the Geek Therapy® Model, an affinity-based model of psychotherapy. 

Unlock the Power of Geek Therapy: Engage Clients Through Their Passions

Geek Therapy® is a form of creative therapy that uses elements from geek culture like computer games, comics, Sci-fi and fantasy movies or series, Manga, tabletop games, and other fandom interests as tools or mediums in therapeutic settings. It leverages the interests and passions of clients who identify with “geek” or “nerd” culture to engage them more deeply in therapy, making the process relatable, enjoyable, and meaningful.

In practice, it is especially effective with young people or those who feel more comfortable expressing themselves through the lens of their hobbies and interests. It blends psychology with popular culture to create a unique, client-centred approach to mental health.

This certification is designed to be accessible to all therapists, educators, and community practitioners.

Dates: 22/11/2025
Location: Live Online
Cost: £40.00

January 2026

New Dates Web Therapy: Supporting families in Crisis

Working with traumatised children and their families requires specialist training. Web therapy takes you through a system that will empower you to work with clients who have experienced complex trauma and parents and professionals who are caring for them.

For more information: https://schoolofpact.com/courses/web-therapy/

Dates: 10/01/2026 – 11/01/2026
Location: Live online
Accredited by CPD Standards Office

Level 7 Diploma Relational Play and Creative Therapy Children and Young People – Dubai 

Working in collaboration with the Play Therapy Centre to bring Relational Play and Creative Therapy to Dubai. A transformative approach that equips practitioners to support children and young people through the natural languages of play, creativity, and imagination. This training emphasises the importance of relationship at the heart of practice. Children and young people thrive in spaces that are safe, attuned, and trusting where they can express feelings, process experiences, and explore their identity through play, art, storytelling, and creative expression.

Through this training, you will learn to:

• Create secure, nurturing environments that foster connection and trust
• Use play and creativity to help children communicate complex emotions
• Support children in processing trauma, change, loss, and personal challenges
• Apply flexible, culturally sensitive approaches to therapeutic practice
• Strengthen resilience, emotional regulation, and self-understanding in young people

This training offers practical skills, reflective insight, and creative strategies to transform your work.

Empower lives through relational, creative therapy to learn to bring connection, understanding, and healing to the children and young people you support.

Taught over 2 years, commencing: Block 1: 27/01/2026 – 08/02/2026. Block 2: 22/07/2026 – 03/08/2026. Block 3: 19/01/2027 – 29/01/2027 

Accredited by: CpCAB

For more information about this dynamic course, other course dates and venues visit: https://schoolofpact.com/level-7-diploma/

February 2026

Unlock Your Potential with the Level 6 Certificate in Relational Creative Arts Therapy for Adults

Are you ready to take your therapeutic skills to the next level? Our innovative Level 6 Certificate in Relational Creative Arts Therapy for Adults is designed to build on your existing experience, equipping you to work creatively and ethically with adult clients.

This exciting programme draws on thought-provoking theories to deepen your clinical understanding and enhance your practice. You’ll learn to apply Client-Centred approaches, talking therapy, and creative arts techniques to support adults experiencing a broad spectrum of mental health challenges, including trauma, neurodiversity, and attachment difficulties.

Humanistic, Client-Centred Approach

At the heart of the course is a humanistic, client-centred perspective. You will explore the work of renowned thinkers including Rogers, Jung, Freud, Siegal, Porges, Karpman, and Bowlby, gaining the theoretical foundation to underpin your practice.

Relational Creative Therapy in Action

The course focuses on the therapeutic alliance — the connection between therapist and adult client — which is central to helping clients explore emotional, personal, and relational challenges. By engaging with creative arts media such as sand trays, clay, art, movement, story, and music, clients can express thoughts and feelings that may be difficult to articulate verbally. These creative approaches foster insight, self-awareness, and personal growth, allowing clients to access their unconscious and bypass their inner critic.

You’ll experience a blended learning approach, combining experiential creative practice with theoretical study, ensuring that you develop both your practical skills and your understanding of the therapeutic process. In Relational Creative Arts Therapy, the adult client is central to every stage of the journey.

Course Structure & Support

• 8 intensive training days, followed by 70 clinical hours with adult clients
• Termly online sessions with your tutor
• Ongoing one-to-one support throughout your learning

Take the next step in your professional journey and discover how Relational Creative Arts Therapy can transform your practice and empower your clients.

Accredited by CpCAB

Dates: 14/02/2026 – 21/02/2026

Location: Stagsden Village Hall, Bedford