Welcome to your Advanced Embodied Cultural Humility for Certified Synergetic Play Therapists/Providers Course Site!

Culture lives in the nervous system. Identity, stories, privilege, and systemic experiences shape how clients regulate and how therapists attune and respond. Certified Synergetic Play Therapists/Providers know that true cultural humility requires more than cognitive insight; it requires embodied awareness! 

During this program, we will support you in applying cultural and systemic understanding directly into the moment-to-moment attunement that defines SPT. You will learn to track cultural dynamics, recognize and repair misattunements, and strengthen safety across cultural differences.

Together, we will explore how privilege, identity, language, migration histories, and power influence the relational field and the nervous systems of both therapist and client.

You will get to participate in interactive experiential exercises and case-based discussions, while practicing tracking your own embodied responses to cultural difference, systemic tension, and moments of misattunement. Because we know as Certified SPTers, that it starts with us!

By the end of this program, you will hold deeper skills for promoting safety, connection, and repair with greater presence, humility, and leadership.

Prepare to become a more grounded, responsive presence that honors the nervous system as both biological and cultural and to expand your capacity to support healing in every playroom! 💜

With love,

Liliana & Mili

Meet Your Instructors:

Liliana Baylon, MBA, LMFT-S, RPT-S, AAMFT Approved Supervisor, EMDRIA-Approved Consultant, and ICEEFT-Certified Supervisor. Liliana is the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute’s Cultural Ambassasor, as well as a Certified Synergetic Play Therapist and Supervisor, a bilingual therapist, consultant, trainer, and speaker specializing in trauma, migration, and multicultural mental health. Her work is grounded in attachment science, nervous system regulation, and cultural humility, with a focus on helping clinicians and organizations better support migrants, multilingual families, and culturally diverse communities.

Mili Sarmiento Shoemaker, LPC, RPT-S, LSW in Argentina, EMDR trained, and is currentlystudying a certification program in Gestalt and Family Constellation. Mili is the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute’s Supervisor Trainer, as well as a Certified Synergetic Play Therapist and Supervisor, and Synergetic Play Therapy Consultant. Mili has studied and practiced SPT since 2010. Mili loves witnessing the growth and transformation supervisees go through during their supervision process and has been in private practice since 2013.

Important Dates and Zoom Information: 

  • Part 1: June 2, 2026, 2-5 PM Mountain Time (Denver)
    • Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83297800755
  • Part 2: June 16, 2026, 2-5 PM Mountain Time (Denver)
    • Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6414070612

*If you are located in a time zone other than Mountain Time (Denver), we recommend using this Time Converter Tool to convert the dates/times above to your specific time zone.

**Please also remember that access to this course site and your program content will expire June 26, 2026.

What to Expect:

This program is made up of a 2-part, live webinar series: Part 1 will focus on you as the therapist and your own self work and Part 2 will focus on the therapist and the client, the clinical work happening in the playroom!

Here’s how it all will go:

  • Part 1 has its own lesson in this course site. You will gain access to the lesson page on May 25, 2026, to allow you time to download any resources and prepare for our time together. 
  • Part 2 also has its own lesson page that will become available to you after the Part 1 live webinar on June 2, 2026.
  • Live attendance is required, however, you will have the opportunity to review Part 1’s recording before we meet again for Part 2 on June 16th. 
  • Each lesson will also have a short quiz to support you in integrating what you are learning and to rate the learning objectives.
  • Following both live webinars, you will gain access to the final lesson of your course site where you can share your feedback about the program and download a CE Certificate.

Advanced Embodied Cultural Humility for Certified Synergetic Play Therapists/Providers Learning Objectives:

  • Identify and apply how cultural identities, lived experiences, and perceptions of systemic structures shape nervous system activation, meaning-making, and relational dynamics in Synergetic Play Therapy
  • Integrate regulation, authenticity, and attunement within the SPT process by grounding clinical presence in cultural humility
  • Reflect on personal and collective identities, biases, and embodied reactions to strengthen self-regulation, compassion, and cultural humility across cultural differences
  • Evaluate clinical cases through a culturally attuned SPT lens by identifying somatic signals, relational patterns, and systemic influences shaping the therapist–client dynamic
  • Apply SPT principles by using embodied self-awareness, the therapist’s authentic presence, and moment-to-moment co-regulation to navigate cultural complexity and power dynamics in the playroom
  • Demonstrate deeper skills for identifying, naming, and repairing cultural misattunements within the SPT concepts

CE Credit Hours: 6 CE Credit Hours, NBCC Content Area: Social and Cultural Foundations

Synergetic Play Therapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7450. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Synergetic Play Therapy Institute  is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

*NBCC credit may not be awarded to non-mental health professionals. 

To get started, please click on the first lesson titled “Advanced Embodied Cultural Humility – Program Agreements”. This lesson must be completed before you will gain access to the remaining lessons.