2021 Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive

The Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive allows you to jump in and really experience the magic of Synergetic Play Therapy®! We hold these intensives regularly throughout the year, limiting this program to four people in order to permit extensive skill practice with individualized coaching and feedback. Each participant will be paired with a child client with whom they will work every day during the training under direct supervision as part of a therapeutic observation team. Dive into SPT and see if it’s right for you!

Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive Prerequisite Training:

  • Participants should have completed or be enrolled in a Master’s Degree (or equivalent) program in counseling, social work, or education.
  • Previous experience working with children and families is also required.
  • A basic understanding of play therapy and play therapy skills is required.

For availability and registration details, please contact the Institute at 720-458-9597 or email info@synergeticplaytherapy.com.

***Please scroll to the bottom of this page for a complete list of the course details and objectives***

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When: 9-6 p.m. each day during one of the following six-day sessions (see locations in “Where” section below):

Where:

    • June 12th – 18th, 2021 –  (one day off in the middle) – FULL | 8 W Dry Creek Circle, 220 | Littleton, CO 80120  
    • June 26th – July 2nd, 2021 –  (one day off in the middle) – FULL 209 E Plum St, | Fort Collins, CO 80524
    • July 9th – 11th and July 16th -18th, 2021 – (two weekends) – FULL | 435 NE Evans St. #A, | McMinnville, OR 97128
    • July 17th – 23rd, 2021 – (one day off in the middle) – FULL | 8 W Dry Creek Circle, 220 | Littleton, CO 80120 
    • September 10th – 12th and 17th – 19th, 2021 –  (two weekends) | 8 W Dry Creek Circle, 220 | Littleton, CO 80120 

What: Six days of full immersion into Synergetic Play Therapy® 

Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive objectives:

  • Explain some of the neuroscience behind identifying children’s states of dysregulation during play therapy and how this influences the symptoms and play in the playroom.
  • Describe how Synergetic Play Therapy® tools such as Nervous System Chart, The Process of Change, and explaining the Synergetic Play Therapy® Stages can help a parent understand the play therapy process and keep them engaged.
  • Begin to assess a child’s emotional age in their play during the play therapy process.
  • Demonstrate how mindfulness and self-awareness in the playroom is an essential component to helping widen a child’s emotional window of tolerance during play therapy.
  • Demonstrate how to work with parents in the play therapy process and keep them engaged.
  • Apply the use of boundaries to help reduce emotional flooding and overwhelm in both the child and the therapist during play therapy.
  • Demonstrate how to set boundaries in play therapy without shaming or shutting down the child’s play.
  • Describe the projective process and how children engage in “The Set Up” during play therapy, as a way to integrate their perceptions of what is challenging them.
  • Use the therapist’s authenticity and attunement to support the attachment process in play therapy.
  • Use regulation, in the midst of challenging play, as an essential component of becoming the child’s external regulator in the playroom.
  • Use regulation to support a child’s ability to learn how to regulate during play therapy sessions.

Credits:  Total of 49 hours of training which includes consultation, education, and experiential learning.

The breakdown is as follows: 34 CE Direct Contact APT-Approved Credits*, 8 Individual Consultation Hours, 7 Group Consultation Hours

Cost: $1750.00 (USD)  – Payments are accepted in full, or over the course of 2 or 3 payments.
Also, please purchase this required book before your training and bring it with you: Aggression in Play Therapy: A Neurobiological Approach for Integrating Intensity by Lisa Dion

*Synergetic Play Therapy Institute, APT Approved Provider 09-264

Refund Policy: Registrations are accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. Fees include the 48 hours of training. You must take care of your own meals and accommodations. Written cancellations received six weeks prior to the training will receive a full refund of the balance of fees minus a $100.00 administrative fee. If you cancel after that date, you will forfeit your full course price or it can be applied towards a future intensive.

If the Institute cancels your training due to COVID-19, within 30 days of the Intensive start date, you may receive a full refund of your course, or transfer registration to a later intensive of your choice, space permitting. If a participant cancels due to COVID-19 for travel or health reasons, within 30 days of the Intensive start date, no refund will be given but the student may transfer registration to a later intensive training, space permitting.

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