Description
Course Details: The Business of Therapy is a 2.5 day, LIVE interactive course that includes over 19-hours of content weaving together instruction and work time designed for you to walk away with a plan in place to help you build your next entrepreneurial dream! This course is intended to be revisited year after year as your goals (and values!) continue to progress, pivot, and change!
When: September 6th-8th, 2025, *see Course Schedule below for details
Where: Hilton Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Hotel Cost: $330 AUD/night*
*The Synergetic Play Therapy Institute has a special room rate for this event. The room rate listed above will be honored for the booking dates of September 5th-8th, 2025, and must be reserved by August 6, 2025.
Use this link to book your room today!
“I’ve attended every BOT, and each time, it’s given me clarity about what needs to happen in both my personal and professional life.” – Nora Ahmed-Kamal
The Business of Therapy Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the importance of having a congruent vision and setting congruent goals
- Identify the 5 different parts of an airplane used as an analogy for having a successful business
- Understand the 3 things required for great marketing
- Examine the impact that money scripts have on the ability to make and save money in a business
- Understand the importance of applying the concept of “Thinking Time” into building a successful business
- Examine how to tackle limiting beliefs and overcome fears in pursuit of building a business
- Identify quarterly and yearly goals while learning how to put them into a strategic plan
PLUS, you can expect to:
- Discover what is truly important to you and how to create a congruent vision
- Think and problem solve like an entrepreneur
- Navigate the “feedback systems” that arise in business creation
- Create a strategic plan, set goals and manage time horizons
- Identify and shift your money psychology
- Determine your fees and even raise your rates
- Use the chaos in your business to your advantage
- Work with rejection and negative feedback
- Tackle your fears and limiting beliefs that keep you stuck
- Take calculated business risks and create a Plan B for economic and market downturns
- Identify the developmental stages of a business/dream
- Build an accountability team to keep you focused
- Identify your target market and unique message
- Be a leader and run a company or practice
- And so much more!
“After my first BOT, I hosted an in-person conference for my community, and last year, I launched a conference at Disneyland, which is already half full for next year! This event keeps me motivated and excited about all the things I can create.” – Maria Laquerre-Diego
Materials Needed: Your idea and a willingness to go for it! Lisa will teach you the roadmap and you’ll individualize the steps and put them into action in real time! Any other materials, such as handouts, will be outlined in the course site.
The Business of Therapy Course Schedule: (Times listed below are in Australian Eastern Daylight Time)
Day 1 – Vision, Building the Business
9:00am-9:30am: Day 1 Begins/Welcome
9:30am-12:30pm: Learn/Work/Integrate
12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch/Work time on your own (Lunch provided)
1:30pm-5:30pm: Learn/Work/Integrate
Day 2 – Managing Time, Emotions, and Money
8:30am-9:00am: Day 2 Begins/Work Time
9:00am-12:30pm: Learn/Work/Integrate
12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch/Work time on your own (Lunch provided)
1:30pm-5:30pm: Learn/Work/Integrate
Day 3 – Leadership/Being a Business Owner
8:30am-9:00am: Day 3 Begins/Work Time
9:00am-11:30am: Learn/Work/Integrate
11:30am-12:00pm: Closing
***1:30pm-5:30pm: VIP Experience with Lisa!
***VIP Experience attendees will have an additional 4 hours on Day 3 with Lisa where she will personally guide you through a series of exercises designed to fine-tune your plans and propel you toward success! This time is available to VIP Experience participants only.
Cost: Cost: $310 USD/month for 2 months for In-Person or Online Experience OR $413 USD/month for 2 months for the In-Person PLUS VIP Experience!
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Registration Deadline: Deadline to register for in person attendance is August 8th, 2025, 12pm Mountain Time (Denver). Spots are limited!
Presenter: Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S*
*Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S, is the founder and President of the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute, co-founder of the Synergetic Education Institute and the creator of Synergetic Play Therapy®. Lisa built her first of six businesses in 2003 and has been building and creating ever since. She has written books, launched a successful podcast, is an international teacher and speaker, business coach to organizations and individuals worldwide, and she’s transitioned the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute from a local business to an international organization.
CE Credit Hours: 19 CE Credit Hours, NBCC Content Areas: Career Development and Counseling, Counselor Professional Identity and Practice Issues
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.
Continuing education credit hours may be awarded to graduate-level counselors or students enrolled in a graduate-level mental health program. If you do not qualify for continuing education credit hours and would like to receive a certificate of completion for this course please contact the Institute directly.
If you are not a mental health professional and would like to receive a certificate of completion, you may contact the Institute upon completion of the program.
Please note: CE Credit Hours provided for this program will NOT be accepted by the Australian Play Therapists Association (APTA) or the British Columbia Play Therapy Association (BCPTA) due to the course content not being play therapy specific.
Refund Policy:
A full refund of the course fee, minus a $150 USD administrative fee will be provided if the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute is notified within 30 calendar days of registration/enrollment in the course.
No refunds will be issued after 30 calendar days from the date of registration/enrollment in the course or after 4 weeks before the start of the course, whichever comes first. However, participants may transfer their payment to another course/program offered by the Institute or transfer their registration to a different year. Requests for transfers must be made at least 30 days before the start of the originally registered course.
In the case of an emergency situation that prevents participation in the course, please contact the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute directly to discuss your circumstances. Emergency considerations will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis at the Institute’s discretion.
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