APT content area: Seminal Theories and Skills & Methods

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    • What is Trauma Informed ?

    • Trauma Informed Care

    • Trauma & Children

    • Brief Intro to Sanctuary Model

    • The Future of Healing_ Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement _ by Shawn Ginwright _ Medium

    • Trauma Informed Toolkit

    • Universal design, trauma-informed care, and accessibility applied — Meso Solutions

    • Integrating Learning
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    • Early Childhood Influences

    • Evolved Nest

    • howtotalkaboutart

    • Integrating Learning
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    • The Play in Play Therapy Room Design

    • Play Room 1

    • Play Room 2

    • Unboxing Play Therapy Box

    • Sandtray Room

    • Sandtray/Sandplay Items to Collect

    • 20 Therapeutic Powers of Play Sheet

    • Recommended Toy List _ Center for Play Therapy

    • playroomatshelter

    • Integrating Learning & Assignment
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    • Quiz

    • Evaluation


Creating Wellness Centered Play Therapy Spaces

DESCRIPTION: 

This self-paced online training will explore creating welcoming play therapy spaces for children & families using a wellness-centered lens. The workshop will review the Importance of Nonverbal Expression through Art, Play & Space for Clients & Practitioners.

OBJECTIVES:

Following the workshop, participants should be able to:

•Utilize trauma-informed concepts in creating environments that serve survivors of trauma in play therapy and family spaces.
•Assess your current playroom or space in your agency and analyze its impact on the well-being of children, families, employees, and the agency.
•Create a plan demonstrating how and why to select toys, art materials, and furniture to create child & family-centered nourishing spaces in your agency or playroom.
•Explain the importance of nonverbal modalities such as expressive arts in play therapy and the impact on the well-being of children, families, and therapists.
•Describe three ways your playroom communicates:
“children and families are safe, welcome, and nurtured here.”

Instructor Bio:

Eliza Combs, LPCC, ATR, RPT, SAP®, RYT® 200, Founding Member, Advisory Member, Leadership Team, Marketing & PR Director Registered Circle of Security Parenting (COSP™) Facilitator Eliza is of working-class, settler, Irish, Cornish, German and ancestral lineages still being learned. Eliza is an Independently Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), nationally Registered Art Therapist (ATR), nationally Registered Play Therapist (RPT), Somatic Archeology Practitioner (SAP®), and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT® 200). They have been studying and practicing American Sign Language, body-centered healing practices, Somatic Abolitionism, and Sensorimotor Art Therapy. Eliza graduated from Freedom Lodge, a year-long historical trauma training, and integrates body-centered processes with creative modalities in their work as an expressive arts therapist. Eliza is guided in their work by an anti-racist, social justice framework, the earth, the body, mystery, presence, intuition, play, curiosity, and creativity. They have worked for over 24 years with children, adults, and families in community-based organizations. For the last 11 years, they have worked in New Mexico agencies in Chimayo, Abiquiu, Los Lunas, Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Eliza is passionate about expressive arts, play and body centered therapy for all people especially children.

Eliza Combs, LPCC, ATR, RPT, SAP®, RYT® 200