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Sneak Peek of “Grief/Bereavement Techniques with Chris & Steve”

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Sandtray Lesson #7 – Themes and Patterns

Many theoretical approaches to therapy emphasize the importance of addressing the underlying or core issues of clients rather than merely treating their symptoms. These core issues emerge in sessions as themes or patterns in the lives of clients. These themes and patterns have a behavioral component and accompanying beliefs and emotions. Patterns of behavior can [...]

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Sandtray Lesson #6 – Staying in the Present

Many adult clients (and therapists) like to focus on the past when they are in a therapy session. Clients like to tell stories about the past and may tell therapists very specific chronological details about what happened and when it occurred. Certainly if clients are recounting a traumatic event these details are very important and [...]

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Sandtray Lesson #5 – Going Deeper with Clients

One of the distinctions of the humanistic approach to sandtray is our emphasis on awareness and experiencing rather than insight and analysis. This focus contrasts sharply with sandplay, cognitive-behavioral therapy and many others. Insight appeals to many clients and many therapists as well. Similarly, analyzing feelings, motives, and events attracts people because we all want [...]

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Sandtray Lesson #4 – Responding to Long Client Segments

Have you ever had a client who won’t stop talking long enough for you to respond? If not, you probably do not work with many adults because many adult clients—and some younger clients—talk for extended periods and do not expect the therapist to enter in to the exchange. In fact, some of the adult clients [...]

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Sandtray Lesson #3 – Touch

When is it appropriate to touch clients? How should it be done? Should it ever be used with some clients? Why is it helpful? These are some of the questions we answer in this video lesson. In humanistic sandtray therapy, touching clients may be one way that therapists convey empathy, support and connection. Novice therapists do [...]

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Sandtray Lesson #2 – Body Awareness

Humanistic sandtray therapists work in the here and now and focus on the experience of clients in the moment. Clients experience emotion in their bodies so humanistic sandtray therapists pay close attention to breathing, tension, facial expressions, body language and movement and tone of voice. This lesson stresses the importance of therapists noticing all of [...]

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Sandtray Lesson #1 – Managing the Transition Between Scene Creation and Processing

In this first lesson, we’re going to take a short clip from Part 1 and explain the humanistic approach to bridge the transition from scene creation to processing. In the humanistic approach, it is usually best to start out with a focus on experience rather than content. I typically ask, “What is it like to create this [...]

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The Importance of Self-Care in Sandtray Therapy

Therapists cannot give of themselves unless they take care of themselves. Even though this idea is simple and logical in many ways, it is easy for therapists to disregard it. In addition, although self-care is talked about in counselor preparation programs, I do not see the topic emphasized. It is almost an after thought. The [...]

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Sandtray VS Sandplay – How They Compare

Sandplay The Jungian approach to sandtray is known as sandplay. The term sandplay was coined by Kalff (1971) who described the process as ?a union of opposites through the act of playing? (Kalff, 1981, p.vii). Bradway (2006) described three distinguishing characteristics of sandplay: process, delayed interpretation and dual processes. Bradway (2006) explained that sandplay is a process [...]

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Awareness and Insight in Sandtray Therapy

When many people think of counseling or therapy, they may think of insight. People want to know why they feel the way they do, struggle with the same behavioral patterns or have negative thoughts. In fact, insight is valued highly by most people and even more by highly educated people. I believe that insight is [...]

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Helpful Sandtray Resources

Miniatures www.annastoydepot.com www.childtherapytoys.com www.toysofthetrade.com Sandtrays www.sandtrays.com www.childtherapytoys.com Sand The practical problem with sand is the weight. So, you’ll need to find a place fairly close to you or you’ll pay a fortune. I bought my sand at T&S Materials (940-665-2433) in Gainesville, Texas. They sell white sand in 100 lb bags and it is quite inexpensive, but you [...]

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Sandtray Therapy Training with ‘Sandtray Steve!’

If You’re Interested In Our Intensive Weekend Training, Click HERE. If You Are Looking for Do-It-Yourself Training, Continue Reading Below… Thanks for your interest in sandtray therapy institute and our training. We have received emails from around the world about sandtray and we are pleased to now offer you the opportunity to view six free sandtray therapy videos in which we [...]

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The Humanistic Approach to Sandtray Therapy

Humanistic therapists view the client as self-actualizing and “endowed with an inherent tendency to develop his or her potential” (Cain, 2002, p. 3). Clients are seen as having the ability to use inner resources for growth. Humanistic therapists believe that people are capable of being self-aware and responsible for the choices they make. Clients are [...]

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Is Sandtray Therapy an Effective Intervention?

If you are a practitioner who is considering sandtray as an adjunct to your interventions, we believe that you can enhance your effectiveness with many clients by using expressive art activities such as sandtray. Sandtray provides: * A structured environment in which client metaphors can be created and explored. * A visual representation of the client’s issues that [...]

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The Sandtray Therapy Institute Mission Statement

Sandtray Therapy Institute (STI) was created to provide state of the art training and materials for therapists who want to learn an effective method of using sandtray with clients. Sandtray therapy is a type of play therapy (Flahive & Ray, 2007; Homeyer & Sweeney, 1998) and an expressive art intervention that can be used with [...]

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Going Deeper Into Feelings

What is the value of a experiencing a feeling fully during the processing phase of a sandtray session? Actually, allowing oneself to experience feelings fully has several payoffs. First, there is an issue of being comfortable with what goes on in my own skin. How comfortable am I with my own experience? I like to [...]

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Purpose and Timing in Sandtray Therapy

Sandtray provides clients with another medium through which they can express themselves. As I have mentioned, I only use sandtray with clients who trust me on a fairly deep level. I am not comfortable with the idea of selling the client on the idea. If the client is reluctant to do sandtray, we do not [...]

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