Sandspace with Adolescents

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The adolescent brings their world to the therapy situation and we, as therapists need to collaboratively, with our adolescent clients, create a framework of meaning which supports the process and purpose of therapy. The guiding principle of this collaborative construction is the client’s meaning-making, which promotes discovery of capability, agency, personal power and connectedness with the interpersonal world.Sandspace is a unique approach to working with adolescents, developed by Bronagh Starrs. The sand world can bring healing and insight, offering a dynamic mode of relating which enriches contact process between aspects of self-experience which are often compartmentalised in the adolescent’s developing awareness. The adolescent’s lifespace and contact boundary development become visible, tangible and three-dimensional in the sand.This dynamic way of working also creates additional richness & depth to therapeutic contact. During the two days, we will explore theoretical, clinical and practical aspects of Sandspace with adolescents including: ·An introduction to Sandspace ·Initiating Sandspace with adolescent clients ·Gaining practical experience of creating & facilitating Sandspace ·Exploring the healing & transformative potential of Sandspace ·Trauma & Sandspace: expression of the unspeakable ·Understanding the richness of symbolic representation for the adolescent CPD: 12 Points available