Learn from two internationally acclaimed experts in play therapy and EMDR  

Authors of EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room: An integrative Approach (2020) and co-founders of Playful EMDR, an online hub for training and consultation

• Anne Beckley-Forest is renowned for her integration of play therapy and EMDR. She is a clinical social worker, Registered Play Therapist and Supervisor, and approved provider of continuing education through the Association of Play Therapy. She practices in Buffalo, New York.
• Annie Monaco brings more than 25 years experience working with children, resistant and high-risk teens, and adults. She has a special interest in complex trauma and dissociation, and working with families, foster care, juvenile justice and out-of-country adoptions. She is also a faculty member of the Buffalo School of Social Work.
• They are both Registered Play therapists, EMDRIA approved EMDR trainers and faculty members of the Child Trauma Institute.

What will the workshop cover?

This interactive one-day workshop draws on the presenters’ passion for healing the trauma of children, teens and adults. Participants will explore the integrative possibilities of play therapy approaches with established trauma protocols such as EMDR and TF-CBT.  The presenters will examine the benefits and challenges of using the core therapeutic power of play, in accessing and reprocessing implicit memories, so often involved in complex trauma in children. Whether you are a play therapist, an EMDR therapist, or both, the workshop will extend your knowledge and skills.

• Explore the role of trauma-informed prescriptive play therapy in supporting emotional safety, and improving regulation and ‘digestion’ of the sensory, somatic and thematic elements of trauma
• Learn a play-therapy based approach to assessing for trauma history using a therapeutic story
• Explore the integration of play therapy with Francine Shapiro’s Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, using play to enter the memory networks and promote healing
• Learn  ways trauma processing can be flexibly integrated into a play therapy session, with or without EMDR
• Identify 5 themes that may indicate post-traumatic play vs developmentally expected play
• Learn 10 prescriptive play therapy activities to manage dissociation and hyperarousal in and out of sessions

How is this different from the 3 day workshop?

• This forms Day 1 of a 3 Day intensive. It is stand-alone, and suitable for a broader audience. To attend the full 3 Days, participants must  have completed approved Level 1 EMDR training.  Read about the 3 day workshop here

Highlights

• This experiential workshop will expand your knowledge of play therapy and other approaches with traumatised children and teens
• The training meets continuing education requirements as a Focussed Psychological Strategy
• Its fun!

Who should attend?

• This workshop does not require EMDR training.
• It is suitable for play and other child therapists
• Therapists who work with adults who have experienced childhood trauma
• If you are ‘EMDR curious’, you will learn more about how EMDR protocols can be added to your therapeutic toolkit
• If you are not trained in play therapy, you will learn skills and concepts that will help both your child or adult clients with childhood trauma

Cost

• Early bird $375+ GST  (extended until 14 September)
• Normal fee $495 +GST

Places are strictly limited. Register early to avoid disappointment. Lunch and morning tea provided.

Registration closes 8 November

The workshop runs from 9am to 5pm.