Building Belonging in the Sand: Exploring the Crucial C’s Through Adlerian Sandtray Therapy – Kansas City/Live Webinar
Workshop Description:
This six-hour experiential workshop will teach the Adlerian Crucial C’s—Connect, Capable, Count, and Courage—through the lens of sandtray therapy and play therapy. Participants will explore how sandtray experiences, symbolic play, and miniature selection can help therapists understand clients’ beliefs, identify unconscious behavioral guides, and explore underlying needs related to belonging and significance. Through experiential instruction, guided sandtray activities, and clinical discussion, participants will gain practical strategies for integrating the Crucial C’s into play therapy assessment and interventions to support clients’ emotional and relational growth.
Workshop Objectives:
1. Connect: Describe how the Crucial C of Connect relates to adult and child client’s need for belonging and identify ways to strengthen connection through sandtray therapy and play therapy interventions.
2. Capable: Identify how clients communicate beliefs about competence and capability through sandtray construction, miniature selection, and symbolic play therapy experiences.
3. Count: Explain how the need to feel significant and valued influences client’s beliefs and behaviors and apply sandtray interventions to explore this Crucial C within play therapy.
4. Courage: Demonstrate how sandtray therapy and play therapy interventions can support clients in developing courage, resilience, and willingness to face challenges.
5. Unconscious Behavioral Guides: Identify potential unconscious behavioral guides through sandtray themes and symbolism and connect these observations to the Crucial C’s.
6. Play Therapy Integration: Develop developmentally responsive sandtray interventions that incorporate the Crucial C’s into play therapy assessment, treatment planning, and clinical practice.
To be eligible for this workshop, participants need to have completed at least 6 hours of introductory Sandtray training.
Instructor: Amber Johnson, LCPC, RPT-S™, RST-C
Workshop Schedule:
10:30-10:45 Morning Break
10:45-12:15 Training Continues
1:00-2:30 Training Resumes
2:30-2:45 Afternoon Break
2:45-4:15 Training Continues with Workshop Conclusion
Live Webinar Policy:
For a successful Live Webinar that ensures full CE credit, you will need:
- A device (computer or tablet preferred) with a working camera and microphone.
- A strong and reliable internet connection.
- A designated safe space of your choosing free from disruption.
- A reliable childcare plan (if applicable).
- A commitment to keep your webcam on the entire workshop.
- The workshop supplies nearby that have either been requested in the workshop email or provided in the supply shipment (if applicable).
Workshop Cancellation:
- Cancellation requests should be submitted by email to Heartlandpti@gmail.com no later than 7 calendar days prior to the scheduled workshop date in order to receive a full refund of the paid workshop fee. Cancellation and/or rescheduled requests that are submitted after 7 calendar days prior to the scheduled workshop date will result in a refund of the paid workshop fee – with the exception of a $25 administrative fee for a half-day workshop, a $50 administrative fee for a full-day workshop a $75 administrative fee for 2-day workshop.
- Heartland Play reserves the right to cancel a workshop due to insufficient enrollment. Heartland Play will email workshop students at least 5 calendar days in advance of the scheduled workshop date to notify students of the cancellation. Notice will be provided with the option to reschedule for a future course date or to receive a full refund of paid workshop fees.
- Heartland Play reserves the right to cancel a workshop due to inclement weather, instructor illness or instructor family emergency. If a workshop is canceled, students will be notified via e-mail prior to the workshop start time. Heartland Play will notify the students of a reschedule date for the workshop within 10 calendar days of the cancelled workshop. Notice will be provided with the option to reschedule for the future course date or to receive a full refund of the paid workshop fee.