Private Immersion Sessions

What is Private Immersion?
These sessions are a quiet but powerful invitation to re-enter your depth, creativity, and intuitive knowing. They are not therapy and can be taken by one person, a couple, or a group. Sessions are led by Dr. Dee Preston-Dillon, founder of Narrative Sand Therapy©, a depth-oriented, collaborative approach developed from over 40 years of clinical practice, research into indigenous sand scene responses, and training therapists. Her method integrates social construction, narrative therapy, and phenomenological presence, emphasizing the symbolic voices and shared meanings that emerge between client, therapist, and sandworld.

There are three types of sessions:

Imagination & Creative Flow Session
Celebration & Recognition Session
Grief & Rememberence Session

Choose the session that’s best for you or mix and match ideas from sessions to create a custom session that works for you. Full session type details are below. Sessions are held in our studio in Brandywine, Maryland, and can also be provided virtually or at your location. Travel and lodging, if needed, expenses are not included in the cost of the session.

To schedule, please reach out to us at admin@sandtherapytraining.com so we can find a day and time that works for all.

Who Should Attend:
Individuals, couples, or groups up to 5 people

Cost:
Individuals or couples (2 hours) $350
Groups up to 5 people (4 hours) $900

Imagination & Creative Flow Session

Explore. Focus. Reclaim.

This session is an invitation to explore the rich terrain of your imagination and return to the heart of your creative process. Whether you’re an artist, writer, musician, thinker, or seeker, this experience helps you deepen focus, enhance intuitive awareness, and engage with the symbolic language that fuels creativity.

What will you experience?

Deepen access to your imagination and cultivate a state of flow.
Enhance your art and process by connecting with metaphor, imagery, and symbolic dialogue.
Broaden perception and intuition, learning to shift states of awareness with ease and purpose.
Engage with the inner creator—the artist, musician, author, or athlete within you.

Why it matters:

This session offers a balance between grounding and inspiration. You’ll learn to move between focused clarity and expansive dreaming, drawing insight from the one within who carries the “little truths” that define your unique voice.

Through guided creative practices—including building landscapes in sand scenes—you will reclaim your creative rhythm and affirm the depth of your sensibilities.

Come to discover, or re-discover, your inner wellspring of ideas and focus. Come to create—not from pressure, but from presence.

Celebration & Recognition Session

Pause. Witness. Honor.

Life moves quickly, and we often forget to pause and truly recognize the moments, people, and transformations that have shaped us. This special session offers you the space to celebrate a relationship, mark an anniversary, or honor a personal or shared milestone with deep presence and intention.

Who or what do you want to celebrate?

Is there someone in your life you want to appreciate or recognize?
Is there a meaningful moment, a shared journey, or a personal triumph that deserves acknowledgment?

What within you has gone unseen?

What parts of your story—what feelings, struggles, or changes—have not yet been celebrated?
Who within you needs to be witnessed, felt, or heard?
What have you done, carried, or transformed that deserves to be honored?

This session is a sacred pause—a time to be fully present. Whether you’re celebrating with another or coming alone to honor your own path, you are invited to spend time with what truly matters.

Come sit with the ones you love, with the version of yourself who has waited to be seen. Say: I see you. I get you. Let presence, reflection, and quiet joy be your gift.

Grief & Remembrance Session

Witness. Honor. Release.

This is a space to honor the quiet ache of the heart—the griefs we carry, the losses we’ve endured, the words never spoken. Whether recent or long past, personal or collective, acknowledged or buried, this session offers a calm and sacred pause to gently tend to what has been lost.

What do you need to witness?

Words left unsaid, misunderstandings unresolved, memories misplaced.
Relationships that ended—through death, distance, or the quiet fading away.
Lost homes, time, or life chapters that slipped by unmarked.
Pets who offered unconditional love and now live in memory.

What grief asks to be honored?

Those who have died, those who have moved on, those you chose to let go.
Community grief, shared sorrow, and the invisible weight of generational or global loss.

Life events never shared, heartbreaks unspoken, sorrow held in silence.
This session is a time to pause and breathe, to create a personal ritual or memorial, to speak to what was lost—or simply sit in silence with it. You are invited to become the witness: to grief, to memory, to the tender traces left behind.

Come not to fix, but to honor. Come to remember with love, and to feel the strength that comes from truthfully seeing what has shaped your heart.

Ready to pause, reflect, and reconnect?

Whether you’re honoring a loss, celebrating a milestone, or reigniting your imagination, these sessions offer a space for deep presence and personal meaning.
Reach out to learn more or schedule a session.