Name: The Nested Imagination: Existential Engagement with Fairytales, Symbol Dialogue, and Metaphor
SKU: 54
Price: 65.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Online: Self-Paced Training – Always Available

Instructor:

Dee Preston-Dillon, MA, Ph.D.

Description:

This 120-minute session is a demonstration of therapeutic process using symbols, images, imaginal associations, and reflections from the volunteer’s experience. Three different creative approaches demonstrate emerging existential awareness. The lecture and demonstration bridge connections between the story-world of fairytales and an imagined dialogue between two symbols precipitating deep personal existential meaning. The video is a demonstration of Narrative Sand Therapy© with an emphasis on existential meaning, the important of active imagination for both therapist and client, the importance of therapeutic presence, client-centered pacing, and the therapeutic effects of creative flow. The therapeutic work underscores four clinical principles – permission, protection, empowerment, and presence.

Objectives:

Describe two aspects of fairytales that can be used in psychotherapy as a projective process.
State a therapeutic approach to increase safety for client symbol work.
State two existential concerns that can be explored with expressive therapies.

References:

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The Sand Therapy Training Institute has not received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program.