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The Summer School: Elemental Play Therapy
Dates: 9-13 July 2007
Venue: Tír na nÓg, Slievenagorta, Ballymore, Co Westmeath
Trainer: Dr. Sue Jennings
Cost: €500

The Summer School runs for 5 days and covers Creative Play, Drama and Storytelling for children and vulnerable adults. You will experience play, drama, movement, music and dance and a range of non-verbal methods to encourage withdrawn people and contain the most active.  We shall include sensory play and work with body self and image, as well as many drama games.  We shall explore techniques to ‘free our play’ so that we can ‘free play’.  Play leads into drama through many drama games, and the dramatic play and drama gives shape and form to our experiences.   We shall make masks a part of our drama work.

You will learn projective methods for all abilities and ages.  We shall include collage work and painting, clay and modelling, dramatic play and theatre in order to create an inclusive practice.  We shall explore old and new stories in dramatic form and create a nurturing environment through storytelling. Stories can be built in many ways including through collage, paint, clay and modelling. We will learn techniques for structuring stories, and will create stories through puppet work and learn basic puppet making techniques. We shall develop non-invasive techniques for evoking children's individual stories through verbal and non-verbal methods. Participants will gain a wide range of techniques and a rationale for their safe application.

Further information on this course is in the Course Details, which you can download by clicking below.