Internal Family Systems and Sandtray Play Therapy Intensive

181 E 5600 S,Murray UT 84121

02 June, 2023

Description

Schedule Fri. 8:30am-4pm (break for lunch on your own) Sat 8:30am-4pm (break for lunch on your own) Presenter Carmen Jimenez-Pride (She, Her) MSW, LCSW, LISW-CP, ERYT, RPTS IFS Assistant Trainer & Clinical Consultant Summary This experiential intensive training is focused on gaining an understanding of the Internal Family Systems model with clients in the sandtray. Sandtray offers a unique experience bringing a client’s internal world to a visual state. The multiplicity of the Internal Family Systems model allows for clients to increase their self-energy gaining a better relationship with their internal system. This intensive will focus on various sand tray methods that can be utilized with the Internal Family System model to help participates further their work with clients. While navigating the world children are exposed to experiences such as abuse, neglect, racial trauma, mass shootings, health pandemics, and natural disasters. Play is a child’s natural language, play therapy can be utilized to create a space for the child to have the ability to express their feelings and resolve conflicts through creative therapeutic interventions, expressive arts with the foundation of the therapeutic powers of play. Internal Family Systems therapy is an innovative and a transformative model that emphasizes the natural multiplicity of the mind, and looking at the system in parts, with the assumption that there are no bad parts and parts are in roles to protect hurt and traumatized parts. Children often cannot verbal tell their trauma stories or express their thoughts and feelings. With the combination of Internal Family Systems and Play Therapy children will now have the opportunity to learn the various parts that make them who they are, express the feelings and beliefs of their parts, gain knowledge that others have parts as well in a creative way. Carmen will teach us the therapeutic powers of play; facilitate communication, foster emotional wellness, enhance social relationships and increase personal strengths utilizing the steps of the Internal Family Systems. Learning Objectives: Participants will: 1. Demonstrate the core concepts of the Internal Family System model to improve clinical treatment interventions. 2. Discuss the Therapeutic Powers of Play Therapy and its treatment implications. 3. Discuss the concepts of Sandtray Therapy and the difference between sandtray and sandplay to put in practical use in-session. 4. Integrate Internal Family Systems and Sandtray Play Therapy to assist with identifying the client’s internal system to improve clinical outcomes. 5. Discuss the cultural challenges with clients in relation to Internal Family Systems work within the sandtray to improve client engagement. 6. Distinguish a connection between client parts and therapist parts and its clinical treatment implications. 7. Discuss the steps of the Internal Family System model and connection with the Therapeutic Powers of Play Therapy. 8. Analyze how Internal Family Systems and Play Therapy can decrease the impact of traumatic experiences. 9. Integrate the steps of Internal Family Systems and Play Therapy to engage children in therapeutic activities. Carmen Jimenez-Pride is the creative mind behind Focus on Feelings®, an emotional literacy curriculum, she is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, Certified AutPlay® Therapy Provider, Certified EMDR Therapist, Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher and Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist, Clinical Consultant and Assistant Trainer. Carmen is also a Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator.  Carmen is a trauma therapist experienced in the clinical treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with culturally diverse backgrounds addressing a wide range of concerns. Carmen’s career in the mental health field spans more than 15 years. Carmen is an international speaker, award-winning best-selling author, and business consultant. She is a visionary in the therapeutic community, working to create and develop a wide range of educational tools to assist the clinician, and the client to reach optimum goals. With a focus on cultural humility and cultural diversity, Carmen educates clinical professionals to address racial and cultural trauma within their clinical practices.  Carmen is currently serving as the South Carolina Association for Play Therapy President and the recipient of the 2021 Association for Play Therapy Emerging Leader Award. Carmen also serves as the Diversity and Inclusion Director of the Internal Sandtray Therapy Association.    Carmen is the developer of Diversity in Play Therapy Inc. and the Diversity in Play Therapy Summit.