Agenda for Level I: March 21, 2025. 9:00 am - 12:15 pm MST

9:00 - 10:30 Experiential Play Therapy® for hearing & healing the child through play therapy

10:30-10:45 BREAK

10:45-12:15 Responding to the child’s play and understanding metaphors.

Agenda for Level II: March 28, 2025. 9:00 am - 12:15 pm MST

9:00 - 10:30 Experiential Play Therapy for regression the trauma, neurological issues related to trauma in the child’s developmental stages

10:30-10:45 BREAK

10:45-12:15 Metaphor and somatic expression of trauma, “I-Thou” relationship for trauma release in play therapy

Agenda for Level III: April 11, 2025. 9:00 am - 1:30 pm MST

9:00 - 10:30 Developmental trauma and the “Therapeutic Mirror Neuron Response®

10:30 - 10:45 BREAK

10:45- 12:15 Child’s trauma presentation, developmental characteristics, adaptation

12:15 - 12:30 BREAK

12:30 - 1:30 Parental response to play therapy and TMNR®, ethical considerations

Learning Objectives for Level I: March 21, 2025 9:00 am - 12:15 pm MST

  1. Explain the 5 basic premises and concepts of Experiential Play Therapy (EPT®)

  2. Explain 1 way each stage of the EPT® process and their meanings correlate to the child’s developmental stages of trust and responsiveness to the therapist in play therapy.

  3. List the 5 significant dynamics of each EPT® stage and the facilitative

    process necessary for the child-client, including regression, dissociation, somatic memory expression, and why language in trauma work is an interference in play therapy.

  4. Demonstrate 5-7 meanings of toys, roles, animals, and environments in play therapy and understand the incapacitant effects of their trauma.

Learning Objectives for Level II: March 28, 2025 9:00 am - 12:15 pm MST

  1. Identify how these traumas live in the bodies of young children and in their functioning.

  2. Identify 5 trauma issues in play therapy that will be expressed in the different developmental stages for fetal, birthing, infant, and early attachment traumas.

  3. Assess 3 play expressions, behaviors, and physiological (trauma spot) reactions of young children that indicate the developmental level of the trauma shown in play therapy.

  4. Create 1 trauma list for each child in play therapy to guide the play therapist in how the trauma is being sensed as the child plays their trauma metaphors of pain and fears.

Learning Objectives for Level III: April 11, 2025 9:00 am - 1:30 pm MST

Must have completed Levels I and II before joining this webinar

  1. Recite 3 “mirror neuron” processes and its appropriateness for preverbal trauma in children during EPT®.

  2. Explain 3 ways play expressions impact the neurological system of the child during play therapy to create the depth necessary for therapeutic change in the child.

  3. Explain 2 techniques of sensory acuity required of the play therapist to make this process facilitative for the regressed child in EPT®.

  4. Assess, individualize, and monitor 3 impacts of the mirror neuron process on the child’s receptive neurological/sensory systems to facilitate the release of

    the trauma’s impact in play therapy.

  5. Utilize 3 techniques of the “Therapeutic Mirror Neuron Response®” to the eventual soothing experience required for activating a healing response within the child during play therapy.