Date/ Time:
July 17, 2020 12:00-3:00 PM ET
Location:
Online- Live Webinar
July 17, 2020 12:00-3:00 PM ET
Location:
Online- Live Webinar
Description:
Founder, Dr. Joyce Mills will present the golden nuggets of StoryPlay®, an Ericksonian, resiliency-based, indirective process of Play Therapy. During this three-hour webinar, Dr Joyce will provide participants with the nine essential elements of StoryPlay Therapy, and show us how to identify, access, and utilize the inner resources, skills and gifts within our clients in play therapy. She will demonstrate how It is through these invaluable gems that we as clinicians can move beyond diagnosis and provide creative approaches in play therapy to effect transformational change for the children and adolescents in our care.
Learning Objectives:
Presenter:
Founder, Dr. Joyce Mills will present the golden nuggets of StoryPlay®, an Ericksonian, resiliency-based, indirective process of Play Therapy. During this three-hour webinar, Dr Joyce will provide participants with the nine essential elements of StoryPlay Therapy, and show us how to identify, access, and utilize the inner resources, skills and gifts within our clients in play therapy. She will demonstrate how It is through these invaluable gems that we as clinicians can move beyond diagnosis and provide creative approaches in play therapy to effect transformational change for the children and adolescents in our care.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify how to Access Inner Resources of a child or adolescent during the first session of play therapy.
- List three of the nine essential elements of the StoryPlay model.
- Utilize “Interspersed Suggestions” for facilitating positive emotional and behavioral change in play therapy.
- Explain how to utilize the elements of our natural ecology as metaphors in the quest for positive change and healing in play therapy.
- Describe two StoryCrafts for experiential healing in play therapy.
Presenter:
Joyce C. Mills, Ph.D.
Founder of StoryPlay® Global, award-winning Play Therapist, author of eight books, and considered an expert in metaphorical interventions, Dr. Joyce Mills is an internationally recognized storyteller, consultant, workshop leader, program development specialist, and keynote speaker to medical, psychological, and educational organizations. With “resiliency” and “creativity” at its heart, Dr. Mills developed StoryPlay®, a new Ericksonian Indirective model of Play Therapy helping children, adults, families, and communities heal from trauma and disaster. In addition to her training programs, Dr. Mills is a Co-Director of the Phoenix Institute of Ericksonian Therapy, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a registered Play Therapy Supervisor. Her books include: Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within (Second Edition); Reconnecting to the Magic of Life; Butterfly Wisdom; Little Tree, Gentle Willow; and Sammy the Elephant and Mr. Camel.
Founder of StoryPlay® Global, award-winning Play Therapist, author of eight books, and considered an expert in metaphorical interventions, Dr. Joyce Mills is an internationally recognized storyteller, consultant, workshop leader, program development specialist, and keynote speaker to medical, psychological, and educational organizations. With “resiliency” and “creativity” at its heart, Dr. Mills developed StoryPlay®, a new Ericksonian Indirective model of Play Therapy helping children, adults, families, and communities heal from trauma and disaster. In addition to her training programs, Dr. Mills is a Co-Director of the Phoenix Institute of Ericksonian Therapy, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a registered Play Therapy Supervisor. Her books include: Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within (Second Edition); Reconnecting to the Magic of Life; Butterfly Wisdom; Little Tree, Gentle Willow; and Sammy the Elephant and Mr. Camel.
- Award-winning Co-Author of Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within
- 2014 – AZ Association for Play Therapy for “Distinguished Service” award during their 19th Annual State Conference in Phoenix Arizona.
- 2014 – Paris France – “Lifelong work and contributions to the field of multicultural hypnotherapy.”
- Recipient of the 1997 Annual Play Therapy International Award for an
- “Outstanding career contribution to the field of child psychology & play therapy.
CE Information:
Due to COVID-19 health concerns, this one-time online event provides 3 CONTACT CE Hours.
CE credit for this training is being provided by:
The StoryPlay Center (SPC) J. Mills, Provider #02-119 approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. StoryPlay LLC is approved by the California Marriage & Family Therapists--Provider #89333 to sponsor continuing education for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and/or LCSWs. StoryPlay maintains the responsibility for this program.
Due to COVID-19 health concerns, this one-time online event provides 3 CONTACT CE Hours.
CE credit for this training is being provided by:
The StoryPlay Center (SPC) J. Mills, Provider #02-119 approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. StoryPlay LLC is approved by the California Marriage & Family Therapists--Provider #89333 to sponsor continuing education for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and/or LCSWs. StoryPlay maintains the responsibility for this program.