A shared journey,
is Sacred.
Tracks in the Sandtray Training & Counselling Centre
Welcome to a whole new way of seeing yourself and the world around you that enables a fresh insight and deep healing. Tracks in the Sandtray Training Centre uses a number of innovative and exciting techniques including Active Sandtray Therapy and Voice Dialogue. These enhance your own personal journey and can be applied by professionals to help clients to greater inner healing.
Active Sandtray therapy is a dynamic and expressive form of psychotherapy that allows clients to express their inner worlds through symbol and metaphor. Active sandtray emphasizes a deep and accepting therapeutic relationship between client and facilitator, however the process also allows for both parties to focus on here-and-now experience. We believe that as people grow and develop in childhood and adolescence, we lose touch with who we are. We may have been taught that certain feelings are acceptable while others are not. In the process of denying who we truly are, we become disconnected from our true selves. Sandtray therapy provides an experience of reconnecting to one’s true self, of rediscovering our dreams, hopes and visions.
In Jungian sandplay therapy literature, much has been written about the importance of the tray itself, the miniatures and the “safe and protected space” of the sandtray. We believe that all these are important. However, Sandtray Therapy allows more focus on the processing phase of the sandtray and far more therapeutic when the therapist is skilled in facilitating a process that can help the client observe, explore, comment, become aware and heal destructive and sabotaging patterns.
Why use sandtray therapy?
If you are a practitioner who is considering sandtray as an adjunct to your interventions, we believe that you can enhance your effectiveness with many clients by using an activity such as active sandtray therapy.
Active Sandtray therapy provides:
- A structured environment in which client’s metaphors can be created and explored.
- A visual representation of the client’s issue that helps you and the client to focus on core issues throughout the session.
- Clients typically look repeatedly at the symbols in their scenes even after they have explored them, which provide an external guide to return to the issues.
- A deeper experience for the client. Clients often stop themselves and avoid a full experience of their feelings. Active sandtray therapy facilitates a deeper exploration of self.
- Blocked energy is freed and the client appears more alive and more communicative. The client becomes an active participant in their own healing process.
- Active sandtray therapy offers an indirect method of facilitating therapeutic movement with stuck clients . When clients look at their own metaphors they can bypass defences and move through resistance.
Active sandtray therapy can be used with children, adolescents and adults.
Our training, teaches the theory and experiential learning to enable professionals to use this therapy as an adjunct to their private practise or in an organisational setting.
Personal Workshops in Active Sandtray
These workshops are for adults who wish to explore their own inner journey of self discovery. You can explore those patterns that are having a negative impact on your life and affecting your relationships. Get in touch with your creativity and learn more about yourself - within a small group of like minded people. Use it as part of your own professional development.
Other Workshops include:
Voice Dialogue, Personal Enrichment weekends, Bonding Patterns and a Mandala group.
These workshops are available for those interested in doing their own personal growth and spiritual journey as well as for organisations /groups (wishing to improve their professional skills, and provide team building etc).
I also offer a one to one counselling service in a safe and confidential atmosphere, which allows a person to explore deep issues and enable greater healing.
I believe a shared journey is sacred for both client and therapist.
Please enjoy exploring my web site and I look forward to meeting you.
Best wishes from:- Judy Blundell of Tracks in the Sandtray Training & Counselling Centre.
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