Back to Earth:
Sandtray Training Retreat
Southern Highlands, NSW
8th-11th February, 2024
Four Day Professional Development Training
Do you want a restorative, educative and inspiring start to 2024
to reset for the year ahead?
This four-day professional development retreat in the picturesque Southern Highlands, offers you a calm and welcoming space to slow down, and learn and practice sandtray methods to enrich your counselling practice.
Our gentle practices invite you into deeper connection with yourself, your work and the earth. This retreat is a chance to revisit yourself in new and sustaining ways through sandtray, nature-based practices, reflective writing, and other creativity exercises. No prior skill or experience is needed to attend.
Learn and practice sandtray and other creative therapy processes that can invite insight and change to sustain yourself and others. Gain 20 CPD Certificate hours
From the moment you enter the winding drive, you begin to feel renewed, refreshed and inspired. Set within acres of trees on this property in the Southern Highlands, NSW, the tranquil Retreat Centre provides the space you need to relax and learn. Supported and practical training activities will allow you to deepen your therapeutic work and self-care practices.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Relax, restore and reset in a beautiful, nature-filled retreat centre
- Learn and practice skills in Sandtray Therapy
- Identify the theory and evidence for Sandtray Therapy
- Integrate the use of creative therapies into counselling
- Experience therapeutic uses of Sandtray and Nature-Based Practices
- Consider practical ways to build an appropriate symbol collection
- Connect with like-minded colleagues
- Work in the safety and support of a small group
Dates
8th - 11th February, 2024
Location
The Hermitage
843 Old South Road
Mittagong NSW
AUSTRALIA
Your Retreat Facilitator
Jacki Short | ||
| | | Jacki is the Owner and Director of Sydney Centre for Creative Change. She is a registered counselling psychologist who has been facilitating retreats and experiential training workshops for helping professionals for over 25 years. Using sandtrays, reflective writing, art, and other creative processes, she invites new perspectives, important rememberings and inspiration for renewal and change. She believes in the power of metaphor and symbols to help express feelings and experiences that might otherwise be too hard to express. |
What's Included:
- Teaching - 4 day program from 3 pm Thursday 8th to 12.30pm Sunday 11th February, 2024
- Three nights accommodation at the Hermitage from Thursday 8th – Saturday 10th February, 2024
- Daily Meditation or Yoga Practice
- All meals from lunch Thursday 8th February 12.30pm until lunch Sunday 11th February 1.30pm.
- The beauty and bush land of the Southern Highlands
- 20 Professional Development Hours
- Certificate of Attendance
- GST
- Excludes flights and transfers.
Learning Overview
Sandtray therapy allows for the projective expression of one's personal inner world. Learn how to respectfully invite the creation of miniature scenes and stories that help clients see, know and change.
Accommodation
Accommodation is included for the nights of the retreat with private, single, ensuited rooms offering breathtaking views of the property.
Meals
The 3 daily, homemade meals are not only delicious and generous in portion, but abundant in freshness and variety. The Hermitage caters for the following dietary requirements; lactose intolerant, gluten free and vegetarian meals.
Who Should Attend?
Psychologists, social workers, counsellors, therapists, all those working in therapeutic roles.
Level of Learning
Foundational. This training is targeted both to those new to the topic of sandtray therapy and those with some experience seeking to deepen their knowledge.
Feedback from Previous Sandtray Training Participants
Profound!
Professional, experiential, engaging, knowledgeable and lots of fun!
Value beyond anything I could anticipate!
Thank You - What a wonderful experience, I feel more confident to use Sandtrays!
Cost
- Special Price $2600
(SCCC Members get 10% discount)
All payments are in Australian Dollars
Registrations close 25th January, 2024.
Book now.
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