Jungian Analytical Play Therapy: A Deeper Understanding of Children’s Play – Part 2

Monarch Training Center is pleased to present JP Lilly – a leader in Jungian Analytical Play Therapy – This is one you won’t want to miss

Overview– Participants will have already participated in the first part of the training in Jungian Analytical Play Therapy (JAPT). This workshop will focus on presenting two videotaped cases in which the process of applying JAPT will be fully demonstrated. Seminal issues that have already been covered will be illustrated in the sessions that will be presented.

If you have not taken part one, visit our site at www.monarchtrainingcenter.com and take the part 1 offered.

Abstract:

  This day-long presentation will focus presenting two videotaped cases in which the dynamics of JAPT will be presented and illustrated. The seminal concepts of JAPT such as the child’s use of her unconsciousness, the collective conscious’ contribution to engagement, the collective unconscious and its’ manifestation in play therapy, the use of archetypal material, the manifestation of the Ego-Self Axis, and complex confrontation will be illustrated and shown to the participants. The presenter’s model for Jungian Analytical Play Therapy will be reviewed by the presenter, and actively be used during the presentation to assist the participants to follow the dynamics of the sessions from a JAPT perspective. Play therapy will be highlighted as the only real form of therapy that can assist children in engaging difficult material safely, and the nature of that engagement will be analyzed. This day will end with discussion from the participants to assist them in understanding how this process works.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain a clear understanding of the development of a child’s psyche and what it looks like in play therapy.
• Gain an understanding of the meaning of unconscious and its’ relationship to consciousness in children, and how it is demonstrated in play therapy.
• Gain an understanding of archetypal material, and how it is engaged and used in play therapy.
• Gain an understanding of the role of the ego in adaptive functioning within the context of play therapy.
• Gain an understanding in how symptoms are a roadmap to the complex with which the child is struggling, and how those dynamics are manifested in play therapy.
• Gain a clear understanding of the development of a complex and proto-complex, and what the manifestation of it looks like in play therapy.
• Gain a clear understanding of the archetypal material involved in complex formation, and how to recognize it in play therapy.
• Gain an understanding of how the child’s thematic play is an extension of the unconscious struggle for the child and its’ symbolic manifestation in play therapy.
• Gain an understanding of the importance of temenos and how to create it in play therapy.
• Gain an understanding of ego inflation and its’ necessary role in complex confrontation and how to recognize it in play therapy.
• Gain an understanding of circummambulation, and what that process looks like in play therapy.
• Gain an understanding of what confrontation with complex material looks and feels like in play therapy.
• Gain a clear understanding of the symbolic nature of toys, and their use in play therapy.