Interoceptive Awareness in the Playroom: Setting the Stage for Successful Coregulation – Lisa Dion

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Helping children learn how to regulate is essential in play therapy, but without first strengthening the child’s interoceptive sense, regulation may not be successful.   
Without the development and strengthening of the interoceptive sense, a child may have regulation knowledge and tools but will not be able to read their own body cues to know when to use any of them.  Examples such as knowing when to use the bathroom, when to take a deep breath, when to ask for help, the ability to read non-verbal cues, knowing when emotions are feeling overwhelming all rely on interoception.   
Join Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S, international teacher, and creator of Synergetic Play Therapy in this playful workshop designed to help you learn what the interoceptive sense is and how to use play therapy to develop interoception in their child clients to set the stage for successful regulation and co-regulation.  You’ll have fun experientially exploring this fundamental part of the sensory system.   

Speaker

Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S™, is an international teacher, creator of Synergetic Play Therapy, founder and President of the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute, co-founder of the Synergetic Education Institute, creator of the Business of Therapy and host of the Lessons from the Playroom podcast. She is the author of Aggression in Play Therapy: A Neurobiological Approach for Integrating Intensity and is the 2015 recipient of the Association for Play Therapy’s Professional Education and Training Award of Excellence.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Lisa Dion maintains a private practice and is the founder and president of Synergetic Play Therapy Institute and co-founder of Synergetic Education Institute. She receives royalties as a published author. Lisa Dion is the creator and host of the Lessons from the Playroom podcast. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Lisa Dion is a member of the Association of Play Therapy.

Objectives

1. Describe at least 4 ways to develop the interoceptive sense in the therapist and in the child client in play therapy.   
2. Demonstrate the importance of the therapist strengthening their own interoceptive sense and the implications in play therapy for trauma integration.   
3. Describe the role interoception plays in the development of the ability to regulate and co-regulate in play therapy. 

Outline

​​​Interoceptive Sense – What it is How it Works​​ 

• ​​​History of Interoception​​ 
• ​​​​Role of the Insula 

​The Basis for Regulation & Co-Regulation​ 

• ​​​​Symptoms of Poorly Developed Interoceptive Sense 
• ​Understanding regulation​ 
• ​​​Implications for clinicians​​ using play therapy

​​​Developing the Interoceptive Sense ​​ 

• ​​​Range of Interoceptive Awareness​​ 
• ​​​Scaffolding Interoceptive Awareness​​ 

​​​Playful ways to Develop Interoception​​ in Play Therapy

Target Audience

• Counselors 
• Marriage & Family Therapists 
• Occupational Therapists 
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Play Therapists
• Psychologists 
• Social Workers 
• Speech-Language Pathologists 
• Teachers/School-Based Personnel 

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