Janet Courtney – Nature-Based Play Therapy: A Multi-Sensory Experience to Treat Trauma & Promote Resilience in Kids

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Speaker:Janet Courtney, PhD, LCSW, RPT-S™

Duration:1 Hour 30 Minutes

Format:Audio and Video

Copyright:May 11, 2023  

Media Type:Digital Seminar

Description

Playing in nature has inherent healing powers and provides a robust and diverse environment for every play therapy session.  

In this workshop, we’ll explore ways nature’s elements such as clay, stones, flowers, and feathers can be utilized to address traumatic histories and enhance inner resilience within indoor and outdoor settings and in individual child, family, and group sessions.  

Exploring nature-based play therapy with children helps to… 

• Increase focus and reduce stress 
• Enhance creativity, problem-solving and boundary setting 
• Exhibit more cooperativeness and self-discipline  
• Decrease anxiety, depression and behavior problems 

Nature elements are rich in sensory experiences and this play therapy training will explore how the eight senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, vestibular, proprioceptive, and interoception are stimulated through nature play.    

Nature’s toys naturally cross-cultural barriers. Practitioners will explore ethical considerations of nature in practice through nature-based informed consent. Come ready to engage in some healing Nature-Play Therapy and learn new modalities both indoors and outdoors to grow your client toolkit.  

*Note, as some practitioners are now seeing clients virtually, the interventions presented will include a discussion on how they can be adapted to tele-health or in-person sessions.

Speaker

Janet A Courtney, PhD, LCSW, RPT-S™, is founder of FirstPlay Therapy®. She is a Registered Play Therapy-Supervisor, TEDx Speaker and past Chair of the Association for Play Therapy Ethics and Practice Committee and past President of the Florida Association for Play Therapy, FirstPlay Therapy was awarded third place overall in the Best Practices Showcase for FirstPlay Therapy at the First 1000 Days Infant Mental Health Summit (2018) along with the Children’s Healing Institute. She is author and editor of the following books: Infant Play Therapy: Foundations, Programs, Models and Practice, and Healing Child and Family Trauma through Expressive and Play Therapies: Art, Nature, Storytelling, Body & Mindfulness and Nature-based Play & Expressive Therapies: Interventions for Children, Teens and Families, and Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy: An Ethical and Clinical Guide. Her research in practitioner experiences of training in touch and Developmental Play Therapy is published in the American Journal of Art Therapy and the International Journal of Play Therapy. She is a contributing author in several books including Play-based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders and the book Environmental Expressive Therapies (2017), and Play Therapy Supervision (2023). She is also published in the Journal of Therapeutic Horticulture. She offers a certification in FirstPlay Therapy® and provides training to professionals in the Ethical and Clinical Competencies of Touch, FirstPlay® Therapy, Ericksonian-based StoryPlay®, Expressive Therapies, and Nature-based Play Therapy. She has been invited to speak nationally and internationally including Bali, Indonesia, the Cayman Islands, England, Ireland, Morocco, Russia and the Ukraine. She is a provider through the Florida state boards of Mental Health and Massage Therapy, and an approved provider through the Association for Play Therapy. She specializes in infant mental health and infant play therapy, attachment, and Trauma related issues. Dr. Courtney’s new form of Kinesthetic Storytelling® can be found in her children’s book, The Magic Rainbow. Website: www.firstplaytherapy.com

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Janet Courtney is founder of FirstPlay™ Therapy. She is in private practice and has employment relationships with Barry University and Ellen Whiteside McDonnell School of Social Work. Dr. Courtney receives royalties as a published author and receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Janet Courtney is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, World Association for Infant Mental Health, and the International Association for the Study of Affective Touch.

Objectives

1. Demonstrate two (2) ways that the therapeutic powers of play as conceptualized by Schaefer can be identified within Nature-based Play Therapy interventions.  
2. Evaluate at least three (3) research outcome healing benefits of nature-based play therapy for children. 
3. Evaluate at least four (4) essential components that need to be included in a nature-based play therapy client informed consent form. 
4. Determine at least two (2) nature-based play therapy interventions that improve clinical outcomes that can be conducted either inside the playroom, virtually, or in outdoor environments as ways to utilize nature therapeutically.  
5. Apply at least two (2) clinical strategies of how to implement a variety of nature items (clay, stones, feathers, flowers, etc.) in play therapy practice to reframe trauma experiences, increase self-regulation, and connect to a mind-body awareness.  

Outline

Nature-based Play Therapy Foundations 

• “Nature Deficit Disorder” & “screen time verses green time”  
• Strategies to deal with climate anxiety 
• Nature as co-regulator to reduce mood symptoms 
• Evaluate nature’s metaphorical powers of healing 

Utilizing Nature’s Toys in Play therapy  

• Metaphorical practice of stones 
• Treatment implementation of botanicals, feathers, shells, wood, and sand   
• Stone case study video as it relates to case conceptualization  
• Demonstrate “I know my Yeses & No’s” experiential  
• Flower craft necklace/bracelet experiential and treatment implications    

Ethical Practice Nature-based Guidelines 

• Create a playroom nature “toolkit” 
• Adapt nature-based play therapy interventions virtually 
• Ethical treatment through Nature Informed Consent    
• Contraindications to avoid clinical drawbacks in play therapy 
• Client limit setting in outdoor environments 
• Guidelines for respectful nature engagement

Target Audience

• Addiction Professionals 
• Case Managers 
• Dieticians 
• Counselors 
• Marriage & Family Therapists 
• Nurses 
• Nursing Home/Assisted Living Administrators 
• Occupational Therapists 
• Occupational Therapy Assistants 
• Physical Therapists 
• Physical Therapist Assistants
• Play Therapists
• Psychologists 
• School Administrators 
• Social Workers 
• Speech-Language Pathologists 
• Teachers/School-Based Personnel

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