We offer presentations for professionals, including professional development for school personnel, mental health conferences, and personalized workshops for your agency. In-person and/or virtual presentations are experiential, interactive and engaging, and can be specifically designed with a targeted topic for your audience. Our workshops have been previously presented nationally & internationally, including for the Child Life of Greater New York Conference, the National Association of Social Workers, Rutgers School of Social Work Continuing Education, the Association for Oncology Social Workers (AOSW), Art Psychotherapy Counseling Services, various school districts, college students, and educators throughout the state of New Jersey.
Previous workshops have included:
Sandtray Basics and Beyond
Grieving Children & Teens: Creative Interventions for Individual & Group Work
Creative Interventions for Children & Adolescents with Anxiety
Play-Based Engagement, Rapport Building, and Assessment Techniques for Children & Teens
Facilitating Coping with COVID-19 Related Changes and Losses When Working in a School Setting
How to Navigate Grief, Loss, and a New Normal During COVID-19
Basic Play-Based Interventions with Children
What Every Educator Needs to Know About Children Affected by Adult Cancer in the Family
Facilitating Coping with a Hospital Experience: Medical-Specific Play and Art-Based Strategies and Interventions for Children
Working with Children who Have a Parent with Cancer: First Encounter to Anticipatory Grief
Bridging the Play Therapy-Child Life Gap: Play and Art Techniques in Child Life
Working with Children, Teenagers and Young Adults with Illness in the Family
A Toolbox for Educators: Strategies for Helping Children Affected by Adult Cancer in the Family
Working with Children Affected by Adult Cancer in the Family: Play & Art Therapy Techniques
Groups
Creative, experiential, and professionally facilitated groups for children or adults are available that cater to your organization or populations' needs. Therapeutic or team building experiences can be brought to your school's students, your organization's employees, or your agency's clients. Both children and adults alike can benefit from fun and playful interactions offered through expressive play-, art- or yoga-inspired activities. Our groups have been previously offered at Camp Clover (children's bereavement camp), local NJ elementary school Health & Wellness Summit, and the Carol G. Simon Cancer Center of Morristown Medical Center. Previous groups have included:
Bereavement-specific art & craft groups (children & teens)
Mini-retreats for families affected by cancer with various themes: art, music, drama and yoga (families)