🐚Sandplay Therapy | Free Course
Updated: Oct 19
Free Course by Everything IFS Academy | Therapeutic Modalities Series
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🐚 Welcome to the Free Sandplay Therapy Course
Sandplay therapy was created by Dora Kalff, a Swiss Jungian therapist who developed the method in the 1950s and 60s, building on the pioneering sand tray work of British child psychiatrist Margaret Lowenfeld and shaping it into a discipline now practiced across the world, from Europe to the United States to Japan, under the training standards of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy she co-founded. The lens Kalff brought to the tray is what makes the method remarkable: the deepest healing doesn't have to happen in words, and given the right conditions, the psyche knows how to repair itself, one small world of sand and miniatures at a time.
This course teaches pure Sandplay Therapy, with no other modalities blended in, written in plain, everyday language. Maybe you're curious for yourself, supporting a child who says more with miniatures than with sentences, or exploring the method professionally; this course was built for all of it. You'll learn how the tray works, why Kalff's "free and protected space" matters so much, what the miniatures are quietly doing, and how healing appears in the sand long before it finds words. Each module offers clear teaching and real-life examples, and ends with a simple sandplay practice so you can begin meeting the method with your own hands. It isn't clinical training for therapists and doesn't offer continuing education credits; it's sandplay you can genuinely understand and use in your own life.
Course Outline
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The Basics 1. What Is Sandplay Therapy 2. Who Is Dora Kalff 3. The Jungian Foundations of Sandplay
Inside the Session
The Deep Process 8. The Language of Symbols 9. Reading the Space of the Tray 10. The Stages of the Sandplay Process 11. The Manifestation of the Self
Sandplay in Practice 12. Sandplay With Children and Adults 13. Sandtray Therapy: How It Differs From Sandplay 14. What Parents Can Expect
The Whole Journey 15. A Sandplay Journey From First Tray to Last
Bonus
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