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Just a friendly reminder that we are bringing certified Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy practitioner, consultant, trainer and certified Play Therapist, Hannah Sun-Reid to Christchurch this September for two of her popular workshops

Play Therapy Interventions for Attachment Difficulties

This dynamic workshop will showcase practical, creative and effective ideas for practitioners and carers who work with children and families who experience attachment difficulties.

Some of the specific applications / techniques that Hannah will discuss include:

• Creating safety: finding safe people and safe places.
• My feelings and me – increase understanding of emotions and how they relate to self and experiences.
• Degree of safety – increase awareness of safety boundaries.
• From fear to safely scared activities/seeking and receiving comfort and nurture.
• Resources - My support team; digging for treasures.
• What happened to me - creating new narratives.
• Using stories to integrate experiences and reflective capacity.
• Teaching brain science using play activities.
• Parent-child interactions – increase open and engaged parent-child interactions, and increase capacity to experience joy in healthy attachment relationships.
• Hope – increase capacity to mentalise a positive future.

Play-based interventions and exercises will be demonstrated and practiced throughout the workshop and participants will leave with the confidence to immediately incorporate these techniques into their work with children, young people and/or families. >Read More....

Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP): Level 1

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) was created by US clinical Psychologist Dan Hughes as an intervention model for families with adopted or fostered children who had experienced neglect and abuse in their birth families & suffered from significant developmental trauma.

This training will be of interest to therapists and other professionals whose work involves supporting families, parents and caregivers (adoptive parents, foster parents, kinship carers or residential carers), whose children have experienced developmental trauma and show attachment and relationship difficulties with their caregivers. DDP principles and interventions will be presented via lecture format, formal discussion, case examples, videotape of therapy sessions, role-play, and hand-outs. This Level One (Introductory) 28-hour (4-day) intensive training course is a pre-requisite to becoming a certified DDP practitioner and is strictly limited to only 24 participants. We expect it will be fully subscribed and encourage you to register early to avoid disappointment. <Read More....