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Training Dates 2025

  • Key Skills for Child-Centred Relationships with Children (1 day): A professional development workshop which holds credits towards Stage 1

    Nelson: 10 October
    Wellington: 17 October
    Dunedin: 24 October
    Auckland: 31 October

  • The Art of Relationship: A Child-Centred Way of Being with Children I&II: Stage 1 (5 days total - 3 days in person & 2 days online. The in-person workshop is prerequisite to the online workshop)

    North Island Training (3 days): 26-28 March 2025 - In-person practicum, Taupo (Part I)

    South Island Training (3 days): 8-10 April 2025 - In-person practicum, Christchurch (Part I)

    Online Training (2 days): 29th April & 1st May - Online theoretical consolidation for North and South Island trainees combined (Part II)

  • Stage 2A (5 days: 2 days online & 3 days in-person)

    Online: (2 days) 17 & 19 June

    In-person - Taupō: 24-26 June (3 days)

  • Stage 2B (5 days: 2 days online & 3 days in-person)

    Online: (2 days) 2 & 4 September

    In-person - Taupō: 16-18 September (3 days)

  • Stage 3 (5 days: 1 day online & 4 days in-person)

    Online: 11 February (1 day)

    In-person - Taupō: 18-21 Feb (4 days) / Wānaka: 3-6 March

  • Module 7 - Online in 2025 (August and September - dates tba).

Training Calendar

An Introduction to Child Centred Play Therapy - Cambridge
Oct
30
to 1 Nov

An Introduction to Child Centred Play Therapy - Cambridge

  • 28 Duke Street Cambridge, Waikato, 3434 New Zealand (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This popular 3-day professional development workshop offers course participants an introduction to Child-Centred Play Therapy, with this being a very unique, deeply heartfelt, relational way of being with children. This workshop also holds credits for Stage 1 of the ChildPlayWorks Clinical Play Therapy Training Programme for those who wish to apply and who meet the entry criteria.

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Stage 2B: 3-day in-person intensive - Taupō
Sep
18
to 20 Sep

Stage 2B: 3-day in-person intensive - Taupō

  • 65 Lakewood Drive Taupō, Waikato, 3330 New Zealand (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

ESTABLISHING AND CONSOLIDATING PRACTICE

Stage 2b: Issues in Clinical Practice (3-day in-person intensive - Taupō)

This 5-day workshop is comprised of a 2-day online workshop (26-27 August) and a 3-day in-person intensive (4-6 September in Wānaka or 18-20 September in Taupō). The online workshop is prerequisite to the in-person intensive.

Included in this 5-day workshop:

  • Typical problems and issues in CCPT

  • Advanced play therapy practice development

  • Determining therapeutic process

  • Group role plays

  • Case material, DVD material

  • Experiential and personal reflective activities 

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Stage 4, Module 7 - Presentation 3
Sep
13

Stage 4, Module 7 - Presentation 3

Stage 4, Module 7: The Emergent Child-Centred Play Therapist (online/long distance) 

Nancy Cochran and Dr Jeff Cochran present their excellent series of three 90-minute interactive presentations 'Working with Relationship-Resistant Children'. Nancy H. Cochran and Dr Jeff L. Cochran, alongwith Dr Bill J. Nordling, co-author one of our required texts Child-Centered Play Therapy: A Practical Guide to Developing Therapeutic Relationships with Children (Wiley, 2010).

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Stage 2B: 3-day in-person intensive - Wānaka
Sep
4
to 6 Sep

Stage 2B: 3-day in-person intensive - Wānaka

ESTABLISHING AND CONSOLIDATING PRACTICE

Stage 2b: Issues in Clinical Practice (3-day in-person intensive - Wānaka)

This 5-day workshop is comprised of a 2-day online workshop (26-27 August) and a 3-day in-person intensive (4-6 September in Wānaka or 18-20 September in Taupō). The online workshop is prerequisite to the in-person intensive.

Included in this 5-day workshop:

  • Typical problems and issues in CCPT

  • Advanced play therapy practice development

  • Determining therapeutic process

  • Group role plays

  • Case material, DVD material

  • Experiential and personal reflective activities 

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Stage 2B: 2-day online workshop
Aug
26
to 27 Aug

Stage 2B: 2-day online workshop

ESTABLISHING AND CONSOLIDATING PRACTICE

Stage 2b: Issues in Clinical Practice (2-day online workshop)

This 5-day workshop is comprised of a 2-day online workshop (26-27 August) and a 3-day in-person intensive (4-6 September in Wānaka or 18-20 September in Taupō). The online workshop is prerequisite to the in-person intensive.

Included in this 5-day workshop:

  • Typical problems and issues in CCPT

  • Advanced play therapy practice development

  • Determining therapeutic process

  • Group role plays

  • Case material, DVD material

  • Experiential and personal reflective activities 

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Stage 4, Module 7 - Presentation 2
Aug
16

Stage 4, Module 7 - Presentation 2

Stage 4, Module 7: The Emergent Child-Centred Play Therapist (online/long distance) 

Nancy Cochran and Dr Jeff Cochran present their excellent series of three 90-minute interactive presentations 'Working with Relationship-Resistant Children'. Nancy H. Cochran and Dr Jeff L. Cochran, alongwith Dr Bill J. Nordling, co-author one of our required texts Child-Centered Play Therapy: A Practical Guide to Developing Therapeutic Relationships with Children (Wiley, 2010).

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Stage 4, Module 7 - Presentation 1
Jul
26

Stage 4, Module 7 - Presentation 1

Stage 4, Module 7: The Emergent Child-Centred Play Therapist (online/long distance) 

Nancy Cochran and Dr Jeff Cochran present their excellent series of three 90-minute interactive presentations 'Working with Relationship-Resistant Children'. Nancy H. Cochran and Dr Jeff L. Cochran, alongwith Dr Bill J. Nordling, co-author one of our required texts Child-Centered Play Therapy: A Practical Guide to Developing Therapeutic Relationships with Children (Wiley, 2010).

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Stage 2A: 3-day in-person intensive - Wānaka
Jun
24
to 26 Jun

Stage 2A: 3-day in-person intensive - Wānaka

Stage 2a: Deepening and Strengthening the Therapeutic Relationship (5-day workshop intensive)

This workshop comprises of a 2-day online workshop (4-5 June) followed by an in-person 3-day workshop (12-14 June in Taupō or 24-26 June in Wānaka) The online component is prerequisite to the in-person workshop.

Applications to begin supervised practice are able to be submitted after completion of this workshop.

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Stage 2A: 3-day in-person intensive - Taupō
Jun
12
to 14 Jun

Stage 2A: 3-day in-person intensive - Taupō

  • 65 Lakewood Drive Taupō, Waikato, 3330 New Zealand (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Stage 2a: Deepening and Strengthening the Therapeutic Relationship (5-day workshop intensive)

This workshop comprises of a 2-day online workshop (4-5 June) followed by an in-person 3-day workshop (12-14 June in Taupō or 24-26 June in Wānaka) The online component is prerequisite to the in-person workshop.

Applications to begin supervised practice are able to be submitted after completion of this workshop.

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Stage 2A: 2-day online workshop
Jun
4
to 5 Jun

Stage 2A: 2-day online workshop

Stage 2a: Deepening and Strengthening the Therapeutic Relationship (5-day workshop intensive)

This workshop comprises of a 2-day online workshop (4-5 June) followed by an in-person 3-day workshop (12-14 June in Taupō or 24-26 June in Wānaka) The online component is prerequisite to the in-person workshop.

Applications to begin supervised practice are able to be submitted after completion of this workshop.

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'Trauma & Attachment' - 1-day online professional development workshop with Dr.Wendy Kelly
May
15

'Trauma & Attachment' - 1-day online professional development workshop with Dr.Wendy Kelly

A 1-day Seminar with Wendy Kelly (PhD), Clinical Psychologist (live online presentation). This online seminar will focus on the impact of trauma on early attachment relationships and how this affects children’s view of themselves and other people, their development, and their social and emotional well-being. The seminar will be presented in a live, online, interactive format with time for questions and participation factored in.

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Stage 3: 4-day in-person intensive: Taupō
May
7
to 10 May

Stage 3: 4-day in-person intensive: Taupō

  • 65 Lakewood Drive Taupō, Waikato, 3330 New Zealand (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

ADVANCED PRACTICE

Stage 3: Issues in Advanced Clinical Practice (4-day in-person intensive)

This workshop will comprise of a 1-day online workshop (22 January 2024) and a 4-day in-person workshop to consolidate practice. The online workshop is prerequisite to the in-person workshop.

Included in this workshop are two in-depth presentations:

ChildPlayWorks presents their model for working with parents/caregivers and their child together in the playroom to strengthen their relationship.

Dr Bill Nordling presents his series of three 90-minute interactive presentations ‘Working with Parents’ and these form a solid foundation for the all-important aspect of developing effective, supportive working relationships with parents/caregivers.

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The Wonderful World of CCPT - 2-day online workshop
Apr
8
to 9 Apr

The Wonderful World of CCPT - 2-day online workshop

This is the 2-day section of our wonderful 5-day professional development workshop, which is also Stage 1 of our full training programme. The 3-day in-person workshop is prerequisite to this online training.

This workshop is of interest to counsellors, social workers, teachers, early childhood educators, psychotherapists, psychologists, creative art therapists, and others who work with children, as well as students who are training in these areas.

Participants take away with them a broad range of facilitative and relational responses, as well as an understanding of the philosophy behind these, to use in their daily interactions with children.

This workshop offers participants a glimpse into the fascinating world of CCPT. Workshop participants learn ways of communicating with children which are focussed on their relationship and which enable the child to know they have been fully heard and understood. There is a focus on emotional regulation and ways of responding to and being with children which will enable this, as well as the building of their self-esteem and the facilitation of change of negative internal working models.

This workshop will comprise of a 3-day in-person workshop (25-27 March 2024), followed by a 2-day online workshop for North & South Island trainees combined (8-9 April 2024).

Further details can be found here.

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The Wonderful World of CCPT - Stage 1 - Wānaka
Apr
3
to 5 Apr

The Wonderful World of CCPT - Stage 1 - Wānaka

  • 50 Reece Crescent Wānaka, Otago, 9305 New Zealand (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This wonderful 5-day professional development workshop is also Stage 1 of our full training programme.

This workshop will comprise of a 3-day in-person workshop (25-27 March 2024), followed by a 2-day online workshop for North & South Island trainees combined (8-9 April 2024).

This workshop is of interest to counsellors, social workers, teachers, early childhood educators, psychotherapists, psychologists, creative art therapists, and others who work with children, as well as students who are training in these areas.

Participants take away with them a broad range of facilitative and relational responses, as well as an understanding of the philosophy behind these, to use in their daily interactions with children.

This five-day workshop offers participants a glimpse into the fascinating world of CCPT. Workshop participants learn ways of communicating with children which are focussed on their relationship and which enable the child to know they have been fully heard and understood. There is a focus on emotional regulation and ways of responding to and being with children which will enable this, as well as the building of their self-esteem and the facilitation of change of negative internal working models.

Further details can be found here.

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The Wonderful World of CCPT - Stage 1 - Cambridge
Mar
25
to 27 Mar

The Wonderful World of CCPT - Stage 1 - Cambridge

This wonderful 5-day professional development workshop is also Stage 1 of our full training programme.

This workshop will comprise of a 3-day in-person workshop (25-27 March 2024), followed by a 2-day online workshop for North & South Island trainees combined (8-9 April 2024).

This workshop is of interest to counsellors, social workers, teachers, early childhood educators, psychotherapists, psychologists, creative art therapists, and others who work with children, as well as students who are training in these areas.

Participants take away with them a broad range of facilitative and relational responses, as well as an understanding of the philosophy behind these, to use in their daily interactions with children.

This five-day workshop offers participants a glimpse into the fascinating world of CCPT. Workshop participants learn ways of communicating with children which are focussed on their relationship and which enable the child to know they have been fully heard and understood. There is a focus on emotional regulation and ways of responding to and being with children which will enable this, as well as the building of their self-esteem and the facilitation of change of negative internal working models.

Further details can be found here.

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Stage 3: 4-day in-person intensive: Wānaka
Feb
13
to 16 Feb

Stage 3: 4-day in-person intensive: Wānaka

  • 272B Ballantyne Road Wānaka, Otago, 9382 New Zealand (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

ADVANCED PRACTICE

Stage 3: Issues in Advanced Clinical Practice (4-day in-person intensive)

This workshop will comprise of a 1-day online workshop (22 January 2024) and a 4-day in-person workshop to consolidate practice. The online workshop is prerequisite to the in-person workshop.

Included in this workshop are two in-depth presentations:

ChildPlayWorks presents their model for working with parents/caregivers and their child together in the playroom to strengthen their relationship.

Dr Bill Nordling presents his series of three 90-minute interactive presentations ‘Working with Parents’ and these form a solid foundation for the all-important aspect of developing effective, supportive working relationships with parents/caregivers.

View Event →
Stage 3: 1-day Online Workshop
Jan
22

Stage 3: 1-day Online Workshop

ADVANCED PRACTICE

Stage 3: Issues in Advanced Clinical Practice (1-day online workshop component)

This workshop will comprise of a 1-day online workshop (22 January 2024) and a 4-day in-person workshop to consolidate practice. The online workshop is prerequisite to the in-person workshop.

Included in this workshop are two in-depth presentations:

ChildPlayWorks presents their model for working with parents/caregivers and their child together in the playroom to strengthen their relationship.

Dr Bill Nordling presents his series of three 90-minute interactive presentations ‘Working with Parents’ and these form a solid foundation for the all-important aspect of developing effective, supportive working relationships with parents/caregivers.

View Event →
Stage 2B Cambridge
Nov
13
to 17 Nov

Stage 2B Cambridge

ESTABLISHING AND CONSOLIDATING PRACTICE

Stage 2b: Issues in Clinical Practice (5-day workshop intensive)

Included in this 5-day workshop:

  • Typical problems and issues in CCPT

  • Advanced play therapy practice development

  • Determining therapeutic process

  • Group role plays

  • Case material, DVD material

  • Experiential and personal reflective activities 

View Event →
An Introduction to Child Centred Play Therapy - Wānaka
Oct
16
to 18 Oct

An Introduction to Child Centred Play Therapy - Wānaka

  • 50 Reece Crescent Wānaka, Otago, 9305 New Zealand (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This popular 3-day professional development workshop offers course participants an introduction to Child-Centred Play Therapy, with this being a very unique, deeply heartfelt, relational way of being with children. This workshop also holds credits for Stage 1 of the ChildPlayWorks Clinical Play Therapy Training Programme for those who wish to apply and who meet the entry criteria.

Click here for more information

View Event →
Stage 3B, Module 7 - Presentation 3
Sep
22

Stage 3B, Module 7 - Presentation 3

Stage 3b, Module 7: The Emergent Child-Centred Play Therapist (online/long distance) 

Nancy Cochran and Dr Jeff Cochran present their excellent series of three 90-minute interactive presentations 'Working with Relationship-Resistant Children'. Nancy H. Cochran and Dr Jeff L. Cochran, alongwith Dr Bill J. Nordling, co-author one of our required texts Child-Centered Play Therapy: A Practical Guide to Developing Therapeutic Relationships with Children (Wiley, 2010).

View Event →
An Introduction to Child Centered Play Therapy - Cambridge
Sep
18
to 20 Sep

An Introduction to Child Centered Play Therapy - Cambridge

  • 28 Duke Street Cambridge, Waikato, 3434 New Zealand (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This popular 3-day professional development workshop offers course participants an introduction to Child-Centered Play Therapy, with this being a very unique, deeply heartfelt, relational way of being with children. This workshop also holds credits for Stage 1 of the ChildPlayWorks Clinical Play Therapy Training Programme for those who wish to apply and who meet the entry criteria.

Click here for more information

View Event →
Stage 3B, Module 7 - Presentation 2
Sep
1

Stage 3B, Module 7 - Presentation 2

Stage 3b, Module 7: The Emergent Child-Centred Play Therapist (online/long distance) 

Nancy Cochran and Dr Jeff Cochran present their excellent series of three 90-minute interactive presentations 'Working with Relationship-Resistant Children'. Nancy H. Cochran and Dr Jeff L. Cochran, alongwith Dr Bill J. Nordling, co-author one of our required texts Child-Centered Play Therapy: A Practical Guide to Developing Therapeutic Relationships with Children (Wiley, 2010).

View Event →
Stage 3B, Module 7 - Presentation 1
Aug
4

Stage 3B, Module 7 - Presentation 1

Stage 3b, Module 7: The Emergent Child-Centred Play Therapist (online/long distance) 

Nancy Cochran and Dr Jeff Cochran present their excellent series of three 90-minute interactive presentations 'Working with Relationship-Resistant Children'. Nancy H. Cochran and Dr Jeff L. Cochran, alongwith Dr Bill J. Nordling, co-author one of our required texts Child-Centered Play Therapy: A Practical Guide to Developing Therapeutic Relationships with Children (Wiley, 2010).

View Event →
Stage 2B Wānaka
Jul
24
to 28 Jul

Stage 2B Wānaka

ESTABLISHING AND CONSOLIDATING PRACTICE

Stage 2b: Issues in Clinical Practice (5-day workshop intensive)

Included in this 5-day workshop:

  • Typical problems and issues in CCPT

  • Advanced play therapy practice development

  • Determining therapeutic process

  • Group role plays

  • Case material, DVD material

  • Experiential and personal reflective activities 

View Event →
Stage 2A Cambridge
Jun
12
to 16 Jun

Stage 2A Cambridge

  • 28 Duke Street Cambridge, Waikato, 3434 New Zealand (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Stage 2a: Deepening and Strengthening the Therapeutic Relationship (5-day workshop intensive)

In this 5-day workshop we host Dr Wendy Kelly (Clinical Psychologist) as she presents her very popular 1-day professional development workshop The Effects of Trauma on Children's Attachment Relationships.

Applications to begin supervised practice are able to be submitted after completion of this workshop.

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Stage 3A, Cambridge
May
22
to 26 May

Stage 3A, Cambridge

ADVANCED PRACTICE

Stage 3a: Issues in Advanced Clinical Practice (5-day workshop intensive)

Included in this workshop are two in-depth presentations:

ChildPlayWorks presents their model for working with parents/caregivers and their child together in the playroom to strengthen their relationship.

Dr Bill Nordling presents his series of three 90-minute interactive presentations ‘Working with Parents’ and these form a solid foundation for the all-important aspect of developing effective, supportive working relationships with parents/caregivers.

View Event →
'Trauma & Attachment' - 1-day online professional development workshop with Dr.Wendy Kelly
May
17

'Trauma & Attachment' - 1-day online professional development workshop with Dr.Wendy Kelly

This online seminar will focus on the impact of trauma on early attachment relationships and how this affects children’s view of themselves and other people, their development, and their social and emotional well-being. The seminar will be presented in a live, online, interactive format with time for questions and participation factored in. The morning session will cover how children form attachment relationships, the different types of attachment, traumatic stress, and complex trauma. Attachment and trauma will then be looked at together through the Relational Learning Framework (RLF). The RLF was developed by the trainer to understand what children learn about themselves and other people from traumatic experiences, maltreatment and/or disruption of care. We will then consider how to develop a treatment plan to help the child change any negative beliefs they may have about themselves or others, based on the trauma they have experienced. This seminar will cover theory and provide ideas and techniques for understanding the issues facing maltreated and traumatised children and a practical method of working out what the child needs to learn from current relationships, both caregiving and therapeutic. The types of therapy useful for this population will be outlined but the seminar will not cover how to deliver specific therapy. 

Wendy Kelly is a clinical psychologist who has worked in the child protection and mental health fields for 35 years. Wendy first began working with trauma at the Wellington Sexual Abuse Help Foundation in 1985 and subsequently worked for Child, Youth and Family (now Oranga Tamariki) in both employed and contracted roles for 15 years. Wendy runs a private practice specialising in child maltreatment/foster care and adult trauma and is a supplier and provider for ACC sensitive claims counselling. Wendy is also a Clinical Practice Advisor with the clinical psychology program at Victoria University and completed her PhD in 2015 on the topic: ‘Looking after children in care: What psychological factors affect the foster parent--child relationship’. She published a book entitled ‘Understanding children in foster care: Identifying and addressing what children learn from maltreatment’ in 2017. Wendy has been providing seminars throughout the country for Compass Seminars since 2003 and provides workshops for a variety of agencies including Werry Workforce Wharaurau, Oranga Tamariki and Explore Services. 

Further information can be found here

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Stage 3A, Wānaka
May
1
to 5 May

Stage 3A, Wānaka

  • 50 Reece Crescent Wānaka, Otago, 9305 New Zealand (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

ADVANCED PRACTICE

Stage 3a: Issues in Advanced Clinical Practice (5-day workshop intensive)

Included in this workshop are two in-depth presentations:

ChildPlayWorks presents their model for working with parents/caregivers and their child together in the playroom to strengthen their relationship.

Dr Bill Nordling presents his series of three 90-minute interactive presentations ‘Working with Parents’ and these form a solid foundation for the all-important aspect of developing effective, supportive working relationships with parents/caregivers.

View Event →
The Wonderful World of CCPT - Stage 1 - Cambridge
Mar
13
to 17 Mar

The Wonderful World of CCPT - Stage 1 - Cambridge

This wonderful 5-day professional development workshop is also Stage 1 of our full training programme.

This workshop is of interest to counsellors, social workers, teachers, early childhood educators, psychotherapists, psychologists, creative art therapists, and others who work with children, as well as students who are training in these areas.

Participants take away with them a broad range of facilitative and relational responses, as well as an understanding of the philosophy behind these, to use in their daily interactions with children.

This five-day workshop offers participants a glimpse into the fascinating world of CCPT. Workshop participants learn ways of communicating with children which are focussed on their relationship and which enable the child to know they have been fully heard and understood. There is a focus on emotional regulation and ways of responding to and being with children which will enable this, as well as the building of their self-esteem and the facilitation of change of negative internal working models.

Further details can be found here.

View Event →
Stage 2A Wānaka
Feb
20
to 24 Feb

Stage 2A Wānaka

  • 90 Reece Crescent Wanaka, Otago, 9305 New Zealand (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Stage 2a: Deepening and Strengthening the Therapeutic Relationship (5-day workshop intensive)

In this 5-day workshop we host Dr Wendy Kelly (Clinical Psychologist) as she presents her very popular 1-day professional development workshop The Effects of Trauma on Children's Attachment Relationships.

Applications to begin supervised practice are able to be submitted after completion of this workshop.

View Event →
Stage 2B Cambridge
Nov
14
to 18 Nov

Stage 2B Cambridge

ESTABLISHING AND CONSOLIDATING PRACTICE

Stage 2b: Issues in Clinical Practice (5-day workshop intensive)

Included in this 5-day workshop:

  • Typical problems and issues in CCPT

  • Advanced play therapy practice development

  • Determining therapeutic process

  • Group role plays

  • Case material, DVD material

  • Experiential and personal reflective activities 

View Event →