Working with Aggression and Intensity in the Playroom
🗓️ 9:00–4:30 March 7th, 2026 | Texarkana, AR
🧠 Eligible for 6 CE Hours
Although aggression and death are a common part of the play therapy process, many therapists don’t have a clear understanding of what to do and how to facilitate the intensity when it enters the playroom during play. The result can lead to inadvertently promoting aggression and increasing low brain disorganization. It can also lead to the therapist feeling beat up, exhausted, and hyper-aroused themselves, which can over time significantly impact their longevity in the field, as well as their ability to stay attuned and present to a child in the play room.
This workshop is designed to help play therapists understand aggression and death play from a neuro-biological perspective and a Synergetic Play Therapy lens. With the help of neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology, therapists will learn how to effectively work with this type of play in a way that supports nervous system regulation, repatterning of the child’s autonomic activation patterns and decreases compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.
🎟 Early Bird Price: ~$200~ ➝ $160
**This Live Webinar is eligible for 2 noncontact APT CEs and 2 NBCC contact CEs.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Identify strategies for maintaining regulation in the midst of intense play, aggression, and death in the playroom.
- Identify at least 2 strategies for working with aggression in the playroom without experiencing your own nervous system shut down leading to vicarious trauma.
- Explain the link between a child’s dysregulated states of their nervous system and their aggressive and traumatic play.
- Examine the Synergetic Play Therapy concept of “The Set Up” in the playroom as a way to understand what the child is trying to communicate.
- Demonstrate at least 2 strategies for setting boundaries without shaming or shutting down a child’s play.
- Describe the importance of becoming the child’s external regulator for trauma integration.
PRESENTER:
Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S
Synergetic Play Therapy Institute®
APT Approved Provider #21-648
Playful Connections Sandtray Institute has been approved by APT as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, #21-648. Programs that do not qualify for APT Credit are clearly identified. Playful Connections Sandtray Institute is soley responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Refund Policy
ICST PROGRAMS: Payments made within the first 30 days are completely refundable. If refunds are requested after first 30 days after initial purchases, all monies paid will be credited towards future sandtray trainings with the facility.
Grievance Policy
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Working with Aggression and Intensity in the Playroom
🗓️ 9:00–4:30 March 7th, 2026 | Texarkana, AR
🧠 Eligible for 6 CE Hours
