Conference Contents
Conference Format
Plenary Sessions - 16th June 2012 - Morning
CPD Workshops - 16th June 2012 - Afternoon
Post Qualifying Courses
Individual Consultations on Career Development
Conference Programme
The Venue
Conference Fees
Application Form
See our YouTube videos for a visual guide to aspects of Play Therapy
'Right Touch' Government regulation through a Professional Standards Authority (PSA) approved register provides
the biggest opportunity
that Play Therapy and related professions have ever had in establishing their credibility with the public, employers and other
professions in the UK.
PTUK is privileged to be one of the first professional organisations to be considered as being fit to manage an approved register.
This places a big responsibility on both PTUK, as an organisation, and upon individual members. PTUK by virtue of its existing high
standards of training, based on competencies and our clinical governance requirement is better placed than most organisations, but
there is still work to be done to meet the PSA's standards.
The impact of regulation on the use of play therapy and related skills is likely to be considerable. This is why we have made it our
main theme for 2012, supported by workshops presenting
brand new material.
The main day the 16th June will be exciting as well as essential.
We believe that every practising Member and Trainee needs to know how to take advantage of this opportunity, and how to be fully
prepared, by attending on the 16th June 2012. This is a Saturday so that most delegates will not need to take time off from work.
This is also your main opportunity to influence PTUK policies for regulation.
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In today's difficult financial times we have planned, as we did last year,
another 'meaty' event to offer the best possible value. The main conference day on June 16th, which we urge everyone to attend, offers you a choice from six half day workshops as well as the vital plenary sessions
on regulation. These workshops contain brand new material ranging from the therapeutic use of weaving to using iPads for song writing with vulnerable children. We are very proud of the innovations that are being
developed by our Members.
Seven CPD points may be claimed for attending the 16th June event.
There are also four, proven, Post Qualifying Courses offered, as post conference events: 'PQ Certificate in Clinical Supervision', 'PQ Filial Play Coaching Certificate', 'PQ Sandtray Therapy Skills Certificate'
and 'Certificate in Working Therapeutically With Babies and Infants'.
These courses are not merely CPD events, although seven points per day may be claimed. They will significantly enhance your skills and provide
PTUK/PTI Post Qualifying Certificates to aid your career development and CV. Canterbury Christ Church University has 'Kite' marked three of these courses for quality as Post Qualifying Courses.
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Right Touch Regulation - the Current Situation
"The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) promotes the health and well-being of patients and the public in the regulation of
health professionals. They scrutinise and oversee the work of the nine regulatory bodies (including the HPC), that set standards
for training and conduct of health professionals. The PSA advises the four UK government health departments on issues relating
to the regulation of health professionals. They are an independent body accountable to the UK Parliament."
"Over regulation is seen as an interference in personal conduct; under regulation is seen as an abdication of public
responsibility. When harm happens we blame ineffective regulation but when we are stopped from doing something risky we say
regulation is excessive. The public, media and politicians often face both ways, wanting more or less regulation depending on
the moment and the mood. The rhetoric says 'cut red tape' but the practice is usually more regulation, whether it be for
dangerous dogs, for bankers, for people who work with children or for medical research. We want to be free and we want to be
safe. Nothing is wrong with either."
"Right-touch regulation, seeks to balance between these extremes. Regulation has an important public role that exists to
protect people, not to control unduly how they choose to live their lives. Individual citizens should expect to look after
themselves and those they care about and those we have responsibility for. We should be helped to do so by laws, regulations
and standards that restrain those who intend ill, those who are careless of the well- being of others and those whose greed or
incompetence causes harm. Right-touch regulation is the minimum regulatory force required to achieve the desired result."
- Harry Cayton - Chief Executive PSA
Christine Braithwaite, Director of Policy and External Relations of the PSA, will present and explain:
- The aims of the PSA accreditation scheme
- The eight elements of right-touch regulation
- How the scheme will attract commissioners, employers and members of the public to seek to contract and employ individuals who are on an accredited register.
- Benefits that might be provided by the accredited organisations, such as PTUK, include developing their registrants' leadership skills, team work and business practices.
- The accreditation process
- The standards and process of assessment
- The position of the Health Professions Council (HPC) in relation to the scheme
- The cost of the scheme
- The time table
Please note that at the time of going to press, the enabling Bill is still being debated in parliament and the PSA is still developing its standards and processes, so Christine's agenda is subject to change.
Preparing for Regulation - What needs to be done?
This second main plenary session will explain the steps that PTUK is taking and the requirements that individual Members will need to meet during 2012 to become registered and to maintain their entry in the register.
- What will the PTUK approved register look like?
- How do I ensure my entry?
- Promoting safety - what are the risks and how do we manage them?
- Clinical governance - have we fully understood what is involved?
- Enhancing the role of the Clinical Supervisor to meet the PSA requirements
- Greater involvement of the public - how good are we at this?
- Life long learning - improvements in CPD planning and quality of courses
- How can we help employers and commissioners to understand the importance of an approved register? Do we need clinical guidelines?
The session will be run in a consultative format, allowing Members to express their views, and will be presented by Monika Jephcott, Chief Executive PTUK and Jeff Thomas, Director PTUK.
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Because of the therapeutic and experiential nature of these workshops, most are restricted in numbers so please choose two - one as your first choice and a second in case your first choice is already full.
W1 Therapeutic Songwriting with Vulnerable Children
This is an enthralling,
innovative, workshop that is expected to be booked out at an early date. (We've had a 'taster' and can
promise you that you will find it brilliant in concept and delivery, Music is the universal language that helps us communicate
on numerous levels. It can create a desired mood, stimulate memory, influence behaviour patterns, process emotions and help us
say a thousand important things without a word being spoken. Lyrics and poetry also often have the effect of taking us deeper
into a theme or emotion, helping us to explore our perception of the world, ourselves and each other.
When we put music and words together to create a "song" we have a powerful combination. Creating your very own
words and music is a step deeper into all of the above as it releases innate and profound creative skills and talents that we
all possess as human beings. The end result of writing a song is often a sense of tremendous achievement, wonder and amazement
at what has been created. When a vulnerable child experiences this, they begin to grow in self worth and have faith in their
own ability. This in turn helps them reflect (either consciously or subconsciously) on their own identity, helping them
understand and actualise their potential. This positively effects every relationship, all that they undertake (either in or
outside of school) helping to close the achievement gap.
The aim of Therapeutic Songwriting is to enable each child to grow in self worth so that their quality of life is increased.
The workshop covers key areas including enabling children of all abilities to create their own words and melodies, use real
instruments, compose using i-pads, record songs, and foster an enabling musical environment for both therapist and child.
The initial exercises will take you through the process step by step from how songs such as "Summer Loving" and
"Scarborough Fair" communicate different atmospheres, to how to help children therapeutically to create the first line and
verse of a song, the melody with simple chords underneath it.
The second part will cover group and individual practice of the song that is being developed, listening and recording using
mobile phones, a laptop or another recording device such as. the i-pad or the mini yellow microphones called "Easi Speakers"
will be illustrated. Helping children to access song writing through low cost applications (apps) including Thumbjam,
Soundrop, Beatwave, and most importantly Garage Band, and using real instruments, percussion, and/or voice or percussion only
will be discussed.
You will listen to examples of songs created by children in four distinct categories and learn about the Songwriting Ladder:
Doubt ---- intrigue ---- creativity ---- problem ---- solution ---- celebration.
It is good to be aware of this journey during each session. Problem solving is a wonderful form of creativity and is to be
embraced as it builds resilience and wisdom.
If we get this right in terms of therapeutic song writing then each child will be enabled to create beyond their expectations.
Helping a child create more than one song is beneficial as their confidence grows with each song. The child is ALWAYS the owner
of the song and he/she alone can allow/permit another to hear it. In some cases a song is personal and will remain for the
child alone to listen to and enjoy.
See our YouTube example of Music in Play Therapy
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Presented by: Matthew Hemson a music specialist working in partnership with the South Gloucestershire Music Service.
He is also the director of The Therapeutic Media Company (www.therapeuticmediacompany.com). He completed his Diploma
in Play Therapy with PTUK in 2006.
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W2 Working Without Words - Filial Play with parents and carers and very young children (for children from around 18 months)
This exciting brand new workshop will showcase an adapted toolkit using gentle playful game ideas based on movement, touch,
informal singing and music - a relationship-based approach where filial play principles meet mindful therapeutic parenting. This
is a practical evidence-based workshop, well-grounded in filial play, attachment and parental change theory.
The workshop will set the theoretical context, demonstrate a full and flexible template for a therapeutic parenting individual or
group intervention, showcase an adapted play therapy toolkit including movement play props and games; right touch games; voice
and body percussion games; using a powerful reflective tool with parents within sessions based on marked mirroring, reflective
observation and embodying four main filial play skills; creativity, holding boundaries, setting limits and reflective listening.
All of this is set within the very new and overarching research into what we now know about how parents change. It will give you
insight into how we can create a therapeutic environment in which this change can happen.
The workshop also shows how the individual or group work with parents is transferred through practice back into the family home.
This workshop is stand-alone and complements PTUK Filial Coaching training by offering an approach for very young children where
the traditional play therapy toolkit needs to be adapted to reflect a different developmental stage. This approach is also
extremely useful for practitioners working with specific groups of parents and children where words have less currency and the
power of being heard needs expression through touch, body, vocal noise and movement. The contents of the workshop have been
rigorously tested with workers and young children in Salem Orphanage on the edge of Obunga Slum, Kisumu, Kenya!
See our YouTube video about Working Therapeutically with Infants & Parents/Carers
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This workshop is delivered by Debi Maskell-Graham, PTUK Certified Play Therapist and Programme Leader MA Practice-based
Play Therapy. Debi is also Clinical Director of big toes little toes, a specialist organisation offering an early
intervention approach (to intervene when difficulties are in their infancy not just in early childhood) to all kinds
of parents, carers and their children. Debi has already developed the successful Certificate in Working Therapeutically
with Parents and Carers and Infants (pre-birth to 18 months). This new workshop reflects her ongoing work and
university research into the mechanisms of parental change and how play therapy can be adapted for the very earliest
relationship and life stages. Spaces are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment!
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W3 Using Touch in Therapy: Fears, Fantasies and Benefits
This is a profound
brand new participative workshop to explore the factors and reactions to 'touch' in therapy. There is a
healthy concern about using touch in therapy which comes from an appreciation of the power of touch as a basic instinct.
But too often there is a blanket ban on touch which eliminates a powerful healing tool. There are emotional frequencies to
'touch' that need to be explored, understood and bounded in order to be safe in therapy. In this workshop we will explore
intentional direct and indirect touch as well as unintentional touch that may be initiated by the child. All Participants will
be responsible for their own level of physical engagement and the workshop will be kept safe and sound.
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Presented by: Joy Hasler MA, Clinical Director of Catchpoint, an organisation offering support, training and therapy
for adoptive and foster families and associated professionals living or working with traumatised children.
Joy, as a Music Therapist, is a much loved and respected presenter who has been involved in training play therapists
in the use of music therapy skills since the start of PTUK and APAC in 1999.
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W4 Developing Children's Self Esteem / Self Image
This fundamental brand new workshop will be in two parts and includes an eclectic mix of presentation, demonstration and some
experiential work. It will introduce two activities that have been developed to explore self-esteem / self image. The activities
have evolved from 13 years of working with bereaved children and families. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about
and experience these activities which have been found effective in practice.
Reflections
This activity is designed to build ego strength in the child by:
- Exploring the use and implications of 'masks' and how others may use them, and encourages the child to reflect on how they use them.
- Exploring the child's self-image and contrasting with their perceived image of how others see them.
Butterfly Tales
This activity is designed as a resource pack and uses the metaphor of a butterfly in two parts:
- A cartoon picture book that explores stages in development and the life cycle and considers the nature of appropriate interventions.
- A butterfly is used to explore the child's existing resources and how they might use and develop them in the future.
Presented by: Russell Bradley, PTUK Accredited Play Therapist, Clinical Supervisor and popular presenter well known for the development of the Bereavement Intervention Framework (2009).
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W5 Weaving a Way Through – textiles in play and creative therapy
An exciting
brand new workshop on the therapeutic use of textiles in play therapy.
The aims are:
- to explore use of textiles in the playroom, working with children, young people and adults
- to recreate some of the experiential nature of the training modules – it is something many people have missed after qualifying
- to reconnect with the power of creative expression using a different medium
- to provide participants with some ideas that they can use to relax and create for themselves, as part of looking after themselves as therapists
The workshop will include a presentation on the 'Power of Textiles', demonstrations, the theoretical underpinnings of textile
play/creative therapy, discussions and experiential exercises including: weaving a web using yarn – "finding a way through",
the therapeutic uses of peg loom weaving, painting a picture with yarn, knitting, fabric collage, tactile textiles.
Workshop participants need to bring along a ball of yarn and a piece of fabric if possible, but all materials will be provided.
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Presented by: Claire Russell a PTUK Play Therapist.
Claire provides a mobile play therapy service and runs her own play therapy practice called creative dimensions. She is
interested in developing different methods and the use of different materials in play therapy, for children, young people
and adults. She is the author of an article on Weaving a Way Through, the use of Textiles in Play and Creative Therapy,
published in Play for Life in Summer 2011. Claire is also a knitter and weaver who holds workshops on these activities
and exhibits her work. She is the co-ordinator of the Craft Club at the Turner Contemporary Gallery.
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As play therapists we have had the opportunity to look at the use of small world play in the sand trays during training and
with our clients but rarely do we have the chance to use dolls' houses, farms and forts in an experiential way for ourselves.
This
brand new workshop offers the chance to explore the use of this equipment and through the use of complex case studies
and theory, see how we might advance the use of this area of play within our work with clients both young and old.
See our YouTube videos about using Sandplay Therapy
Presented by: Evelyn Saunders, one of the UK's most experienced
Play Therapists, Supervisors and Trainers with a wide range of client experience and a reputation for empathetic training.
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Post Qualifying Certificate in Clinical Supervision – 7 days
The role of the Clinical Supervisor will become even more important with 'Right Touch' regulation. This course will enable you
to leverage your play therapy experience to help many more children by advising and supporting other practitioners through
clinical supervision to maintain high standards of practice. PTI/PTUK accredited training courses are now run at 10 venues
in the UK, 2 in Ireland, 1 in France and in 4 other countries, producing a stream of Play/Creative Arts Therapists who require
clinical supervision. This course is designed to help to fill the shortage of suitably trained Supervisors. Becoming a
Certified Clinical Supervisor is also an essential step on the way to being a PTUK Certified Play Therapy Trainer. Both of
these career opportunities will provide extra job satisfaction and additional substantial income.
The course is designed for those who have at least 200 hours experience of working with children or adolescents using
play/creative arts therapy as well as experienced, accredited counsellors.
The course is designed to give an in depth knowledge and understanding of general clinical supervision principles and also those
specific to the areas in which the course participants practice. eg Children and Family Centres, Schools, CAMHS teams, Hospitals
etc. It will include the subject of appropriate touch. It is an intensive course, which to a large extent uses experiential
exercises. It has been designed to be delivered over 7 days as a 'fast track' to qualification.
It includes:
- A model for the supervision of play and creative arts therapies
- Agreeing contracts
- Using creative arts for supervision
- Using the Play Therapy Dimension Model for supervision
- Supervisee's training requirements
- Dealing with supervisees' career development issues
The course has been updated to take into account the requirements of 'Right Touch'
regulation and the use of Skype for supervising overseas students. 'Kite' marked for academic quality by
Canterbury Christ Church University.
A 1-day follow-up day, to review your supervision experience in a peer group, is also offered.
Facilitated by Monika Jephcott, Chief Executive PTUK and Jeff Thomas Director of Continuing Education PTUK.
Post Qualifying Certificate in Filial Coaching – 4 days
Filial Play Coaching & Mentoring is a natural career development for Play Therapists and other practitioners who
wish to work with parents and families. The PTUK model places an emphasis on working with socially deprived families.
The purpose is to provide practice based training to enable participants to coach parents/carers to use filial play
effectively with their children including the use of touch.
Filial play coaching may be adapted to many situations. For example the course has been used by UNICEF in Africa as a basis
for successfully training health workers to support the parents of children suffering from malnutrition. You should be able
to incorporate the techniques taught on this course into your work to open up new career opportunities.
Course content includes
- An understanding of the main models of filial play, their pros and cons
- How to assess the parents and children being considered for filial play
- Teaching the parents the importance of play, the main types of play and their purpose so that they can achieve a suitable balance with their children
- How to ensure that the parents know how to structure a filial play session
- How to coach parents in the four key skills of filial play
- Ensure that the parents know how to focus on the child during a filial play session
- Demonstrating the use and applicability of the main filial play tools: art media, music, movement, sandtray, storytelling, puppets clearly indicating which are appropriate for use at home and those that may be used in the therapist's play room
- Advising parents upon acquiring, making and using appropriate equipment, materials and toys during their home play sessions according to their circumstances
- How to ensure that the parents know how to use encouragement during a filial play session
- Advising parents upon how to make notes on home play sessions suitable for use during the coaching discussions
- How to integrate the use of filial play with play therapy if this is being used concurrently
- Maintaining suitable records of progress and carry out quality management of filial play work
- How to brief other involved organisations and colleagues upon the purpose and methods of filial therapy
The course being offered is an updated version of the original very popular programme.
See our YouTube video about Filial Play Coaching
Facilitated by Karen O'Neill, Senior APAC Course Director,
Accredited Play Therapist and Clinical Supervisor and Monika Jephcott.
Successful participants will receive a provisional attendance certificate. Upon the completion of 40 hours of
satisfactory, documented filial play coaching practice the PTI/PTUK Post Qualifying Certificate in Filial Play Coaching
will be awarded.
'Kite' marked for academic quality by Canterbury Christ Church University.
Post Qualifying Certificate in Sandplay Skills Programme – 4 and 3 days
If you are a play therapy practitioner, counsellor, psychotherapist or
other mental health practitioner who wishes to extend your skills in the therapeutic medium most frequently chosen by
children and also to use sandplay therapy with adolescents and adults, choose this programme.
Many therapists, working with adults, have found that clients who have difficulties in verbally expressing their real
emotions or who have adopted a defensive position, move on a stage when using sand. Sand is an ideal medium to integrate
with many talking therapies modalities. It may be used with clients of all ages and cultures.
As Play Therapists know, in Sandplay therapy the client sets up a world in a sand tray that corresponds to their inner state
using objects/figures and in the arrangement of the sand. In this manner, through free, creative play, unconscious processes
are made visible in a three-dimensional form. Through a series of images that take shape in this way, the process of
individuation described by Carl Jung is stimulated and brought to fruition. Sandplay has been termed an
'X-ray of the Psyche' You can see the changes in the clients' processes and progression.
Experiential Training
Doing one's own sandplay work is essential. In order to engage in the medium of sandplay with a client, the therapist must
have experience the movement of his or her psyche by the same means. To attempt to engage in sandplay with a client without
having undergone one's own sandplay work would not be safe.
The 7-day experiential training that is required is offered at the 2012 Conference in two parts:
- Certificate in Sandplay Skills - Part 1 This four day course, will enable you to start practicing.
- Certificate in Sandplay Skills - Part 2 This 3-day course is ideal for those who have previously completed Part 1 and have at least 20 hours of sandplay therapy practice
These courses are facilitated by the highly experienced Sandplay Therapist and Trainer, Eunice Stagg who is also a Senior Course Director for PTUK accredited Play Therapy courses in the UK and overseas.
Theory
It is vital that sandplay therapy practitioners have an embedded knowledge of the underlying theoretical principles.
This is most effectively accomplished through online learning where you study at your own pace and self test and is a
highly recommended course. (The cost is not included in the Conference progamme). The on-line content is provided by
Temenos Press ® Learning Center, a leading, specialist sandplay therapy training organization. This theoretical part
of the programme
does not, on its own, provide all of the competencies
required to practice as a sandplay therapy practitioner.
Ideally this on-line training should be completed before starting the experiential parts of the training, but may be
taken at a time suitable to you. It has 69 hours of credits consisting of: The History and Development of
Sandplay Therapy; Overview of Process and Procedures; Jungian Theory in Sandplay Therapy.
There are a number of self administered tests, which you can take at times that are suitable for you, to check your
progress plus four externally assessed assignments.
Certificates of attendance will be issued after each experiential training course. The final award of PTI/PTUK
Certified Sandplay Therapy Practitioner will be made upon satisfactory completion of the theoretical on-line training,
or equivalent, both parts of the experiential training and 50 clinically supervised hours of practice.
'Kite' marked for academic quality by Canterbury Christ Church University.
Certificate in Working Therapeutically With Babies and Infants – 3 days
This course was successfully launched last year. It is essential for those practitioners who wish to extend their
practice to early intervention with young babies and their parents/carers. The course will enable you to work with
individual parent-infant pairs and with groups mainly through singing playsongs and loving lullabies, nurturing touch
and authentic movement. It has been shown that in many instances early positive intervention is more effective than
later intensive problem-focused treatment when problems have already placed huge strain on the parent-carer and child
relationship.
This course focuses on work that is gentle, playful and nurturing during the critical attachment period. It also assists
in a positive changing of parental conceptualisation of the baby which has also been linked to positive outcomes. This
course is 75% practical and experiential and 25% theoretical. Much emphasis is placed on the most recent research
findings on this primary relationship and the impact of its quality on subsequent emotional and mental health.
Facilitated by: Debi Maskell-Graham, PTUK Certified Play Therapist,
Programme Leader MA Practice-based Play Therapy, Editor 'Play for Life'. Debi is also Clinical Director of
big toes little toes, a specialist organisation offering an early intervention approach (when difficulties are in
their infancy not just in early childhood) to all kinds of parents, carers and their children.
Successful participants will receive the PTI/PTUK Post Qualifying Certificate Working Therapeutically with Infants and
Parent/Carers.
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These free one hour sessions are offered to Members attending the Post Qualifying Courses, who wish to develop their
careers through private practice or portfolio working, or those who are struggling to find play therapy work. Advice
will be available on the legal aspects of setting up your own business; identifying your best strategy; how to set
fees; CVs; marketing matters including web sites, leaflets and advertisements. The consultations will be with
Jeff Thomas FCIM, Communications Director of PTUK who has over 30 years of career counselling experience and running
small professional services businesses. Limited to 12 delegates – first booked, first served!
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Sat. 16th June
09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:00
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Welcome and opening address – Monika Jephcott, Chief Executive, PTUK
Right Touch Regulation – the Current Situation – Christine Braithwaite, Director of Policy and External Relations, Professional Standards Authority
Coffee and networking break
Preparing for Regulation – What needs to be done? – Monika Jephcott and Jeff Thomas Director PTUK
Lunch (included in conference fee)
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Sat. 16th June
14:00 – 17:00
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W1
Thera-peutic Songwriting with Vulnerable Children
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W2
Working Without Words - Filial Play with parents, carers and very young children
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W3
Using Touch in Therapy: Fears, Fantasies and Benefits
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W4
Developing Children’s Self Esteem / Self Image
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W5
Weaving a Way Through – textiles in play and creative therapy
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W6
Small World Play
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Sunday 17th
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PQ Certificate in Clinical Supervision (Day 1)
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PQ Certificate in Filial Coaching/Mentoring (Day 1)
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PQ Certificate in Sandplay Skills Part 1 (Day 1)
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Monday 18th
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PQ Certificate in Clinical Supervision (Day 2)
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PQ Certificate in Filial Coaching/Mentoring (Day 2)
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PQ Certificate in Sandplay Skills Part 1 (Day 2)
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Tuesday 19th
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PQ Certificate in Clinical Supervision (Day 3)
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PQ Certificate in Filial Coaching/Mentoring (Day 3)
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PQ Certificate in Sandplay Skills Part 1 (Day 3)
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Wednesday 20th
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PQ Certificate in Clinical Supervision (Day 4)
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PQ Certificate in Filial Coaching/Mentoring (Day 4)
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PQ Certificate in Sandplay Skills Part 1 (Day 4)
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Thursday 21st
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PQ Certificate in Clinical Supervision (Day 5)
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Certificate in Working Therapeutically With Babies and Infants (Day 1)
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PQ Certificate in Sandplay Skills Part 2 (Day 1)
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Friday 22nd
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PQ Certificate in Clinical Supervision (Day 6)
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Certificate in Working Therapeutically With Babies and Infants (Day 2)
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PQ Certificate in Sandplay Skills Part 2 (Day 2)
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Saturday 23rd
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PQ Certificate in Clinical Supervision (Day 7)
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Certificate in Working Therapeutically With Babies and Infants (Day 3)
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PQ Certificate in Sandplay Skills Part 2 (Day 3)
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The 1-day follow-up for participants on the Summer 2011 Clinical Supervisors course which was run at Wentworth Castle,
will be held at Salomons on Friday 15th June 2012.
In addition the free individual career counselling sessions will be available at 08:00 Sunday 17th to Saturday 23rd and
at 17:00 Sunday 17th to Friday 22nd.
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Salomons - David Salomons Estate - Broomhill Road - Southborough - Tunbridge Wells TN3 0TG
As delegates at our previous conferences will know PTUK runs events with style. This year we are at Salomons, set in
36 acres of gardens, woodland, rolling parkland and lakes, it is an exclusive and secluded venue combining innovation
and elegance. Innovation, because it has established itself as one of the country’s most successful centres for training
and development, as many PTUK Members will already know. Elegance, because this creative energy is housed in the
historic Victorian buildings and grounds that made up the Salomons family home at Southborough. The impact of the
outside world is minimal, yet Salomons is within minutes of Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge - the very heart of Kent. It is
within fifteen minutes of the motorway network and is therefore easily reached from anywhere in the country.
A limited amount of low cost on-site residential facilities is available. There is ample car parking space. There is B&B
and hotel accommodation to suit all budgets, within a 20 minute drive.
Details of location are at:
http://www.playtherapy.org.uk/TrainingCourses/Salomons/SalomonsSummary.htm


We have again kept our daily fee rate to £120 per day for the main conference day for current PTUK/PTI members, despite
increases in costs. There is an ‘early bird’ discount fee of 10% for bookings received before 31st March 2012. The fee
for non-members is £150 per day. Fees include a two course lunch, and refreshment breaks. The University fees for the
Post Qualifying course kite marking, where applicable, are also included.
Please download, print, fill-in and return the PTUK Conference 2012 application form.
The application form is available in two different formats, please choose and click one of the following:
Instructions for returning the form as well as terms and conditions are contained within the form itself, please read these
before submitting your form.
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