Moving Stories™: An Integration of Play Therapy, Sandtray therapy and Bibliotherapy for Healing and Learning
Moving Stories™: An Integration of Play Therapy, Sandtray therapy and Bibliotherapy for Healing and Learning
9 AM to 12 PM
Presenter: Dr. Sue Carroll Duffy
Moving Stories™ is an integrated play therapy approach developed by Dr. Sue Carroll Duffy over the last 15 years that integrates play, story and sandtray to safely and creatively teach and heal. The approach can be used from a range of theoretical perspectives, and with clients across the lifespan. Given the safety of metaphors in story, play and symbols, it is particularly helpful for trauma work.
With Moving Stories™, therapists communicate powerful therapeutic metaphors and stories, and then deeply listen to the response told by their clients in the theater of the sandtray or other expressive medium. This workshop will provide a personal experience with Moving Stories™, and introduce clinicians to the steps to consider when presenting, processing, responding to and documenting the Moving Stories™ experience in individual and group sessions. The workshop will address the importance of cultural humility and diversity in the selection and presentation of stories and also focus on the application as a rich social and emotional learning process in school settings.
Learning Objectives: After successful completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Experience and describe the power of sandtray, story and play when using Moving Stories™ in play therapy.
- Identify the 9 steps to consider when using Moving Stories™ in play therapy.
- Identify story resources for therapeutic Moving Stories™ in play therapy.
Intermediate | Play Therapy Skills and Methods
About our presenter: Sue Carroll Duffy, Psy.D., RPT-S™ is the creator of Moving Stories, a playful storytelling approach. Dr. Duffy is also author of many therapeutic stories including, Finding Diamonds, a children’s story designed to grow a relationship with nature and with self. She works for Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness.
VIRTUAL: This will be a virtual meeting.