January 2025 - March 2025 On campus

This is the Advanced Foundation, running January - March. The Advanced Foundation follows on from the Intermediate Foundation course, which runs October - December. It is advisable to participate in the Intermediate Foundation before the Advanced Foundation. This enables flexibility, offering the option to study the Intermdiate Course first, and the Advanced course either straight after or the following year.

Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. These courses are suitable for Health Professionals, Social Workers, Teachers and anyone else interested in finding out about Art Therapies. The following course is offered on a part-time basis for 10 weeks. The course compromises of two half day workshops and 8 evening classes.

Course Description

 

Course Structure

Experiential Workshops

These workshops will be facilitated by a qualified and experienced BAPT-registered Play Therapist.

Experiential activities form the core of the course, providing students with an opportunity to explore and reflect on the process of Play Therapy on a personal level.

Connections and links will be made to the theories that underpin Play Therapy as this emerges from the practical component, enabling students to learn from theory that directly relates to their experience.

Please note that whilst the emphasis of the workshops is on an educational not a therapeutic experience, students should be aware of potential tensions between their personal and professional responses and should be prepared for a degree of self-exposure.

Seminars and Lectures

The seminars and lectures are integrated into the workshop experiences. Each workshop will be part experiential play therapy and part seminar/lecture.

The seminars will often comprise presentations of clinical / therapeutic work and opportunity for group discussions. Visiting experts from different fields will lead seminars/lectures on particular specialist areas of play therapy practice.

 

 

Timetable

On campus TBA