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This is an online hands-on, interactive training day for anyone working with primary-aged children experiencing attachment issues, who would like to learn more about play and arts-based therapeutic interventions.

Based in therapeutic creative arts approaches, the course will explore themes and techniques around attachment and using attachment, sensory and nurturing play-based activities.

The training will explore direct connections between attachment difficulties and melt-downs, challenging behaviours, non-engagement in educational and therapeutic interventions, and their impact on brain development.

Learning Outcomes:

• Knowledge base of attachment, and attachment disorders
• Skills for applying sensory and messy play
• Creative advances to influence lack of self-regulation
• Application of therapeutic stories for change
• Understanding the importance of brains and behaviour

Your delegate fee includes a copy of Dr Sue Jennings' bestselling book, for use during the course:

Working with Attachment Difficulties in Children: Practical & Creative Approaches

PLEASE ENSURE YOU CHOOSE 'NON-UK' TICKET IF BOOK IS TO BE MAILED OVERSEAS INC EIRE.

Activities from the book will be illustrated and delegates will learn how these can be used with children and their parents/carers.

This day course is suitable for:

• Counsellors
• Therapists
• Teachers
• Mental Health Leads
• SENCOs
• Foster Carers
• Social Workers
• Youth Workers
• Family Support Workers

The course includes an introductory PowerPoint session, followed by practice, application and attachment stories. There will be a question and answer session at the end.

Each delegate will receive a Certificate of Attendance

Any queries, please contact Hinton House directly: sales@hintonpublishers.com

AFTER BOOKING YOU WILL BE SENT A COPY OF THE COURSE BOOK AND DETAILS OF HOW TO JOIN THE ONLINE TRAINING

TIMETABLE

9.45-10.00

• Welcome and Introduction

10.00-11.00

• PowerPoint Presentation: Themes and Techniques
• Attachment and Sensory Play

11.00-11.30 Coffee break & reflection

11.30-12.30

• Attachment and Nurture Play

12.30-1.30 Lunch break

1.30-2.30

• Attachment and Projective Play
• Questions and Discussion
• Closing Story

About Dr Sue Jennings

Dr Sue Jennings is a Play and Dramatherapist. She was awarded the lifetime title 'Professor of Play' by the European Federation of Dramatherapy for her pioneering work in Dramatherapy and Neuro-Dramatic-Play (NDP). She is Senior Research Fellow, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham; Distinguished Scholar, University of the Witwatersrand; Honorary Fellow at the University of Roehampton.

Sue runs training courses internationally in Neuro-Dramatic-Play which emphasise the importance of early playfulness for attachment and the development of empathy and resilience. NDP is important in addressing the effects of trauma and abuse. Sue is also researching 'Newborn Play' with a focus on 'building bodies, building brains'.

Sue is renowned as an expert on resilience and has trained both clinicians and teachers worldwide.

Sue is the author and editor of more than 40 books, many published by Hinton House. She also trains carers in ‘Creative Care’, which is attachment-based creativity, to apply in work with older people and people with dementia. She was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for Arts and Older People in 2012/2013.

Her books are practical and accessible, giving basic techniques and methods for teachers, clinicians and families to apply in difficult situations.