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You can find out more about our Live Online Diploma in NDP and how it can save you at least £300 on the cost of individual courses HERE.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a 2-part course taking place on Saturday 9 October and Sunday 10 October 2021.

PART 1 takes place at 0800-1100 GMT or 1600-1900 BST on Saturday 9 October.

PART 2 takes place at 0800-1100 GMT or 1600-1900 BST on Sunday 10 October.

Your ticket for each date enables you to attend both parts of the course.

This new training course illustrates in detail the Embodiment-Projection-Role growth in Early Years. Through understanding EPR, practitioners and parents have a learning grid by which they can observe the small child stages, and also introduce the re-learning stages when there has been developmental delay.

Embodiment-Projection-Role is a developmental paradigm that has been growing in application and understanding since the 1980s. It is used in clinical and educational practice as well as in research and child observation. EPR also forms the basis of various training programmes in arts and play therapies and in Early Years Practice.

The paradigm was created by Dr Sue Jennings after extensive observations of young children and mothers and babies. The three stages and their transitions are necessary for healthy physical, neurological and emotional development. Sue has continued to develop and refine EPR. The more recent, Neuro-Dramatic-Play paradigm, is a detailed refinement of the Embodiment stage and commences earlier, from conception rather than birth. EPR sits neatly between NDP and ToR (Theatre of Resilience, which starts at around six years).

Learning Outcomes:

• Basic concepts of Embodiment-Projection-Role
• Embedded attachment contained within EPR
• EPR as part of all development
• Application with children with developmental delay
• Spiral development of EPR throughout life

This course is recommended for:

• Counsellors
• Therapists
• Teachers
• Parents
• SENCOs
• Foster Carers
• Social Workers
• Play Therapists
• Art Thearpists
• Drama Therapists
• Family Support Workers

This course can be taken as a stand-alone CPD course or as part of our Live Online Diploma.

Your Trainer

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; and 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. 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.

Testimonials from Dr Sue's Previous Courses

"Thank you for 2 days of captivating and inspiring training and thank you for the Shakespeare insights - amazing and something I will share with my colleagues. I have so much to take away and share with the children and young people I work with because of your inspirational teaching. Looking forwards to the next one. Thank you, Dr Sue."

"Thank you Sue! a thoroughly enjoyable and informative course"

"I thought there was a good balance between teaching, experiential activities and opportunities for questions. I really liked having the opportunity to work with a smaller group. That's something I think we are used to when attending face-to-face training and I really valued the experience."

"Thank you Sue. I found the course informative, it filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge. I enjoyed the break out groups, it’s always good to share in smaller groups."

"A wonderful, especially intense course that brought me a lot of joy, pleasure and the mood to work and learn from an extraordinary professional, Dr. Sue Jennings 💖 I highly recommend it - a unique experience!"

"Brilliant training, Sue ensured to encourage participants to ask questions and made feel very comfortable on an online platform!"

"I thoroughly enjoyed the training; the delivery via Zoom worked really well and the course content was excellent."

"Was an absolute gift, useful and inspiring. Will utilise the training in my work."

"I absolutely loved this workshop it gave great tips and strategies and was so relaxed and interactive all in one. Thrilled to have done it. Thank you, Sue!"

"Really enjoyed the training & would recommend it."

"One massive advantage of this current situation is that the training was online otherwise I would not have been able to do it as I don't live in England. Thank you for facilitating this. I am an experienced Play Therapist and I found it very useful. Thanks once again."