Linda Cunningham PhD

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The Awe of Sandplay: Training

In Sandplay, sandplay training, Uncategorized on January 4, 2011 at 10:43 pm

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I have trained therapists in sandplay for almost 15 years. What strikes me most about these trainings is the sense of awe experienced by the participants. As they dig into the sand, choose meaningful figures and build their own sandtrays–a very important part of the training–they experience the numinous depth of sandplay. It is very difficult to communicate to the naive reader what this is like. As with so many things, you must experience it for yourself. One can get a sense of this deepening
by viewing slides of sandplay cases, verbally playing with the possible meanings of the images in the sand, but sandplay is a hands on experience, a visceral, emotional experience of deepening into oneself. To fully appreciate this experience, thus expanding your learning of sandplay, I recommend Read the rest of this entry »

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