Join Lisa at the 2021 New York APT Conference!  From twelve-year-olds to seniors in high school, adolescence is a time filled with change. This can make the notion of bringing play therapy to this population a challenge.  Do we play? Do we talk?  Using neuroscience, developmental theory and Synergetic Play Therapy® theory, participants will explore [...]

The Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive is over two weekends (April 16th-18th and April 23rd-25th) and allows you to jump in and really experience the magic of Synergetic Play Therapy®! We hold these intensives regularly throughout the year, limiting this program to four people in order to permit extensive skill practice with individualized coaching and [...]

This is a virtual training for the PACE Program in Vancouver, BC. If you would like your school or organization to receive training, please contact the Institute at info@synergeticplaytherapy.com

Join Lisa Dion, creator of Synergetic Play Therapy, as she provides a beginning overview about the Synergetic Play Therapy model. She will explore what it is and what it is not. She will introduce therapists to the tenets that guide the model, the role of the therapist, it's primary influences, what it means to attach [...]

Working with Caregivers (Class 4) is part of the Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ course, January 25th - June 25th. Class 4 Objectives: Discuss the implications for caregivers being in their own grief process when they bring their children to play therapy. Describe how to have a successful play therapy intake. Discuss the importance [...]

In this 6-hour workshop, play therapists will explore medical trauma from the perspective of neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology while drawing from Gestalt Play Therapy, Synergetic Play Therapy and Nature Based Play principles.  Using creative play-based ways to support children and their family’s healing process, participants will learn how to create emotional and relational safety for [...]

The focus of this 1 hour keynote presentation is to inspire leaders to understand the critical role they play in the health and well-being of their organization in a way that they may have never considered.  That they are indeed the "emotional regulator" for their teams and staff, helping ground the organization itself and the [...]

Lisa will be presenting The Need for an External Regulator in Traumatic Play workshop for South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault & Family Violence (SECASA) May 19th, 2021, 9:30am-12:30pm Australia time (AEST). Objectives: Explore the role of the clinician as the child's external regulator Explore how an external regulator helps a child integrate traumatic thoughts, feelings [...]

Understanding Attachment & The Self-Object (Class 5) is part of the Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy™ course, January 25th - June 25th. Class 5 Objectives: Discuss Synergetic Play Therapy's definition and perspective on attachment Explain and demonstrate how to use the self-object as a way to support the client attaching to self Describe the [...]

June 12th - 18th, 2021 -  (one day off in the middle) The Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive allows you to jump in and really experience the magic of Synergetic Play Therapy®! We hold these intensives regularly throughout the year, limiting this program to four people in order to permit extensive skill practice with individualized [...]