Family Sandscapes: Intergenerational Trauma and Healing

Family Sandscapes: Intergenerational Trauma and Healing is a trauma-informed training that explores how family systems, inherited narratives, and unspoken patterns emerge symbolically in sand tray therapy. This training focuses on using individual, dyadic, and family sand tray to externalize intergenerational trauma, reveal legacy burdens, and support repair, resilience, and connection across generations. Participants will learn experiential, culturally responsive interventions that honor family stories while fostering regulation, meaning-making, and healing for children, adolescents, adults, and families.

1. Describe how intergenerational trauma is transmitted through family systems, attachment patterns, and implicit narratives.
2. Identify symbolic indicators of intergenerational trauma, legacy burdens, and resilience as they appear in sand tray work.
3. Apply trauma-informed sand tray interventions to support family-based healing and relational repair.
4. Demonstrate culturally responsive and ethically grounded practices when exploring ancestral and family narratives.
5. Utilize sand tray and experiential interventions to support family-based healing and meaning-making.
6. Integrate ethical, cultural, and systems-informed considerations when working with family and ancestral narratives.

My Crossing Paths Training Center has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7253. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. My Crossing Paths Counseling Center is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
My Crossing Paths Training Center is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling. Provider # 50-37274.

My Crossing Paths Training Center, has been approved as an Association of Social Work Boards Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Provider. ACE provider approval number is 1877. Training that are ACE approved with be identified on the training material with correct CE credit and type.

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Host or Publisher Julia Knach, My Crossing Paths Counseling Center