The Story Beneath the Scene: Narrative Repair Through Sand, Play & Symbol

The Story Beneath the Scene: Narrative Repair Through Sand, Play & Symbol is a trauma-informed training focused on how disrupted narratives emerge symbolically in sand tray and play therapy. Clients often communicate their lived experiences through images, scenes, and symbols before words are available. This training explores how therapists can attune to symbolic storytelling, support narrative repair, and help clients reorganize fragmented or traumatic stories into coherent, integrated meaning. Through experiential activities, clinical examples, and interventions, participants learn to work with children, adolescents, and adults using sand, play, and metaphor as pathways to healing.

1. Identify how narrative disruption and repair appear symbolically in sand tray and play therapy.
2. Demonstrate at least three sand tray or play-based interventions that support symbolic storytelling and narrative integration.
3. Apply developmentally appropriate narrative-focused play interventions with children and adolescents.
4. Explain how trauma and attachment disruptions impact narrative development and meaning-making.
5. Utilize symbolic and experiential interventions to support narrative repair and identity integration in play and therapy.
6. Apply narrative-informed sand tray strategies to promote coherence, resilience, and emotional integration in clinical practice.

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 by the Association for Play therapy, APT No. 23-705. Programs that do not qualify for APT credit are clearly identified.

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