Parts VII - VIII Learning Objectives & Agendas

Part VII

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Explain how contact functions in the Oaklander Model of Gestalt Play Therapy enhance a child's sense of self, with emphasis on contact with the body for emotional expression and self-nurturing.

  2. Facilitate the projective experience using somatic work.

  3. Use the 5 part therapeutic process to identify the components of work with body image.

  4. Use the body, breath, and voice to facilitate awareness of the body and playful ways to use these areas in gestalt play therapy.

  5. Identify ways that children and teens are impacted by issues such as sexuality and eating/food and treatment options.

  6. Identify ways to move the body using Seema Omar’s application of various modalities of movement.

  7. Understand and identify the connection between self-compassion, self-nurturing, self-care and self-reflection.

  8. Utilize the “classic” Rosebush technique in a therapeutic setting.

Agendas

Day 1 Agenda:
8:00am - 8:15am — Introduction and Check-In 
8:15am - 9:30am — Body Image & Sense of Self 
9:30am - 9:50am — Break 
9:50am - 11:15am — Somatic Work & The Oaklander Model 
11:15am - 11:35am — Break 
11:35am - 12:30pm — Mapping Symptoms & Awareness Interventions 
12:30pm - 1:00pm — Questions & Closure

Day 2 Agenda:
8:00am - 8:45am — Check in and Movement activity 
8:45am - 9:20am — Collage experience with lens of self-nurturing 
9:20am - 9:40am — Break 
9:40am - 10:30am — Demonstration and practice 
10:30am - 11:15am — Self-compassion and Self-reflection 
11:15am - 11:35am — Break 
11:35am - 12:00pm — Drawing experience ("classic Violet with demo") 
12:00pm - 12:40pm — Practice 
12:40pm - 1:00pm — Closure

Part VIII

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Apply what you have learned to:

    • Individual case presentations.

    • Intake forms.

    • Child assessment and treatment plan development.

  2. Set ourselves apart as therapists and provide:

    • Brief Therapy

    • Improving the client’s sense of self using the 6th sense

  3. Reflect and Identify levels of Mastery of the Oaklander Model Concepts

  4. Conduct an effective closure of the therapeutic process.

Agendas

Day 1 Agenda:
8:00am - 8:30am – Check-in
8:30am - 9:45am – Getting started with the Oaklander Model review of forms and experiences
9:45am - 10:05am – Break
10:05am - 10:45am – Case study of formulating and treating using the Oaklander Model
10:45am - 11:30am – Brief Therapy
11:30am - 11:50am – Break
11:50am - 12:40pm – Drawing experience and demo
12:40pm - 1:00pm – Closure

Day 2 Agenda: 
8:00am - 8:30am – Check in
8:30am - 9:15am – Sixth sense
9:15am - 9:40am – Break
9:40am - 10:55am – Review Oaklander Concepts
10:55am - 11:20am – Break
11:20am - 12:20pm – Termination and Experience
12:20pm - 12:40pm – Final Q & A
12:40pm - 1:00pm – Closure