Narrative Art Journaling for Children 

Finding Meaning and Healing Using Creative Ways to Tell Personal Stories in Play Therapy

(Seminal)

IN PERSON

Description:

Disruptive life experiences like death and divorce can leave children without language to describe the experience. Aspects of their experience can be hidden, even from themselves. During the Narrative Art Journaling process the child tells their story on various pages using pictures and other creative modalities in play therapy. They get the opportunity to ‘create’ and ‘re-create’ their story during directive play therapy.

This process has been used in play therapy with success to help children to reconstruct their personal narratives as they reflect on the pages they create. It helps to untangle their confusing thoughts, honor their experience, and explore their continuing narrative as they become compassionate witnesses of their own story. When the process is used with groups, and group play therapy, members become compassionate witnesses to each other’s stories.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the function of the play therapist or counselor in a Narrative Art Journaling Process
• Identify how stories are ‘created’ in a journal using pictures and creative modalities as participants create their journals during directive play therapy sessions
• Explain how the story is deconstructed into more manageable parts 
• State how problems/challenges/obstacles are identified and externalized through externalizing conversations in play therapy
• Describe how alternative stories in play therapy are identified
• State how a story can be re-storied from play therapy perspective

Presenter: Karin Grobler DuPont MPhil, BSc, NCPM

Karin Grobler DuPont MPhil, BSc, NCPM holds a master’s degree in Pastoral Counseling from the University of Pretoria, a Certificate in Marriage and Family Counseling from the University of South Africa and additional training in play- and narrative therapy practices. Since relocating to the US she became a Nationally Certified Professional in Mediation. Throughout her career as a Children’s Ministry Director, she has worked at primary schools using Narrative Art Journaling, aiding children coping with divorce or the loss of loved ones. She also served as the Managing Director of Karabo I Am the Solution, a non-profit organization focused on training community workers and grandmothers to use Narrative Art Journaling in support of AIDS orphans in South African townships. She was involved in training lay counselors in the skill of Compassionate Conversations based on Narrative Therapy Practices. Additionally, she has experience as a school administrator and counselor at a football academy in South Africa, where she provided support to learners dealing with grief and family separation.

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CONTINUING EDUCATION

Continuing Education Approval for Licensed Mental Health Counselors/Social Workers/ School Psychologists/MFCCs/Play Therapists/Art Therapists 

SOCIAL WORKERS

Chesapeake Beach Professional Seminars (CBPS) is approved by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners to sponsor Category I continuing education programs. Social Work Boards in most states accept this approval status. 

Chesapeake Beach Professional Seminars (CBPS) is approved by the Washington , D.C. Board of Social Work Examiners.

LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS

Chesapeake Beach Professional Seminars (CBPS) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5763. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CBPS is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS 

Chesapeake Beach Professional Seminars (CBPS) is approved by the National Association of School Psychologists to offer professional development for school Psychologists, provider #1067. CBPS maintains responsibility for the program. 

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS  

The Maryland and Washington, DC Boards of Psychology Examiners Recognizes national Association of School Psychologist approval status with CBPS and grants CE hours to clinical psychologists in Maryland and Washington, DC.

CBPS is approved for psychologists in NY Provider Number: #PSY-0070.

PLAY THERAPISTS

Chesapeake Professional Seminars (CBPS) is an Association for Play Therapy (APT) approved provider of continuing education, APT Approved Provider #97-034.

ART THERAPISTS

Art Therapists (LCPAT, ATR-BC) may obtain CE Hours based on our NBCC approval status.