Narrative Art Journaling for Children Finding Meaning and Healing Using Creative Ways

Narrative Art Journaling for Children Finding Meaning and Healing Using Creative Ways to Tell Personal Stories in Play Therapy - IN PERSON

Presenter: Karin Grobler DuPont, MPhil, BSc, NCPM

Date: July 31, 2025, 9 am-4:30pm

Location: Thrive Behavioral Health
1114 Benfield Blvd G, Millersville, MD 21108

CE Hours: 6
Cost: $150.00 Early Bird Registration (before 7/1)
$165.00 Late Registration (after 6/30

Registration: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/BOOT-CAMP-2025-July-31--IN-PERSON--Narrative-Art-Journaling-for-Children---Finding-Meaning-and-Healing-Using-Creative-Ways-to-Te.html?soid=1107025843020&aid=U9rWhrBRclY

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.

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