Creative interventions with adolescents

Service Description

Date: 20-21 February 2025 Closing date for registration 1 Feb 2025 Cost: ZAR3800-00 This workshop is aimed at providing participants with an wealth of creative techniques, as well as a four step therapeutic process that can be applied during therapy with traumatised adolescents. The following aspects will be addressed: ¬ Four step therapeutic process during therapeutic work with traumatised adolescents ¬ Step 1: Understanding the traumatised adolescent’s world (assessment tools and questionnaires) ¬ Step 2: Building ego-strength and coping skills through creative activities (activities for setting boundaries, understanding safety and tricky trauma behaviour – learning self-acceptance and self-love) ¬ Step 3: Processing the trauma through expressive creative interventions (telling the story through creative activities) ¬ Step 4: Repair, reframe and moving from victim to thriver (creative interventions for creating a life beyond the trauma) The workshop will consist of theory and experiential exercises that can be applied to address above mentioned themes. These techniques will be integrated within the theoretical framework of the specific developmental challenges of the adolescent years, as well as special needs in these children as a result of trauma, attachment issues, loss, the quest for identity and increasing the coping strategies of teenagers in difficult circumstances. Bank details for direct deposits: Account name: Red Shoe Training (PTY) LTD Bank: Standard Bank Account number: 422216305 Branch code: 055534 Branch: Brandwag Please send prove of payment to rindablom@gmail.com International participants can request a Paypal invoice at rindablom@gmail.com