The Sandplay Therapists of America (STA) has announced that their Sandplay Therapy Institute will become the first permanent institute for the study of Sandplay in the United States with it's second year of programs in 2011. For those unfamiliar with STA, they are a non-profit organization established to train, support, and promote professional development in sandplay in the tradition of Dora Kalff based on the theories of C.G. Jung. For more information, click here for their homepage. Last year's training sessions were extremely successful and this year's promise to be even better. The program is centrally located in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. Here are the dates and details:

April 8-10 ~ Sandplay with Children ~ Lauren Cunningham & LaVon Bobo   
May 20-22 ~ Sandplay with Adults ~ Gita Morena & Dan Nelson   
September 16-18 ~ Complex Clinical Issues ~ Maria Ellen Chiaia & Judy Zappacosta   
October 14-16 ~ Reality of the Psyche ~ Sherry Shepherd & Barbara Weller

Applications and further information can be found here.    

Also, keep up with other upcoming play therapy and sand tray therapy events by bookmarking our regularly-updated resource site.

Hope everyone is having a happy new year!