Dancing in the darkness: Creative approaches to working with grieving children and youth

Dancing in the darkness: Creative approaches to working with grieving children and youth

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Date: December 7, 2022
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST
Facilitator: Lysa Toye, MSW, RSW

Description: Play, creativity and the arts have a unique capacity to respond to human suffering. They offer experimental spaces for the exploration of ideas, feelings and questions around the experiences of death and grief.

This experiential training will explore play-based, arts-based, and other creative approaches to both psychoeducation and counseling/psychotherapy. The facilitators will share ways of using such approaches to facilitate grief education and support in schools. Along with ways of supporting grieving children and youth virtually. They will present many easy to use (and modify) creative techniques in working with grieving children and youth. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in safe, experiential activities to better understand the process of using creative approaches. No art experience is necessary.

Learning objectives:

• Creative approaches to supporting children and youth who are grieving the dying or death of someone in their life
• Art and play-based strategies to add to their therapeutic toolkit
• Strategies for supporting grieving children and youth in schools

*Please note: This webinar is a part of the Children's grief and bereavement certificate program. Participants may register for any of the certificate program’s individual webinars as a stand-alone training.

Registration fee: General - $250  | Student - $225

For full program overview and registration details please visit: https://cvent.me/KRZWwr

Continuing Education (CE) information: 6 CE hours

SickKids CCMH Learning Institute has approval from the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) for participants of our programming to apply the number of CE hours earned in the program towards their continuing education hours.

Other licensing boards and professional organizations will grant continuing education credits for attendance at their own discretion; participants will need to submit the course outline and certificate for their consideration.