Recorded Webinar: Cultural Humility in TraumaPlay™: Bringing It in the Room

The heart of TraumaPlay™ is holding hard stories and TraumaPlay™ therapists seek to lean into difficult conversations, turning hard stories into heard stories. Cultural humility requires consistently stretching our containment abilities while remaining curious and compassionate storykeepers. As TraumaPlay™ therapists, we acknowledge the breadth and depth of trauma experienced both collectively and individually through institutionalized racism and the devastation it has wrought. Those of us coming from a place of white privilege seek to become better allies in the struggle for racial equity. To this end, a panel composed, almost entirely, of people of color who also practice play therapy, have agreed to vulnerably share their experiences with us and further the conversation around how we grow as anti-racist play therapists. Paris will ask a series of questions to which the panelists will respond with their own stories, thoughts, and experiences. Each panelist will also bring a practical, immediately useful clinical intervention that play therapists can use to further work around these issues.

Following this workshop, participants will be able to:

1) Explain the TraumaPlay™ practice of “Bringing It in the Room”
2) Describe three ways in which play therapists can practice cultural humility while facilitating trauma narrative work.
3) Define what it means to be an anti-racist play therapist from a TraumaPlay™ perspective.
4) Articulate the role that shame can play in keeping all of us from engaging in difficult conversations.
5) List six play therapy or expressive arts activities that can help clients further explore their racial, cultural, or ethnic identities.

This training is eligible for 3 CE non-contact hours if viewed in its entirety.