This seminar offers an in-depth exploration of the processes of transformation at work in children confronted with rupture, loss, or adoption. Through symbolic work with sand, images, creative processes, and land art, we will explore how early difficult experiences can gradually be represented, worked through, and integrated.
Particular attention will be given to the role of the image, which is not always fully understood on a theoretical level, yet proves essential in giving meaning and depth to clinical work in Sandplay Therapy. Images emerging in the Sandplay are approached not as illustrations or interpretations, but as living expressions of the psyche, allowing inner experience to take form before it can be thought or verbalized.
This seminar takes place in a welcoming residential house, a unique place of care in Belgium, set in the heart of nature. The center offers seminars as well as residential retreats, providing an introspective stay that allows participants to slow down, deepen their experience, and integrate the material explored. The natural surroundings and the rhythm of the stay support both personal development and professional growth. Particular care is given to hospitality, with delicious meals prepared from organic, seasonal, and fair-trade products, contributing to a warm and nurturing atmosphere.
The guiding thread of the seminar unfolds through several interconnected movements:
from black sand, evoking origins marked by separation, chaos, or the unspeakable,
to the emergence of form, in the sandplay as well as in natural environments, where something can begin to be expressed without words, from rupture to an opening toward relationship, supported by shared creative experiences, from the wounded child to the emergence of inner resources, often symbolized by the figure of the hero, toward the appearance of the rose, symbol of a possible transformation and of attachment that can reorganize and mature.
Seminar Program – March
Friday, March 27
Saturday, March 28
Seminar Fees
Supervision & Professional Recognition
Participants will benefit from:
Sunday, March 29
Instructors
Jellemieke Hees-Stauthamer, Ph.D. (Netherlands)
Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist trained in the USA. Chair and founding member of the Netherlands Sandplay Society, former ISST VP Europe, Israël and South America, current Boardmember for the Nederlands. Offers Sandplay therapy, trauma treatment, and training in the Netherlands.
Agne Rožlapa-Junkere (Latvia/Germany)
Latvian psychologist and certified sandplay therapist (ISST/DGST/LSST), dramatherapist, lecturer, Sandplay therapist and practitioner working with young adults in social rehabilitation and vocational training.
John Paulet (Belgium)
Belgian therapist, ISST Independent Router Member, Systemic psychotherapist, aspiring Jungian analyst and ethnopsychologist. Works with families, children, and adults using Sandplay, Play & Creativity Therapy, and Jungian analysis. Experienced in Ethnopsychiatry, Systemic, Sandplay therapy and experimental retreats.
Languages: The seminar is accessible in English, Dutch, and French.
The seminar with a maximum of 12 participants is conducted in co-teaching with an ISST teacher, Jellemieke Hees-Stauthamer, ensuring a high level of clinical and theoretical grounding. All the work carried out during the seminar is recognized within the official process toward ISST membership, supporting participants on their professional path.
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