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HAPT 12th Annual Conference Expressive Play Therapy for the Grieving Child February 26-27, 2010 Pagoda Hotel, C'est Si Bon Ballroom 1525 Rycroft Street, Honolulu, HI 96814 with Marie-Jose Dhaese, PhD, RCC, ATR, RPT-S, CPT-S Born and educated in France, Marie-José is an Adult, Child and Family therapist in private practice. She is a Registered Clinical Counselor, a Registered Art Therapist, and a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor both with the Canadian and American Play therapy Association. Marie-José now celebrates over 35 years experience as a therapist. For the past 25 years she has been teaching her own approach to play therapy: Holistic Expressive Play Therapy. She has been a frequent presenter and speaker at International Conferences and Institutions including the Centre for Play Therapy at the University of North Texas the therapeutic methods she has developed, particularly on the topic of loss, trauma, abuse and neglect. She has shared her unique, innovative and constantly evolving methods with thousands of therapists from all over the world. Marie-José is the founder of the Centre for Expressive Therapy, located on Vancouver Island, B.C, Canada, where, as well as seeing clients of all ages, she mentors and offers healing retreats for helping professionals. For more information on our speaker, please visit her website at: http://www.centreforexpressivetherapy.com Friday, February 26, 2010 8:30am to 4:00pm Saturday, February 27, 2010 8:30am to 4:00pm Theory, Principles, & Interventions: Dr. Dhaese will be discussing: theoretical considerations relating to attachment and loss of primary attachment figures (through divorce, death, foster care, adoption, hospitalization, and other traumas); stages of grief/loss; and, principles underlying expressive play therapy. She will include an experiential component for participants. Methods Used to Help Grieving Children at Different Stages: Dr. Dhaese’s child centered approach will show participants different expressive play therapy methods that can be used with children during the early phase of grief, for intense painful feelings of despair in the form of acute grief, and the later phase of the grief journey. She will include a myriad of examples and interventions. All registration fees include: validated parking at the hotel, continental breakfast, full lunch, and 6 Play Therapy CEU's per day.     Go to Online Registration...   View/Print conference brochure w/registration form...   (legal sized paper required)   View / Print conference brochure only...   View / Print registration form only...     For more information, please contact Liz Kong: conference@hawaiiplaytherapy.net     Problems or comments about the website? Email: webhead@hawaiiplaytherapy.net