The language of the Psyche in Jungian Sandplay Therapy

Presenter: Braam Beetge
Venue: Online via Zoom
Time: Tuesday evening, 21 May 2024 19:30 SAST (GMT +2)
Fee: ZAR150. Booking essential.

About the Lecture 

This presentation explains the early beginnings and historical roots of Jungian Sandplay and demonstrates the transformative process for a 10-year old boy.

Sandplay Therapy is a creative form of ‘hands-on’ individual psychotherapy using imagination, sand, water and miniatures to create images within the free and protected space offered by the therapeutic relationship and the sand tray. It is an invaluable and effective non-verbal therapy for both adults and children.

 Descriptions of the nature of Sandplay therapy often quotes Jung, for example: the website of the Sandplay Therapists of America (STA) quotes Jung as saying: “Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”; while the ISST description quotes Jung depicting Sandplay as: “… a concentric extract of life forces both physical and psychic…”

During the therapy process, a series of sandplay images portray an ongoing dialogue between the psyche’s Conscious and the Unconscious, which activates the regulating and healing abilities of the Archetypal Self.

About the Presenter

Braam Beetge is a Counselling psychologist and certified Sandplay therapist, practicing in Paarl, Western Cape. His special interest is Traumatology and the treatment of both adults and children from an Analytical Psychology perspective. He incorporates EMDR in trauma work while Sandplay therapy constitutes the core of his work.

He is a board member of the International Society of Sandplay Therapy (ISST) and a founder member and president of the South African Sandplay Therapy Society (SASTS).  As an international teaching member of ISST he has been teaching Sandplay Therapy in South Africa and Turkey for many years.

Braam contributed a chapter to the book Into the heart of sandplay published in 2022 and edited by Diane Sherwood and Betty Jackson. The chapter is titled: My soul’s call to sandplay therapy.His article Meeting Ndlovo: The African elephant as symbol was published in the Swiss and German Sandplay Journal (2009).

Braam’s Reflection on Audrey Punnet’s book, Child Analysis: Cultural perspectives, was published in the Sandplay Therapists of America (STA) Journal (2022).Braam completed a one-year course in Foundational concepts of Jungian Analysis with Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts (SAAJA) in 2023.

 BOOKING INFORMATION | Advance Booking Essential

Bookings close at 12:00 noon SAST on Tuesday, 21 May 2024. The Zoom link will be distributed at 14:00 SAST on the day of the event. We invite students to contact us for a 50% discount to all our events.

In the event of tickets being sold out or sales closed, a recording of the lecture will be available for purchase. For more information, contact SAAJA at +27 21 689 6090 or email saaja@mweb.co.za