Jen Taylor Play Therapy Services

** In order to sign up for this course, you need to have successfully completed and passed the FirstPlay Somatic Storytelling®  Level 1 & 2 Courses. **

9.5 APT non-contact hours . For those pursuing their RPT credential, you may apply 5.5 hours to skills/methods and 3 hours to  special populations.

Level 3 is the final 9.5 hours of the 37.5 three-part FirstPlay Somatic Storytelling series.  In Level 3, the focus in on learning how to create therapeutic stories from scratch using a FirstPlay® Child Story-Interview Grid.

In Level 3,  we delve deeper into understanding Ericksonian principles while also learning how to create therapeutic stories from scratch using a FirstPlay® Child Story-Interview Grid. We begin to practice getting in touch with our own storyteller and writer within. In this, you will be asked to create a therapeutic story utilizing the FirstPlay® Child Story-Interview Grid based upon an interview with a child volunteer. This will be reviewed together during the reflective consultation sessions. During Level 3, you are provided with the FirstPlay Parent Manual©, which is a manualized guide to use with children and parents in sessions, that contains the past modules of Level’s 1 & 2: “Getting Started” activities and “Ready Made” stories, as well as the modules of Level 3 “Creating Stories from Scratch” and the “Child as Storyteller.”  You will learn how to implement the FirstPlay Parent Manual© with children and families based upon the developmental stage of the child and the child’s presenting problems.

Certification in First Play Somatic Storytelling: 

To become certified in FirstPlay Somatic Storytelling, the student must successfully complete the three levels of education content (37.5 total hours). 

Upon completion of all three levels of recorded content, the student will contact Dr. Courtney directly to schedule TWO (2) final individual consultation sessions to demonstrate competency in applying the Level 3 course concepts into clinical practice. 

As presented in the Level 3 materials, you will be asked to use the FirstPlay Somatic Interview Grid with a child to then write and implement a FirstPlay somatic therapeutic story in action. A video recording of the session will be reviewed together in a consultation session with Dr. Courtney. [You can use a volunteer child and family if needed.] The final fee for the two consultation sessions is $250.00 to be paid directly to Dr. Courtney.

 Please contact Dr. Courtney at [email protected] for more information and to clarify the final steps toward your Certification as a FirstPlay Somatic Storytelling Practitioner.