Hong Kong Sandplay Therapy Association (HKSTA)

“To-morrow—what? And what of yesterday?
Through soundless labyrinths of dream you pass,
Through many doors to the one door of all.
Soon as it’s opened we shall hear a music:
Or see a skeleton fall . . .” Extracted from The House Of Dust by Conrad Aiken

According to Greek mythology, the half bull half human monster, which devours young men and maidens, was trapped in a labyrinth. In this study group, we will look at the history of labyrinth found in archaeological sites, labyrinth in myths and how we use a labyrinth in modern times. We will also learn to draw our own labyrinth, meditate on it, and find out what it means to us personally.
You are invited to have several pieces of drawing paper and a pen or pencil to draw your own labyrinth.

Details:

Study Topic: Labyrinth
Presenter: Ms Jennifer Wong
Date: October 26 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 7:00-9:00pm (online)
Language: Cantonese

Online registration: https://forms.gle/jobwL9DNFVnnMdZs5 (before October 19, 2022 (Wednesday))

This study group is only open to the members of the Hong Kong Sandplay Therapy Association. Please apply to this study group on or before 19/10/2022 (Wednesday).

Exploring silence and femininity: Case sharing of a little girl

Silence is one of the essential elements in sandplay therapy. During the sandplay sessions, it is also a great challenge for the therapist to hold the silence and use it to facilitate the healing process. To believe that the presence, or being, of the therapist in the room with the client is already healing is not easy to accept and adapt. In this study group, a sandplay journey would be illustrated as how the therapist endured and held the tension of silence for a four years old girl who suffered from selective mutism. The differentiation of holding silence apart from resisting mutism as well as the feminine perspective of ego development will be discussed.

Date: 23/9/2022 (Friday)
Time: 1930-2045
Presenter: Mr. George Kwok Kar Kin (certified sandplay therapist (teaching member) under International Society of Sandplay Therapy (ISST) in 2019)
Venue: Webinar via zoom
Language: Cantonese

Online registration: https://forms.gle/P8iiChCkEoWpbfzS9

This study group is only open to members of the Hong Kong Sandplay Therapy Association. Please apply to this study group on or before 16/9/2022 (Friday).

Are you writing a symbol paper? Or are you planning to write a symbol paper? Which symbol should we choose? We always start from what draw us to explore a particular symbol. What the symbol attracts or repels us? What the symbol we notice that it is often used in sandtrays of our clients? Or what the symbol or image always appears in our dreams or in our daily lives? Then we follow this pull and start to explore the mysterious unknown. We feel excited, however we always fall into frustration and despair. We may feel clear but also lost or chaotic. We may be overwhelmed by the diversity and immensity of the information of the symbol. We want to continue writing but we also feel resistance to do it. Exploring a symbol or writing a symbol paper is our personal inner journey and we experience our own transformational process of how we reintegrate the fragmentation into the wholeness. In August, some of HKSTA Exco members share our own experience or journey in writing a symbol paper.

Details:
Date: August 25, 2022 (Thur)
Time: 7:30-8:45pm
Presenter: Ms Chris CHEUNG, Ms. May LIU & Ms. Sally CHAN
Venue: Webinar via zoom
Language: Cantonese

This study group is only opened to members of the Hong Kong Sandplay Therapy Association.