Where Words Can't Reach: Neuroscience and the Satir Model in the Sand Tray (ePub)

The purpose of this book is to help therapists become proficient in Neuroscience and the Satir Model in the Sand Tray (NSST) therapy. It describes NSST's three components: Neuroscience, the Satir Model (TST), and the Sand Tray. It explains how to set up an NSST practice and how to use it with children, adults, couples, and families.

In this book you will find examples of our universal life-affirming drive to: Stay safe, stay connected with others, and meet our deepest emotional needs. You will see illustrations of individual defensive coping behaviours in response to stress, and how these patterns may appear in the Sand Tray. You will be introduced to the Iceberg Metaphor, which both the Satir and NSST models use to describe an individual's systemic perceptions and responses to his external and internal worlds, and which NSST demonstrates using figurines. You will get a basic understanding of how to positively and durably transform the current impact of the client's past experiences. You will better understand the central value of the Neuroscience of both attunement and attachment.

If you are a practitioner or clinician who is new to the field of using the Sand Tray, I hope this book will entice you to look more deeply into this approach. The research has shown that it is quick, lasting and profoundly transformative. This is because the client can access sequestered embodied experiences through the choice and placement of figurines which go to parts of the implicit memory, where words can't reach!