Jackie Flynn
EdS, LMHC-S, RPT-S™
Founder of EMDR with Kids and the EMDR Playground, international trainer, and APT Approved Provider #20-628.
3rd GenerationA retreat-style training for EMDR therapists
reWILDing
Play, Sandtray, and EMDR Therapy Integration
A transformative 5-day retreat-style training for EMDR therapists, hosted at Momma Owl’s Minis in Molino, Florida.
November 18–22, 2026 Molino, Florida
Register for $1597
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Heal Generations. Transform Lives. Reconnect to What Matters.
This isn’t just a training… it’s a movement.
What reWILDing means here
ReWILDing is the return to what heals when survival has narrowed the nervous system. It brings trauma work back to the places where real processing happens.
In this training, ReWILDing is not a theme or a vibe.
It is a clinical orientation you will learn to apply with skill, structure, and care.
All required training information, including learning objectives, session descriptions, continuing education details, and instructor credentials, can be found in the Agenda and CE Info tabs.
- In the body.
- In rhythm and bilateral flow.
- In symbol, story, and play.
- In Sandtray worlds that hold what words cannot.
- In the natural world as co-regulator and teacher.
- In lineage, meaning, and intergenerational repair.
Your guides
Together we bring decades of experience in EMDR, Sandtray, play therapy, and nature-based trauma work. You will be taught with warmth, precision, and real-world clinical integrity.
Alisha (left) & Catherine (right)Alisha Denham & Catherine Denham
Both LCSW, RPT-S™
Alisha is a licensed clinical social worker with extensive experience in child therapy, and co-founder of Momma Owls Minis, handcrafted miniatures for sandtray and play therapy.
Catherine is a licensed clinical social worker and registered play therapist-supervisor, co-founder of Momma Owls, and co-host of the ‘Rewilding EMDR’ podcast.
Led by Jackie Flynn, Alisha Denham, and Catherine Denham, this sacred 5-day experience will shift the way you do therapy, forever.
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Who this is for
ReWILDing is built for therapists across pathways. If you are drawn to this work, you belong here.
EMDR trained clinicians
You want an advanced integration that stays true to AIP and all 8 phases, while widening the doorways clients use to access and complete processing.
EMDR curious clinicians
You want a clear, embodied understanding of EMDR and how ReWILDing supports trauma healing across settings, even if you have not completed basic training yet.
Play therapists and creative clinicians
You already know that play and creativity reach what talk cannot. You want to integrate that power with trauma processing in a more structured, nervous system informed way.
Sandtray therapists
You want to deepen clinical precision and learn how Sandtray supports targets, phases, and integration, indoors and outdoors, across populations.
Nature-based and somatic clinicians
You are already working with the body and the living world. You want a coherent framework that connects what you do to trauma resolution with structure and safety.
We train as one ReWILDing community. The only difference is continuing education eligibility. Details will be shared in the CE menu once approvals are finalized.
Why therapists come to reWILDing
You already know trauma resolution can happen. You also know that many clients cannot get there through words alone, or through an office chair alone.
- When trauma stays in the head, clients plateau.
- When the body is missing, targets stay distant.
- When symbolism is missing, the nervous system has fewer routes to speak.
- When the living world is ignored, we miss one of the oldest regulators humans have.
- And when cases stall, you carry the weight home with you.
reWILDing gives you ethical, phase-aligned ways to keep healing moving.
Not by adding noise, but by restoring the pathways humans have always used to metabolize pain and return to wholeness.
Your reWILDing plan
- Learn
Learn the ReWILDing framework across EMDR, play, and Sandtray.
- Practice
Practice it indoors and outdoors through live demonstrations and small group work.
- Leave ready
Leave with a repeatable method you can use with any population and in any setting.
What makes this training different
EMDR, Sandtray, and play are fully integrated throughout the entire training. You will not learn them as separate pieces. You will learn how they work together in real clinical moments, across all 8 phases and across all five days.
We teach and practice the integration in two places on purpose.
Inside
with clients in the therapy room.
Outside
with clients in natural spaces and the living world.
That means you will see, feel, and practice what it looks like to
- use EMDR structure while Sandtray and play open access to targets,
- keep desensitization moving through standard EMDR protocols supported by symbolism and sensory regulation,
- resource and stabilize through play and nature-based nervous system support,
- translate the same clinical precision into outdoor sessions, walking bilateral work, and nature-anchored integration.
Ready to join
Scroll to the bottom to register.
How reWILDing EMDR looks in real clinical moments
That braid is ReWILDing. It is fidelity plus aliveness.
What you will learn across the 8 phases
You will watch it, feel it, practice it, and leave able to use it. Each phase is taught in three ways:
Standard EMDR structureReWILDing inside the officeReWILDing outside in nature
1
History taking
AIP-informed history taking that includes body tracking, environment attunement, and lineage mapping. You will practice how to listen for intergenerational threads and translate them into targets and treatment planning.
2
Preparation
Nature-based and play-informed resourcing that builds safety and readiness through rhythm, movement, sensory support, and symbolic regulation. You will practice preparation sequences with real pacing and guardrails.
3
Assessment
Assessment through talk, Sandtray, drawing, and movement while staying anchored in NC, PC, VOC, SUD, and body location. You will watch live demos, then practice in small groups.
4
Desensitization
Standard protocols supported by walking bilateral stimulation, tactile and auditory nature-based BLS options, and play-informed bilateral activities that remain inside EMDR pacing. You will participate in live EMDR demonstrations indoors and outdoors.
5
Installation
Installation that makes adaptive beliefs embodied. Somatic anchoring and symbolic acts strengthen the adaptive network rather than decorate it. You will practice clean installation sequences.
6
Body scan
Somatic precision with nature and Sandtray as sensory mirrors when residual disturbance is hard to name. You will practice tracking, clearing, and completing the scan.
7
Closure
Closure that stabilizes through rhythm, ritual, and nervous system settling. Office-based and outdoor closure sequences that fit any client and setting.
8
Reevaluation
Reevaluation with whole-brain awareness, felt sense, and symbolic check-ins that support long-arc healing, including intergenerational repair markers.
What the experience includes
Live EMDR ReWILDing demonstrations
You will watch full sessions taught through ReWILDing so you can see timing, language, pacing, and clinical fidelity in real time.
Experiential Sandtray and play integration
You will learn facilitation and be in the work yourself. The method becomes real in your own nervous system.
Outdoor nervous system and bilateral practice
You will practice nature-based regulation and bilateral movement in ways you can translate to any environment, including indoor offices.
You will also have steady space for reflection, consultation, and integration held with depth and safety.
Schedule at a glance
The training runs Wednesday through Sunday. Each day builds the ReWILDing arc, from grounding and orienting, to bridging past and present, to deepening emotional healing, to nervous system and neurobiology focused practice, and finally a closing ceremony that helps you carry the work back into your clinical life.
WednesdayNov 18 · 8:30–4:00 · 6 CE
ThursdayNov 19 · 8:30–4:00 · 6 CE
FridayNov 20 · 8:45–3:00 · 5 CE
SaturdayNov 21 · 8:45–3:00 · 5 CE
SundayNov 22 · 9:00–11:00 · 2 CE
Full days Wednesday and Thursday, slightly shorter deep-dive days Friday and Saturday, and a short closing morning Sunday. All times Central. See the full agenda.
Walk the five-day trail
Step onto each stone to see what happens that day, and watch your CE hours grow toward 24.
Your ReWilding JourneyEach day builds on the last as we move through all eight phases of EMDR.
What is included in your retreat experience
- Five immersive training days of instruction, practice, and integration.
- Lodging and meals at Miss Patty’s Lodge so you can stay present and nourished.
- Exclusive access to Momma Owl’s symbolic nature-based Sandtray miniatures.
Symbolic nature-based Sandtray miniatures
Optional: beach trip and dinner at Momma Owl’s favorite local spot in Pensacola.
The ReWILDing Clinician Kit
packed in your keepsake burlap bag
- Rustic workbook and reference sheets, including the training manual Nature, Play, and Sandtray for Profound Transformation
- Tree branch pencils
- Integration handouts for EMDR with fidelity
- ReWILDing Therapy Emotion Literacy Card Deck
- Keepsake burlap bag
This is a method you can carry into any setting with any population.
All-inclusive investment covers training, lodging at Miss Patty’s Retreat Center, meals, supplies, and all materials and clinician kit.
This immersive training includes
12hours of Sandtray Therapy training, rooted in clinical integrity and experiential learning
8phases in a full EMDR refresher, maintaining fidelity to all 8 phases and the AIP model
24live CE hours for the Association for Play Therapy
Naturebased applications that go beyond technique, offering a felt, lived understanding of the ReWILDing approach
This is not a training you’ll walk away from unchanged.
You’ll experience what it means to ReWILD your work, and yourself, in ways that expand your practice and stay with you long after the retreat ends.
Through the integration of nature-based therapy, Sandtray, play, and EMDR, you’ll learn how to:
- Support nervous system regulation in and beyond the therapy room
- Help clients access healing through movement, symbolism, and nature
- Work with generational trauma in ways that words simply can’t reach
- Deepen your clinical intuition and reconnect to your why
You belong here if
- You want trauma work to be more embodied, more precise, and more alive.
- You want a wider range of access points for clients who cannot reach targets through words alone.
- You are committed to clinical integrity and also to the living truth of healing.
- You are ready to ReWILD your work inside and outside the office.
This training is not limited to child and teen therapists. It’s designed for all EMDR clinicians who are ready to reconnect with their work in a powerful, embodied, and nature-integrated way.
This isn’t just a retreat. It is a transformative training experience designed for real-world integration.
Whether you practice indoors, outdoors, or somewhere in between, ReWILDing EMDR offers a full continuum of application.
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You’ll leave with tools and insights that translate across settings, supporting deep, regulated healing wherever your work takes place.
Agenda
5 sessions · Wednesday, November 18 – Sunday, November 22, 2026 · Up to 24 CE credit hours
- Wed18Nov
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM CDT
ReWild1 · Day 1
Alisha Denham, Catherine Denham, Jackie Flynn
6.00 CE credit hoursIn-person onlyFormatIn-Person OnlySpeakersAlisha Denham · Catherine Denham · Jackie FlynnDescription
Day 1 of ReWilding Sandtray Therapy will introduce you to the profound power of Sandtray Therapy as a tool for healing and self-expression. This immersive day is designed to lay the groundwork for understanding how play facilitates emotional and psychological healing, and how Sandtray Therapy can be integrated into your work with both children and adults.
We will explore how the act of creating symbolic worlds in the sand allows clients to express complex emotions and life experiences that might be difficult to articulate. Through the use of miniatures and symbolic representations, clients are empowered to externalize their inner worlds, giving them a sense of control and agency in their healing journey. By engaging in the tactile experience of shaping sand and creating meaningful representations, clients reconnect with themselves in a way that is deeply embodied and holistic.
In addition to learning the theoretical underpinnings of Sandtray Therapy, you will have the opportunity to engage in experiential exercises, where you’ll begin to understand how this approach can facilitate deep emotional expression, integrate mind and body, and promote healing. By the end of Day 1, you’ll gain a foundational understanding of how Sandtray Therapy can be used to create a nonverbal, playful space that encourages emotional release and psychological transformation, providing your clients with a powerful tool for personal healing.
Learning objectives
- List 3 key benefits of using Sandtray Therapy in play-based treatment for children and adults, emphasizing how ReWilding through play supports emotional and psychological healing.
- Explain 2 key principles of Margaret Lowenfeld’s World Technique and its role in ReWilding self-expression and facilitating play in therapy.
- Identify 3 types of miniatures commonly used in Sandtray play therapy and explain their significance in ReWilding the therapeutic process through playful, symbolic representations.
- Discuss the role of nonverbal communication in play therapy through Sandtray and how it enhances the therapeutic process by ReWilding play and self-expression.
- Demonstrate 2 effective ways to guide a client in creating a playful sand world that reflects their emotional state, struggles, or life experiences, aiding in their ReWilding journey.
- Apply reflective questioning techniques in a playful way to help clients engage with and process their sandtray creations in a ReWilding therapeutic context.
- Explain how the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Model and principles of Traumatology can be integrated with ReWilding through the use of Sandtray Therapy, emphasizing how the process facilitates adaptive shifts, engages the whole brain, and promotes dual awareness for healing and transformation.
- Describe the significance of Phase 1 (Establishing the Sandtray Space) and Phase 2 (Introducing the Miniatures) in Sandtray Therapy, emphasizing how these phases support ReWilding by creating a safe environment for play and self-expression.
- Thu19Nov
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM CDT
ReWild2 · Day 2
Alisha Denham, Catherine Denham, Jackie Flynn
6.00 CE credit hoursIn-person onlyFormatIn-Person OnlySpeakersAlisha Denham · Catherine Denham · Jackie FlynnDescription
On Day 2 of ReWilding Sandtray Therapy, we will dive deeper into the practical application of Sandtray techniques, focusing on how this modality can be used to address trauma, anxiety, and family dynamics in play-based therapy. Through symbolic play, we will explore how Sandtray can facilitate profound emotional healing, particularly with children, by creating safe spaces where ReWilding and transformation can take place.
You will learn how to utilize Sandtray therapy to help clients process trauma, reduce anxiety, and navigate family dynamics, facilitating an integrated healing journey through play. We will explore structured, playful exercises that can be tailored to children and adults, encouraging emotional expression and healing through symbolic play.
The day will also include an opportunity to reflect on case notes, learning how to document the healing process and the symbolic play used in clients’ sandtray creations, emphasizing the therapeutic goals and ReWilding outcomes. We’ll also explore how to integrate Sandtray with other therapeutic modalities, like EMDR and narrative therapy, reinforcing the ReWilding value of play and its therapeutic potential.
Ethical considerations will be addressed, ensuring that boundaries, confidentiality, and cultural sensitivity are maintained within a nonjudgmental and playful therapeutic setting. Finally, you will learn to foster a playful, nonjudgmental environment in Sandtray therapy, empowering clients to express themselves and heal creatively, both emotionally and symbolically.
Throughout the day, we’ll examine Phases 3-7 of Sandtray Therapy, focusing on how each phase facilitates emotional expression, trauma integration, and healing through symbolic play. We will also reflect on the significance of Phase 8 (Reevaluation and Closure), exploring how this phase supports ReWilding by helping clients integrate their experiences, ensuring lasting transformation.
By the end of Day 2, you will have the tools and insights to create more structured therapeutic experiences with Sandtray, helping clients experience deep healing through the process of play and ReWilding.
Learning objectives
- Utilize Sandtray play therapy techniques to address trauma, anxiety, or family dynamics in play-based practice, particularly with children, to support their ReWilding and healing.
- Create 2 structured, playful Sandtray exercises tailored to specific populations (e.g., children, adults) that encourage emotional expression and ReWilding healing through play.
- Write a case note reflecting the use of playful symbolism in a client’s sandtray creation and its connection to therapeutic goals, emphasizing play as a tool for ReWilding healing.
- Use Sandtray play therapy techniques with other therapeutic modalities (e.g., EMDR, narrative therapy), reinforcing the ReWilding value of play in therapy.
- Identify 2 ethical considerations when using Sandtray in play therapy, ensuring that boundaries, confidentiality, and cultural sensitivity are maintained in a playful, ReWilding nonjudgmental setting.
- Demonstrate how to foster a playful, nonjudgmental environment in Sandtray therapy that encourages creative self-expression, emotional healing, and client empowerment through ReWilding play.
- List the key processes involved in Phases 3-7 of Sandtray Therapy, explaining how each phase contributes to the ReWilding process by facilitating emotional expression, trauma integration, and healing through symbolic play and nonverbal communication.
- Describe the significance of Phase 8 (Reevaluation and Closure) in Sandtray Therapy, emphasizing how this phase supports ReWilding by helping clients integrate their experiences and emotions, creating lasting transformation through play and symbolic expression.
- Fri20Nov
8:45 AM – 3:00 PM CDT
ReWild3 · Day 3
Alisha Denham, Catherine Denham, Jackie Flynn
5.00 CE credit hoursWorkshopIn-person onlyFormatIn-Person OnlySpeakersCatherine Denham · Alisha Denham · Jackie FlynnDescription
In this immersive full-day session, we’ll introduce the ReWilding EMDR approach, focusing on how nature-based play and sandtray therapy can enhance every phase of EMDR. You will learn how these elements can support trauma healing, emotional regulation, and intergenerational healing. The session will start with an introduction to the weekend, followed by a guided nature-based grounding activity and sandtray practice. Throughout the session, you’ll gain practical tools for integrating nature and sandtray techniques into your EMDR work, helping your clients process trauma with the added benefit of grounding, creativity, and symbolic expression. The day concludes with community sharing over dinner, where you’ll connect with other participants and reflect on your experiences.
Learning objectives
- Describe how the ReWilding EMDR™ approach in Phase 1 (History Taking and Case Conceptualization) utilizes nature’s grounding energy outdoors to access implicit memories and delve into intergenerational trauma, creating a holistic foundation for healing that begins with nature’s safe gateway and invites playful exploration of the therapeutic process.
- Explain how outdoor nature immersion in Phase 2 (Preparation) helps clients attune to their autonomic nervous system, using mindful movement, sound, and earth-based elements to regulate their bodies and foster emotional resilience, setting the stage for deeper therapeutic work that includes play-based exploration of emotional regulation.
- Identify how nature’s elements in Phase 3 (Assessment) invite trauma targets to surface naturally, with safety and support provided by nature’s presence outdoors, enabling dual awareness and an authentic connection to implicit experiences within a grounded, nature-supported environment that encourages playful engagement with the healing process.
- Demonstrate how nature-based bilateral stimulation techniques, such as walking through the forest or listening to ambient natural sounds in Phase 4 (Desensitization), help clients release trauma stored in the body, integrating the nervous system and enhancing trauma resolution through nature’s rhythms and playful interaction with the environment.
- Apply the ReWilding EMDR™ approach in Phase 5 (Installation) by using the grounding presence of nature to embody positive cognitions, reinforcing new, healthier beliefs, and fostering neuroplasticity and self-regulation through nature’s stabilizing influence, while encouraging playful connection to the healing process.
- Explain how nature immersion during Phase 6 (Body Scan) facilitates somatic release and nervous system regulation, with clients attuning to the natural surroundings to reconnect with their bodies and release tension in a grounded, nature-supported manner that encourages playful exploration of physical sensations and healing.
- Describe how the four elements of nature (earth, water, fire, air) in Phase 7 (Closure) help achieve nervous system equilibrium and restore balance, supporting the transition from therapy to daily life with nature-based grounding activities and playful, restorative actions to reinforce healing progress in the outdoors.
- Sat21Nov
8:45 AM – 3:00 PM CDT
ReWild4 · Day 4
Alisha Denham, Catherine Denham, Jackie Flynn
5.00 CE credit hoursIn-person onlyFormatIn-Person OnlySpeakersCatherine Denham · Alisha Denham · Jackie FlynnDescription
On Day 4, we will dive deeper into the EMDR process and explore how sandtray therapy and nature-based play can be used to enhance Phases 3 to 7 of EMDR. Through interactive learning, you’ll discover how these creative and grounding techniques can help clients access and process traumatic memories, install positive cognitions, and release somatic tension. This full-day session will include dyadic practice, where you’ll apply nature-based techniques and sandtray work to your own EMDR targets. You’ll also gain hands-on experience using nature metaphors and sandtray miniatures to help clients heal emotionally and physically. The day will end with a group rhythmic activity, designed to integrate the emotional work and help stabilize participants before a reflective journaling session.
Learning objectives
- Identify how nature-based mindfulness and playful practices in Phase 8 (Reevaluation) allow clients to assess current distress while outdoors, fostering resilience and ongoing emotional regulation through a sustainable healing process that continues beyond therapy, integrating the natural world into the playful healing journey.
- Explain how nature-based tools in the ReWilding EMDR™ model, combined with playful exploration, support the integration of dual awareness and traumatology, utilizing the outdoors to help clients process past trauma and connect with the present healing energy of nature during play-based EMDR work.
- Examine how nature’s grounding energy during the ReWilding EMDR™ process, alongside playful engagement, enhances AIP processing, helping clients’ emotional and psychological healing to be deeply connected to both their body and environment as they work through the 8 phases of therapy in nature.
- Utilize nature-based reflective techniques outdoors, integrating playful exploration, to help clients process implicit memories, trauma, and intergenerational wounds, fostering emotional and somatic healing in a nonverbal, nature-supported way that is rooted in the natural world and encourages play-based healing.
- Describe how a deeper understanding of how ReWilding EMDR™ in nature shifts the nervous system from trauma states to healing states, using natural rhythms and playful engagement outdoors to address traumatology and achieve whole-brain, neurobiological integration across all 8 phases of therapy.
- Sun22Nov
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT
ReWild5 · Day 5
Alisha Denham, Catherine Denham, Jackie Flynn
2.00 CE credit hoursWorkshopIn-person onlyFormatIn-Person OnlySpeakersCatherine Denham · Alisha Denham · Jackie FlynnDescription
On Day 5, we’ll come together to reflect and integrate everything we’ve learned throughout the weekend. You’ll have the opportunity to reflect on how nature-based play, sandtray therapy, and ReWilding EMDR can be used to enhance trauma healing both personally and professionally. The day will begin with final sandtray practice and nature-based integration, followed by a Plant Propagation Ceremony. In this meaningful ceremony, participants will propagate plants as a symbolic representation of the healing process, nurturing both their personal growth and the healing of others. This ceremony will serve as a powerful reminder of the transformation they’ve undergone and the lasting impact they will have on their clients’ healing journey.
Participants will receive a propagated plant as a physical representation of their growth and healing throughout the training.
Learning objectives
- Describe how ReWilding EMDR incorporates principles of play and nature into trauma treatment, and identify ways clinicians can use these strategies in practice.
- Identify clinical applications of ReWilding EMDR and nature-based modalities that translate personal and professional insights from the training into strategies supporting sustained trauma healing and growth.
- Participate in a Plant Propagation Ceremony as a symbolic representation of the healing journey, reflecting on the transformation experienced throughout the training and how this process mirrors the work clients undergo in their own trauma healing, creating a tangible reminder of growth, nurturing, and playful exploration for both self and others.
Speakers
All three trainers lead every session, Day 1 through Day 5.
Jackie Flynn
EdS, LMHC-S, RPT-S™
Jackie Flynn, EdS, LMHC-S, RPT-S™, is a renowned therapist, consultant, and international trainer specializing in EMDR, Play Therapy, Sandtray Therapy, and the integration of expressive and somatic modalities. As the founder of EMDR with Kids and the EMDR Playground, she is passionate about helping therapists harness the power of play and creativity to facilitate deep healing—beyond the limitations of words. A licensed mental health counselor and registered play therapist supervisor, Jackie brings a nervous system-informed, trauma-responsive approach to her work, blending neuroscience, attachment, and experiential therapies in a way that is both deeply intuitive and highly effective. Her teachings emphasize presence over protocol, honoring the wisdom of the body, and creating spaces where healing unfolds naturally. She is a sought-after speaker, author, and course creator, known for making complex therapeutic concepts accessible, engaging, and immediately applicable. Whether she is teaching, consulting, or guiding immersive experiences in nature-based settings, Jackie’s work is rooted in connection, creativity, and a deep respect for the healing potential of play and presence.
Sessions
Wed Nov 18ReWild1 - Day 1ReWilding EMDR: Grounding and Beginning the Healing JourneyView more detailsHide details
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM CDT · 6.00 CE credit hours
FormatIn-Person Only
SpeakersAlisha Denham · Catherine Denham · Jackie Flynn
Description
Day 1 of ReWilding Sandtray Therapy will introduce you to the profound power of Sandtray Therapy as a tool for healing and self-expression. This immersive day is designed to lay the groundwork for understanding how play facilitates emotional and psychological healing, and how Sandtray Therapy can be integrated into your work with both children and adults.
We will explore how the act of creating symbolic worlds in the sand allows clients to express complex emotions and life experiences that might be difficult to articulate. Through the use of miniatures and symbolic representations, clients are empowered to externalize their inner worlds, giving them a sense of control and agency in their healing journey. By engaging in the tactile experience of shaping sand and creating meaningful representations, clients reconnect with themselves in a way that is deeply embodied and holistic.
In addition to learning the theoretical underpinnings of Sandtray Therapy, you will have the opportunity to engage in experiential exercises, where you’ll begin to understand how this approach can facilitate deep emotional expression, integrate mind and body, and promote healing. By the end of Day 1, you’ll gain a foundational understanding of how Sandtray Therapy can be used to create a nonverbal, playful space that encourages emotional release and psychological transformation, providing your clients with a powerful tool for personal healing.
Learning objectives
- List 3 key benefits of using Sandtray Therapy in play-based treatment for children and adults, emphasizing how ReWilding through play supports emotional and psychological healing.
- Explain 2 key principles of Margaret Lowenfeld’s World Technique and its role in ReWilding self-expression and facilitating play in therapy.
- Identify 3 types of miniatures commonly used in Sandtray play therapy and explain their significance in ReWilding the therapeutic process through playful, symbolic representations.
- Discuss the role of nonverbal communication in play therapy through Sandtray and how it enhances the therapeutic process by ReWilding play and self-expression.
- Demonstrate 2 effective ways to guide a client in creating a playful sand world that reflects their emotional state, struggles, or life experiences, aiding in their ReWilding journey.
- Apply reflective questioning techniques in a playful way to help clients engage with and process their sandtray creations in a ReWilding therapeutic context.
- Explain how the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Model and principles of Traumatology can be integrated with ReWilding through the use of Sandtray Therapy, emphasizing how the process facilitates adaptive shifts, engages the whole brain, and promotes dual awareness for healing and transformation.
- Describe the significance of Phase 1 (Establishing the Sandtray Space) and Phase 2 (Introducing the Miniatures) in Sandtray Therapy, emphasizing how these phases support ReWilding by creating a safe environment for play and self-expression.
Thu Nov 19ReWild2 - Day 2The ReWilding Process: Bridging the Past and PresentView more detailsHide details
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM CDT · 6.00 CE credit hours
FormatIn-Person Only
SpeakersAlisha Denham · Catherine Denham · Jackie Flynn
Description
On Day 2 of ReWilding Sandtray Therapy, we will dive deeper into the practical application of Sandtray techniques, focusing on how this modality can be used to address trauma, anxiety, and family dynamics in play-based therapy. Through symbolic play, we will explore how Sandtray can facilitate profound emotional healing, particularly with children, by creating safe spaces where ReWilding and transformation can take place.
You will learn how to utilize Sandtray therapy to help clients process trauma, reduce anxiety, and navigate family dynamics, facilitating an integrated healing journey through play. We will explore structured, playful exercises that can be tailored to children and adults, encouraging emotional expression and healing through symbolic play.
The day will also include an opportunity to reflect on case notes, learning how to document the healing process and the symbolic play used in clients’ sandtray creations, emphasizing the therapeutic goals and ReWilding outcomes. We’ll also explore how to integrate Sandtray with other therapeutic modalities, like EMDR and narrative therapy, reinforcing the ReWilding value of play and its therapeutic potential.
Ethical considerations will be addressed, ensuring that boundaries, confidentiality, and cultural sensitivity are maintained within a nonjudgmental and playful therapeutic setting. Finally, you will learn to foster a playful, nonjudgmental environment in Sandtray therapy, empowering clients to express themselves and heal creatively, both emotionally and symbolically.
Throughout the day, we’ll examine Phases 3-7 of Sandtray Therapy, focusing on how each phase facilitates emotional expression, trauma integration, and healing through symbolic play. We will also reflect on the significance of Phase 8 (Reevaluation and Closure), exploring how this phase supports ReWilding by helping clients integrate their experiences, ensuring lasting transformation.
By the end of Day 2, you will have the tools and insights to create more structured therapeutic experiences with Sandtray, helping clients experience deep healing through the process of play and ReWilding.
Learning objectives
- Utilize Sandtray play therapy techniques to address trauma, anxiety, or family dynamics in play-based practice, particularly with children, to support their ReWilding and healing.
- Create 2 structured, playful Sandtray exercises tailored to specific populations (e.g., children, adults) that encourage emotional expression and ReWilding healing through play.
- Write a case note reflecting the use of playful symbolism in a client’s sandtray creation and its connection to therapeutic goals, emphasizing play as a tool for ReWilding healing.
- Use Sandtray play therapy techniques with other therapeutic modalities (e.g., EMDR, narrative therapy), reinforcing the ReWilding value of play in therapy.
- Identify 2 ethical considerations when using Sandtray in play therapy, ensuring that boundaries, confidentiality, and cultural sensitivity are maintained in a playful, ReWilding nonjudgmental setting.
- Demonstrate how to foster a playful, nonjudgmental environment in Sandtray therapy that encourages creative self-expression, emotional healing, and client empowerment through ReWilding play.
- List the key processes involved in Phases 3-7 of Sandtray Therapy, explaining how each phase contributes to the ReWilding process by facilitating emotional expression, trauma integration, and healing through symbolic play and nonverbal communication.
- Describe the significance of Phase 8 (Reevaluation and Closure) in Sandtray Therapy, emphasizing how this phase supports ReWilding by helping clients integrate their experiences and emotions, creating lasting transformation through play and symbolic expression.
Fri Nov 20ReWild3 - Day 3The ReWilding Journey Continues: Deepening Emotional HealingView more detailsHide details
8:45 AM – 3:00 PM CDT · 5.00 CE credit hours · Workshop
FormatIn-Person Only
SpeakersCatherine Denham · Alisha Denham · Jackie Flynn
Description
In this immersive full-day session, we’ll introduce the ReWilding EMDR approach, focusing on how nature-based play and sandtray therapy can enhance every phase of EMDR. You will learn how these elements can support trauma healing, emotional regulation, and intergenerational healing. The session will start with an introduction to the weekend, followed by a guided nature-based grounding activity and sandtray practice. Throughout the session, you’ll gain practical tools for integrating nature and sandtray techniques into your EMDR work, helping your clients process trauma with the added benefit of grounding, creativity, and symbolic expression. The day concludes with community sharing over dinner, where you’ll connect with other participants and reflect on your experiences.
Learning objectives
- Describe how the ReWilding EMDR™ approach in Phase 1 (History Taking and Case Conceptualization) utilizes nature’s grounding energy outdoors to access implicit memories and delve into intergenerational trauma, creating a holistic foundation for healing that begins with nature’s safe gateway and invites playful exploration of the therapeutic process.
- Explain how outdoor nature immersion in Phase 2 (Preparation) helps clients attune to their autonomic nervous system, using mindful movement, sound, and earth-based elements to regulate their bodies and foster emotional resilience, setting the stage for deeper therapeutic work that includes play-based exploration of emotional regulation.
- Identify how nature’s elements in Phase 3 (Assessment) invite trauma targets to surface naturally, with safety and support provided by nature’s presence outdoors, enabling dual awareness and an authentic connection to implicit experiences within a grounded, nature-supported environment that encourages playful engagement with the healing process.
- Demonstrate how nature-based bilateral stimulation techniques, such as walking through the forest or listening to ambient natural sounds in Phase 4 (Desensitization), help clients release trauma stored in the body, integrating the nervous system and enhancing trauma resolution through nature’s rhythms and playful interaction with the environment.
- Apply the ReWilding EMDR™ approach in Phase 5 (Installation) by using the grounding presence of nature to embody positive cognitions, reinforcing new, healthier beliefs, and fostering neuroplasticity and self-regulation through nature’s stabilizing influence, while encouraging playful connection to the healing process.
- Explain how nature immersion during Phase 6 (Body Scan) facilitates somatic release and nervous system regulation, with clients attuning to the natural surroundings to reconnect with their bodies and release tension in a grounded, nature-supported manner that encourages playful exploration of physical sensations and healing.
- Describe how the four elements of nature (earth, water, fire, air) in Phase 7 (Closure) help achieve nervous system equilibrium and restore balance, supporting the transition from therapy to daily life with nature-based grounding activities and playful, restorative actions to reinforce healing progress in the outdoors.
Sat Nov 21ReWild4 - Day 4ReWilding and Neurobiology: Shifting the Nervous SystemView more detailsHide details
8:45 AM – 3:00 PM CDT · 5.00 CE credit hours
FormatIn-Person Only
SpeakersCatherine Denham · Alisha Denham · Jackie Flynn
Description
On Day 4, we will dive deeper into the EMDR process and explore how sandtray therapy and nature-based play can be used to enhance Phases 3 to 7 of EMDR. Through interactive learning, you’ll discover how these creative and grounding techniques can help clients access and process traumatic memories, install positive cognitions, and release somatic tension. This full-day session will include dyadic practice, where you’ll apply nature-based techniques and sandtray work to your own EMDR targets. You’ll also gain hands-on experience using nature metaphors and sandtray miniatures to help clients heal emotionally and physically. The day will end with a group rhythmic activity, designed to integrate the emotional work and help stabilize participants before a reflective journaling session.
Learning objectives
- Identify how nature-based mindfulness and playful practices in Phase 8 (Reevaluation) allow clients to assess current distress while outdoors, fostering resilience and ongoing emotional regulation through a sustainable healing process that continues beyond therapy, integrating the natural world into the playful healing journey.
- Explain how nature-based tools in the ReWilding EMDR™ model, combined with playful exploration, support the integration of dual awareness and traumatology, utilizing the outdoors to help clients process past trauma and connect with the present healing energy of nature during play-based EMDR work.
- Examine how nature’s grounding energy during the ReWilding EMDR™ process, alongside playful engagement, enhances AIP processing, helping clients’ emotional and psychological healing to be deeply connected to both their body and environment as they work through the 8 phases of therapy in nature.
- Utilize nature-based reflective techniques outdoors, integrating playful exploration, to help clients process implicit memories, trauma, and intergenerational wounds, fostering emotional and somatic healing in a nonverbal, nature-supported way that is rooted in the natural world and encourages play-based healing.
- Describe how a deeper understanding of how ReWilding EMDR™ in nature shifts the nervous system from trauma states to healing states, using natural rhythms and playful engagement outdoors to address traumatology and achieve whole-brain, neurobiological integration across all 8 phases of therapy.
Sun Nov 22ReWild5 - Day 5Reflecting and Integrating: Final Healing CeremonyView more detailsHide details
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT · 2.00 CE credit hours · Workshop
FormatIn-Person Only
SpeakersCatherine Denham · Alisha Denham · Jackie Flynn
Description
On Day 5, we’ll come together to reflect and integrate everything we’ve learned throughout the weekend. You’ll have the opportunity to reflect on how nature-based play, sandtray therapy, and ReWilding EMDR can be used to enhance trauma healing both personally and professionally. The day will begin with final sandtray practice and nature-based integration, followed by a Plant Propagation Ceremony. In this meaningful ceremony, participants will propagate plants as a symbolic representation of the healing process, nurturing both their personal growth and the healing of others. This ceremony will serve as a powerful reminder of the transformation they’ve undergone and the lasting impact they will have on their clients’ healing journey.
Participants will receive a propagated plant as a physical representation of their growth and healing throughout the training.
Learning objectives
- Describe how ReWilding EMDR incorporates principles of play and nature into trauma treatment, and identify ways clinicians can use these strategies in practice.
- Identify clinical applications of ReWilding EMDR and nature-based modalities that translate personal and professional insights from the training into strategies supporting sustained trauma healing and growth.
- Participate in a Plant Propagation Ceremony as a symbolic representation of the healing journey, reflecting on the transformation experienced throughout the training and how this process mirrors the work clients undergo in their own trauma healing, creating a tangible reminder of growth, nurturing, and playful exploration for both self and others.
Alisha (left) & Catherine (right)
Alisha Denham
LCSW, RPT-S™
Alisha Denham, LCSW, RPT-S, is a licensed clinical social worker with extensive experience in child therapy. She co-founded Momma Owls Minis, an Etsy shop specializing in handcrafted miniature figures designed to support sandtray and play therapy practices. Alisha’s unique blend of artistic talent and therapeutic expertise allows her to create tools that facilitate healing and self-expression in clients. She has also contributed to educational resources, such as demonstrating the use of small labyrinths in therapeutic settings. Alisha is actively involved in the therapeutic community, participating in events like the EMDR Playground Immersion, where she leads immersive sessions on symbolism and metaphor in sandtray therapy. Her dedication to integrating creative arts into therapy underscores her commitment to holistic mental health practices.
Catherine Denham
LCSW, RPT-S™
Catherine Denham, LCSW-RPT-S, is a licensed clinical social worker and registered play therapist-supervisor with over a decade of experience providing therapy to individuals and families. As co-founder of Momma Owls, she has demonstrated a commitment to supporting parents and children through innovative therapeutic approaches. Catherine is also the co-host of the ‘Rewilding EMDR’ podcast, where she explores the intersections of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy and nature-based healing practices. Her dedication extends to training and supervising emerging therapists, emphasizing the importance of play therapy and holistic mental health practices.
Sessions
Wed Nov 18ReWild1 - Day 1ReWilding EMDR: Grounding and Beginning the Healing JourneyView more detailsHide details
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM CDT · 6.00 CE credit hours
FormatIn-Person Only
SpeakersAlisha Denham · Catherine Denham · Jackie Flynn
Description
Day 1 of ReWilding Sandtray Therapy will introduce you to the profound power of Sandtray Therapy as a tool for healing and self-expression. This immersive day is designed to lay the groundwork for understanding how play facilitates emotional and psychological healing, and how Sandtray Therapy can be integrated into your work with both children and adults.
We will explore how the act of creating symbolic worlds in the sand allows clients to express complex emotions and life experiences that might be difficult to articulate. Through the use of miniatures and symbolic representations, clients are empowered to externalize their inner worlds, giving them a sense of control and agency in their healing journey. By engaging in the tactile experience of shaping sand and creating meaningful representations, clients reconnect with themselves in a way that is deeply embodied and holistic.
In addition to learning the theoretical underpinnings of Sandtray Therapy, you will have the opportunity to engage in experiential exercises, where you’ll begin to understand how this approach can facilitate deep emotional expression, integrate mind and body, and promote healing. By the end of Day 1, you’ll gain a foundational understanding of how Sandtray Therapy can be used to create a nonverbal, playful space that encourages emotional release and psychological transformation, providing your clients with a powerful tool for personal healing.
Learning objectives
- List 3 key benefits of using Sandtray Therapy in play-based treatment for children and adults, emphasizing how ReWilding through play supports emotional and psychological healing.
- Explain 2 key principles of Margaret Lowenfeld’s World Technique and its role in ReWilding self-expression and facilitating play in therapy.
- Identify 3 types of miniatures commonly used in Sandtray play therapy and explain their significance in ReWilding the therapeutic process through playful, symbolic representations.
- Discuss the role of nonverbal communication in play therapy through Sandtray and how it enhances the therapeutic process by ReWilding play and self-expression.
- Demonstrate 2 effective ways to guide a client in creating a playful sand world that reflects their emotional state, struggles, or life experiences, aiding in their ReWilding journey.
- Apply reflective questioning techniques in a playful way to help clients engage with and process their sandtray creations in a ReWilding therapeutic context.
- Explain how the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Model and principles of Traumatology can be integrated with ReWilding through the use of Sandtray Therapy, emphasizing how the process facilitates adaptive shifts, engages the whole brain, and promotes dual awareness for healing and transformation.
- Describe the significance of Phase 1 (Establishing the Sandtray Space) and Phase 2 (Introducing the Miniatures) in Sandtray Therapy, emphasizing how these phases support ReWilding by creating a safe environment for play and self-expression.
Thu Nov 19ReWild2 - Day 2The ReWilding Process: Bridging the Past and PresentView more detailsHide details
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM CDT · 6.00 CE credit hours
FormatIn-Person Only
SpeakersAlisha Denham · Catherine Denham · Jackie Flynn
Description
On Day 2 of ReWilding Sandtray Therapy, we will dive deeper into the practical application of Sandtray techniques, focusing on how this modality can be used to address trauma, anxiety, and family dynamics in play-based therapy. Through symbolic play, we will explore how Sandtray can facilitate profound emotional healing, particularly with children, by creating safe spaces where ReWilding and transformation can take place.
You will learn how to utilize Sandtray therapy to help clients process trauma, reduce anxiety, and navigate family dynamics, facilitating an integrated healing journey through play. We will explore structured, playful exercises that can be tailored to children and adults, encouraging emotional expression and healing through symbolic play.
The day will also include an opportunity to reflect on case notes, learning how to document the healing process and the symbolic play used in clients’ sandtray creations, emphasizing the therapeutic goals and ReWilding outcomes. We’ll also explore how to integrate Sandtray with other therapeutic modalities, like EMDR and narrative therapy, reinforcing the ReWilding value of play and its therapeutic potential.
Ethical considerations will be addressed, ensuring that boundaries, confidentiality, and cultural sensitivity are maintained within a nonjudgmental and playful therapeutic setting. Finally, you will learn to foster a playful, nonjudgmental environment in Sandtray therapy, empowering clients to express themselves and heal creatively, both emotionally and symbolically.
Throughout the day, we’ll examine Phases 3-7 of Sandtray Therapy, focusing on how each phase facilitates emotional expression, trauma integration, and healing through symbolic play. We will also reflect on the significance of Phase 8 (Reevaluation and Closure), exploring how this phase supports ReWilding by helping clients integrate their experiences, ensuring lasting transformation.
By the end of Day 2, you will have the tools and insights to create more structured therapeutic experiences with Sandtray, helping clients experience deep healing through the process of play and ReWilding.
Learning objectives
- Utilize Sandtray play therapy techniques to address trauma, anxiety, or family dynamics in play-based practice, particularly with children, to support their ReWilding and healing.
- Create 2 structured, playful Sandtray exercises tailored to specific populations (e.g., children, adults) that encourage emotional expression and ReWilding healing through play.
- Write a case note reflecting the use of playful symbolism in a client’s sandtray creation and its connection to therapeutic goals, emphasizing play as a tool for ReWilding healing.
- Use Sandtray play therapy techniques with other therapeutic modalities (e.g., EMDR, narrative therapy), reinforcing the ReWilding value of play in therapy.
- Identify 2 ethical considerations when using Sandtray in play therapy, ensuring that boundaries, confidentiality, and cultural sensitivity are maintained in a playful, ReWilding nonjudgmental setting.
- Demonstrate how to foster a playful, nonjudgmental environment in Sandtray therapy that encourages creative self-expression, emotional healing, and client empowerment through ReWilding play.
- List the key processes involved in Phases 3-7 of Sandtray Therapy, explaining how each phase contributes to the ReWilding process by facilitating emotional expression, trauma integration, and healing through symbolic play and nonverbal communication.
- Describe the significance of Phase 8 (Reevaluation and Closure) in Sandtray Therapy, emphasizing how this phase supports ReWilding by helping clients integrate their experiences and emotions, creating lasting transformation through play and symbolic expression.
Fri Nov 20ReWild3 - Day 3The ReWilding Journey Continues: Deepening Emotional HealingView more detailsHide details
8:45 AM – 3:00 PM CDT · 5.00 CE credit hours · Workshop
FormatIn-Person Only
SpeakersCatherine Denham · Alisha Denham · Jackie Flynn
Description
In this immersive full-day session, we’ll introduce the ReWilding EMDR approach, focusing on how nature-based play and sandtray therapy can enhance every phase of EMDR. You will learn how these elements can support trauma healing, emotional regulation, and intergenerational healing. The session will start with an introduction to the weekend, followed by a guided nature-based grounding activity and sandtray practice. Throughout the session, you’ll gain practical tools for integrating nature and sandtray techniques into your EMDR work, helping your clients process trauma with the added benefit of grounding, creativity, and symbolic expression. The day concludes with community sharing over dinner, where you’ll connect with other participants and reflect on your experiences.
Learning objectives
- Describe how the ReWilding EMDR™ approach in Phase 1 (History Taking and Case Conceptualization) utilizes nature’s grounding energy outdoors to access implicit memories and delve into intergenerational trauma, creating a holistic foundation for healing that begins with nature’s safe gateway and invites playful exploration of the therapeutic process.
- Explain how outdoor nature immersion in Phase 2 (Preparation) helps clients attune to their autonomic nervous system, using mindful movement, sound, and earth-based elements to regulate their bodies and foster emotional resilience, setting the stage for deeper therapeutic work that includes play-based exploration of emotional regulation.
- Identify how nature’s elements in Phase 3 (Assessment) invite trauma targets to surface naturally, with safety and support provided by nature’s presence outdoors, enabling dual awareness and an authentic connection to implicit experiences within a grounded, nature-supported environment that encourages playful engagement with the healing process.
- Demonstrate how nature-based bilateral stimulation techniques, such as walking through the forest or listening to ambient natural sounds in Phase 4 (Desensitization), help clients release trauma stored in the body, integrating the nervous system and enhancing trauma resolution through nature’s rhythms and playful interaction with the environment.
- Apply the ReWilding EMDR™ approach in Phase 5 (Installation) by using the grounding presence of nature to embody positive cognitions, reinforcing new, healthier beliefs, and fostering neuroplasticity and self-regulation through nature’s stabilizing influence, while encouraging playful connection to the healing process.
- Explain how nature immersion during Phase 6 (Body Scan) facilitates somatic release and nervous system regulation, with clients attuning to the natural surroundings to reconnect with their bodies and release tension in a grounded, nature-supported manner that encourages playful exploration of physical sensations and healing.
- Describe how the four elements of nature (earth, water, fire, air) in Phase 7 (Closure) help achieve nervous system equilibrium and restore balance, supporting the transition from therapy to daily life with nature-based grounding activities and playful, restorative actions to reinforce healing progress in the outdoors.
Sat Nov 21ReWild4 - Day 4ReWilding and Neurobiology: Shifting the Nervous SystemView more detailsHide details
8:45 AM – 3:00 PM CDT · 5.00 CE credit hours
FormatIn-Person Only
SpeakersCatherine Denham · Alisha Denham · Jackie Flynn
Description
On Day 4, we will dive deeper into the EMDR process and explore how sandtray therapy and nature-based play can be used to enhance Phases 3 to 7 of EMDR. Through interactive learning, you’ll discover how these creative and grounding techniques can help clients access and process traumatic memories, install positive cognitions, and release somatic tension. This full-day session will include dyadic practice, where you’ll apply nature-based techniques and sandtray work to your own EMDR targets. You’ll also gain hands-on experience using nature metaphors and sandtray miniatures to help clients heal emotionally and physically. The day will end with a group rhythmic activity, designed to integrate the emotional work and help stabilize participants before a reflective journaling session.
Learning objectives
- Identify how nature-based mindfulness and playful practices in Phase 8 (Reevaluation) allow clients to assess current distress while outdoors, fostering resilience and ongoing emotional regulation through a sustainable healing process that continues beyond therapy, integrating the natural world into the playful healing journey.
- Explain how nature-based tools in the ReWilding EMDR™ model, combined with playful exploration, support the integration of dual awareness and traumatology, utilizing the outdoors to help clients process past trauma and connect with the present healing energy of nature during play-based EMDR work.
- Examine how nature’s grounding energy during the ReWilding EMDR™ process, alongside playful engagement, enhances AIP processing, helping clients’ emotional and psychological healing to be deeply connected to both their body and environment as they work through the 8 phases of therapy in nature.
- Utilize nature-based reflective techniques outdoors, integrating playful exploration, to help clients process implicit memories, trauma, and intergenerational wounds, fostering emotional and somatic healing in a nonverbal, nature-supported way that is rooted in the natural world and encourages play-based healing.
- Describe how a deeper understanding of how ReWilding EMDR™ in nature shifts the nervous system from trauma states to healing states, using natural rhythms and playful engagement outdoors to address traumatology and achieve whole-brain, neurobiological integration across all 8 phases of therapy.
Sun Nov 22ReWild5 - Day 5Reflecting and Integrating: Final Healing CeremonyView more detailsHide details
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT · 2.00 CE credit hours · Workshop
FormatIn-Person Only
SpeakersCatherine Denham · Alisha Denham · Jackie Flynn
Description
On Day 5, we’ll come together to reflect and integrate everything we’ve learned throughout the weekend. You’ll have the opportunity to reflect on how nature-based play, sandtray therapy, and ReWilding EMDR can be used to enhance trauma healing both personally and professionally. The day will begin with final sandtray practice and nature-based integration, followed by a Plant Propagation Ceremony. In this meaningful ceremony, participants will propagate plants as a symbolic representation of the healing process, nurturing both their personal growth and the healing of others. This ceremony will serve as a powerful reminder of the transformation they’ve undergone and the lasting impact they will have on their clients’ healing journey.
Participants will receive a propagated plant as a physical representation of their growth and healing throughout the training.
Learning objectives
- Describe how ReWilding EMDR incorporates principles of play and nature into trauma treatment, and identify ways clinicians can use these strategies in practice.
- Identify clinical applications of ReWilding EMDR and nature-based modalities that translate personal and professional insights from the training into strategies supporting sustained trauma healing and growth.
- Participate in a Plant Propagation Ceremony as a symbolic representation of the healing journey, reflecting on the transformation experienced throughout the training and how this process mirrors the work clients undergo in their own trauma healing, creating a tangible reminder of growth, nurturing, and playful exploration for both self and others.
Venue
November 18 – 22, 2026
Momma Owl’s Minis Workshop
628 Molino Road, Molino, FL 32577
For your upcoming reWILDing training with Jackie Flynn at Momma Owl’s Minis Workshop in Molino, Florida.
All-inclusive retreat experience
Everything you need for this immersive training is included, so you can focus fully on your own restoration and learning.
We’ll be staying together at the cozy and welcoming Miss Patty’s Lodge, a peaceful space that supports deep connection, reflection, and rest. Lodging, meals, training materials, and all experiential activities are included in your registration.
From the moment you arrive, you’ll be held in a space designed for healing, through nature, play, and community.
CE Info
Earn up to 24 CE Credit Hours
Pending
EMDRIA
EMDRIA credit hours pending. We will update this section as approvals are finalized.
EMDR International Association EC Provider: Jacqueline Flynn is an EMDRIA EC Provider and this program is pending approval for 24 EMDRIA Credits. Eligibility for EMDRIA Credits is restricted to those who have completed an EMDRIA Approved Basic EMDR Training.
Approved
Association for Play Therapy (APT)
APT CE Hours: 24 Contact Hours
APT Approved Provider: Jacqueline Flynn
APT Approved Provider 20-628
Jacqueline Flynn is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to sponsor continuing education specific to play therapy. Jacqueline Flynn maintains responsibility for this program.
Approved
NBCC Continuing Education
Jackie Flynn Consulting has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 8022. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Jackie Flynn Consulting is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
ReWilding Play, Sandtray, and EMDR Therapy Integration offers up to 24 NBCC continuing education hours for eligible participation. Participants must attend live and in real time to earn NBCC continuing education credit. Credit awarded will be based on documented attendance and applicable program requirements.
For additional state licensure information, including APA approval, please check this tab for current status. Continuing Education Credit Hours are available from several organizations and are currently pending approval.
Target audience
This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and MFT’s.
Event learning objectives
- List 3 key benefits of using Sandtray Therapy in play-based treatment for children and adults, emphasizing how ReWilding through play supports emotional and psychological healing.
- Utilize Sandtray play therapy techniques to address trauma, anxiety, or family dynamics in play-based practice, particularly with children, to support their ReWilding and healing.
- Describe the ReWilding EMDR™ approach in Phase 1 through 7.
- Utilize nature-based reflective techniques outdoors, integrating playful exploration, to help clients process implicit memories, trauma, and intergenerational wounds, fostering emotional and somatic healing in a nonverbal, nature-supported way that is rooted in the natural world and encourages play-based healing.
- Identify clinical applications of ReWilding EMDR and nature-based modalities that translate personal and professional insights from the training into strategies supporting sustained trauma healing and growth.
Policies
Refund policy
Because of the care, time, and resources that go into this small-group experience, all sales are final and no refunds will be issued. If you are unable to attend, you may transfer your spot by securing your own replacement, subject to our approval and registration deadlines. By enrolling, you acknowledge and agree to this policy.
Disability accommodation
We are committed to providing ADA accommodations in compliance with the law. To ensure your needs are met, please inform us of any requirements when you register, ideally at least 30 days before the event, by emailing nina@jackieflynnconsulting.com.
Questions?
If you have questions, email nina@jackieflynnconsulting.com.
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