What is POP Wellbeing Play Skills?
POP Wellbeing Play Skills Practitioner training is a 2-day hands-on practical training with 3 follow-up coaching sessions. It’s the perfect intervention for non-therapists to develop a therapeutic approach to their work with children in schools, nurseries, care settings and youth groups from age 4+. Adaptations can easily be made for younger children.
Play is the child's most natural form of
expression
POP Wellbeing Play Skills (PWPS) offers grounding techniques and key insights from current neuroscience, equipping practitioners with adaptable tools for use with sand trays, storytelling, and games. Based on SandStory Skills® by Lara Kora, this course gives a clear, accessible framework for emotional support.
PWPS help children and young people feel safe and secure by teaching practitioners how to bring a calm, empathetic presence using the SandStory Skills® Structure.
“Reflecting on this training, I feel both humbled and inspired. Through the PWPS training I’ve come to see therapeutic presence not as a passive state, but as an active, intentional practice of attunement. These tools have given me a framework for being with children in a way that is both boundaried and compassionate, structured yet spacious. I look forward to deepening my practice and continuing to grow into the kind of grounded, present listener that these approaches call for.”
“Our school wanted to deliver a creative and nurturing way for children to express their 'big thoughts and feelings'...PWPS training was thorough, interesting and fun! Mim adapted the sessions for our school's individual needs and we all left feeling supported.”
Individual Training
Expected dates:
7th and 14th November (2 full days)
8:45am – 3:15pm at Aylesbury Vineyard
£350 per person
£280 for POP Schools
All training now includes:
- 3 post-course coaching calls (1:1 or group)
- A copy of Say What You See by Sandra Blackard
- Certification and registration as Sandstory Skills Practitioners®
- 2 x 1-hour follow-up coaching group meetings
- 1 x 30-minute individual coaching meeting
Bespoke Training
Bespoke training for your organisation
Gold Group Package
£1350 – £1850
For 4–8 people
12–14 hrs (2 days) of Live Wellbeing Skills Training
Delivered in person at your location
At the beginning or end of a term
- One copy each of Say What You See by Sandra Blackard
- 3 x 30-minute individual follow-up coaching calls
- 1 x 60-minute group supervision (post-course)