Sandplay for childrens grief
Posted by Jayne on February 21, 2009 under Child Grief, Grief | 
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Sandplay describes a type of therapy which allows people to express themselves creatively and non-verbally. Sandplay allows access to the unconscious and expression of feelings without words. Sandplay is a gentle, yet powerful therapy, used with adults and children.
In the 1930’s Margaret Lowenfeld, a child psychoanalyst developed what later became known as the ‘World Technique. She used trays with sand, water and small figures in her work with children. Children could make a ‘minature world’ of their lives in the sandtray.
This work was later expanded upon by Dora Kalff and called Sandplay Therapy. Sandplay therapy recognises that the experience of creating a sandplay is therapuetic in itself. The unconscious, the non verbal, is expressed in the sandtray.
