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What’s it all about
Therapy Cards are a tool that help and support clients attending therapy to explore their feelings or /and help them reflect on the abilities to process difficult times in their lives.
Therapy Cards Course
We would like to share Therapy Cards, an innovative resource created to aid in the therapeutic process. Therapy cards were developed by Relationships Are Forever Foundation (Happy Life) together with a dedicated team of warranted counselors and volunteers.
The Therapy cards were created to aid in the therapeutic process as a non-directive tool and help both clients and therapists go through a process of thought and reflection while giving more meaning to the experiences they are going through.
Dates of Course Consisting of 2 sessions
- Session 1 – Wednesday 10th January 2024
- Session 2 – Wednesday 20th March 2024
Time 9.00am to 12.30pm
Venue: Caritas, Triq Mountbatten, Ħamrun
Cost of Course:
The course is €120 (standard price €180), which includes a set of Therapy Cards. Proceeds of the event will go to the Foundation to help cover the costs of services which the Foundation provides to the community. Participants will be given a set of A5 ‘Therapy Cards”, are available in English or Maltese, enabling them to use the cards in therapy.
Participants will receive a CPD certificate provided they attend the two workshops
Target Audience: This training course is open to warranted and trainee therapists.
Registration Process Simply click on the Registration button and submit payment, we will confirm registration.
Kindly send your registration as early as possible as seats are limited.
Course Outline
Workshop 1: An Introduction to the Therapy Cards
- The challenges we face in therapy
- The aim of the Therapy Cards
- Understanding the process
- Role-play of the complete cycle
- Resources available
Workshop 2: Exploring different approaches
- To share experiences & give feedback
- To explore how to use the different stages of the ‘‘Therapy Cards”’
- To learn how to work with choices & outcomes
- Using the cards in different settings
- Role-play
- The way forward
Terms and conditions:
Participants accept that Relationship are Forever Foundation will own and may use/publish all material/photos/videos developed/taken during the course and/or published on respective digital media outlets for promotion and education purposes (please ensure that you have the consent form completed before loading the photos of the participants, alternatively place a solid circle to hide the identity of the individual).
Follow the steps
then we need to make a choice if we would like to do something about it
Discuss the situation to better understand what’s happening
What action would you consider from where you are at the moment?
Outcome is the way things turns out, this will depend on the action/s taken
Finally we reflect on how we feel having travelled the journey
Overview
The Therapy cards were created to aid in the therapeutic process as a non directive tool and help both clients and therapists go through a process of thought and reflections while giving more meaning to the experiences they are going through.
Therapy cards is a tool that can be used at any phase of the therapeutic journey and help to create a safe space where clients can explore their
feelings and help them reflect on the abilities they possess to deal with the challenges and difficult times in their lives. The cards can also be used to
unblock the therapeutic process when it reaches an impasse.
The images on the front of the cards can help clients connect with the present moment, while the questions at the back can serve to help clients
reflect, analyse and critically evaluate their feelings, behaviours and thoughts.
The stages in the process
The Therapy Cards help the clients to :
- verbalize what they are experiencing in a dialogue with the therapist
- identify and express their emotions which then creates emotional
- intelligence which is crucial for empathy
- externalize painful and other sensitive experiences
- learn how to make healthier choices
- understand the outcome of their actions
- develop coping strategies and manage stress
- experience new and deeper insights
- improve mental wellbeing
The Therapy cards are to be used by warranted caring professionals in individual, group, couples or family therapy sessions.
Each card is designed to facilitate reflection, analyses and critically evaluate feelings, behaviours and outcomes.
Here is an example from “Therapy Cards”.The cards are colour coded to reflect the phase.
Each card has a key text and picture to help visualise the message. The back of the cards contains a list of questions intended to make you think and talk about, the last point on the card is a reflection on a possible way forward
