Supervision is not just oversight or documentation. It is about nurturing curiosity, creativity, and growth in those we mentor. Yet supervisors often find themselves weighed down by administrative demands and burnout, losing touch with the very playfulness that makes supervision transformative.
Using Stuart Brown’s groundbreaking Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, you will rediscover how play protects supervisees and supervisors alike. This is not specific to Play Therapy, but does qualify for APT credit.
This hybrid book-based training invites you to learn in a way that is engaging, restorative, and practical.
This training will guide you to rediscover what supervision was always meant to be: a living, creative process that strengthens both the supervisor and the supervisee.
You will:
🌿 Create life-giving projects that help you slow down, reflect, and reconnect with your own creativity
🌿 Experience art-based prompts that renew inspiration and remind you what it feels like to pause and imagine again
🌿 Learn right-brained supervision tools you can bring directly to your supervisees to help them feel more grounded and confident
🌿 Leave with tangible rituals that help both you and those you mentor end sessions feeling restored rather than depleted.
📕 Read at Home (10 NBCC / 10 APT non-contact CEs)
Purchase the book Play by Dr. Stuart Brown (yours to keep) and complete short reflective writing prompts, no multiple-choice exams.
You can read the book on your own time. Finishing it before we meet is not required. Our live gathering will build on the themes and give you tangible ways to bring the ideas to life through creative and experiential practice.
🙋♀️ Join One Live Session (2 NBCC / 2 APT CEs)
Choose from one of three dates, or decide later. We will keep sending you the Zoom or address until you attend.
A Creative, Supportive Space for Supervisors
Each live session blends discussion with gentle, hands-on activities such as guided art, brief meditations, and small-group conversation, designed to help you absorb ideas without feeling pressured. You can share or simply listen and learn.
📆 Available Dates (Eastern Time 9:45–11:45 a.m.)
Friday, November 7, 2025
Friday, January 23, 2026
Friday, February 6, 2026
Virtual (non-contact CEs) or In Person in Loudoun County, VA (contact CEs)
Cost: $199 total for up to 12 CEs (10 for reading + 2 for discussion)
By the end of this section, participants will be able to:
🍏 Discuss insights with colleagues in real time to explore protective strategies for supervisor burn out.
🍏 Identify at least three ways that play supports emotional resilience and professional growth in supervisees.
🍏 Describe the impact of play deprivation on therapists’ clinical effectiveness and burnout risk, referencing Stuart Brown’s research.
🍏 Analyze their own supervision practices through the lens of play theory, identifying opportunities to strengthen curiosity, flexibility, and resilience.
🍏 Develop creative supervision strategies that incorporate play-based principles to promote supervisee well-being, clinical creativity, and post-traumatic growth.
🍏 Explore current research on adult play and it’s impact on resilience
☀️ Play therapists preparing to become a play therapy supervisor
☀️ Open to all state-licensed clinical supervisors seeking CE hours (please confirm with your state board whether NBCC credits are accepted)
☀️ Any clinical supervisor hoping to prevent or heal burnout
Agenda (Eastern Time) 9:45 -11:45am
9:45-11:45 Discuss & experiential activities
11:45 Book club is over!