Masterclass Play en Fun activities for engaging different types of children  (C2311)

Dafna Lender LCSW is een internationale trainer en supervisor voor professionals die met kinderen en gezinnen werken. Ze is gecertificeerd trainer en supervisor/consultant in zowel Theraplay als Dyadische Ontwikkelingspsychotherapie (DDP).  Dafna's stijl, of ze nu therapeut of trainer is, combineert het luchtige met het diepzinnige door haar speelse, intense en gepassioneerde manier van werken en contact. Dafna's expertise is in 25 jaar werken opgebouwd door te werken met gezinnen met gehechtheid in vele omgevingen: risicovolle naschoolse programma's, therapeutische pleegzorg, thuiscrisisstabilisatie, residentiële zorg en privépraktijken. Ze geeft daarnaast les aan en begeleidt clinici in 15 landen in vier talen: Engels, Hebreeuws, Frans en Spaans. Dafna is de co-auteur van Theraplay the Practitioner's Guide (2020).

Op 8 augustus verscheen haar nieuwste boek Integrative Attachment Family Therapy. Bessel van der Kolk schreef het voorwoord. Zowel Bessel als ook Steven Porges en Peter Levine schreven positieve reviews: 

“Dafna Lender’s framework, integrative attachment family therapy (IAFT), uses the power of neuroplasticity to provide parents and children with new experiences of safety and connection that shift trauma-informed relationships. It offers a powerful mental health intervention that can help families to heal. If parents and therapists follow Dafna’s guidance, they can make significant progress in reducing attachment trauma in future generations.” 
-Bessel van der Kolk, MD, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Body Keeps the Score 
 
“Integrative Attachment Family Therapy is a child-focused, multidimensional framework on the vanguard of treatments that heal and strengthen attachment issues in the parent-child relationship. With clear, accessible language and illustrative case examples, Dafna Lender shows how activities based on somatic practices can intervene in problem behaviors in children and in parents. The result is a comprehensive book that will benefit all mental health care professionals who strive to alleviate children’s pain and reconstruct family functioning. “ 
-Peter A. Levine, PhD, best-selling author of Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma and Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing 
 
“Dafna Lender presents an integrated therapeutic approach, IAFT, as an accessible, intuitive, optimistic, and compassionate strategy to strengthen the parent-child relationship. The product of this integration is a transformative therapeutic strategy that leverages the importance of both child and parent feeling safe enough to trust each other. Through clinical examples, we observe how this new felt sense of safety enables both the parent and child to become more accurate and respectful witnesses, a process that evolves into the parent-child co-regulation becoming more symmetrical and imbued with the resilience necessary to process potentially disruptive challenges that may confront either the child or the parent.” 
-Stephen Porges, PhD, author of The Polyvagal Theory and Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory 

Dafna's addition about her trainings
In addition to the core training curriculum, I focus on the non-specifics of being a therapeutic presence, in other words, what YOU do to make your client feel safe, connected, seen and invigorated. You will learn experiential exercises that focus on micro-behaviors that promote a sense of trust and safety.

My area of specialty includes working with very difficult clients! They won't just sit there and cooperate with your questions.  I will show you how you can still make therapeutic progress. I have plenty of videos of my own clinical cases to show to really illustrate the How-to’s of DDP.My teaching style is physical and dynamic. I will have you up and moving about, playing and interacting in small groups with your colleagues. You don’t have to worry about your feet falling asleep from sitting too long in my training!