Lisa Toye, MSW, RSW
presented by
SickKids CCMH Learning Institute
Live webinar
December 7, 2022 | 9 a.m to 4 p.m. EST Play, creativity and the arts have a unique capacity to respond to human suffering. They offer experimental spaces for the exploration of ideas, feelings and questions around the experiences of death and grief. This experiential training will explore play-based, arts-based, and other creative approaches to both psychoeducation and counseling/psychotherapy. The facilitators will share ways of using such approaches to facilitate grief education and support in schools. Along with ways of supporting grieving children and youth virtually. They will present many easy to use (and modify) creative techniques in working with grieving children and youth. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in safe, experiential activities to better understand the process of using creative approaches. No art experience is necessary. The learning objectives of this webinar are to provide participants with: • Creative approaches to supporting children and youth who are grieving the dying or death of someone in their life
• Art and play-based strategies to add to their therapeutic toolkit
• Strategies for supporting grieving children and youth in schools This webinar is part of the Children’s grief and bereavement certificate program . Participants may register for any of the certificate program’s individual webinars as a stand-alone training. Learn more
and save 15% with promo code CAVERSHAM15 About the Facilitator: Lysa Toye is a Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist, Expressive Arts Therapist and EMDR practitioner in full-time private practice. She has worked in paediatric and adult health, mental health, grief and palliative care agency settings for over a decade, including the Dr. Jay Children's Grief Centre and the Hospital for Sick Children, and in private practice for nearly a decade. Lysa specializes in palliative, grief and complex trauma and dissociation work with children, youth and adults. Her practice offers counselling and psychotherapy using a variety of relational, integrative therapeutic modalities, including expressive arts therapy, EMDR, ego state and structural dissociation work, Brainspotting, and mindfulness and compassion-based approaches. Lysa has taught extensively, authored several book chapters and online resources on grief, and currently co-teaches in the SickKids/Sarana Institute's Mindfulness and Compassion in Healthcare and End of Life Care Certificate Program, in the SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Certificate Program in Children's Grief and Bereavement and in Wilfred Laurier's Grief and Bereavement Certificate Program on Religion, Spirituality and Self-Care. Lysa is passionate about supporting children, youth, adults and families living through adversity, grief and trauma to grow and give voice to their experiences through mindful, creative and expressive integration of body, heart and mind, as well as a deep engagement with the wider world.
website: https://sickkidscmh.ca/course/dancing-in-the-darkness-creative-approaches-to-working-with-grieving-children-and-youth-4/ | 
