Linda Elaine Bath, Donna Rodriguez, Diana Wood, David Capitolo
As sandplay therapists, we witness the sacred and spiritual with our clients and their images created with the figures on our shelves. Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu god of beginnings, is often found placed above doorways to protect and help with new beginnings and overcoming obstacles that may get in the way of new growth.
Our mission for NCRSS is providing sandplay education and cultivating our sandplay therapy community in northern California. Many of you are essential to the existence and life of NCRSS and we are grateful to all the dedicated members who have accomplished so much in the past ten years.
As NCRSS emerges from this incubation we are able to bring new life and perspective, incorporating the interior development that Covid19 entailed. The world has been changed by the pandemic experience, this is a time of hope and fears as we rebirth our organiztion, hatching in uncertain tmes as a chick in an egg. We see the past month of incubation as potential for new growth, stronger for the ensuing obstacles we hope to emerge stronger for the expereince.
Training and collegial activities have continued with Sandplay Therapists of America (STA). They are now offering free video trainings and dialogues to members, including monthly “tool kit sessions”, twice monthly chats among members, and a Google classroom series (coming soon). If you are not a member of STA, consider joining as an Associate. With that, you will have access to these sessions as well as to their members' listserve, Regional Newsletter, subscription to the Journal of Sandplay Therapy and other resources at www.sandplay.org .
In this time of renewal for NCRSS and our community of sandplay therapists, the board looks to the symbol of Ganesha to overcome obstacies and protect the doorway of this transition.
Painting from the Red Book by C.G.Jung