Author Archives: Joy

Off to Marrakech

Tomorrow evening Joyce Mills and I leave for the the World Congress of Play Therapy Conference in Marrakech, Morocco. I’ll be presenting my first International workshop entitled: StoryPlay® in the Classroom: A multicultural model for helping children overcome obstacles to learning and achieving their goals.  I’m really looking forward to this new and exciting experience,… Continue Reading

Feeling Anxious? Be Alert!

When you feel anxious, anxiety-ridden, what is one to do? What do you ordinarily do when anxiety is there? You try to solve it. You try alternatives, and you get more and more into it. You will create a bigger mess because anxiety cannot be solved through thinking. It cannot be dissolved through thinking because… Continue Reading

StoryPlay® in the Classroom: A multicultural model for helping children overcome obstacles to learning and achieving their goals

I’ll be heading to  Marrakech next month to present a StoryPlay® workshop to the World Congress of Play Therapy.  Click on the link below for more details.  I’d love to see you there! Title: StoryPlay® in the Classroom: A multicultural model for helping children overcome obstacles to learning and achieving their goals Location: Marrakech, Morocco… Continue Reading

The Goose is Out

“The master tells the disciple to meditate on a koan: A small goose is put into a bottle, fed and nourished. The goose goes on becoming bigger and bigger and bigger, and fills the whole bottle. Now it is too big; it cannot come out of the bottle’s mouth — the mouth is too small.… Continue Reading