I enjoy continually learning new things. This list includes the variety of additional training and workshops that I have attended, plus presentations I have done and a chapter I have published. 

Training and Workshops 

Substance Abuse: Dual Diagnosis, Jan. 2020 (SAMHI)

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) – June 2019

Play Therapy in Preschools – Jan. 2019 (3 education credit hours)

Concurrent Disorders – Nov. 2018

Trauma-Informed CBT – May/June 2018

Privacy and Information Sharing: Awareness Training for Contractors and Service Providers – May 2018

DC:0-5 Training workshop – May 2018

The Perpetual Preschool – 2016 (30 education credit hours)

• Creating Learning Materials for Children 
•  The Importance of Block Play, 
• Observing and Recording the Development of Young Children,
•  Creating Learning Mats

Expressive Therapies Summit; New York, NY, 2014 (18 education credit hours)

BCATA Conference, 2014 (6 education credit hours)

• Puzzles, Mysteries and Paradoxes
• Completed 6 continuing education hours

CATA Conference, 2014 (7 education credit hours)

• Fearless Expression
•  Opening Doors for Learning,
• Spiritual Development, Peace of Mind
• Community Art, Recycled Art,
• Restarting Peace

Center for Expressive Therapy; Parksville, BC, 2010 (48 education credit hours – levels 1 and 2)

Sand Play Therapy

• A healing Journey for All ages
• Images of Healing in Sand Pray Therapy

Center for Expressive Therapy; Parksville, BC, 2008 (24 education credit hours)

• Expressive Play Therapy: A Holistic and Integrative Approaches

International Society for Child and Play Therapy; Vancouver, BC, 1998 (12 education credit hours)

• The Creations and Therapeutic Application of Puppets in Therapy with Children (parts 1 & 2)
•  Jungian Sandplay Therapy,
• Anoxeria and Bulimia: The Silent Scream for Help

Canadian Play Therapy Conference; Vancouver, BC, 1996 (12 education credit hours)

• Nature Oriented Psychotherapy,
• Conducting a Successful Children’s Group,
• The use of the Dollhouse in Child Psychotherapy, Endings
•  Goodbyes in a Child’s Life and in the Therapeutic Process

Canadian Play Therapy Conference; Toronto, ON, 1995 (12 education credit hours)

• Play in Different Cultures
•  Theraplay
• Colour Emotional Chart
• Play Therapy, Creativity and Childhood Trauma

Silent Voice – ASL intermediate level, 1988

ASL – beginners level

Workshops Presented 

Ministry of Children and Family Development, Burnaby, BC, 2018 

• Introduction to Art Therapy – Sept-Nov/2018

Expressive Arts Symposium; New York, NY, 2015 

• Therapeutic Scrapbooking and Art Therapy: Making the Connection

BC Art Therapy Association Conference; Sydney, BC, 2014

• Therapeutic Scrapbooking and Art Therapy: Making the Connection

Canadian Art Therapy Association Conference; Nelson, BC, 2014

• Creating with the Creator: Art Therapy and Spirituality

Centennial Place; Mission, BC, 2014

• Art Therapy and Mental Wellness

Vancouver Health Authority; Vancouver, BC, 2014

• Art Therapy and Mental Wellness

Publications

Stanwood, M. (2014).  Creating with the Creator: Art Therapy and Spirituality. In Fehlner, J.  & Fehlner, W.  (Eds.). Art Therapy as an Instrument of Peace. Nelson, Canada: Peaceful View Publishing.