Peace Play in Urban Settings

Peace Play is a healing technique where individuals and families are invited to reflect on and express our own struggles and strengths without using words.  

Through the use of miniature figures that represent the different parts of our lives, scenes are created in sand that help us put words to feelings and experiences.

*My approach is based on Sandtray-Worldplay Therapy, as developed and taught by Gisela S. DeDomenico, PhD.

Over the years, I noticed that traditional forms of therapy weren’t always accessible or culturally relevant to the survivors in urban communities. To address this gap, I modified a therapeutic technique explicitly for families impacted by murder. Peace Play in Urban Settings helps individuals express their struggles and strengths through experiential, creative play rather than through words. Since then, I and my staff have facilitated Peace Play for hundreds of people from every walks of life.

I was introduced to this concept by one of my spiritual advisors Reverend Michelle Walsh.

Peace Play in Urban Settings has transformed my life in ways that support my mind, my body and my soul because it is culturally relevant to my needs. Traditional talk therapy was not for me.

Disclaimer

To Survivors, encourage all who try on peace play in urban setting to continue seeking the advice of therapist or your health care provider with any questions you may have regarding your own healing journey. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it. Yet, trust your instinct.

To Providers, I invite you to try on peace play in urban settings with you clients in addition to talk therapy, believe me it works. The answers to inner healing lies within each and everyone one of us.  We just need the space and the opportunity to travel the journey, a journey that is culturally relevant to each person.