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Alison Hood @insightworks

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Relational Supervisor & Therapist Yuin, Jerrinja, Wangal country

Relational Supervisor & Therapist Yuin, Jerrinja, Wangal countryRelational Supervisor & Therapist Yuin, Jerrinja, Wangal countryRelational Supervisor & Therapist Yuin, Jerrinja, Wangal countryRelational Supervisor & Therapist Yuin, Jerrinja, Wangal countryRelational Supervisor & Therapist Yuin, Jerrinja, Wangal country

"What happens within oneself when one integrates unconscious contents with the consciousness is something which can scarcely be described in words. It can only be experienced."


Jung, 1963

Playing opens us to curiosity and wonder. Working with symbols and metaphors in the sand within the safe container of the reflective space provides opportunities to identify and approach unconscious material; access innate wisdoms; experience transformational shifts in perspective; and discover new meanings. A nurturing, nourishing and integrating  reflexive practice for healing professionals of diverse disciplines.

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Supervision in the Sand (inner west Sydney)

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Self-directed & deeply connecting

Self-directed & deeply connecting

“Grounded in the body, sandplay unfolds through limbic region and cortex, and spans both hemispheres as the symbolic world unfolds into words.” (Badenoch, 2008)


Welcome to the "silent workshop of the psyche". (Bradway & McCord, 1997). 

Sandplay offers a gentle, non-directive and deeply connecting reflective supervision activity for practiti

“Grounded in the body, sandplay unfolds through limbic region and cortex, and spans both hemispheres as the symbolic world unfolds into words.” (Badenoch, 2008)


Welcome to the "silent workshop of the psyche". (Bradway & McCord, 1997). 

Sandplay offers a gentle, non-directive and deeply connecting reflective supervision activity for practitioners of diverse disciplines, approaches and experience. Through symbol and metaphor, freely explore your inner and outer worlds; discover new insights; and make meanings in the safe, nonjudgmental container of the sand tray. Sandplay experience is not necessary, just bring your curiosity. And enjoy the process!

Self-directed & deeply connecting

Self-directed & deeply connecting

Self-directed & deeply connecting

"metaphors provide a tool for the transfer of meaning from something that is known or recognised to something that is new or more challenging to articulate" (Hasbach, 2012)


Playing reflectively with symbols and metaphors invites and supports you to engage and integrate right and left brain processing to explore deeply held aspects of 'Self

"metaphors provide a tool for the transfer of meaning from something that is known or recognised to something that is new or more challenging to articulate" (Hasbach, 2012)


Playing reflectively with symbols and metaphors invites and supports you to engage and integrate right and left brain processing to explore deeply held aspects of 'Self' and practice, including material held outside your conscious awareness. Empower neural activation, bidirectional ('bottom up' and 'top down') mind/body interactions and internal relational connection.  An organically expressive approach to reflecting, growing and savouring. 

Embodying practice wisdom

Inspiration for your brain's left hemisphere

Inspiration for your brain's left hemisphere

“Often it is necessary to clarify a vague content by giving it visible form.... the hands know how to solve a riddle with which the intellect has wrestled in vain" (Jung, 1969)

  • Cultivate increased authenticity in your life & practice
  • Enjoy being open, curious and receptive to your embodied wisdom
  • Explore themes, parallel process, countertran

“Often it is necessary to clarify a vague content by giving it visible form.... the hands know how to solve a riddle with which the intellect has wrestled in vain" (Jung, 1969)

  • Cultivate increased authenticity in your life & practice
  • Enjoy being open, curious and receptive to your embodied wisdom
  • Explore themes, parallel process, countertransference
  • Increase 'Self' awareness, grow agency, build confidence
  • Celebrate achievements & milestones
  • Discover new perspectives and make new meanings
  • Transform stuckness; identify blindspots; free yourself from preconceived ideas and unexamined bias
  • Grieve & memorialise loss
  • Explore changes, challenges & transitions


"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

Jung, (1944). Psychology and alchemy, p.99

Sand shell

Inspiration for your brain's left hemisphere

Inspiration for your brain's left hemisphere

Inspiration for your brain's left hemisphere

"letting things come forward in a way that's safe.... you're not just connecting to your own story, you begin to connect to the stories of your people, stories of your culture, the land..." Dr Lorraine Freedle and Sandplay Therapy in conversation with Licia Sky (& Bessel van der Kolk) (33:55mins)


  • Badenoch, B. (2008). Being a brain-wise the

"letting things come forward in a way that's safe.... you're not just connecting to your own story, you begin to connect to the stories of your people, stories of your culture, the land..." Dr Lorraine Freedle and Sandplay Therapy in conversation with Licia Sky (& Bessel van der Kolk) (33:55mins)


  • Badenoch, B. (2008). Being a brain-wise therapist: a  practical guide to interpersonal  neurobiology (1st ed.). Chapter 16, The  integrating power of sandplay. W. W.  Norton & Co. 
  • C.G. Jung Society of Sydney
  • Freedle, L.R. https://lorrainefreedle.com/articles/ 
  • Jung, C.G. (1963). Memories, dreams, reflections. Random House
  • Jung, C.G. (1969). The archetypes and the collective unconscious. Princeton University Press.
  • Kalff, M. (2022). Old and new horizons of sandplay  therapy: Mindfulness and neural  integration. Ed. Paolo Ferliga. Routledge.
  • Kahn, P. H., Hasbach, P. H., & Kahn, P. H. J. (Eds.). (2012). Ecopsychology: Science, totems, and the technological species. MIT Press.
  • Siegel, D. J. (2023). IntraConnected : MWe (Me + We) as  the integration of self, identity, and  belonging. W. W. Norton & Co
  • Tyson Yunkaporta’s books & articles about Indigenous  Systems Knowledge and healing practices,  https://www.textpublishing.com.au/authors/tysonyunkaporta

“We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity.”


Emerson, 1841

Qualified, experienced & accredited

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Australian Counselling Association Supervisor (Level 4, COS81839)
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I recognise the deep and continuous connection to Country of First Nations Peoples. I acknowledge the  Peoples

of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups of the Shoalhaven and Jervis Bay Territory as rightful custodians of the lands, skies, seas and waterways. Walking on Country.

I value the traditional wisdom and healing practices of all cultures. 

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