Handouts:
Child’s Play for All Ages! How “Furry Auxiliaries” and Puppets Offer Safe Ways to Heal Trauma

To watch or download slide show on Furry Auxiliaries, click here.

For Karen and Linda's article in Furry Auxiliaries Play Brings Healing Benefits in Healing Magazine, click here.

For Linda's website Healing Bridges with additional articles about psychodrama, click here.

For Linda's article Action Methods in Education, excerpted from Action Explorations: Using Psychodrama in Non-Therapeutic Settings (edited by Adam Blatner), click here.

For Karen's blog article on Let's Talk Play! Let's Talk Puppets! click here.

For article On the Serious Role of Stuffed Animals, click here.

For article Children's Puppet Theater for Traumatized Children by Linnea Carlson Sabelli, click here.

For Puppetry as an Art Therapy Technique with Emotionally Disturbed Children, click here.

For article Play as a Neural Exercise: Insights from the Polyvagal Theory by Stephen Porges, click here.

Theatric Puppetry website offers wide array of resources, click here.
Videos

Training video

More resources

For high-quality stuffed animals and puppets from Folkmanis, click here.

For Waldorf Education-inspired dolls, animals and finger puppets from Bella Luna Toys, click here. If you would like a $10 coupon for your first order, the coupon code is available here.

For free online puppet show, click here.

To learn how to make a puppet from a wash cloth, click here.

Classic children's book The Velveteen Rabbit, about a child's relationship with a stuffed rabbit, click here.

Books

Therapeutic Spiral Model

For handout on basics of the Therapeutic Spiral Model for the treatment of survivors of trauma, click here.