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Play Refuge, Warwickshire (2026)

26/02/2026

Celebrating the second year of Play Refuge 🎉

So here is a run-through of what will remain, what has emerged in 2025 and what will evolve in 2026...

Remain

• Supporting children and their families through Play Therapy

• Volunteer program to support children and their families with refugee status

* Providing Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT)

*Available books on www.playrefuge.co.uk:

Play Therapy book

Play Therapy book translated into Ukrainian

Creative art therapy book

Emerged in 2025

*Play Therapy book translated into Arabic (available on the website)

• Published article 'The child coming into the playroom and the world going in with them: Approaching play therapy for children with refugee status' in the British Journal of Play Therapy, Spring 2025

*Above article mentioned in keynote speech by Badawy & Gawdat 'From Attitude to Action: Weaving Anti-Oppressive Practice and Cultural Humility into Our Work's at the BAPT Conference 2025 ;)

Evolving (arriving 2026)

* Incoming changes to Bibliotherapy at Play Refuge (more information after March 2026)

* Second children book, this book to explain play therapy with refugee status.

• Research starting.

• More online resources...

So thrilled to be celebrating this second year🥂 and very excited about the third year of Play Refuge!

17/02/2026

Illustrating Play Refuge's new wordless children's book for explaining play therapy to children with refugee status starting sessions. What books do you use to introduce play therapy to children you work with?

03/02/2026

So delighted in the new translated version of Play Therapy book into Arabic! This book explaining play therapy to children before starting play therapy. Now available in Arabic! This book along with the Ukrainian and English versions available on the Play Refuge website www.playrefuge.co.uk

04/07/2025

🎉🎉 Arabic version of my Play Therapy book arrived today 💖 So delighted to have a new translated version of Play Refuge's book explaining play therapy to children before starting their sessions, now available in Arabic and Ukrainian! Thanks to داليا نور الدين Dalia Noureldeen's wonderful Arabic translation and Vladimir Dubisskiy's wonderful Ukrainian translation✍️ These books along with the English version are available📚 see Play Refuge website for more details www.playrefuge.co.uk

22/06/2025

What is the book that gets me thinking this week? 📚 💭
📖 Pageboy by Elliot Page

What an amazing read! Highly recommend the audiobook also, Elliot's reading is engaging. It reads as a calm and warm long journey into self acceptance and advocate.

Recommended to all, but especially to anyone questioning their sexuality and gender, or parents of a teenager and young adults who is.

As Page writes in his author's note, books have a power to help someone feel less alone and seen, and this book will do for many!

"The act of writing, reading, and sharing the multitude of our experiences is an important step in standing up to those who wish to silence us. I've nothing new or profound to say, nothing that hasn't been said before, but I know books have helped me, saved me even, so perhaps this can help someone feel less alone, seen, no matter who they are or what journey they are on. Thank you for wanting to read about mine." Extract from Pageboy

25/05/2025

✨So excited to announce my new article 'The child coming into the playroom and the world going in with them: approaching play therapy for children with refugee status' was recently published by the British Journal of Play Therapy ✨ arrived at my door on Friday! 📮

This was such an emotional write for me and I loved sharing my work with Boyko and Rivin. This article also lead me to incorporate literature in my play therapy academia. For the characters in the books I read and share with the children and families also support the foundations of empathy and understanding.

In this article, I referred to some of my favourite books... 📚

The sense of control and body release Heera feels in Kung Fu:

"And it wasn't until that happened that I fully realised that they believed that my body belonged to them, and I knew for certain that it did not. It was Kung Fu that helped me understand this. Because it was through Kung Fu that I learned that my body would do what I told it to. That my body listened to me - and only me. (2023, 284)

I Kick and I Fly by
Published

🌱To Zarif telling us the importance of a place to both rest and then grow within:

"At last, at the end of a street and the end of their long, hard journey, Dounia's family comes to the pretty blue house that has been waiting for them in this big, snowy country. Dounia plants her last baraka seed in a flowerpot given to her by Rosalia. A beautiful flower grows, and Teta says there are lots of new seeds inside that will protect them all." (2023)

Dounia and the Magic Seeds by
Published

📢 This article is an encouragement and an invitation to play therapists to learn and work in this area of play therapy and have joint reflections to provide support for these children, young people and their families. So please contact Play Refuge, if you are a play therapist who wants to be involved!

Also, feel free to follow Play Refuge to see other books that we love and use in our play therapy practice 📚

article

14/05/2025

The Final Year and The First Year verse novels, takes us on the journey from primary to secondary school with Nate, as he navigates the challenges including his brother's life-threatening condition and parent absences with a hughly warm and empathetic young poet protagonist. Beautiful prose by Matt Goodfellow and stunning illustratations by Joe Todd-Stanton.

Highly recommend, going straight into the Play Refuge Library.

09/02/2025

Celebrating the first year (and a couple of months) of Play Refuge 🎉

And what a year it is has been

• Supporting children and their families

• Volunteer program to support children and their families with refugee status

* Introducing child parent relationship therapy (CPRT) to Play Refuge

* Bibliotherapy to Play Refuge

* Play Refuge library

* Training delivered

* Play Therapy book (available on website)

* Play Therapy book translated into Ukrainian (available on the website)

* New creative art therapy book (available on the website)

* Article due to be published in 2025 (details soon)!

There is much to celebrate 🥂 and even more to get excited about in the second year of Play Refuge!

15/12/2024

Me and my youngest love reading stories from around the world. Picked up GARAS's Stories from our Homes at Cheltenham literature festival, finished it last week. Stories from our Homes are stories told by people supported by GARAS (Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers) support service.

What an absolute gem of a book. The stories and illustrations are gorgeous - highly recommend and I have immediately added to the Play Refuge library

28/11/2024

Wow and thank you ! Neon Daisy's new magazine is a simply gorgeous and at the sometime vitally needed. This magazine will explains and give comfort for so many neurodivergent young people. This magazine has been added to the Play Refuge library for all the young people I work with (and I brought another copy for my daughter too - who adores it!). Already ordered books by Camilla Pang, Jess Joy and Charlotte Mia... Can't wait for the second edition..

24/11/2024

Returning from the 2024 Bapt conference, exhausted but energised from meeting with old and new friends and colleagues, and attending workshops on the essential work of the play therapy dimensions model by Dr. Lorri Yasenik therapy that I use daily for my practice, along with hearing about case conceptualization skills I can't wait to put into practice. Also attended a deeply thoughtful presentation by Tim Woodhouse (including inspirational poetry by his daughter) Also, won more training by Dr. Lorri Yasenik!!!

22/10/2024

Buzzing after Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) training in London. Fantastic training, so excited to add this to too Play Refuge portfolio! (Oh, may have treated myself to Ottolenghi!)

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