The Sand-World-Making

The sand-world making, considering the socio-cultural psychology of creativity, provides a ‘representational space’ (Winnicot, 1971, as cited in Glaveanu, 2011) where the therapist and child can engage through the sand tray. From the socio-cultural point of view, the sand tray enables the therapist to enter the child’s world, thus considering every day life experiences. The therapist, as a result, acknowledges the fact that the child is an active participant in the process of human development, and thus in the process of counselling as well. Vygotsky (in John-Steiner & Mahn, 1996) regarded development as the transformation of “socially shared activities into internalized processes”. So, everything children experience in their worlds, in interaction