Foreword / Phyllis Booth
Introduction and content of the book / Susan Hart
In tune with feeling : musical play with emotions of creativity, inspiring neuroaffective development and self-confidence for learning in company / Colwyn Trevarthen and Jaak Panksepp
Empathy and compassion are also competences that have to be learned / Susan Hart
Is it OK to play and have fun at school? / Susan Hart
Maturing meetings in children groups : now-moments and flow / Marianne Bentzen and Christine Lakoseljac-Andreasen
Group theraplay in classrooms : how playful engagement fosters social and emotional growth? / Phyllis Rubin and Marlo Winstead
Inclusion, children groups, music therapy : music and communicative musicality / Ulla Holck and Stine Lindahl Jacobsen
The emerging of empathy / Dorothea Rahm
My pain turned to gold / Eldbj²rg Wedaa
Playing with possibilities : sensorimotor psychotherapy with younger clients in individual, family and group psychotherapy / Bonnie Goldstein and Pat Ogden
Getting together, playing together, healing together : how to craft a somatic based group activity / Alexandre Duarte
MASSA : neuroaffective psychological structured social activity / Susan Hart, Knud Hellborn and Gitte J²rgensen
Friendship, empathy and mindfulness in children's groups : developing children's natural capacities / Helle Jensen
Multi-family therapy with groups of children and their parents/carers / Serena Potter
Epilogue / Ssusan Hart.