Abstract
Individuals with high resilience have the ability to adapt, bounce back or to thrive during transition despite adversity, particularly when they have clear goals in life. Gifted individuals have proven to be very committed in their work because they have clear goals that drives their tenacity to succeed in life. As such, they are expected to have high resilience. Nonetheless, because of their unique characteristics, this factor may not be their strength that will push their potentials to the fullest. This is a study that examined the use of sandtray therapy in enhancing resilience through goals setting among academically talented trainee teachers (n=5). The study employed a case study approach. The research participants were individual who were academically talented and were undergoing a teachers' training program in one of the teaching institute in Malaysia. The research participants underwent two experiential sandtray sessions. Carefully planned and selected miniatures were used. Specific themes were given in the therapy sessions in order to glean more information about the goal orientation of the research participants. The sandtray world was supplemented with reflections of the research participants. The findings show that the sandtray world enhanced self-awareness towards personal goals and increased his resilience. Implication towards the use of sandtray technique to explore resilience among academically talented learners are also discussed.