Lancaster School of Psychodrama + Experiential Psychotherapies

Learn how to integrate the practice of tapping with psychodramatic techniques and get 3 CE and psychodrama credits! Reserve your space for this training here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tapping-for-psychodrama-ticket

Nice to see psychodrama -- and Midwest colleague Eve Brownstone -- mentioned as a modality that is helpful for healing trauma.

3 more days to join the Magic Shop for a discounted, early bird price!! Making Magic Happen: Magic Shop and Magic Vision Board Friday, Jan. 7, 2022 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET... Begin your new year and visit the Magic Shop to identify your professional goals while learning skills that you can use in group and individual therapeutic, coaching and educational settings. In this online training, Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, and Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., TEP, will teach the venerable psychodramatic structure known as Magic Shop and demonstrate how it can be beautifully combined with the art-making project of the vision board, accompanied by the psychodramatic techniques of doubling, role reversal, mirroring and future projection. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to create their own vision board during the session. Certificate of attendance and four CE, psychodrama and Act 48 hours provided. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-magic-happen-learn-magi

Using my Christmas break to do a little downsizing and I am putting books and other therapeutic supplies online at @pangobooks. Check my page out here: https://pangobooks.com/bookstore/little-bookshop

We had a beautiful training on "Ritual and Image: Tarot Looks at the Winter Solstice" last Friday. Here are a few more solstice thoughts:

There is still time to join us this Friday for Ritual and Image: Tarot Looks at the Winter Solstice! 1 to 3 p.m. ET The Winter Solstice marks the longest night in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Tarot deck is a pictorial map of the spiritual journey. Together they are a match made in the heavens of symbol, dreams, myth, story, history and imagination. And, as we prepare ourselves and our people for the cold and darker months ahead, we can use the Tarot images to sort out ...a path forward as we sift through the meanings of this ancient celebration and the venerable Tarot. In this online training, instructed by Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, we will explore simple rituals that give grounding and meaning to our world, and look at a five-step structure that looks at the sorrows and gifts of this shortest day. Certificate of attendance and two CE and psychodrama hours provided. More info and registration here --> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/202644474077

Wishing you a happy Thanksgiving and sending along my current e-letter which has resources that you may wish to use for yourself and/or the people you work with. Here’s the link:

There is something quite important in telling our story. And in these days, our coronavirus story. The Lancaster School of Psychodrama and Experiential Psychotherapies is partnering with the local River Crossing Playback Theatre for Friday's online performance and program "Embodied Storytelling and Community Healing with Playback Theatre" with CE and psychodrama credits available for helping professionals interested in creative ways to heal from collective trauma in community settings . Discounted tuition for those who don't need CE credits but want to learning about the community-building and community-healing aspects of Playback.

Upcoming Training! Introduction to Sound Healing for Psychotherapists and Other Health Professionals Friday, May 21 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET... You don't have to be a musician to use sound for your people, your self-care and space clearing on May 21. You’ll get instructions on how to purchase a tuning fork (if you wish) and lots of ideas on how to effectively use sound in various kinds of therapeutic sessions with voice, sound bowls and other instruments for calming, centering and teaching. Instructors are Lana Ryder, AADP, SHA, HTA, Reiki teacher, musician and sound healer, and Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP. Three CE and psychodrama credits. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-sound-healing-for-psy

Join us this Friday! Embodied Storytelling and Community Healing with Playback Theatre Friday, April 16, 2021 1 to 3 p.m. ET... Price: $45 (includes CE credits), $30 (without CE credits) Tell your stories of the Coronavirus pandemic as we introduce Playback Theatre, a form of improvisational storytelling that has become a worldwide movement, as an astonishing vehicle for individual and community healing, and community building. This training, especially designed for helping professionals including psychotherapists, physicians, nurses, educators and others, will demonstrate how stories can be honored and enacted within a group in a way that is often experienced as therapeutic by participants. Taught by Chris Fitz, M.A., and members of the River Crossing Playback Theatre in central Pennsylvania. Optional two CE, psychodrama and Act 48 hours. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/embodied-storytelling-and-comm

East Meets West: Combining 5 Elements with Family Constellations for Health May 15, 2021 Noon to 3 p.m. ET Family Constellations and the Chinese philosophy of Five Elements combine to create an inclusive systemic approach that looks at burdens that may have their roots in the family as well as other issues that we carry related to our health, work, friends, loved ones, addictions and to nature. He has found this approach can be particularly helpful for acute health proble...ms, sleeping disorders, and lack of energy. Instructor is John Cheney, LMT, a longtime practitioner of Family Constellations and Jin Shin Do. Three CE, psychodrama and Act 48 hours. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/east-meets-west-combining-five

Happy birthday #psychodrama! On this day in 1921, a young doctor rented a theater, dressed as a jester and placed an empty throne on the stage, asking for a leader to step forward and take the seat. It was a daring sociopolitical act that would lead to the improvisational method that would eventually spread around the world and be known as the parent of role play. Watch for my conversation about psychodrama later today at 3 ET on the @wearequilt app.

Happy Spring! We have some great trainings with CEU's coming up. Learn more and sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/lancaster-school-of-psychodram

Tools Beyond Talk: Embodied Storytelling as Community-Based Healing Story telling is healing. Story telling creates communities and bonding through hearing, listening, seeing and sharing. Yet we can learn to unpack the gifts of experiential story telling and improvisational theater to use in a variety of therapeutic settings, including psychotherapy, coaching and teaching. This three-hour online training workshop introduces simple embodied forms of improvisational expression ...and deep listening based on the method of Playback Theatre, a method of honoring stories in a group and often experienced as therapeutic by participants. Instructor is Chris Fitz, M.A., founder of River Crossing Playback Theatre in central Pennsylvania. Friday, April 30, 2021 1 to 4 p.m. ET Three CE, psychodrama and Act 48 hours. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tools-beyond-talk-embodied-sto

Join us this Friday for "Ancestor Stories: An Experience in Family Constellations" Friday, March 26, 2021 10 a.m. to noon ET ... In this two-hour online workshop you will learn a basic component about Family Constellations, the new experiential family systems process developed and synthesized by Bert Hellinger, that identifies and heals ancestral trauma while experiencing an actual session with a class volunteer. We use body inquiry, representative perception and somatic awareness. Instructor is Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP. Two CE, psychodrama and Act 48 hours. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ancestor-stories-an-experience

Upcoming Training: Embodied Storytelling and Community Healing with Playback Theatre Friday, April 16, 2021 1 to 3 p.m. ET We introduce Playback Theatre, a form of improvisational storytelling that has become a worldwide movement, as an astonishing vehicle for individual and community healing, and community building. This training, especially designed for helping professionals including psychotherapists, physicians, nurses, educators and others, will demonstrate how stories ...can be honored and enacted within a group in a way that is often experienced as therapeutic by participants. Taught by Chris Fitz, M.A., and members of the River Crossing Playback Theatre in central Pennsylvania. Two CE, psychodrama and Act 48 hours. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/embodied-storytelling-and-comm

First training of the new year -- "Integrating Clinical EFT (Tapping) in Your Holistic Practice" on Jan. 8 and 22, with a total of six CE and psychodrama credits. See comments for link for registration and info.

Early Bird discount ends today, Tuesday, March 16, for the online class Not Just Child’s Play! How Furry Auxiliaries and Puppets Can Enliven Therapy Sessions on Friday, March 19 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET. I am presenting this training with my friend and colleague Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., TEP, when we show and tell how these furry auxiliaries can be used with children, teens and adults. CE and psychodrama credits provided. If you have a friend, colleague or co-worker who could benefit from this training, please let them know ASAP so they can take advantage of this learning opportunity. The info and registration link is here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/139666063957 P.S. Several of you have expressed interest but cannot attend this Friday. We are looking at repeating this training again if there is enough interest. Please let me know.

Thoughts on light and dark and the contradictions of the season. Happy holidays to you, wherever you are and whatever you do. Let's bring the light!

Happy Creative Arts Therapies Week! The National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations sponsors this annual event to increase awareness of and appreciation for the therapeutic use of the creative arts, including art, drama, poetry, dance, movement and music. I’m celebrating with a Facebook video this week (watch for it!) and Friday’s training on Not Just Child’s Play! Using Puppets, Stuffed animals and Furry Auxiliaries to Enliven Therapy Sessions with CE and psychodrama credits. Details of registration, including Early Bird discount, in comments.

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Happy Sunday! Professional training coming up on Dec. 11: "Keeping Safe and Connecting with Our Tribe in the Time of the Coronavirus." More info and registration here:

This three-hour online training workshop gives you tools to use for children, teens and adults -- CE and psychodrama credits too!

When they are gone, they are not really gone. There is increasing scientific evidence that consciousness continues after death, which is why I am so enamored of the ancestry healing method of Family Constellations.

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Training on "Ancestor Stories: An Experience of Family Constellations" coming up on Oct. 2. Two CE and psychodrama credits. Info and registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/121652007429

The Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum is having an online auction to raise desperately needed funds for its care and operation. I've donated a lush gift basket with many health care goodies (as well as group gift certificates) and an option to hire me to facilitate a family ancestry or collective ancestral culture healing group online. (CE credits if you're a helping professional!) Take a look and bid on my items, as well as dozens of other items of art, décor and historical crafts.

Want to write a book? In my Sept. 18 training, I'll show you how I did it and how you can do it too. Three CE and psychodrama credits. Register now for Early Bird discount.

We take roles all the time. Pleased to see my commentary about leadership and the role of a leader in the current issue of Natural Awakenings. It's a subject I've been interested in for a long time, and now am thinking about at a higher level.

Can art be medicine? The answer is yes.

Coming soon! Recent and vintage books on creative arts therapies, Jungian studies, women's spirituality, psychodrama, eating disorders and more from Karen's library. Watch this space! :)

Psychodrama: A Cinematic History" introduces psychodrama, an action-oriented, therapeutic model that uses role-playing as a tool for personal growth, and traces it from its origin in the1920s to contemporary psychotherapy practice. This updated documentary is suitable for anyone with an interest in modern psychology, from educators and students to mental health professionals. To learn more or to buy or rent this film, a project of longtime psychodramatists Robert and Jacqueline Siroka, click on the link.

This could be the start of a great psychodrama session! What role would you play?

"Creating the Bigger Picture: Addressing and Healing Ancestral Trauma" will be offered as a three-part online training taught by Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, starting July 17 and continuing July 24 and 31. Six CE and psychodrama hours, plus Act 48 hours. Info and sign up here:

Karen's latest e-letter, which includes resources on anti-racism and related topics, including two free CE courses.

Just revised our all-day in-person professional training "The Body Remembers What the Mind Forgets" to a three-part online training. It's been adapted to the theme of collective trauma and how our bodies are impacted -- perfect for making our way through this Coronavirus pandemic. Includes a total of six CE and psychodrama credits, plus handout and recording. Dates are April 17, April 24 and May 1.

Hello from my home office! This is my first attempt at making a video with Streamyard. Still reconfiguring my new work place while missing my lovely practice space in Lanaster, but for now, my groups, sessions and trainings will be online!