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10 DAYS, 10+ WORLD-FAMOUS TRAINERS, 10 FULL WORKSHOPS
PSYCHODRAMA AND ACTION METHODS
ON ORIGINAL MORENO’S STAGE
NEW DATES AND DETAILS ARE COMING UP SOON...
Highland, New York
Language: English
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In Person*
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LiveStream**
Karen Carnabucci
LCSW, TEP
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Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, is a board-certified trainer, educator, and practitioner in psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy who is also certified as a facilitator of Family and Systemic Constellations. She is one of the first and one of the few people in the United States to combine and teach psychodrama and systemic constellations. She is the author of “Integrating Psychodrama and Systemic Constellation Work: New Directions for Action Methods, Mind-Body Therapies and Energy Healing” with the late Ronald Anderson and other books about experiential methods, including “Healing Eating Disorders with Psychodrama and Other Action Methods: Beyond the Silence and the Fury” with Linda Ciotola. Her most recent book is “Show and Tell Psychodrama: Skills for Therapists, Coaches, Teachers, Leaders,” and she is now working on a book about psychodrama and teletherapy.
Linda Ciotola
M.Ed., TEP, CET III
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Linda Ciotola M.Ed., TEP, CET III, TSM Trainer, is co-author with Karen Carnabucci of Healing Eating Disorders with Psychodrama and other Action Methods - Beyond the Silence and the Fury, Jessica Kingsley, London, 2013; 2008 recipient of the Zerka Moreno Award and 2019 recipient with Nancy Alexander of the Collaborator's Award and Fellow of the ASGPP.
David Moran
CAC, LCSW, CCDP-D, TEP
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David Moran CADC, LCSW, CCDP-D, TEP, Senior Administrator Director for Crozer Chester Medical Center, for 20 years served as the clinical director of the co-occurring disorders programs. He specializes in group and community interventions, works with trauma, co-occurring disorders and is a holistic healer. David is the Proprietor of I Like Me Now a Private Practice which offers therapy, supervision, and Psychodrama training.
Nina Garcia
LCSW, EdD, TEP, RDT/BCT
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Nina Garcia is a retired Professor and Coordinator of the Creative Arts in Therapeutic Settings Option at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey and a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. She is an internationally noted trainer and educator in psychodrama, sociodrama and drama therapy. Nina is the co-author of Sociodrama: Who's In Your Shoes and Co-editor in Chief of the Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. She is also a theatre director.
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Rebecca Walters
MS, LMHC, LCAT, TEP
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Rebecca Walters, MS TEP is Director of the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute in NY founded in 1989. HVPI is an active psychodrama training center offering weekend workshops and five- and six-day psychodrama and directing intensives. Most are held at Boughton Place, home of the Original Moreno Psychodrama Theater. With 30 years of inpatient experience, Rebecca was Director of Child and Adolescent Psychodrama Services at Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital, New York where she ran psychodrama groups on both inpatient and outpatient units. She also supervised their psychodrama internship program. Rebecca was a consultant for MD Anderson Cancer Center teaching communication skills to medical personnel. She is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of Psychodrama and Sociodrama with Children and Action Methods with Adolescents. She is the author of several peer reviewed articles about the use of sociodrama with children and in using sociodrama to teach interpersonal skills. Rebecca has presented at conferences and training workshops throughout the US, Europe, Asia and Central America. She is a member of the executive council of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP), is a Fellow of that organization and was the recipient of their 2018 JL Moreno Award for lifetime achievement in the field.
Heidi Landis
LCAT, RDT/BCT, TEP
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Heidi is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT) Registered Drama Therapist and Board-Certified Trainer (RDT/BCT) Trainer, Education and Practitioner of Psychodrama (TEP), and a Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP). Heidi is currently the community coordinator of mental health at a NYC high school for refugee and immigrant youth where she is working toward creating a trauma-informed system school-wide. Heidi worked at Creative Alternatives of New York, as Associate Executive Director of clinical and training programs where she helped to co-create the CANY model of trauma-informed drama therapy. Heidi has run trauma-informed Drama Therapy groups with many different populations, including refugee children and adults, adults and youth with developmental disabilities, at-risk youth, youth in residential programs and therapeutic schools, and women and girls affected by violence. She is also in private practice where she sees clients and facilitates trainings nationally and internationally including on-going psychodrama training groups.
Heidi is an adjunct professor at New York University, Lesley University in MA, Concordia University in Montreal, and Yeshiva University. Heidi served two terms as the Education Chair for the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA) and two terms on the executive council of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP).
Her research, publications, and presentations have included the topics of: trauma-informed work and systems, working with refugees and immigrants and the triple trauma paradigm, adolescent resistance, trauma in the classroom, group work, and psychodrama and resiliance. Heidi has completed post-graduate training in Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama.
Dr. Kate Hudgins
PhD, TEP
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Dr. Kate Hudgins is PhD, TEP, an inspirational leader and a stellar trainer known worldwide for her innovative model of safe and effective trauma treatment. International expert and author on trauma, Kate brings rigorous clinical training in psychology, psychodrama, and experiential psychotherapy as well as cross-cultural and indigenous learning and her own life experience.
MSW, PAT
Joshua Lee
Joshua S. Lee received a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Maryland at Baltimore in 1997. He is the owner of The Game Plan for Better Living, a coaching and consulting practice, specializing in helping people tell their stories in action, through team building, communication, racial justice and interpersonal conflict resolution skills training.
During his advanced psychodrama certification process, he will focus on developing The Game Plan ecosystem and training practitioners working in non-clinical settings, such as, coaches, community empowerment and racial/social justice professionals, through a trauma-informed lens by way of the Therapeutic Spiral International’s (TSI) international experiential trauma certification.
He has a special interest and skillset in sociometry, spending an entire year studying the principles of Applied Sociometry under the tutelage of Ann E. Hale, TEP. Additionally, his community-based social engagement framework called, The Game Plan Social Forum, uses psychodrama, sociodrama, and sociometry, to create a safe space and deep connections with community members, in an effort to have authentic conversations about current events. He enjoys bringing action frameworks to the world of coaching, work teams and consulting.
As the creator of the powerfully effective, experiential coaching system called The Game Plan©, he uses deep-level human engagement skills to have people win; that is, by using of the language and metaphor of sports, individuals, families/groups and organizations bring into effective action their inherent strengths and resources to overcome their “opponents”. He is interested in meeting people primarily at the intersection of psychodrama (and other action methods), organizational culture and ontological learning. In fact, he calls himself a Human Engagement Specialist.
Recent certifications include Racial Justice from the HEART (RJFH) facilitator and coach, June 2020. And in August 2020, Global Team Coaching with the World Business and Executive Coaching Summit (WBECS) organization.
Finally, he’d like to acknowledge his psychodrama trainers Cathy D. Nugent (primary), who recognized almost immediately that there was so much more to The Game Plan, and Milton Hawkins (secondary), who’s gentle reassurance cuts through any confusion, for their undying support and encouragement.
It is clear that Joshua is walking in his God-given purpose, which is, HELPING HUMANITY WIN!
Colleen Baratka
MA, TEP
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& Deborah Karner
MSS, LCSW, TEP
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Deborah Karner, MSS, LCSW, TEP & Colleen Baratka, MA, TEP are skilled clinicians with over 32 years of experience. They have been working together as a Clinical Trauma Team for 14 years and received the ASGPP Collaborator’s Award .The pair began exploring the correlation between TBI/PCS and Trauma after Colleen’s brain injury in 2015. Since 2017 they have been running a Prolonged Concussion Recovery, Traumatic Brain Injury and Trauma Support Group and have begun research into the impact lost roles and identity play in the recovery of the TBI/PCS survivors and the people who support them, as well as how spontaneity and play affect symptoms.