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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**
CEs EXPLANATION
Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, and the Lancaster School of Psychodrama and Experiential Psychotherapies are approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors to offer continuing education for social workers, marriage and family therapists and professional counselors according to Pennsylvania Board Approval # 004002.
The Wisconsin State Board approves CE credits for social workers, MFTs and LPCs Provider #6834-123.
These training hours may be counted towards the Certified Psychodramatist credential as approved by the American Board of Examiners In Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.
Training hours may be counted towards certification approved by the International Society of Experiential Professionals.
Training hours are approved for Act 48 credits for educators, school counselors and administrators. Karen Carnabucci and the Lancaster School of Psychodrama and Experiential Psychotherapies maintain responsibility for the programs.
Linda Ciotola, M.Ed, TEP, CET III, is an approved Category 1 provider for Maryland State Board of Social Work Examiners when she is teaching a face-to-face class online or in person.
You may be able to submit this Certificate of Attendance for credits in another helping discipline or in another state. Please contact your respective state board for information.
"Revealing and Healing the Roots of Disordered Eating with Compassion and Love"
with Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP and
Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., TEP, CET III
New dates are coming up soon
- In-Person*
- Live-Stream**
- CEs provided (see the information below)
Revealing and Healing the Roots of Disordered Eating with Compassion and Love
Psychodrama, along with sociometry and other action methods, makes working with disordered eating and body image much easier. During this all-day workshop intensive Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., TEP, CET III, and Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, will demonstrate selected action structures from their book “Healing Eating Disorders with Psychodrama and Other Action Methods” as well as new adaptations for this population.
The teaching is designed for those who are new to psychodrama as well as more seasoned clinicians, educators, and wellness and recovery coaches who want new perspectives on working with disordered eating, body image, chronic dieting, and other struggles with food.
We will demonstrate the importance of building capacity for compassion for ourselves and our bodies as well as enrolling multiple levels of strengths that are necessary for recovery. In addition, we will show a variation of action tools that can be used for both assessment and treatment that explore our relationship with our families, our bodies, and the food that we consume – or don’t.
You will learn:
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Why action methods are well-suited to the treatment of disordered eating while uncovering the underlying issues.
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How to facilitate action structures that are especially useful in working with individuals and groups with disordered eating.
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Practice mindful doubling and role reversal techniques particularly helpful with this population.
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How to use classic psychodrama structures like the empty chair for work with individuals and groups.
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How to adapt these structures for online sessions with groups and individuals.
About the presenters
Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, and Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., TEP, CET III, are authors of “Healing Eating Disorders with Psychodrama and Other Action Methods: Beyond the Silence and the Fury.” They have collaborated on numerous trainings and journals and other articles and offer training separately as well. Karen, a master trainer in psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy and certified as a Family and Systemic Constellations facilitator, is the founder of the Lancaster School of Psychodrama and Experiential Psychotherapies. Linda is the owner of Healing Bridges in Grasonville, Md., and offers training, supervision and consultation.
"Family Constellations and Psychodrama for a Deep Journey into the Family System"
with Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP
New dates are coming up soon
- In-Person*
- Live-Stream**
- CEs provided
Ancestor Stories: Integrating Family Constellations and Psychodrama for a Deep Journey Into the Family System
We are increasingly learning that our lives are impacted by those who came before us -- our ancestors -- and that the powerful experiential methods of psychodrama and Family Constellations are ways to find our stories and enrich the presence of the ancestors in our world.
In this all-day workshop, directed by Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, we will discuss and demonstrate how to combine two of the most powerful experiential methods to discover hidden patterns in your family tree that may affect your relationships, livelihood, business, or health.
You will learn:
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How to identify ancestral trauma as distinctly different than personal trauma.
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The basic principles of psychodrama (the story) and Family Constellations (the energy flow pattern within the family system) and how they complement each other.
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How to use and adapt psychodramatic warm-up activities to connect the group and permit the presence of ancestral cooperation.
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Hot to assess when a person is ready for Family Constellations and when psychodramatic enactment is a more helpful choice.
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Easy ways of incorporating mindfulness, art, symbol, ritual, and props in a variety of group and individual settings with these experiential methods.
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"Crisis Intervention"
with David Moran, CAC, LCSW, CCDP-D, TEP
New dates are coming up soon
- In-Person*
- Live-Stream **
- CEs provided
"Sociodrama with Children's Groups"
"Sociodrama for Trainers"
with Nina Garcia, LCSW, EdD, TEP, RDT/BCT
May 26 8:00 am - 6:00 pm EST
- In-Person*
Sociodrama is a natural and powerful method for helping children tell their stories, safely express strong feelings and try out new behaviors and roles. It can also be used to teach social skills and problem solving to students with diverse capabilities and challenges in a wide range of settings. Sociodrama is well suited to address social issues that arise in the classroom and in the school yard such as bullying, stealing and racism. This workshop offers adaptations of the sociodramatic method that work especially well with groups of children ages six though twelve. Participants will learn how to direct sociodramas using one chair, two chairs and short scene work. We will also address appropriate warm up, sharing and the managing of large groups of children. Rebecca Walters has over thirty years of experience running psychodrama and sociodrama groups with children, adolescents and adults in psychiatric hospitals and schools
Participants will be able to:
Define Sociodrama
Compare and contrast the appropriate uses of Sociodrama and Psychodrama
Differentiate between the process of warmup for children and adolescents
Describe three different sociodramatic structures
Practice two sociodramatic structures
Discuss ways to share in a sociodrama
Moreno defined Psychodrama as “Seeking the Truth Through Dramatic Means”. This presentation will use the Sociometric tool of Sociodrama to explore the Truth of mental illness and addiction. That is the power of the inner dialogue over the person's will. Trauma takes away one’s voice and choices, addiction and psychosis offer a dysfunctional way of voice and choice. Recovery offers a claiming or reclaiming of that voice and choice as their own. Replacing them with healthy support, internal and external.
This Sociometric experience will allow participants to experience the mental health and or addiction crisis from the inside out This Sociometric exercise will include warm-up, Sociodrama, Sharing. The discussion will include choice points in the Sociodrama and a “How Too” integrate this into your work in the community. With mental Illness, Addiction, and Process Addiction on the rise, empowering Clinicians and the public on the internal dialogue and the control it has over the person and situations, is a powerful tool in crisis stabilization.
This workshop will give expression to the addict or mental health “voices” in the form of aux egos. Most of us understand the power of psychosis but rarely do we experience the Deeping Double which is the different voices of psychosis, addiction, and the drug.
Depending on audience choice, this is a Sociodrama, the warm-up will offer a Choice of addiction and what kind; Mental Health and what type and or both, PTSD and Post Traumatic Growth are options for the audience to add into the Drama. But the goal toward recovery and those undefined roles are to be established through support.
This workshop is the result of the Psychodramatic role play offered on the last day of a 40-hour Crisis Intervention Training offered to police in Delaware County Pennsylvania. The CIT training is offered to every county and every police department in the United States and many around the world.
Objectives
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Utilizing resource Installation to reinforce our internal strengths
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Identify internal responses as one interacts with the mentally ill or addiction as auxiliaries
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Demonstrate how to role train an auxiliary, and deepening double
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Learn the use of Role Reversal, Mirroring, Doubling, and Deeping Doubles as tools of intervention
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Experience the power of mental illness as auxiliary voices
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Identify the external resources to create internal resources in the stabilization process
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Understand the difference between abstinence, treatment, and recovery
An experience of the 3 parts of a therapeutic process; 1. Role Defining; 2. Catharsis; 3. Insight & integration.
with Nina Garcia, LCSW, EdD, TEP, RDT/BCT
New dates are coming up soon
- in person*
- Live - Stream **
In our study to become psychodramatists, many of us didn’t experience pieces of training on sociodrama nor were encouraged to attend sessions on sociodrama at conferences. Because of this, as trainers, we feel uncomfortable teaching our trainees how to direct sociodrama sessions. Given our current world, sociodrama is more needed than it ever was as a way of offering action methods in environments where psychodrama would be inappropriate and/or unethical. This workshop for trainers will focus on sociodramatic theory and structures and how to train others to direct it. It will be a hands-on learning lab for us trainers to get comfortable with another valuable and exciting way to teach others how to counteract the sociodynamic effect.”
A Future Projection as a Trauma-Informed Technique
Heidi Landis, LCAT, RDT/BCT, TEP
New dates are coming up soon
- In-Person *
- Live-Stream**
- CEs provided
In this highly experiential workshop, participants will have the opportunity to experience the use of the future projection as a trauma informed intervention exploring interpersonal and intrapsychic ways of working. Participants will learn how to scaffold the intervention to allow the protagonist a sense of safety and control. In addition, time will be given to explore how this technique might be integrated into the participants own scope of practice.
Welcome to our 2nd in person TSM Psychodrama workshop since Covid! It is wonderful to be back in action with humans you can see, see, touch, and embrace. I want to thank Anna for including me and a TSM team in this marathon with some of the best psychodramatists in USA. I am happy to return to the original Moreno stage where I first found psychodrama and later returned to work with Zerka Moreno, the lifetime mentor of the Therapeutic Spiral Model. She always told me “I told JL it should be more contained”. Thus TSM Psychodrama derives from Zerka’s teaching as well as honoring the original interpersonal vision of J.L Moreno in classical psychodrama. It was Zerka who provided the help to integrate my classical training at St Elizabeth’s Hospital with my knowledge as a clinical psychologist. St E’s was a bridge from classical to true clinical care that is the foundation of our clinical adaptations. I honor and thank Dale Richard Buchanan, PhD, TEP who as my TEP trainer also supported new creativity
Dr. Kate
“From Trauma to Posttraumatic Growth: TSM Psychodrama Today”
with Dr. Kate Hudgins, Ph.D., TEP, and co-trainer Joshua Lee, MSW, PAT
New dates are coming up soon
- In-Person*
- Live-Stream**
- CEs provided
Our one-day workshop is conducted with a TSM team to provide a demonstration of the fullness of the Therapeutic Spiral Model Psychodrama in safe action when working with trauma (Hudgins & Durost, 2022). In one day you will see the clinical wisdom, observations, and research that supports the clinical changes we have made to classical psychodrama to provide the safety of self-regulation and containment before directly addressing trauma and the risk related-traumatization from the original trauma. We preview our book by Hudgins and Durost that details the origins and evolution of TSM psychodrama and will be celebrated in July 2022 at the International Association of Group Psychotherapy’s annual meeting in Italy and available through Springer publishing in Singapore.
We will teach the TSM clinical map of the trauma survivor’s internal role atom (TSIRA) showing how to use role theory to build up a state of healthy functioning to be able to work on trauma with full left-brain conscious awareness. We embrace spontaneity and creativity theories to create the roles needed to access your autonomous healing center, a core concept of J.L and Zerka Moreno in stage 1 of the Prescriptive Roles needed for self-stabilization and reduction of defenses before directly putting trauma into action. We briefly present the unique TSM Triangle that is an internalization of the original traumas alive and living in the brain long after the actual, perpetrators are no longer in our lives. You will learn the unique role of the internalization of the abandoning authority that deeply embeds the lack ‘of self-care and agency into your brain from adverse childhood experiences. Most importantly you will see the true post-traumatic growth that develops in the spontaneous interaction with healthy and traumatized parts of self and roles internally. This workshop is mostly experiential with teaching in action and readings provided.
We start with anchoring into a no shame no blame internal role of the observing ego. Next, I demonstrate and people practice the Body Double with each other before we conduct a TSM drama that may focus on strength building, trauma change, and most importantly the roles of post-traumatic growth. Come meet your AHC and how it can manifest as your sleeping awakening child now that your life is safer. Enjoy good enough family for a full emotional repair and celebrate life today!
This workshop is suitable for new students of psychodrama and advanced psychodramatists looking for containment to work with trauma.
Specific Learning Objectives
1). Participants can teach others the clinical steps of the trauma survivors’ internal role atom (TSIRA) which provides a clinical map to guide the safe use of psychodrama with trauma,
2) Participants will have practiced the Body Double and be able to use it immediately use it with clients in individual and group psychotherapy.
3). Participants will experience and carry with them the experience of activating their autonomous healing center filled with spontaneity and creativity.
Thank you for joining us to learn about Therapeutic Spiral Model Psychodrama to treat trauma safely with experiential methods! It will be a great workshop on theory and joy in accessing your own AHC! Your mind will be fed and your spirit renewed.
Dr. Kate
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"Psychodrama and the Body-Mind"
with Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP
New dates are coming up soon
- In-Person*
- CEs provided
PSYCHODRAMA and the BODYMIND
Psychodrama was the first therapy that included the body in therapeutic explorations. Freud put his patients on a couch; Moreno got them up and moving.
This workshop will let you experiment with the richness of body-mind awareness as we do psychodramatic activities. As Moreno said, “The body tells the truth.”
The body tells us so much more than just words do. In fact, our words often say the opposite of what our bodies say! Our friends are not fooled. They know us by our stance, our walk, our voice, and our rhythms. We try to fool ourselves sometimes.
Sometimes our bodies are stuck in patterns that don’t serve us anymore. In this workshop, we will also explore ways to use our bodies differently from what we already know so that we can free up possibilities for growth and change.
Psychodrama is indeed an ACTION method for the body, mind, and spirit!
Come with a curious mind and a willingness to explore beyond your perceived limits. Please wear loose clothing in which you can comfortably move.
"Traumatic Brain Injury, Trauma and Identity"
with Colleen Baratka MA, TEP and Deborah Karner MSS, LCSW, TEP
New dates are coming up soon
- In-Person *
- Live-Stream**
- CEs provided
A mild Traumatic Brain Injury(mTBI) leaves the survivor with a lost sense of self and struggling to create new neuropathways in every aspect of their life. Moreno’s Role theory helps contextualize treatment, while spontaneity training has proven effective in symptom management
Scientists have determined that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new brain synapse, but with play, it takes between 10 and 20 repetitions. Our Sociodramatic enactments will offer the opportunity to engage the spontaneity needed for healing and building neuropathways.
We all have brains. We all live in social atoms and systems. Using role theory, this workshop asks people to become aware, accept and adapt to changes within our social atoms and systems.
