Ancestor Stories: Combining Experiential Therapies of Psychodrama and Constellation Work for Professionals

What if:
  • The troubles that we carry are not ours?
  • There are other ways of knowing?
  • The body's ability to sense energy is a gift?
  • The experience makes the difference?

Join Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, on Sept. 17 and 18 at Caritas Healing Center, Tucson, Ariz., for greater happiness and healing for yourself and your clients.

This experiential two-day presentation offers a dynamic understanding of how our personal and professional relationships are impacted by those who came before us -- our ancestors -- and how to use the powerful experiential  methods of psychodrama and family constellation work to enrich or complete them.

You will learn how to combine these two of the most powerful experiential methods to discover hidden patterns in your family tree that may affect your relationships, business or health.

The first day, Sept. 17, is designed for anyone who wants to experience Karen's multi-dimensional model of experiential healing; professionals are welcome to attend and refer their clients.

The second day, Sept. 18, will be open to only to health professionals who want to integrate constellation work into their practices or use for personal growth and healing.

All health professionals and educators interested in experiential and alternative healing methods are welcome; psychodramatists, psychodrama trainees, creative arts therapists and alternative health professionals are especially welcome. 

Learning objectives will include:
  • How to identify ancestral trauma as distinctly different than personal trauma.
  • Understanding the basic principles of psychodrama (the story) and constellation work (the energy pattern) and how they complement each other.
  •  How to use and adapt psychodramatic warm up activities to connect the group and permit the presence of ancestral cooperation. 
  •  Assessing when a person is ready for constellation work and when psychodramatic enactment is a more helpful choice.
  •  Easily incorporating mindfulness, art, symbol, ritual and props in a variety of group and individual settings.
 
Karen Carnabucci, MSS, LCSW, TEP, is a master psychodrama trainer, psychotherapist and certified constellations facilitator. She is one of the first and one of the few people in the United States to currently  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 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.

Register for 1-day (Saturday, Sept. 17) here.
Register for 1 day (Sunday, Sept. 18) here.
Early-bird deadline is Monday, Aug. 22.

Resources to review

Heal Your Addiction by Making a Constellation of Your Family System
The Fix

Intergenerational Trauma: Sometimes the Trauma Isn't Yours -- Family Constellations Tell Us So
Heal My PTSD

Constellations and Psychodrama as Experiential Agents of Change
ConstellateUS

Constellations Change the Consciousness in a Family
Expanded Consciousness

The details

When Saturday, Sept. 17, and Sunday, Sept. 18.
Hours   9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with lunch on your own.
Where  Caritas Healing Center, Tucson, Ariz.
Tuition $125 for one day or $225 for both days;  $150 and $250 after Monday, Aug. 22. Professionals may attend one or both days. Non-professionals may attend only on Sept. 17.
CE credits A certificate of attendance for 6.5 or 13 clock hours will be provided, which may be applied for CE credits; psychodrama hours also will be provided. 

For information and registration, please contact Adena Bank Lees, LCSW, CP, at (520) 404-8466.

Registration by check

If you wish to register by check, complete this online registration form and send your check  to:

Adena Bank Lees
2292 West Magee Road, Suite 260
Tucson, AZ 85742

Make check payable to "Adena Bank Lees" and put "Ancestor Stories" in the memo line.

    If registering by check, please complete this form.

Refund policy

Full refund on the workshop if you cancel with more than seven days notice. No refund is given during final seven days before the workshop.

If the workshop does not meet minimum registration, it may be canceled until 72 hours prior to  its start.

Workshops  are intended only as training, not as therapy. Registering constitutes awareness that that experiential methods are powerful methods that must be used carefully. Workshops are experiential. You will be allowed and encouraged to participate actively and will also have opportunities to observe.

You agree, by registering, that as a result of your participation, therapeutic issues for further exploration may be revealed and that it is your responsibility to seek professional services for psychotherapy, if such a need should arise.

Workshop leaders are available to make referrals to professionals in your geographical area.

Location

Caritas Center for Healing
330 E, 16th St.
Tucson, AZ 85701

Caritas Center for Healing is a community wellness center in Tucson offering therapies, classes, and workshops to help you heal from the inside out. The center's professional, caring practitioners and teachers offer services from acupuncture to yoga, Imago couples counseling to qigong classes.

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