Online & in-person training with CE and psychodrama credits

Energize your professional development with leading-edge skills in experiential modalities -- including psychodrama, sand tray, guided imagery and the newer Family and Systemic Constellations -- while taking the option to address personal growth and connect with like-minded professionals. 

The Lancaster School of Psychodrama and Experiential Therapies, founded and directed by Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, offers continuing education credits for social workers, marriage and family therapists and professional counselors -- plus  psychodrama hours towards certification with the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy and the International Society of Experiential Professionals, the 40 psychodrama hours necessary for  national certification in drama therapy and Act 48 hours for educators in Pennsylvania.

We welcome mental health and other health professionals, educators, group leaders, life coaches, addiction counselors, creative arts therapists, alternative practitioners, clergy and spiritual directors, attorneys, youth services workers,  social justice activists, and others interested in the holistic action approach of embodiment.

Additional trainings -- not connected with the Lancaster School of Psychodrama and Experiential Psychotherapies -- and other events may be found here.
The Power of Psychodrama When Treating Addictive Behaviors
Date to be announced
​Lancaster, Pa.

Experiential psychotherapies – including psychodrama – are the preferred method of addressing substance abuse and addictions of all kinds. In this workshop, led by Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, we focus on developing competence in  assessing and treating multiple addictions with action techniques. This three-hour online workshop is designed for addiction counselors and other health professionals who work with people struggling with substance abuse and addiction, gambling problems, video gaming, workaholism, binge eating and sugar addictions, compulsive shopping and compulsive use of the internet and social media, and other kinds of addictive behaviors.
Info and registration to come.
Becoming a Body-Informed Trauma Therapist and Practitioner 
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023
Liberty Place, 313 W. Liberty St., Lancaster, Pa.
 
Trauma disconnects us from our physical body.  Healing means that we reconnect with our body and experience its intelligence and healing potential.  In this all-day trauma-informed workshop, led by Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, and Gisele Silva, LMT, we introduce the concept of the “body-informed” approach and identify how helping professionals can begin to loosen the grip of trauma in the bodies, brains and spirits of the people they work with. We use mindfulness, techniques from psychodrama, and a variety of somatic tools useful for the clinical space and for self-care. CE and psychodrama hours.
Info and registration here.
Trauma-Informed Care for Sound Healers & Other Alternative Practitioners 
Fall 2023 (date to be announced)
​10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET

You’re a sound healer. Or studying to be a sound healer. Or are another kind of healing practitioner using yoga, energy work, music in a therapeutic way --or a psychotherapist or life or wellness beginning to integrate sound and music into your work with people. In this experiential workshop, Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP,  will discuss the basics of trauma-informed care and demonstrate how to avoid re-traumatization with the people you work with.  3 CE and psychodrama hours.
​Info and registration to come.
Weekend Training Retreat: Embracing the Role of the Wise Elder
Friday, Oct. 6 to Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023

What defines a wise elder? How does one develop into a wise elder and how is the wise elder different from the ubiquitous “senior citizen” that  dominates the cultural language of today? In this three-day in-person retreat-style training with  Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, and Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., TEP, we use the improvisational action of psychodrama, the bonds of relationship through sociometry and music and the arts as we explore and celebrate the Wise Elder – and offer a multitude of ideas  for you to integrate into your work with people of all ages, plus 12 CE and psychodrama hours. 
Info and registration here.
Pandemic Stories: Healing From Collective Trauma in Mind, Body and Spirit
Ongoing through 2023
10 a.m. to noon ET

With the pandemic "experience" nearing the three-year mark, we are reminded that people are still at risk with becoming infected by the COVID-19 virus and others are suffering the longer term impact of lingering physical illness as well as a huge collective trauma. With this program, we initiate a new series titled "Pandemic Stories" to explore how we as helpers and healers can support health and recovery from the trauma of this pandemic mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually and energetically. CE and psychodrama hours.
Info and registration to come.