Online & in-person training with CE and psychodrama credits
Energize your work and expand your skills with online and in-person training in leading-edge mind-body therapies and action methods at the Lancaster School of Psychodrama and Experiential Psychotherapies. The school is approved to provide continuing education credits for social workers, marriage and family therapists, licensed counselors, addictions counselors and psychologists in Pennsylvania, plus psychodrama and Act 48 hours.
Trainings sponsored by the Lancaster School of Psychodrama and Experiential Psychotherapies take place at The Welcoming Place, a beautiful and relaxing retreat center for people seeking a respite from daily life. The landscape emphasizes native plant communities that provide food and habitat for birds, pollinators like butterflies, moths and bees, and wildlife. Affordable lodging is available in houses in the campus "village" for those who want to stay overnight.
See events page here for details and registration for our 2024-2025 events. If event is not yet listed and the graphic does not take you to a link, please save the date(s) and return; we are uploading our new schedule as quickly as we can.
Trainings sponsored by the Lancaster School of Psychodrama and Experiential Psychotherapies take place at The Welcoming Place, a beautiful and relaxing retreat center for people seeking a respite from daily life. The landscape emphasizes native plant communities that provide food and habitat for birds, pollinators like butterflies, moths and bees, and wildlife. Affordable lodging is available in houses in the campus "village" for those who want to stay overnight.
See events page here for details and registration for our 2024-2025 events. If event is not yet listed and the graphic does not take you to a link, please save the date(s) and return; we are uploading our new schedule as quickly as we can.
Tarot Play
June 27, July 25, Aug. 15
Third Story Art, Lancaster, Pa.
Interest in the Tarot is surging as a tool for personal growth, and a growing number of psychotherapists and other practitioners are integrating Tarot images in their healing work. This interactive -- and fun! -- class taught by Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, is designed for you if you'd like to hear a reading of your most important question with the Tarot for pleasure and personal expansion or learn how to adapt to your work as a helping and healing professional, or both. We use the word "reading" loosely because our class will mix Karen's improvisational interpretation of the cards and their symbols -- along with the imagination of the collective group with breath, play, sharing, improvisation and movement. provides 1.5 CE and psychodrama hours per class.
Info and registration here.
June 27, July 25, Aug. 15
Third Story Art, Lancaster, Pa.
Interest in the Tarot is surging as a tool for personal growth, and a growing number of psychotherapists and other practitioners are integrating Tarot images in their healing work. This interactive -- and fun! -- class taught by Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, is designed for you if you'd like to hear a reading of your most important question with the Tarot for pleasure and personal expansion or learn how to adapt to your work as a helping and healing professional, or both. We use the word "reading" loosely because our class will mix Karen's improvisational interpretation of the cards and their symbols -- along with the imagination of the collective group with breath, play, sharing, improvisation and movement. provides 1.5 CE and psychodrama hours per class.
Info and registration here.
Creating Capacity to Heal the Anxious Brain and Body
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 24, 2024
Lancaster School of Massage, 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, BCST, we look at how being “embodied” increases our capacity to stay present as healing practitioners and how this capacity supports the people we work with. As we teach others – especially those who are survivors of trauma – to build and extend their capacity, they grow and heal. These skills also are helping with people suffering from eating disorders and body image distress, addictions, and those with the more typical struggles with depression and anxiety. Six CE and psychodrama hours.
Info and registration here.
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 24, 2024
Lancaster School of Massage, 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, BCST, we look at how being “embodied” increases our capacity to stay present as healing practitioners and how this capacity supports the people we work with. As we teach others – especially those who are survivors of trauma – to build and extend their capacity, they grow and heal. These skills also are helping with people suffering from eating disorders and body image distress, addictions, and those with the more typical struggles with depression and anxiety. Six CE and psychodrama hours.
Info and registration here.
Introduction to Psychodrama and the Power of Social Networking
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 20, 2024
Akron, Pa.
Psychodrama – yes, with the funny name – offers special gifts that bring dynamic change to people, families and groups.
Psychodrama is the basis of what we call the experiential psychotherapies today, although it may be challenging to find a philosophy and methodology that is hardly known by the public while being so firmly embedded in our culture with group therapy, support groups, social networks, role play, and other action activities. In this interactive training with Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, we offer a taste of psychodrama, its “sibling” method of sociometry and demonstrate its applications in multiple settings. Karen will discuss and demonstrate Dr. J.L. Moreno’s ideas and philosophies on the social network – related to what he called the “social atom” and the “sociogram” back in the day – and participants will be able to gain tools for assessing their social and professional networks and the networks of the people they are working with. Plus -- Celebrate our new location at The Welcoming Place, 21 S. 12th St., Akron, Pa., make good connections and help yourselves to giveaways and other goodies! Three CE and psychodrama hours.
Info and registration here.
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 20, 2024
Akron, Pa.
Psychodrama – yes, with the funny name – offers special gifts that bring dynamic change to people, families and groups.
Psychodrama is the basis of what we call the experiential psychotherapies today, although it may be challenging to find a philosophy and methodology that is hardly known by the public while being so firmly embedded in our culture with group therapy, support groups, social networks, role play, and other action activities. In this interactive training with Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, we offer a taste of psychodrama, its “sibling” method of sociometry and demonstrate its applications in multiple settings. Karen will discuss and demonstrate Dr. J.L. Moreno’s ideas and philosophies on the social network – related to what he called the “social atom” and the “sociogram” back in the day – and participants will be able to gain tools for assessing their social and professional networks and the networks of the people they are working with. Plus -- Celebrate our new location at The Welcoming Place, 21 S. 12th St., Akron, Pa., make good connections and help yourselves to giveaways and other goodies! Three CE and psychodrama hours.
Info and registration here.