Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP at realtruekaren.com

If you missed my Facebook mini-training earlier this morning, let me tell you that I had a great time talking with Tina Vitolo-Campos about psychodrama and experiential psychotherapies. Here's the link:

Talking about experiential psychotherapies with Tina Vitolo, LCSW, DSW Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, talks about "Aligning Theory and Modalities in Experiential Psychotherapy" with Tina Vitolo, LCSW, DSW, a doctor of social work ...

Catch me on Thursday when I talk with Tina Vitola, LCSW, DSW, about "Aligning Theory and Modalities in Experiential Psychotherapy," a mini-training on Facebook. Free, at 11 a.m. ET -- log on to Facebook and search for the Black Sheep Therapists group or go to: https://www.facebook.com/groups/286611750704174

Happy Monday! Happy July! Here's what I'll be doing this month. Happy time to register for affordable short-term groups and classes with psychodrama and Tarot online and in person in .
See: https://www.realtruekaren.com/events

Feeling panicky? Try this Seed Meditation.

This Seed Point meditation of the present moment will help you navigate into the future By Alan Swanson For many years now, I have been working with a process which I have come to call a Seed Point. As with an actual seed, there is growth involved. With proper nourishment, the seed...

Psychotherapists aren't the only people who should learn about the importance of trauma-informed care. This topic is super-important for any helper and healer who wants to make sure that their offerings are truly supportive to people who have experienced trauma.

The first thing that you will learn is: Being well meaning is not enough.

Look for my interactive class "Trauma-Informed Care for Sound Healers and Other Alternative Practitioners" from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET Wednesday, April 24. The online class is easily accessible from your home, practice space or other location. There's still time to get the Early Bird discount if you register by today, April 19. See: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/lancasterschool/1118036

Powerful Playback Theatre going on right now with Armand Volkas in Los Angeles, sharing stories of historical trauma and N**i perpetration with the theme of “Healing the Wounds of History.” Will say more about this later when I can find the words. ❤️‍🩹

Appreciating LNP + LancasterOnline for giving me the opportunity to express my opinion about play , pretending, the right of free thought and Lancaster’s drag queen situation. 

As play-acting experts, kids recognize the joy in drag [column] Some people are getting their boxers in a bunch, all because a man dressed up in women’s clothing and a big-hair wig was supposed to read stories to children at

I know this guy. Back at the Penn State Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications in the late 1960s and early 1970s, we worked together at our daily student newspaper, forming a tight-knit group with idealistic dreams about the value of journalism to change and impact society. Then we graduated, all of us moving on to careers of writing, reporting and storytelling. Rod Nordland was the best of us when it came to journalistic success -- he became foreign correspondent in more than 150 countries for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek and finally The New York Times -- with many of those countries in war zones -- won a Pulitzer Prize and many other awards for his reporting. I've followed this career all these years, and now he has another tremendous story to tell about his diagnosis of a serious cancer and how it has changed his life and created a greater ability to love and feel love. I am eager to read his new book "Waiting for the Monsoon," which arrives by postal package on Friday. Here's an NPR interview with Rod:

After years in conflict zones, a war reporter reckons with a deadly cancer diagnosis Rod Nordland was diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most lethal form of brain cancer, in 2019. He writes about facing mortality from war and cancer in his new memoir, Waiting for the Monsoon.

Preparing now for our 2 ½-day weekend retreat and training “Embracing the Role of the Wise Elder” with myself and my good friend and colleague Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., TEP from April 12-14 in Lancaster, Pa. We’ll use psychodrama and the expressive arts to explore aging, change and community, with 12 CE credits available for Pennsylvania and Maryland and psychodrama credits for everyone. By the way, you don't have to be old to take this training -- just interested in developmental phases, roles and scripts in life and human change. With Will Halm and Joanne Morton.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/732937364387

Happy Valentine's Day!

Just signed this. I don't like lead in my chocolate either.

We don't love lead in our dark chocolate Galentines: Sign petition to Hershey to get lead out of dark chocolate!

Happy fresh new year!

Happy Winter Solstice! Here are my ponderings on the light and the dark.

Finding the light at a time of darkness By Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP Most of us will agree that there is great upheaval in the world. It is the kind of upheaval that challenges us and tests us. Much of the challenge and the test relate...

Getting ready for tomorrow's online Trauma and Psychodrama symposium presentation with . Our presentation focuses on eating disorders and ancestral trauma with my colleague Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., TEP.

Among our interventions:

- Spirit being helper
- Ancestor timeline
- Collective trauma locogram
- Social atom

Plus generous online handout page.

Registration being taken now for this workshop as well as one day and both days. See https://www.asgpp.org to register.