Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy

Enrolling Strengths to Transform Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Vicarious Trauma
2019-08-16 12:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
Friday August 16th | Medford, New Jersey
Enrolling Strengths to Transform Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Vicarious Trauma
Presented by Scott Giacomucci
(Closed Training Group for Pinelands Recovery Center)

Role Theory: Redefining the Self in Action
2019-07-27 09:00 - 13:00
Saturday July 27th 9am – 1pm | Bryn Mawr, PA | 4 CEUs for PA professional counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists and psychologists
Role Theory: Redefining the Self in Action
Presented by Scott Giacomucci | $65 ($40 for students)
Center for Families – 1225 Montrose Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
This workshop will present psychodrama’s theory of personality – role theory. Role theory will be presented in action through personal assessments, group sociometry, and psychodrama. Participants will learn to conceptualize and intervene in clinical cases through role theory with its simplified, non-pathologizing approach that integrates the biopsychosocial experience. Role development and role types will also be presented as outlined in Jacob Moreno’s psychodrama philosophy. Participants will also have the opportunity to explore their own role diagram and develop/enhance a vision for their self in the future.
Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC (Lic. #004115) has been approved as a pre-approved provider of professional continuing education for social workers (Section 47.36), Marriage and Family Therapist (Section 48.36) and Professional Counselors (Section 49.36) by the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists and Professional Counselors. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychologists (Lic. # PSY000215) to offer continuing education for psychologists. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC maintains responsibility for the program.

Directing Practice for Experiential Therapy
2019-07-26 12:30 - 15:30
Friday July 26th | Medford, New Jersey
Directing Practice for Experiential Therapy
Presented by Scott Giacomucci
(Closed Training Group for Pinelands Recovery Center)

Spirituality in Addiction and Trauma Treatment: Experiential Therapy, Sociometry, Psychodrama, and Group Psychotherapy
2019-07-23 08:00 - 17:00
Tuesday July 23rd | Recovery 360 Conference, Philadelphia
Spirituality in Addiction and Trauma Treatment: Experiential Therapy, Sociometry, Psychodrama, and Group Psychotherapy
Presented by Scott Giacomucci & Darrell Briggs
https://www.recovery360conf.com/

Sociometry, Psychodrama, and Experiential Trauma Group Therapy for Social Workers
2019-07-20 10:30 - 14:00
Saturday July 20th 11am – 2pm| Bryn Mawr, PA | 3 CEU’s
PA Society of Clinical Social Work (PSCSW) Clinical Book Discussion Program
Sociometry, Psychodrama, and Experiential Trauma Group Therapy for Social Workers
Presented by Dr. Scott Giacomucci
This is a PSCSW-members only event with a $10 fee for 3 CEU’s.
Register by logging on at PSCSW.org

Introduction to Sociometry, Psychodrama, and Group Psychotherapy
2019-07-10 08:00 - 17:00
Tuesday July 10th | Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Introduction to Sociometry, Psychodrama, and Group Psychotherapy
Presented by Scott Giacomucci

Guest Lecture 2 - Intro to Sociometry, Psychodrama, and Group Psychotherapy
2019-07-10 08:00 - 17:00
Guest lecture 2 at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Introduction to Sociometry, Psychodrama, and Group Psychotherapy
2019-07-09 08:00 - 17:00
Tuesday July 9th| Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Introduction to Sociometry, Psychodrama, and Group Psychotherapy
Presented by Scott Giacomucci

Guest Lecture - Intro to Sociometry, Psychodrama, and Group Psychotherapy
2019-07-09 08:00 - 17:00
Guest lecture at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Experiential Therapy Supervised Practice
2019-06-22 09:00 - 13:00
Experiential Therapy Supervised Practice
Date: June 22, 2019
Time: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location: Center for Families, 1225 Montrose Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 (2nd floor) Bryn Mawr, PA
Presented by Scott Giacomucci , LCSW
Cost: $65 ($40 for students)
4 CEUs for PA professional counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists and psychologists OR 4 experiential group supervision hours of the required 10 supervision hours that are required for ISEP’s new entry level experiential certifications. More information at www.ExperientialProfessionals.com.
Description and learning objectives:
This workshop will provide participants with opportunities to practice facilitating experiential therapy techniques with groups and individuals in a safe and supportive environment. Participants will take turns facilitating group warm-ups, sociometry exercises, and simple psychodramatic interventions with the group-as-a-whole and in triads or dyads. This workshop is suitable for new or experiential professionals who are interested in gaining facilitation practice and supervision around their use of experiential techniques in therapy, coaching, education, supervision, or community groups.
Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC (Lic. #004115) has been approved as a pre-approved provider of professional continuing education for social workers (Section 47.36), Marriage and Family Therapist (Section 48.36) and Professional Counselors (Section 49.36) by the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists and Professional Counselors. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychologists (Lic. # PSY000215) to offer continuing education for psychologists. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC maintains responsibility for the program.

Working Experientially with Defenses in Addiction and Trauma Treatment
2019-06-21 12:30 - 15:30
Friday June 21st | Medford, New Jersey
Working Experientially with Defenses in Addiction and Trauma Treatment
Presented by Scott Giacomucci
(Closed Training Group for Pinelands Recovery Center)

Experiential Trauma Group Therapy: Removing Barriers to Mutual Aid with Sociometry and Psychodrama
2019-06-07 08:00 - 17:00
Friday June 7th | IASWG Conference New York City, NY
Experiential Trauma Group Therapy: Removing Barriers to Mutual Aid with Sociometry and Psychodrama
Presented by Scott Giacomucci & Amy Stone
International Association of Social Work with Groups Symposium
https://www.iaswg.org/2019symposium

Therapeutic Spiral Model: Experiential Trauma Work, Safety, & Neurobiology
2019-05-31 12:30 - 15:30

Jungian Psychodrama: Roles, Archetypes, & Shadows
2019-05-25 09:00 - 13:00
Date: Saturday May 25th
Time: 9am – 1pm
Location: Center for Families, 1225 Montrose Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 (2nd floor)
Presented by Scott Giacomucci
Cost: $65 ($40 for students)
4 CEUs for PA professional counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists and psychologists
This workshop will introduce participants to Jungian concepts of ‘shadow’ and ‘archetype’ as they relate to psychotherapy and personal growth. J.L. Moreno’s role theory will be presented and integrated with the Jungian concept of archetypes. Using sociometric, sociodramatic, and psychodramatic techniques, the group will explore its relationships to various archetypes and their utility in clinical work.
Participants will also be offered the opportunity and choice to explore aspects of their own shadow (positive and negative) and their own integration of archetypes in their professional roles.

Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC (Lic. #004115) has been approved as a pre-approved provider of professional continuing education for social workers (Section 47.36), Marriage and Family Therapist (Section 48.36) and Professional Counselors (Section 49.36) by the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists and Professional Counselors. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychologists (Lic. # PSY000215) to offer continuing education for psychologists. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC maintains responsibility for the program.

A SOCIOMETRIC EXPLORATION AND PSYCHODRAMATIC HONORING OF PERSONAL IMMIGRATION HISTORY
2019-05-04 13:00 - 15:00 | Center for Families, Malvern, PA
May 4th | Manchester, New Hampshire ASGPP Conference
A SOCIOMETRIC EXPLORATION AND PSYCHODRAMATIC HONORING OF PERSONAL IMMIGRATION HISTORY
Scott Giacomucci, LCSW, CTTS, CET III, CP/PAT, and Maria Jose Sotomayor-Giacomucci
This workshop will introduce J.L. Moreno’s immigration story. We will
acknowledge the experience of migration as a personal trauma/loss and focus on generational strengths and resilience. Through sociometry, participants will uncover shared experiences, identities, and values with a focus on personal family immigration stories. Finally, a brief psychodrama process will take place, oriented around honoring a family member, mentor, community leader, and/or ancestor who played a supportive role in that individual’s development or family immigration story.
Learning Objectives.
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Explain J.L. Moreno’s own history of immigration as it relates to the
development of sociometry, psychodrama, and group psychotherapy;
2. Recognize applications of sociometry to explore the personal
immigration history within a group.
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AWAKENING THE GODHEAD WITHIN: MORENIAN THEORY AND TSM PSYCHODRAMA
2019-05-02 | Center for Families, Malvern, PA
AWAKENING THE GODHEAD WITHIN:
MORENIAN THEORY AND TSM PSYCHODRAMA
Manchester, New Hampshire ASGPP 77th ConferenceKate Hudgins, PhD, TEP, Steven Durost,PhD, LCMHC, REAT, & Scott Giacomucci, LCSW, CTTS, CET III, CP/PAT,
In TSM Psychodrama we understand, when trauma happens, one part
of the self holds the pain as A wounded child and one part goes to sleep
holding the treasured qualities of a child true spirit. In TSM Psychodrama, your autonomous healing center of spontaneity is ignited the
moment the victim child feels safe. Then a sleeping child awakens giving
the protected treasures. Come and awaken the Godhead child through
action structures, a vignette, and expressive arts.
Learning Objectives.
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Demonstrate at least one action structure to access the TSM internal
role of the sleeping awakening child;
2. Explain the concept of the autonomous healing connect
Morenian theory and TSM Psychodrama and posttraumatic growth.

Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC (Lic. #004115) has been approved as a pre-approved provider of professional continuing education for social workers (Section 47.36), Marriage and Family Therapist (Section 48.36) and Professional Counselors (Section 49.36) by the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists and Professional Counselors. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychologists (Lic. #PSY000215) to offer continuing education for psychologists. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC maintains responsibility for the program.

Experiential Therapy Supervised Practice
2019-04-27 09:00 - 13:00
Date: April 27, 2019
Time: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location: Center for Families, 1225 Montrose Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 (2nd floor)
Cost: $65 ($40 for students)
This supervised practice workshop can count as EITHER 4 CEUs for PA professional counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists and psychologists or 4 training hours for experiential group supervision hours of the required 10 supervision hours that are required for ISEP’s new entry level experiential certifications. More information at www.ExperientialProfessionals.com.
Description and learning objectives:
This workshop will provide participants with opportunities to practice facilitating experiential therapy techniques with groups and individuals in a safe and supportive environment. Participants will take turns facilitating group warm-ups, sociometry exercises, and simple psychodramatic interventions with the group as-a-whole and in triads or dyads. This workshop is suitable for new or experiential professionals who are interested in gaining facilitation practice and supervision around their use of experiential techniques in therapy, coaching, education, supervision, or community groups.
Also, consider staying at the Center for Families for the 3pm-5pm Delaware Valley Psychodrama Collective meeting after this workshop. More information and pricing available delvalpsychodrama.com/about

Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC (Lic. #004115) has been approved as a pre-approved provider of professional continuing education for social workers (Section 47.36), Marriage and Family Therapist (Section 48.36) and Professional Counselors (Section 49.36) by the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists and Professional Counselors. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychologists (Lic. #PSY000215) to offer continuing education for psychologists. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC maintains responsibility for the program.

Experiential Trauma and Addiction Treatment: Relational Trauma Repair
2019-04-12 08:00
Closed training group for Pinelands Recovery Center staff

TSM Directing Practice: Psychodrama and Trauma Done Safely!
2019-03-28 - 2019-03-31
Date: March 28-31, 2019
Location: Temenos Retreat Center, 1564 Telegraph Rd, West Chester, PA 19382
Presented by Kate Hudgins, Ph.D., TEP
Cost Breakdown: $1,000 for shared room accommodations. Some limited single rooms are available for an additional cost. Day students are welcome.
Time: This is a residential workshop. We come together to share dinner at 6pm on Thursday evening. We end after lunch on Sunday at 3pm.
This is a residential retreat offering 24 CEUs for PA professional counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists and psychologist
Description and learning objectives:
We invite you to attend this weekend residential training in using psychodrama for trauma-informed therapy. While the Therapeutic Spiral Model is the primary lens we will look at to create containment, self-regulation and narrative label, we welcome people with divergent backgrounds to provide a rich exchange of information and interventions. If you are in the TSI International Certification in Trauma Therapy program this is an opportunity to complete practicum requirements.
For all participants it is a chance to improve your action skills with trauma as well as to do your own protagonist work. Come access your own autonomous healing center through the TSM Prescriptive Roles and join with a group of like minded people to share how we can change the world.
More info. and registration: drkatetsi@icloud.com
https://therapeuticspiralmodel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/TSMDirectingPractice-Retreat3283119v1.pdf

Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC (Lic. #004115) has been approved as a pre-approved provider of professional continuing education for social workers (Section 47.36), Marriage and Family Therapist (Section 48.36) and Professional Counselors (Section 49.36) by the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists and Professional Counselors. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychologists (Lic. # PSY000215) to offer continuing education for psychologists. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC maintains responsibility for the program.

Therapeutic Spiral Model and Neurobiology: Experiential Trauma Therapy
2019-03-22 08:00 - 17:00
Closed Training group for Espenshade Counseling Practice

Guest Lecture - Intro to Sociometry, Psychodrama, and Group Therapy
2019-03-21 08:00 - 17:00
Penn State University Brandywine Campus guest lecture

Introduction to Experiential Addiction and Trauma Treatment
2019-03-15 08:00 - 17:00
Closed training group for Pinelands Recovery Center

Scott's Dissertation Defense at University of Pennsylvania
2019-03-12 15:30 - 17:00
Open Dissertation Defense at the University of Pennsylvania Social Work school at 3:30pm.

Social Work with Groups, Sociometry, & Psychodrama
2019-03-05 13:00 - 15:00
Tuesday March 5th | New York City
Social Work with Groups, Sociometry, & Psychodrama.
Presented by Scott Giacomucci
Columbia University School of Social Work

Enrolling Strengths to Transform Compassion Fatigue & Vicarious Trauma
2019-03-02 09:00 - 16:00
Enrolling Strengths to Transform Compassion Fatigue & Vicarious Trauma
Date: March 2, 2019
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Center for Families, 1225 Montrose Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Presented by Scott Giacomucci, LCSW
Cost: $100 (ask for student discounts)
6 CEU’s available for PA social workers, marriage and family therapists, and professional counselors.
Training hours are also provided towards certification in experiential therapy (CET); and certification in sociometry, psychodrama, and group psychotherapy (CP).
Description and learning objectives:
This workshop will both teach and explore compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout in the helping professions (therapists, activists, educators, lawyers, nurses, doctors, etc). Using psychodrama, we will build up the strengths needed to transform compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout. This workshop will primarily focus on professional training, however it will also provide opportunities for personal growth and self-care.
To register, contact Scott@PhoenixTraumaCenter.com
Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC (Lic. #004115) has been approved as a pre-approved provider of professional continuing education for social workers (Section 47.36), Marriage and Family Therapist (Section 48.36) and Professional Counselors (Section 49.36) by the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists and Professional Counselors. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychologists (Lic. # PSY000215) to offer continuing education for psychologists. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, ACEP No. 7013. Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy, LLC maintains responsibility for the program.

Relational Trauma Repair and Psychodramatic Letter Writing
2019-02-23 15:00 - 17:00
Saturday February 23rd 3:00pm-5:00pm | Bryn Mawr, PA
Relational Trauma Repair and Psychodramatic Letter Writing
Presented by Scott Giacomucci & Karen Moser Levin
Delaware Valley Psychodrama Chapter meeting
https://www.delvalpsychodrama.com/about/

Relational Trauma Repair Model
2019-02-22 13:00 - 16:00
CLOSED Training Group at Espenshade Counseling Services in Bryn Mawr, PA

Sociometry of Connection & Psychodrama of Loss
2019-02-02 09:00 - 16:00
This workshop will demonstrate sociometry’s unique ability to strengthen connections within a group, while also demonstrating psychodrama’s unique ability to renegotiate loss. We will explore loss in different forms including death/grief, as well as ambiguous losses. This workshop will primarily focus on professional training, however it will also provide opportunities for personal growth.
6CEU’s available for PA social workers, marriage and family therapists, and professional counselors.
Training hours are also provided towards certification in experiential therapy (CET); and certification in sociometry, psychodrama, and group psychotherapy (CP).

Cost: $100 (ask for student discounts)
To register, contact Scott@PhoenixTraumaCenter.com

Delaware Valley Psychodrama Collective Meeting
2019-01-26 15:00 - 17:00
Topic to be announced
This Workshop is sponsored by the Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy.

Men's Spirituality Group
2018-12-18 19:30
This workshop is part of an on-going Men’s Spirituality group that meets at the Franciscan Spirituality Center each Tuesday evening. Contact Fritz Haas for more information: fritz_haas@hotmail.com.
