Sound and Music Facilitator Training

October 16, 2009
7:30 PM	to	9:30 PM

The New York Open Center Sound and Music Institute
Sound and Music Facilitator Training

A 9-Month, 250-Hour Professional Certification Training

October 2009-June 2010

John Beaulieu • Don Campbell • Pat Moffitt Cook • David Darling • Arthur Harvey • Joshua Leeds • Louise Montello • Silvia Nakkach • Russill Paul • Layne Redmond

To listen to a recording of Arthur Harvey’s tele-class given on September 26, 2009, click the audio player above, or call 218-339-4399, then dial 775418#.

The New York Open Center Sound and Music Institute is a multi-cultural, multidisciplinary and integral approach to the study of voice, music and sound and its effects on the human mind, body and spirit. Our faculty is composed of some of the nation’s finest sound and music teachers, researchers and practitioners.

WHO SHOULD ENROLL IN THIS PROGRAM?
This certificate program is designed for anyone interested in learning about the transformative and healing power of sound, including healthcare professionals, psychologists, clinicians, educators, musicians, clergy, music therapists, yoga practitioners, body workers and others seeking innovative techniques to deal with our society’s ever challenging therapeutic needs.

CORE ELEMENTS OF OUR PROGRAM
• The technical and theoretical dimensions of musical expression including Sound, Voice, Rhythm, and Music
• Therapeutic use of sound and music including psychoacoustic music, auditory stimulation programs, creative arts/music therapies and various scientific research applications
• Sacred Sound and Music—including shamanic, mantric, sound ecology and transformational sound techniques

THIS PROGRAM WILL HELP YOU:
• Open doorways into deep states of healing and transformation
• Enhance therapeutic relationships between client & therapist
• Gain insights into physical, psychological and spiritual dimensions of life
• Receive continuing education credits
• Build networks of practitioners with similar interest in Sound and Music Therapy
• Have a specific therapeutic healing impact to reduce stress, depression, anxiety and induce relaxation

Program Staff:
Institute Director: Thomas Amelio
Program Facilitators: Cece Frame, Clare Fey
Program Coordinator: Manda Stretch

ONLINE PROGRAM:
As an adjunct learning tool, Arthur Harvey has developed our online program, “Exploring Music and Sound as a Therapeutic Process,” an integration and research tool for our overall certification training.  With it each student will work with Dr. Harvey individually to integrate the information taught in the overall program with the student’s chosen direction. This work includes a final project.

2009
Oct. 16–18—Don Campbell, PhD—
Healing at the Speed of Sound™
For the last thirty years, Don Campbell has been at the forefront of music, health and education. In this innovative, experiential and informative weekend, he will survey the newest research in the field of sound and music therapies--from hospitals that are using music to sooth patients and staff to innovative techniques parents can use to improve their home environments.

For the past year, Don has been director of the "Healing at the Speed of Sound ™" project at Advanced Brain Technologies.   Over two thousand abstracts, articles and clinical surveys provide the basis of Don’s research of the new trends in music therapy, sound therapy and creative arts education which he will share over the course of the weekend

Whether you are a therapist, a musician, healthcare practitioner or someone interested in the healing power of sound you will learn how to use music, sound and your voice to improve your mind, body and spirit. This weekend will include the history of music and sound therapies; how rhythm, melody, harmony and tempo evoke responses on the mind and body; and the science of listening and its importance in mind and memory.
This workshop will help you understand the emerging possibilities for you, your clients and family.

Nov. 20–22—Joshua Leeds—
Tone, Tempo, Pattern: Primary Components of Soundwork
Sound is an age-old healing modality that retains its potency in modern times. New technologies bring a deeper understanding of molecular reactions, neurological benefits, and the emotional effects of sound. Psychoacoustics–the study of the effect of music and sound on the human nervous system–forms the foundation upon which the field of soundwork builds. This course of study is an introduction to the theory and tools of modern soundwork. We will explore the components of sound, the physiology of hearing, the psychology of listening, and the natural human responses to vibration and frequency.

Topics include psychoacoustics (resonance, entrainment, auditory pattern identification), bioacoustics (the effect of human sound on the environment), and current therapeutic sound techniques (Tomatis filtration/gating, binaural frequencies, Cymatics). The creation of application-specific music soundtracks will be given a strong emphasis.

Dec. 4–6—David Darling—
Improvisation as a Healing Tool
Join Grammy nominated cellist and composer for a weekend of music creation featuring ideas, techniques, and philosophy to use Improvisation to support the healing process.

Central to healing is the ability to free a system of energetic blocks.  In this workshop David teaches how to create a healing environment for patients or clients to come face to face with their own wondrous capacity to heal themselves by using their own unique sounds and rhythms. He shows how to create a liberating environment to support patients to discover and work with his or her musical abilities.  He shows how to work either with individuals or in small groups to use voices, bodies and instruments to promote the healing process. Workshop includes:
• Free movement, chanting and drumming
• Ways to hear and receive musical vibrations
• Methods to connect with and claim innate rhythm and timing

2010
Jan. 8–10—Louise Montello, PhD, MT-BC—
Discovering Your Essential Musical Intelligence
We all are connected to music when we come into this world. If that connection is somehow lost due to early neglect or trauma, we may become ill, cut off from the source of spiritual nurturance. In this workshop, noted music therapist, Louise Montello, presents the basic principles for reconnecting with our Essential Musical Intelligence (EMI), the innate ability to use music and sound as self-reflecting, transformational tools to foster creativity, healing, and radiant wholeness.

Dr. Montello will guide you on a systematic musical journey where you will use the alchemical power of EMI to harmonize and integrate all five levels of being — the body, breath/energy field, mind, imagination, and the realm of bliss. Engaging in a series of clinically-proven music and sound-based techniques including Toning, Musical Tantra, Music/Sound Meditations, Guided Imagery and Music, and therapeutic songwriting, you will bypass the defenses of the conscious mind and move directly into the emotional/soul realm where you can instantly uncover and transform the hidden feelings, desires, conflicts, and memories that block radiant health, creativity, and wholeness. You will laugh, cry, roar and soar, and ultimately, experience bliss, your natural birthright.

Absolutely no musical training is necessary to reap the benefits of this approach. All are welcome! Feel free to bring your favorite musical instruments(s).

Feb. 5-7—Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT—
Medicine Melodies: The Music that Healers Hear
In the Universe, everything sings: plants, animals, waterfalls, people, the stars, and many things we don’t see; even silence makes a sound. The shaman hears the hidden music of the universe and sings it back through “medicine melodies,” simple tonal configurations that reflect a sacred unity with nature and have the power to heal body, mind and spirit. Many people in our own culture today are visited by such melodies—as if spontaneous transmissions from nature or the spirit world are “singing in” to the person rather than the person “singing out.”

Medicine melodies can be found in all traditions: from lullabies to Hebrew davennen, the kirtans, mantras and ragas from India, Tibetan ritual prayers, the zhikrs of the Sufis, Buddhist sutras and tantric chants, and indigenous songs from Africa and the Americas. We will take a musical journey through songs from many of these cultures, exploring how spiritual melodicism and timeless rhythms make for potent medicine. We will listen to healing melodies within the music of the classical Western repertoire, as we will also experience the emotional magic that comes from singing the Icaros of the Peruvian Amazon basin and other shamanic traditions, feeling how this music clears and opens energetic channels, gives birth to kindness, and connects us with love.

This workshop is for anyone who longs to work more knowingly with music and the voice. You will bring home a repertoire of medicine melodies, as well as practical guidance for developing your practice of “singing in.” Bring an instrument if you have one, and a journal.

Feb. 20-21—Arthur Harvey, DMA—
Music and Sound as a Therapeutic Process
This weekend one of the most respected researchers, teachers and authors in the field of sound and music therapy will help students develop an understanding of the distinctiveness among diverse Music and Sound approaches for therapeutic and healing applications, brain processing and creative content. Through media, readings, discussion, participatory music experiences, group processes, demonstration and lectures, Dr. Harvey will help us gain a thorough understanding of the various uses of sound and music and the use of music and sound to accelerate learning.

This is an experiential workshop in which students participate in adaptive and traditional music making with instrumental and vocal processes. Special emphasis will be devoted to stress management approaches with music and sound to accelerate learning. Come prepared to be educated, entertained, enlightened, entrained and enriched.

The weekend will also serve as an introduction to and orientation for the Sound School Online Course, Exploring Music and Sound As A Therapeutic Process. The selection of a topic for the end of course final multi-media project will be determined by the end of the weekend.

March 12–14—Pat Moffit Cook, PhD—
Indigenous Sound Healing
This workshop will introduce you to how sound and music are used in the home and clinical settings to help heal and promote spiritual growth. Sound and music have been used successfully to intercept illness, through relaxation and stimulation, pain control and stress reduction, or emotional catharsis. The conscious use of music promotes physical and mental wellness, and connects us spiritually. In many cultures, different sounds play a primary role in the death and dying process. Through experiential practices, demonstrations and discussion, you will be introduced to a healing music repertoire and select therapeutic techniques. Participants will be able to incorporate what they've learned into their professional practice and personal life style.

April 9–11—John Beaulieu, ND, PhD—
Biosonic Sound Healing
Sound Healing teaches an Energy Medicine approach, developed by Dr. John Beaulieu, which integrates energy healing, systems science, molecular research, and spiritual wisdom. In this workshop, students learn practical methods of using tuning forks to tune the nervous system, stimulate trigger points, and align our posture to visual harmonics. Special emphasis is given to developing systematic evaluation methods based on structural analysis and the five elements.  Evaluation methods, which can also be used for healing, include postural analysis related to sonic intervals and five element evaluation using voice and movement patterns. The material is supported by clinical examples and stories based on Dr. Beaulieu’s thirty-three years of practice. Sound Methods will include the use of Pythagorean Tuning Forks, Otto (osteophonic) Tuning Forks, and five element music, and voice analysis.

April 12, 9am–5:30pm—Student Clinic—
John Beaulieu, ND, PhD
Sound Healing Clinic is an opportunity to learn evaluation methods based on five element theory grounded in modern science in order to create accountable sound healing sessions for individuals or groups. During clinic individual students are evaluated and sound sessions are created in alignment with their evaluation. The sessions may include toning, tuning forks, mantras, music, and voice integrated with touch therapy, movement therapy, visualization, and basic counseling methods.

April 23–25—Russill Paul—
The Yoga of Sound
Every spiritual practitioner and yogi should have a reasonably good working knowledge of mantras and understand the full scope of their applications in yoga practice. Why? Because the study of mantras is as important to yoga as mathematics is to physics. Their basic units and their combinations thereof, their esoteric meanings, their efficacy as representations of energy, the varying placement of tongue positions in the mouth and their corresponding effects upon the chakras, their dynamics, their tones, their meters and their variations, together with the physiology and cosmology and philosophical depth of these amazing vehicles of consciousness, is integral to the yogi or any spiritual seeker’s quest for improved health and spiritual enlightenment.

During this workshop, you will be introduced to an expansive range of possibilities in mantra through exploring the Vedic, Tantric, Bhakti traditions of mantra, as well as Nada Yoga, the traditional term for the yoga of sound. You will understand the functional value of these specific types of mantra as an aid to your spiritual and yoga practice, both on and off the mat, as a viable support system to take on all the vagaries and challenges that come your way in life, and, as powerful tools that sculpt, configure and transform energy into refined states of consciousness. Mantras are the quintessential tools of our spiritual evolution, needed at present time more than ever before in human history. Proper knowledge of the art and application of mantra can make a substantial difference in your spiritual life, your health and your yoga practice.

May 14–16—Layne Redmond—Rhythm Healing: The Healing Power of Drumming, Ritual and Chanting
Chanting, overtone singing, and humming to the rhythms of the frame drum are ancient technologies for synchronizing mind and body for psychological, physical, and spiritual healing. During this workshop, we will use all the tools of the ancient priestesses and priests as we learn a synthesis of frame-drumming techniques from India, the Middle East, and North Africa.
• Invoke the elemental energies of earth, water, fire, and air and create sacred space through ritual
• Focus on the heart chakra to help bring balance to ourselves and the world
• Practice Bhramari pranayama (bee breath) and the traditional mantra and mudra of the Hindu bee goddess, Bhramari Devi.

The frame drum is the world’s oldest drum and was played primarily by women for thousands of years as the primary trance-inducing technology for religious and ecstatic rituals. In ancient myth and legend, the frame drum is associated with the bee goddess, who is said to awaken a buzz of ascending consciousness and descending spiritual grace in those who practice these drumming rituals.

Note: No prior musical experience is necessary, and appropriate frame drums will be provided.

June 11–13— Don Campbell and Arthur Harvey—
Applying Sound and Music to Your Life and Practice
This weekend will include a review of the New York Sound School's curriculum, applications and practices as well as presentations of student’s final projects.

In the course of the weekend, we will review ethical standards, outreach programs for your community and creative approaches for the integration of each student's special interests.  Throughout the weekend there will be times scheduled to view and discuss the multi-media final projects developed as the culmination of the Sound School's Online Course component.

We will have special sessions on imagery and music as well an update on new research in the field of music and health. On our last day, we will celebrate our year with "dynamic" improvisation and honor the graduates of this program.

Registration and Fees
A 250-HOUR CERTIFICATION TRAINING
(170 hours class time, 80 hours online course time)

Fridays, 7:30-9:30pm (Friday sessions for certificate program
registrants only; led by instructor and/or program facilitator),

Saturdays, 9:30am–12:30pm, 1:30–5:30pm
Sundays, 9:30am–12:30pm, 1:30–5:00 pm

Approved for CEUs

Some of the classes can be used to fulfill the CEU needs of MFTs, RNs, LCSWs and others. For more information on CEUs, call 212.219.2527 ext.135.

For more information on the program or to register call 212-219-2527 x 2.

Full Payment: 09SHH55SA $3550
Online Integration Fee: $400

Payment Plan: 09SHH55SB $3895
Online Integration Fee: $400

A non-refundable deposit of $975 is due upon registration.
Four further payments of $830 are due Nov. 30, Jan. 27, March 26, May 6 (automatic credit card payments only). Note: This includes the $400 fee for the online coaching and integration program.

INDIVIDUAL WEEKENDS ONLY: $365
(Does not include Friday sessions, which is reserved for certificate program registrants).