Sound and Music Facilitator Training
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The New York Open Center Sound and Music Institute
A 9-Month, 270-Hour Professional Certification Training
October 1, 2010—June 26, 2011
John Beaulieu • Don Campbell • Pat Moffitt Cook • David Darling • Mitchell Gaynor • Arthur Harvey • Joshua Leeds • Louise Montello • Silvia Nakkach • Russill Paul • Layne Redmond
The New York Open Center Sound and Music Institute is a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary, integral and highly experiential approach to the study of music, sound and voice and its powerful effects on the human organism. Our faculty is composed of some of the nation’s finest sound and music teachers, researchers and practitioners.
“I am overwhelmed by the generosity and the quality of our teachers and the community that has developed among my fellow students in this truly astonishing course.”
—Thomas W. student
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 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
2010
Oct. 1–3—Arthur Harvey, DMA—
Music and Sound as a Therapeutic Process
A deep study of the therapeutic impact of sound and healing with a focus on auditory applications, brain process and creative content.
Oct. 22–24—Don Campbell, PhD—
Healing at the Speed of Sound™
A study of groundbreaking research and the most current clinical applications in the field of sound and music healing-how rhythm, melody, harmony, tempo evoke responses in the mind and body-The science of listening and its importance in mind and memory.
Nov 12–14—David Darling—
Improvisation as a Healing Tool
How to use creativity and spontaneity to create a healing environment for patients or clients so they can come face to face with their own wondrous capacity to heal by using their own unique sounds and rhythms.
Nov. 15, 7:45–9:45pm— Mitchell Gaynor , MD—
Evening Workshop— The Healing Resonance of Himalayan Bowls
A western medicine approach to the use of Himalayan bowls, an ancient Asian healing system, in meditation, trance induction, relaxation,
healing and religious practice.
Dec. 10–12—Joshua Leeds—
Psychoacoustics for Health Care: Tone, Tempo, Pattern
The physics and physiology of sound and its effect on the human nervous system-How studio equipment is used to create application specific audio for healing strategies-the physiology of hearing, the psychology of listening and natural human responses to vibration and frequency.
2011
Jan. 7–9—Louise Montello, PhD, MT-BC—
Discovering Your Essential Musical Intelligence
Develop your own and your clients innate ability to use sound as a self-reflecting tool to facilitate health and well-being on all levels, including transforming stress into dynamic energy for creative change.
Feb. 11–13—John Beaulieu, ND, PhD—
Biosonics: The Use of Tuning Forks in Healing
Practical methods of using tuning forks to tune the nervous system, stimulate trigger points, and align posture to visual harmonics. Learn how to develop systematic evaluation methods, based on structural analysis and the five elements.
Feb. 14—Student Clinic—John Beaulieu, ND, PhD
Individual sessions to learn how to assess a clients needs, drawing upon various sound healing systems (tuning forks, toning, five-element theory etc), grounded in latest scientific research-How to create an effective sound healing group or individual sessions based on the assessment.
March 11–13—Pat Moffit Cook, PhD—Indigenous Sound Healing
An immersion into the use of sound and music as diagnostic tools, healing agents and connectors to spiritual domains in indigenous and cross cultural traditions.
March 14, 7:45–9:45pm— Mitchell Gaynor , MD—
Evening Workshop— The Cosmic Symphony and How it Heals
Tuning mind, body and soul to create a new paradigm for enhanced psycho-immunological healing modalities.
April 8–10—Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT—
Medicine Melodies: The Music that Healers Hear
An in-depth study of the world’s cultural traditions through healing songs-How spiritual melodicism and timeless rhythms are used as healing tools.
April 11—Student Clinic: An Integration Laboratory
—Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT
Individual sessions in methods and strategies to integrate the use of all of healing systems taught in this training into a healing practice as well as for personal enrichment.
May 13–15—Russill Paul—The Yoga of Sound
An in-depth training on the use of sound, rhythm and mantra in the Indian yogic tradition.
(NOTE: The hours for this weekend workshop are Friday, 7:30-9:30pm; Saturday and Sunday, 9:30am-12:30pm, 2-5pm.)
June 10–12—Layne Redmond—Rhythm Healing
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. A synthesis of frame-drumming techniques from India, the Middle East and North Africa.
June 24–26— Don Campbell and Arthur Harvey
—Applying Sound and Music to Your Life and Practice
Review of overall course curriculum, applications and practices. Review of ethical standards. Outreach programs for one’s community and creative approaches for the integration of each student’s special interests.
PROGRAM STAFF
Program Facilitator: Cece Frame
Program Coordinator: Manda Stretch
OPTIONAL ONLINE PROGRAM
As an adjunct learning tool, Arthur Harvey has developed the online training program “Exploring Music and Sound as a Therapeutic Process.” With it students will work with Dr. Harvey individually to integrate the overall program with the student’s chosen direction. This program requires a $400 additional fee payable to the instructor. For details, call 212-219-2527 x2.
FREE INTROS: at 7pm on Thurs., Aug. 19, and Tues., Sept. 7, and at 8 pm on Tues., Sept. 21. Presentations and Q&A given by staff, graduates and students.
Free intro Teleclasses with Arthur Harvey on Aug. 31 and Joshua Leeds on Sept. 14, both at 7pm! Call 212.219.2527 x 2.
REGISTRATION AND FEES
A 270-HOUR CERTIFICATION TRAINING
(with optional 80 hours online course time)
Fridays, 7:30-9:30pm
(Friday sessions for certificate program registrants only)
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.
Full Payment: 10SHH55SA $3,575
Early Bird Registration by July 30: $3,275
Early Bird Registration Discount extended to September 8th!
Payment Plan: 10SHH55SB $3,950
A non-refundable deposit of $970 is due upon registration. Four further payments of $745 are due Nov. 30, Jan. 28, March 28, May 6 (automatic credit card payments only).
Individual Weekends only: $365 (Does not include Fridays, final weekend or extracurricular offerings, which are for certificate program registrants only.)
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PROGRAM, email us:
soundandmusic@opencenter.org
Dr. John Beaulieu, ND, PhD, is a composer, sound healer, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and Naturopathic Doctor. After receiving advanced degrees from Indiana and Purdue University he went on to integrate Eastern and Western natural healing disciplines. His work at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital as well as his teaching in several universities has made him a much sought after lecturer around the world. Dr. Beaulieu is an expert on Stress science, and oversees molecular research on the effects of sound and music. He is also the author of Human Tuning, Music and Sound In The Healing Arts and numerous CDs including "Calendula, a Suite for Pythagorean Tuning Forks."
Don Campbell, PhD, is the author of 23 books including Introduction to the Musical Brain, The Mozart Effect®, Rhythms of Learning, and Music: Physician for Times to Come. He is the acoustic director of Aesthetics Audio Systems and serves on the board of the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado.
Pat Moffitt Cook, PhD, is director of the Open Ear Center in Washington. For over 25 years, Cook has traveled extensively throughout the world recording and participating in musical healing rituals and the daily life of other cultures. She is a pioneer in the field and an international teacher and clinician. Her scholarly research in music and ethnomusicology paralleled extensive training and certifications in auditory stimulation technologies including the Tomatis Method, and crosscultural music-evoked imagery methods from Asia and the United States (GIM). Pat is the author of numerous articles; Music Healers of Indigenous Cultures: Shaman, JhankrI and Nele (book and CD), and Brainwave Symphony.
David Darling is a classically trained cellist who has taught and served as orchestra conductor and faculty cellist at Western Kentucky University. In 1969, he joined the Paul Winter Consort, an extraordinarily progressive band for its time whose sound blended jazz with Brazilian, African, Indian and other world music—and at times even the voices of animals. Since he left the Consort in 1978, he has dedicated himself to a solo performing and recording career, and to teaching music and improvisation. In 1986 he co-founded Music for People, a non-profit educational network that teaches and fosters improvisation as a means of creative self-expression. In 2010, David won the Grammy Award for his album "Prayer for Compassion."
Mitchell Gaynor, MD, is founder and president of Gaynor Integrative Oncology, assistant attending physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and clinical assistant professor of medicine at Weill Medical College. He is the best-selling author of four books and a CD focusing on healing, health and the environment and cancer prevention.
Arthur Harvey, DMA, is an international authority on music and special needs individuals, music and the brain, music and learning, and music and health. He is featured on a seven-show video series, "Music and the Brain," released a two-CD set of Music for Health and Wellness, and co-authored a book/CD, Learn with the Classics. He currently teaches online graduate courses in music as therapy.
Joshua Leeds is a sound researcher, music producer, and author of
Dr. Louise Montello is a board-certified music therapist, psychoanalyst and award-winning author of Essential Musical Intelligence. A jazz pianist and composer, Dr. Montello directs the Creative Arts Therapy Program at The New School, and is co-founder of Performance Wellness, Inc. She maintains a private practice in psychodynamic music therapy and supervision in NYC.
Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT, is an award-winning composer, psychologist, voice culturist, author, and pioneer in the field of sound and transformation of consciousness. She is the founding director of Vox Mundi School of the Voice, an international project devoted to teaching and preserving sacred music traditions. She has created and is the academic advisor for the Sound, Voice, Music Healing Certificate at the California Institute for Integral Studies, and she leads training retreats in sacred music and the Yoga of the Voice in the United States, Brazil, India, and Europe. Nakkach interest in indigenous music cosmology and spirituality has led her to collaborate with renowned shamans from Indian and South American shamanic traditions, and for more than 26 years Silvia has studied Hindustani music with the late maestro Ali Akbar Khan, and masters of the Dhrupad tradition
Russill Paul is a world-class musician and producer of the best-selling yoga chant albums Shakti: Tantric Embrace and Nada: Awakening Spirit. He is also a renowned spiritual teacher and the author of The Yoga of Sound: Tapping the Hidden Power of Music and Chant and Jesus in the Lotus: The Mystical Doorway between Christianity and Yogic Spirituality. Russill combines years of monastic training in India as a Benedictine monk and yogi under Dom Bede Griffiths, with extensive studies in spirituality, mantra, and music. He teaches online through the Mystic Heart School of Transformation.
Layne Redmond, creator of an innovative healing form of rhythmic and drumming exercises, is the author of When The Drummers Were Women and Chakra Meditation. Her CDs include Chanting the Chakras, Chakra Breathing Meditations, Heart Chakra Meditations, Trance Union, The Wave of Bliss and Invoking the Muse.
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