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THE INTERSECTION OF MUSIC & PSYCHEDELIC-ASSISTED THERAPY (Boston, USA/hybrid)
- May 16, 2025 -
Hosted at Berklee College of Music in Boston, this hybrid symposium brings together researchers and clinical practitioners of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions will explore the essential role of music in psychedelics and consider the parallels between psychedelics and GIM.
CALL FOR CHAPTERS IN A BOOK ABOUT MUSIC IN DEATH AND DYING
​- proposals deadline May 15, 2025 -
International editors are planning a book which will focus on the role of music in death and dying situations, especially in a time of global crisis. Academic writing will be included, but shorter creative contributions such as poems and compositions will also be welcomed. Standard chapters will have a limit of 7000 words, and creative contributions will be limited to 2000 words.
MUSIC BREATHING-BASIC TRAINING
(Hamburg, Germany)
​- July 23, 2025 / 9.00-16.00 CET -
This one-day training will be offered by Sonora Organisation for Music Therapy and Research as a pre-conference seminar during the European Music therapy Conference in Hamburg. It is open to music/art therapists, mental health and medical professionals. Participants will have the opportunity to understand the basic methodology and mechanisms of the Music Breathing method for trauma, stress disorders, and general wellbeing, based on theory and experiential practice. Those who want to be accredited as MB practitioners, may continue with 3 days online training which will become available in autumn 2025.
Trainer: Evangelia Papanikolaou, PhD, FAMI, EAMi accred. Assistant trainer: Joyu Lee, PhDc, FAMI. When and where: 23 July, 2025, 9am-4pm, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Am Kaiserkai 1, Hamburg
- EAMI accredited
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COOPERATION BETWEEN GIM GERMAN AND AMERICAN INSTITUTES
- from 2024 -
A wish that GIM institutes around the world work together, exchange and coordinate their teaching contents is coming true. Lisa Summer, Director of the Institute for Music & Consciousness in Massachusetts, USA, and Isabelle Frohne-Hagemann, Director of the Institute for Music, Imagination, and Therapy in Berlin (IMIT), Germany, have agreed on a cooperation. Both, Lisa Summer’s Continuum Model and the BMGIM taught at IMIT are models for clinical use in psychiatric and psychosomatic hospitals. The two approaches will complement and enrich each other. Lisa will implement her Continuum Model in Germany and conduct a Level III group in cooperation with IMIT. She will be assisted by MI-trainers of the stand-alone course "Resource Oriented Music Imagination (RoMI)" taught at IMIT. The assisting MI Trainers by that can become full EAMI accredited BMGIM trainers for Lisa's Continuum model and for BMGIM taught at IMIT.
The project will start next year with Swiss and German graduates of the different RoMI training groups of IMIT.
- AMI accredited
- EAMI accredited
​PUBLICATION: MUSIKREISEN IN INNERE RÄUME (Germany)
- 2023 -
Dorothea Dülberg's biography of Helen Bonny is now published at Böhlau Verlag Köln. We are happy to announce this must-read for all of us working with GIM. As of yet, the book is only available in German but hopefully an English translation will follow soon.
From Silence into a Musical Space
This video is produced by Tommy Hayes, Ian Leslie and Joske Slabbers
specifically during the Corona virus to offer a musical experience to people in their own homes. The video may also be a helpful therapeutic tool to send out to some of our clients.
This Music Therapy exercise is based on a receptive Music Therapy programme.
It employs a focused breathing technique, in combination with engaged music listening, to facilitate a deep, therapeutic musical experience.
This Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) relaxation and healing oriented experience has been developed for those with mild to moderate symptoms of COVID-19.
German version of the Covid-19 Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) Self-Help-Resource.
Greek version of the Covid-19 Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) Self-Help-Resource.