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Music Conferences by Laurie Riley
PO Box 1563 , Sedona AZ 86339

October 14 – 17, 2004

National Convergence For Therapeutic Music

Sharing Our Stories

Best Western Hotel
Sedona , Arizona

Transportation:

For airport shuttle service to Phoenix please call Ace Express Shuttle at 928-649-2720 to reserve your transportation.

 

Conference Schedule

 Coconino Room Yavapai Room

Thursday 14 th

1:00 – 4:30 Registration, and vendor set-up

3:00 – 3:45 Opening Program:

Introduction of Presenters

4:00 – 5:30 Stella Benson: Subtle Energies and the

Therapeutic Musician

5:30 dinner time (on your own) Vendors Open

7:00 Panel Discussion:

Training Program Overviews

Friday 15th

9:00 – 9:45 Christina Tourin – Part 1: Living and Playing on an Participants’ stories (3)

Ocean of Energy

10:00 – 10:45 Tomas Winn - Anthroposophical Music Therapy Stella Benson’s story

11:00 – 12:00 Melinda Gardiner: Therapeutic Musicianship as a Carolyn Bame - Flagstaff

Spiritual Practice Medical Center Project

12:00 lunch time (on your own) Vendors Open

1:30 – 2:00 CONCERT: Thunderbeat Vendors Open

Beautiful Tunings for the Harp Tomas Winn’s story

2:45 - 4:00 Barbara Crowe: Music Therapy, Sound Healing and Participant’s stories (5)

Complexity Science

4:15 – 4:45 Barbara Crowe’s Story Tomas Winn - Guided Imagery

5:00 dinner time (on your own)

7:00 Evening Concert: Barbara Crowe, special presentation; Stella Benson, The Modal Harp

Saturday 16 th

9:00 - 11:00 Laurie Riley: Melinda Gardiner’s Story and

Pythagorean Principles of Music in the Universe Participant’s stories (4)

11:15 – 12:00 Dr. Devin Mikles: Hospice Perspectives Tomas Winn: Improvisation

11:45 – 12:30 Christina Tourin Part 2: Living and Playing on an Laurie Riley’s Story Ocean of Energy

12:30 lunch time (on your own)

2:00 – 2:45 Panel Discussion: Music Therapy, Clinical Music, and

Music Practionership: Similarities and Differences

3:00 – 4:00 Ani Williams -- Beautiful Tunings for harpists Participant’s stories (4)

4:15 – 5:15 Presentation of new National Standards Board

5:15 dinner time(on your own)

7:00 Evening Concert: Laurie Riley, harp; Arang Park , piano

Sunday 17 th

8:00 - 8:30 Divine Feminine Service

with Melinda Gardiner

8:40 – 9:10 All Faiths Service with

Rev. Laurie Riley

9:15 – 9:45 Christian Service with Rev.

Carolyn Bame

10:00 – 10:45 Ani Williams - Sacred Chants of the World

11:00 – 11:45 CONCERT - Christina Tourin, harp

11:45 Closing Ceremony

 

Featured Presenters:

 

Barbara Crowe, MT-BC

…author of Music and Soul-Making , a theory of music therapy based on Complexity Science. Barbara is a Board Certified Music Therapist, and director of Music Therapy at Arizona State University . She will present Music Therapy, Sound Healing and Complexity Science and will also tell her story, as well as appearing in concert.

 

Stella Benson, CMP, CTHP

…director for the International Healing Musician’s Program, Stella is an educator, author of The Healers Way books, and recording artist in the field of therapeutic music. Stella will present Subtle Energies and the Therapeutic Musician, and will tell her story, as well as appearing in concert.

 

Laurie Riley, CMP, WFM

. . . f ounder of the Clinical Musicians Home Study Courses, author of Body, Mind and Music and

numerous other books, recording/touring artist, and World Fellowship Ministerial Candidate, Laurie will present Pythagorean Principles of Music in the Universe, lead the Sunday morning All Faiths Service, and will also tell her story, as well as appearing in concert.

 

Ani Williams, Sound Healer

Ani leads tours to sacred sites around the world, and is a recording artist, chant leader and sound healer. She has developed a method called Voice Spectrum Analysis. She will present Sacred Chants of the World and Beautiful Tuningsfor the Harp, as well as appearing in concert.

 

Christina Tourin, CTHP

Founder and director of International Harp Therapy Program, author of Illuminations: Healing Music, International recording and touring artist, Music Educator and Anthroposphical Teacher, Tina will present Living and Playing on an Ocean of Energy , andwill also tell her story, as well as appearing in concert.

 

 

Tomas Winn , MT -BC

Nationally certified counselor and board certified Music Therapist with 20 years of experience with clinical populations, Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery, and Anthroposophical Music Therapist, Tomas will present Anthroposophical Music Therapy and Improvisation and Guided Imagery. Tomas has also traveled extensively in India , and is well versed in meditative practices and Goethean Studies.

 

Melinda Gardiner, CMP, RN

Executive director of the Music for Healing and Transition Program, Melinda is a Regis-tered Nurse and Certified Music Practitioner, with extensive background in integrative healing and Anthroposophic medicine. She is a leader in the Formation of Ministry Pro-gram and instructor of Centering Prayer. Melinda will present Therapeutic Musicianship as a Spiritual Practice.

 

 

Workshops

 

Music Therapy, Sound Healing and Complexity Science with Barbara Crowe, MT-BC :

Complexity Science, the physics theory of the macroworld, offers a scientific approach that can help explain how and why music is an effective tool for therapy and healing. In this presentation, participants will be introduced to the principles of Complexity Science and shown how music fits the definition of a complex system in motion. Based on this scientific model, the presentation will explore a new theory of music therapy and how the practice of music therapy and sound healing may change and how our research agenda will be altered.

 

Tomas Winn, MT-BC will present three sessions: Guided Imagery will be an experiential session showing the benefits of this practice in music therapy. Anthroposophical Music Therapy is a discipline that approaches music and its beneficial effects from a point of view based on the work of Rudolf Steiner. Improvisation will be a freeform, rhythmic participatory/instructional experience - bring your instrument or use one provided.

 

Pythagorean Principles of Music in the Universe with Laurie Riley, CMP: Why does music affect us? Because music is an audible function of the geometry and mathematics with which the universe is constructed, and of which, therefore, the human body and psyche consist. Pythagoras taught these principles in a clandestine academy, Plato furthered the work, and through the ages, secret societies have studied these principles. Now the information is available to everyone. Music’s inherent healing and nurturing properties are a natural outgrowth of its physical/energetic relationship to all existence. This is a richly illustrated presentation using over 30 photographs and charts projected on a screen in sequence throughout the program.

 

Stella Benson, CMP, CIHP , will present Subtle Energies and Intuitive Listening: This presentation is a look into the recent research of subtle energies, and ways to integrate Intuitive Listing to these soon-to-be measurable phenomena. We will integrate intuitive listening techniques with subtle energy principles to begin mastering a higher level of therapeutic musicianship. Bring your intuition!

 

Ani Williams will present two workshops: Beautiful Tunings for Harpists will explore the many ways lever (or pedals) can be set to produce unusual and lovely scales and modes for healing music. Ani’s mastering of these tunings will be demonstrated. Sacred Chants of the World will be a participatory session of blissful vocal chants from many cultures.

 

Living and Playing on an Ocean of Energy with Christina Tourin: Healing modalities are part of our ocean of energies. By relating to the “keyboards” of this vast spectrum, participants will learn how and why sound is so powerful in our lives, and how to bring these energies to your own physical, emotional and spiritual body through the use of musical instruments.

 

Melinda, RN, CMP will present Therapeutic Musicianship as a Spiritual Practice . How do we integrate our spiritual lives with our clinical music? How is soul expression like the practice of therapeutic music? Melinda will compare the elements of providing therapeutic music to the elements of a spiritual practice.

 

 

Panel Discussions with the Presenters:

  • Building Bridges of Understanding : Music Therapy, Music Practitionership, and Clinical Musicianship
  • Overviews of Current Training Programs for Therapeutic Musicians

 

 

Presentations by Participants:

“Sharing Our Stories” - sessions with conference attendees who have special stories to tell about their experiences in clinical music, music therapy, and sound healing - see schedule.

 

Vendors :

Sedona Harp Center - harps, books, CD’s, videos and Clinical Musicians Home Study Courses

Presenter’s Table - more books and CD’s by the featured presenters

Carolyn Bame, CMP - bedside music repertoire books, CD’s

New Grail Media - books, CD’s, and more

Ani Williams - CD’s, Songaia products

More to be announced!

 

The National Convergence For Therapeutic Music

 

October 14 – 17, 2004

Best Western Hotel

Sedona , Arizona

 

Registration Form

 

Name_______________________________________________________

Address_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

e-mail________________________________________________________

phone_______________________________________________________

 

__ I want to tell my story. Please schedule me for a 15-minute time slot (availability based on earliest registrations)

 

__I just want to attend, participate, and learn !

 

Full conference fee must be enclosed ( $320 if your registration is postmarked before September 14, 2004; after that date it is $355).

 

For CEU’s and CMTE’s, add $20 per day.

 

Make checks to: Laurie Riley

 

Mail this form with your check or money order to: Laurie Riley, Po Box 1563, Sedona AZ 86339

 

Questions? E-mail laurieharp@earthlink.net


 

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