Music Therapy and Imagery

Transpersonal Music and Consciousness (hybrid)    March 21-23, 28-30, 2025

Foundations of GIM (virtual)                                       May 2-4, 9-11, 2025

Basic Music and Imagery Training  (virtual)               June 7, 2025 (5-hour) 

Foundations of GIM (virtual)                                       October 10-12,17-19, 2025

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

• To take the Foundations of GIM course, the trainee must have earned a bachelor's degree, have one year's clinical experience in a health care field, and have received at least one personal GIM session given by a Fellow of the AMI. 
• While the Foundations of Guided Music and Imagery and the Advanced Clinical Specialization modules will be offered  online in 2025, the Basic Clinical Specialization, Myth and Archetypes, and Transpersonal Music and Consciousness courses will be offered in a hybrid format (where the trainee attends part of the class in person and the other half online). 
• In addition to taking the Basic Clinical Specialization course,  all additional requirements must be completed, which includes:  give 10 personal sessions, receive 4 personal sessions, complete one musical analysis, and read and summarize 5 related books. 
• All trainees must have completed an AMI-approved Foundations of GIM course, applied to the Atlantis Institute, and finished half of the requirements for the Basic Clinical Specialization course prior to the training , while the other half are meant to be completed following the training.  
• To begin Advanced Clinical Specialization, the first module of the advanced level trainings, the trainee must be enrolled in a master's degree health care program and have successfully completed and submitted an application plus $300 to the Atlantis Institute directors. The two other advanced level modules are expected to be completed within three years of completing the Advanced Clinical Specialization module.  

ATLANTIS INSTITUTE CANCELLATION AND REFUND POLICIES

• Training course registrations will be confirmed when signup has been made in the case of Level I, and applications and fees have been received, in the case of Level II and Level III training modules.
• In order to cancel or reschedule a confirmed training please submit an email request to the Primary Trainer with whom you have registered.
• Please submit all cancellation requests within 45 calendar days of registration and no later than 15 days prior to the scheduled course date in order to receive a full refund of paid registration fees.  No shows or cancellations not made within the specified period will incur the full cost of registration, 
• An Atlantis Training program reserves the right to cancel any training course at least 15 calendar days in advance of the scheduled course date due to insufficient enrollment. Notice will be provided with the option to reschedule for a future course date or to receive a full refund of registration fees.
• Atlantis Institute is not responsible for any expenses incurred by the trainee if a training course is cancelled.
• If a training class is cancelled due to any unforeseen circumstances such as inclement weather or natural disaster, the trainee is entitled to reschedule for a future training course.

Director of the Meadowlark Centre in Texas, Dr. Nicki Cohen has been a music therapist since 1978, an AMI Fellow since 2001, and an AMI trainer since 2015. Nicki also teaches Basic Music and Imagery Training and The Soul's Song courses, She has offered GIM classes in Denton and Dallas, TX; Zipacón, Colombia; and virtually to students in Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Hong Kong. Cohen was Professor of Music Therapy at Texas Woman's University for 28 years and is now Emeritus Professor.  She enjoys singing while playing her accordion and ukulele, listening to her finches hop around and beep, drinking tea, cuddling with her cats, and telling stories. Music has always been essential in Nicki's life, and brings unsurpassed meaning and joy to her.  

The Level II Bonny Method course, as designed by the Atlantis Institute for Consciousness and Music, but the date of the next Level II course is still being determined. The cost of this 50-hour course  is $1150. The following section will provide information about this training. 

1. To demonstrate knowledge of intermediate concepts about The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), a music-centered form of   psychotherapy (i.e., Definition, History and Philosophy)  CBMT Domain:  (IIB4: Integrate the following theoretical orientations into music therapy practice: (a) humanistic/existential, (b)psychodynamic; (c) transpersonal )

2. To articulate the functions of GIM guiding in the generation and clarification of imagery via didactic lectures and experiential sessions. CBMT Domain: IIA5z: to use creativity and flexibility in meeting client’s changing needs

3. To participate in three experiences in the roles of both traveler and facilitator during GIM sessions.CBMT Domain:II5H: to employ active listening; II5J: to employ music relaxation; IVA4: to engage in collaborative work with colleagues; IB5: document  

4. To introduce and analyze the music programs   used for Level II sessions and assignments. CBMT Domains: IVB-3: Maintain and expand music repertoire; IVA6: Expand music skills 

Miscellaneous Information:  

Earn 50 hours during a six day virtual format. Registration = $1150. Students who cancel after the 15-day deadline will be refunded 50% of the full registration costs. 

Day One

      4-Course Description 

      5-Getting Started with Clients 

      6-Dinner 

      7-Experiential 

Day Two

      9-Types of Inductions 

     10:00- Music Program: Loss with Music Worksheet 

     11:00-Break 

     11:15-Demonstration 

     12:15-Guiding Map & Guiding Map Intervention Slides 

     1-Lunch 

     2- Music Program: Depth Bach with Music Worksheet 

     3- Post Session Processing Worksheet 

     4- Break 

     4:15-Dyad #1a 

     6-Dinner 

     7-Dyad #1b 

Day Three

9- Processing 

9:30-Music Program: Melancholy with Music Worksheets 

10:30-Break 

10:45-Body Work-Physical Interventions 

12:00-Lunch 

1:00- Training Transcript 

2:00- Music as Co-Therapist 

Day Four

4-Processing 

4:30- Music Program: Transcendence with Music Worksheets 

5:30- Psychodynamic Aspects of Music 

6:30-Dinner 

7:30-Dyad #2a 

Day Five

9-Processing 

9:30-Level II Imagery 

10:30- Music Program: Transitions with Music Worksheets 

11:30-Break 

11:45-Ethics of Working with NO States 

1:00-Lunch 

2:00-What to Look for in Mandalas 

3:30-Dyad #2b 

5:15-GIM Groups 

6-Dinner 

7-Dyad #3a 

Day Six

9-Processing 

9:30-Dyad #3b 

11:00-Break 

11:15- Music Programs-Searching with Music Worksheets 

12:15-Lunch 

1:30-Music and Imagery 

 1. To recognize and identify archetypal imagery by using the Pearson, and Campbell books and to relate GIM imagery to personal myths through the process of mask-making

• CBMT Domain:  (a) I.B.4.d. Identify client’s cultural and spiritual background; (b) I.B.12.Engage client in musical & non-musical  experience to obtain assessment data

2.  To learn advanced music programs Inner Odyssey and/or Expanded   Awareness and how they relate to archetypal themes by completing a music laboratory worksheet on each program 

• CBMT Domain:  (a) I.D.9. Consider client’s age, culture, language, music background, and preferences when designing MT experiences; (b)  I.D.15. Structure and organize Music Therapy experiences with each session to create therapeutic contour

3.  To explore great mythic stories  (e.g., Hero's Journey, Ulysses),  how and why they apply to our lives, and to learn how the theories of C.G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Carol  Pearson provide a therapeutic foundation to GIM practice

• CBMT Domain:  (a) II.A.4. Recognize how the following theoretical orientations inform Music Therapy practice; (b) IV. A. 4. Engage in collaborative work with colleagues. 

Earn 42 hours during a five day hybrid format. Advanced Clinical Module Registration = $850. Students who cancel after the 15-day deadline will be refunded 50% of the full registration costs. This class had to be postponed due to the pandemic. 

 Learning Objectives and Corresponding CBMT Domains

1.  Analyze eight Bonny Method music programs appropriate for clinical

populations and each of their individual musical tracks by the end of the

training (IB-13c). 

2.  Identify client response to different elements of music (IB-13; IIA-5r).

3.  Articulate specific considerations and techniques when using Bonny Method techniques with clients with depression, anxiety, panic, or anger disorders, eating disorders, addiction, abuse, inner child work, and reparenting (IIA-5t;  IB-3).

4.  Demonstrate appropriate relaxation, induction, and guiding techniques when working with dyad partner (IIA-5j).

5. Conduct a client intake (IIB-5).

Day One

• 4:00 Gathering  
• 4:30 Opening Materials and Schedule
• 5:00 Presenting GIM to Vulnerable Clients
• 6:00 Dinner
• 7:30-9:00 Short Music Experiential

Day Two  (9-9, 2 15-min. breaks as needed)

• 9:00 Taking a Client History
• 10:00 Imagery Techniques
• 11:00 Review Guiding Chart
• 12:00. Interventions Quiz
• 12:30 Lunch
• 2:00 Resistances and Solutions
• 3:00 Grief Work/Depression
• 4:00  Music (Grieving, Sorrow, Loss)
• 5:30  Dinner
• 6:45 Inductions Review
• 7:30 Peer Group Supervision #1 and Processing

 Day Three (9-9, 2 15-min. breaks as needed)

• 9:00  Clients with Anxiety Disorders: Panic, Phobias, OCD, PTSD, Anger
• 10:30  Music: Anger Inserts and Emotional Expression
• 12   Lunch
• 1:30 Inner Child
• 2:30 Inner Child Music (Abandonment to Bonding, Solace, Secret Garden, Joanne Shenandoah Earth Mother)
• 4:00 Supportive Techniques:  Reparenting Hold
• 5:00  Dinner 
• 6:30  Peer Group Supervision #2 and processing

Day Four  (9-9, 2 15-min. breaks as needed)

• 9:00  Eating Disorders
• 10:00  Imagery Techniques
• 11:00 Music: Gentle Deep Sadness, Melancholy, Searching (Ken Bruscia)
• 12:00 Lunch
• 1:30  Body work/physical interventions
• 2:30 Working with addictions, shame, grief, craving
• 4:00 Music: Low
• 5:00 Dinner 
• 6:30  Peer Group Supervision #3 and processing

Day Five (9-3, 1 15-minute break as needed)

• 9:00 Working with abuse and trauma
• 10:30  Music –Adventurous Inner Child, Narada Collection, On a Starry Night
• 11:30  Review of Level III Requirements
• 12:00 Lunch
• 1:30  Music and Imagery Didactic and Closure