Scroll down to see training workshops in the following areas:

Music and Learning
Teaching Strategies
Heart*Brain Coherence
Emotional Intelligences
Guided Imagery and Music
Vibroacoustic Music
MARI© Mandala Therapy

Available sessions:

Emotional Intelligences

Giving Your Students

Freedom to Fly:

Integrating the

Emotional Intelligence

into the Curriculum
We do not know whether our children will fly or fall. Yet to have faith in them—to give them wings and pass on to them the spirit of life---is to give our children the ...

Developing Lifelong

Emotional Intelligence Tools:

Techniques for In-Sight
Though we do not test for emotional intelligence in classrooms, success in life depends greatly on our abilities in this realm. First and foremost students need a strong emot...

Guided Imagery and Music

Level I:

Rhythms of Transformation
LEVEL I provides participants with the ability to begin exploring the use of GIM in therapeutic practices.

The course provides a basic understanding of the history, ...

Level II: The Art of Guiding
Level II provides practical training in the skills of the Guided Imagery and Music Method....

Level III:

Advance GIM and

Career Specializations
Level III involves six advanced residential training modules, personal sessions, supervisions, practicum, readings, and music projects. It may be completed within two years. ...

Rhythms of Healing
An introduction to the Guided Imagery and Music process that provides an overview and experience of the power of GIM...

GIM Certification Process
Guided Imagery and Music training provides those in the helping professions with the opportunity to use the power of music to assist their clients in gaining transformational...

Heart*Brain Coherence

Learning Resonance:

The Science of the

Heart*Brain in Education

New discoveries about the heart have revolutionized our understanding of the hearts’ role in learning and thinking. The heart was officially reclassified as a gland in ...

Mandala

The Mandala:

Drawing Out Personal Insight
The Mandala is a drawing made within the framework of a circle. Cultures from around the world have used circle drawings that have been found to use similar colors, shapes an...

Mandala:

Insights for Healing

in Nursing and

Health Practices
This presentation invites participants to explore and experience the dynamics of the mandala in both clinical use of mandala drawings and the MARI(c) Card Test.

The Mandala in

Counseling Practices
This experiential workshop provides practitioners in counseling and therapy with an overview of the use of mandalas as a therapeutic practice and assessment tool.

Pa...

MARI© Assessment Training

The MARI Card Test is non-verbal and uses archetypal symbolic designs and colors to assess a person's present state. The Mandala Assessment Research Instrument (MARI) is base...

Finding our way-

Mandalas and the Labyrinth
The Labyrinth, a large spiral mandala on the floor or ground, has existed in different forms since ancient times. It is a model of spiritual wholeness and order. When walked,...

Music and Learning

Soundtracks for Learning:

Activating Your Teaching

with Music


Lights, camera, MUSIC and action! You know how music expands attention and memory at the movies? Here are easy yet effective techniques for using music to increase memory abi...

Music and Child Development:

Rhythms of Learning


Current research supports our understanding of how important music is in the early years of childhood. Chris Brewer, co-author of Rhythms of Learning with Don Campbell (pione...

Multicultural Music

in the Classroom:

Teaching Diversity


Through Music
Explore the rhythms of the world and learn how to use this multi-cultural music to enhance your units. Create a classroom resounding with enthusiasm for life and learning. Th...

Rap Around the Clock:

How to Teach

with Rhythm and Rhyme


Music has the key
for our memory--
a simple little rhyme
saves a lot of time!
It’s really quite fun
to use poem and pun--
to remember best
f...

Reading, Rhythm

and ‘Rithmetic:

Research and Applications

Jazz Up Math with Music
Experience how music can enliven math in this dynamic workshop presented by Chris Brewer, a music and learning expert and Mark Wahl, a mathematics learning specialist ver...

Teaching Strategies

Yes, Mind Matters!

Brain-Based Learning

for Successful Teaching


Update your teaching as you find out about recent brain and learning research that demands we adapt our teaching in exciting new ways. This course presents an orchestrated ap...

Smart Teaching:

Multiple Intelligence

Strategies and Lesson

Planning


We now know that there are many ways to be smart and that intelligence comes in many forms. Howard Gardners’ Multiple Intelligence model revolutionized our view of inte...

Brain-Based

Accelerated Learning:

The Art and Science

of Teaching


Good teaching is both an art and a science. Accelerated Learning systematically integrates best teaching practices for dramatic learning results. The AL model addresses lear...

It Makes Sense to Me!

Multi-Sensory

Science Teaching


Let’s take science back to the basics---seeing, hearing, and touching---to make more sense out of learning about nature. Our study of the brain shows that we learn and ...

Vibroacoustic Music

Vibroacoustic

Pain and Anxiety Management

Program