DON CAMPBELL
Don Campbell is an expert on the transformational powers of music. A classically trained musician, composer, scholar, and consultant to symphony orchestras, Don is known for his energetic, empowering, and often dazzling  style of music teaching. He's traveled to over 40 countries, founded the Institute for Music, Health, and Education, and wrote the 1997 best-selling The Mozart Effect, translated into 26 languages. He is presently music director of Aesthetic Audio Systems, a company that provides acoustic design and music for healthcare facilities. He has been part of the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado since 1998. His newest books, Sound Spirit and Toning with Laurel Keyes expand our knowledge of spirituality, the voice and music.

Sunday workshop   Awakening the Spirit of Sound - Don Campbell led us in exploration into the "Anatomy of Spirituality."  By learning about the variety of ways people around the world move into a transpersonal and transformational state of awareness through music, we were able to assist and inspire ourselves to reach out to our clients, clergy and friends. We built our own Spiritual Temple of Sound.

BARBARA CROWE
Barbara Crowe, Music Therapy Chair at Arizona State University and Past President of the National Association for Music Therapy spoke on Music, Healing, and the Chaos Theory . Along with Christina Tourin, they discussed the new developments in the Sound and Music Association.

"Bringing in aspects of disciplines as diverse as neuroscience, sociology, acoustics, education, and complexity science, Barbara Crowe simultaneously seeks to explain why music therapy is effective and to formulate a philosophy of music therapy. She rejects a completely empirical approach, preferring to conceptualize her philosophy as "music and soulmaking," wherein soul "is our experience of ourselves, and, as such it is dynamic, malleable, and ever growing and changing" and music "is a fundamental, holistic experience that impacts functioning in all areas-body, mind, emotion, and spirit." She offers descriptions of how music impacts each of these areas, followed by a presentation of her new model for music and healing (or "soulmaking")."—REFERENCE & RESEARCH BOOK NEWS

Drawing from her many years as an academician and a practicing music therapist, she conveys a wealth of experience and understanding of fields as diverse as shamanism and conventional music therapy, to the evolving sciences of chaos theory and complexity science, showing that music is not only a diversion or a form of entertainment, but an analogue of the life process itself. Indeed, music is the soundtrack of our lives, and, when used with wisdom and intent, it can be a formidable ally in human development at all levels of consciousness!"—Jeff Volk, poet, publisher

TOMAS WINN
Tomas Winn is a trained Anthroposophical Music Therapist whose work reflects the philosophies of Rudolf Steiner. Tomas led us in Guided Imagery and followed this with an amazing presentation of Heartmath - how we are guided by our heart and thoughts. Drawing on neuroscience, neurocardiology (the "brain" of the heart) and the evolutionary nature of the four-fold brain, Tomas showed us how to move beyond fight or flight thinking - how it's possible to take a leap to a new consciousness.

RICHARD MCQUELLON
Richard McQuellon, Director of the Psychosocial Oncology and Cancer Patient Support Programs at Wake Forest University/Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina led our panel of Certified Therapeutic Harp Practitioners in discussion and small group work on developing appropriate wordings for explaining our work to patient's families, administrators and facilitator discussions of problematic situations that arise in the work place.

RICHARD GROVES
The multi-cultural aspects of the Sacred Art of Dying was addressed by Richard Groves. From all pathways, he discussed how spiritual pain is ultimately related to the values of forgiveness, meaning, relatedness and hope.

SUSAN RAIMOND
Sue is the Queen of Grant writing - to name how many grants she has received is staggering! She outlined the nuts and bolts of submitting a polished document so that wecan apply for funding for work as a CHTPs.