VOCAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
with Diane Austin, DA, ACMT, LCAT
Discover Yourself through
Breathing, Sounding & Singing
AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL
250 Faculty • 130 Sessions • All the Arts
REGISTER FOR ANY ONE OR MORE DAYS
Join over 950 colleagues from around the world to learn leading-edge skills for your practice, network with like-minded professionals, and create from within. 130 total sessions to choose from.
Over 24 CE credits available for arts therapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists, and others
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN AT
Thursday, Nov 5, 2015, 10:00 AM
1601 Broadway, NY, United States
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Vocal Psychotherapy 6-hr Master Class
led by Diane Austin
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2015
Executive Conference Center • 48th Street west of Broadway
Vocal Psychotherapy is the first model of music psychotherapy focused on the Voice as a primary instrument. When we sing, our voices and our bodies are the instruments. We are intimately connected to the source of the sound and the vibrations.
We make the music, we are immersed in the music, and we are the music!
- We breathe deeply to sustain the tones we create and our heart rate slows down and our nervous system is calmed.
- Our voices resonate inward to help us connect to our bodies and express our emotions as they resonate outward to help us connect to others.
This Master Class will provide participates with the opportunity to experience Vocal Psychotherapy, an in-depth model of music psychotherapy that incorporates breath work, natural sounds, vocal improvisation and songs with verbal processing within a client/therapist relationship to promote intrapsychic and interpersonal change and growth.
Through audiotaped case examples from my work in private practice with adults, I will illustrate how singing and vocal improvisation can facilitate the therapeutic process and deepen the connection to self and other. I will demonstrate “Vocal Holding Techniques” and “Free Associative Singing” with participants from the class and discuss how these techniques can work to help clients access unconscious feelings, memories and aspects of themselves. Singing can provide clients with an opportunity to express the inexpressible, to give a voice to all the parts that long to be heard, and join them in a song of integration.
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Diane Austin, DA, ACMT, LCAT
Diane Austin, DA, ACMT, LCAT, is the director of the Music Psychotherapy Center where she offers a two-year certificate program in music psychotherapy focusing on the voice. Diane has maintained a private practice in music psychotherapy for over 20 years, supervises creative arts therapists, and is an associate adjunct professor in the music therapy department at NYU. She has lectured and taught throughout the U.S. and internationally. Published widely, her newest book is The Theory and Practice of Vocal Psychotherapy: Songs of the Self. Diane created the first international distance training program in vocal psychotherapy in Vancouver and in Seoul, Korea.