Martina Jonitz

Practice for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis Therapy, Switzerland

Title: The alphorn, working tool for peasants and psychotherapists. Impulses from music, psychology and spirituality for a culture of change and empowerment in mental health and therapy

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Biography

Abstract

The alphorn, a 3.7m long wind instrument and former working tool of the rural peasants from the European Alps with its unique natural tone series creates echo, resonance and flow. These phenomena have effects on nature, animals and human beings. Plants react to the kind and type of tone and animals are attracted to sound. And human beings resonate, often on a deeper unconscious level.

Resonance in psychotherapy is crucial for change and empowerment, initiates new thinking patterns, allows new correcting experience, and reaches hidden healing resources.

This presentation is about resonance phenomena as a source and its effects in psychotherapy. It transcends the approach of pure knowledge by tapping unconscious layers; therefore, enlarging the possibilities of evoking change.

Resonance effects are used in various interventions and clinical fields: psychosomatic medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy and supervision, using tools from hypnosis, resonance and flow theory, resource therapy, bonding and body therapy. Such effects are applied to various disorders such as: speech, emotional, bipolar, stress, pain, sleep and addiction.

Central elements will be: Life demonstrations with two alphorns combined with background on the phenomena, with case studies and workshop elements.

The scientific background of the various fields focuses on the research of clinical hypnosis, M.Erickson - ‘resonance’: Rosa - ‘flow’: Csikszcentmihalyi - ‘music’ Berendt. Newer approaches however on the combination of various receptive fields call for more crossover-field research.

Workshop objectives: Participants will be sensitized for

• resonance and flow phenomena

• empowerment with more insight into various forms of initiating change

• understanding more about the unconscious resources and innovative crossover treatment models in mental health, therapy and supervision

Conclusion: The combining of the various fields is a powerful source in mental health and therapy and and calls for further exploration also in the cultural field. Your feedback is welcomed.

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