The SAMA boards of advisors and directors are comprised of leaders with extensive professional experience in advancing the intentional use and transformative power of sound and music.
Therapeutic and liturgical musician, educator, nurse-healer, hospice-worker, Executive Director and faculty, Music for Healing & Transition Program, Inc., Numerous journal articles, co-author of Shadows of The Living Light: Songs of St. Hildegard of Bingen.
Clinician, educator, consultant. Co-founder/co-director Pediatric Therapeutics and Integrated Soundwork. Instructor/program development with The Listening Program™. 30-yrs experience with children/families using sound/music as key component of sensory-based intervention.
Resonant Sounds LLC; Sound & healing educator, workshop and conference presenter, performer/composer/co-author of Book/CD set, Safe In the Arms Of Love: Deepening the Essential Bond With Your Baby. Guest instructor, California Institute of Integral Studies.
Director of the Strong Institute and creator of Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention™, a therapy used in thousands of hospitals, clinics, schools and homes. Best-selling author of 10 books including AD/HD For Dummies. Numerous recordings include the Brain Shift Collection. Founder of brainshiftradio.com.
Educator in intentional sound therapies, consciousness and shamanic practices; Director, The Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing and Shamanic Studies; Director of Education, The International Sound Healing Network; Co-founder, World Sound Healing/ AllOneNow Network.
Director of Music Therapy at Arizona State University; past President of the National Association for Music Therapy (AMTA) and co-author of the new Standards for Education and Clinical Training for the AMTA. Author of numerous journal articles and Soulmaking: Toward a new Theory of Music Therapy.
Sound healing educator, co-developer Acutonics® Certification Program, CEO of Kairos Institute of Sound Healing. 25+ years senior leadership experience in public and private sectors. Co-author, Acutonics from Galaxies to Cells, and journal articles.
Sound researcher, educator, and music producer. Publications include The Power of Sound, Sonic Alchemy, and Through A Dog’s Ear. Numerous psycho-acoustically designed recordings used in clinics, classrooms, and animal care facilities worldwide.
Harpist and singer Therese Schroeder-Sheker founded the palliative medical modality of music-thanatology and the Chalice of Repose Project. Her career has been distinguished internationally with many awards, publications, recordings, documentary films, books and articles.
John Beaulieu, ND, PhD
Pat Moffitt Cook, PhD, Chair
Don Campbell
Donna Carey, LAc
Amrita Cottrell
Roxanne Daleo, PhD
Dorinne S. Davis, MA., CCC-A, FAAA
Alex Doman
Jonathan Goldman, MA
Steven Halpern, PhD
Arthur Harvey, DMA
Tom Kenyon, MA
Fabien Maman
Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT
Jill Purce
Molly Scott, EdD
David Surrenda, PhD
Billie Thompson, PhD
Jeffrey Thompson, DC
Christina Tourin, MT, CTHP