Rhythm for Wellbeing

Jillian Schofield has spent over ten years working with both modern-day psychotherapy and shamanism. She has been a psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor for over twenty years and was a university lecturer at the University of Derby for over 15 years. As a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist, she became aware of the limitations of Western psychotherapy and added EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprogramming) to her therapeutic toolbox. Gestalt therapy was studied at Metanoia Institute, she visited the Esalen Institute in California, and she visited shamans in Peru, Siberia and Ecuador to develop her practice. She now practices an integration of psychotherapy and shamanism.The Rev June Boyce-Tillman MBE PhD read music at Oxford University and is Professor Emerita of Applied Music at the University of Winchester and an Extra-ordinary Professor at North West University, South Africa. She has published widely in the area of education and music, often on spirituality/ liminality and eudaimonia. She has written about and organised events in the area of interfaith dialogue. She is an international performer, especially in the work of Hildegard of Bingen. She is the convenor of Music, Spirituality and Wellbeing international (www.mswinternational.org). She is series editor of the Music and Spirituality series of Peter Lang. She is an ordained Anglican priest and serves All Saints Church in South London.

• Contents: June Boyce-Tillman: Introduction – June Boyce-Tillman: Prelude: A new landscape for music and wellbeing – the development of the wellness industry – The therapist’s journey – An imagined dialogue – The role of musical instruments in my therapeutic practice – The unifying theory in my practice – The way forward – June Boyce-Tillman: Postlude.