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 Pat Moffitt Cook, Ph.D., CCMHP, FAMI is the founder and director of the Open Ear Center. Cook is a pioneer in the research and education of cross-cultural sound and music in healthcare and education. Her research in crosscultural musical healing and ethnomusicology paralleled extensive practical training and certification in auditory stimulation and sensory integration methods including the Tomatis Method and the Listening Fitness Program (LiFT) and in cross-cultural methods using sound and music-evoked imagery for healing technologies from Indonesia and India. Pat is certified in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) and a Fellow of the Association of Music and Imagery (FAMI) in the United States. She is a certified Cross-Cultural Music in Healing Practitioner (CCMHP) and senior trainer at the Open Ear Center.
For over 30 years, Pat has traveled throughout the world recording and participating in musical rituals and the daily life of other cultures. She studied six and half years with a Chinese/Indonesian grand master of martial and healing arts in Indonesia and the United States. Afterwards, Cook researched, studied with and practiced, musical healing with a North Indian Hindu village healer in India for over a decade. Cook travels extensively each year for professional research into musical and sound therapies and to enhance a personal practice in sacred sound.
Pat is a teacher, consultant, clinician and author. She presents internationally at university medical, music, and sound therapy conferences in applications of sound technology, auditory stimulation, music and imagery, and on indigenous musical healing traditions. She offers ongoing international seminars, facilitates workshops and teaches at professional training programs throughout the year. Students completing the Open Ear Center's two year training program and pass certification testing are awarded a certificate of completion and the title Cross-Cultural Music in Healing Practitioners (CCMHP)
In addition to published articles and book chapters, Pat is the author and producer of the book and CD entitled Music Healers of Indigenous Cultures: Shaman, Jhankri and Nele (Ellipsis Arts; Open Ear Press) and Brainwave Symphony (Relaxation Company). She is currently working on a new book.
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