Open AccessThe Bonny Method: Training Innovations at Anna Maria College
Author(s) -
Elaine A. Abbott
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
voices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-1611
DOI - 10.15845/voices.v10i3.501
Subject(s) - training (meteorology) , psychology , music therapy , applied psychology , guided imagery , medical education , pedagogy , psychotherapist , medicine , anxiety , geography , meteorology , psychiatry
In the 1970s, Helen Bonny developed the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music for use as a primary process of receptive music psychotherapy in long-term therapy. Training programs in the method traditionally taught it for use in this manner. Over the last two decades, however, modifications of the Bonny Method for use in short term therapy have inspired innovations in training. As a part of this movement, the Anna Maria College training program is innovative in three main areas: a) the music and imagery methods used to train students, b) the processes of personal development in which students are engaged, and c) the processes used for distance supervision and peer interaction.