The Open Ear Center offers training programs, workshops and international intensives in the practical and professional use of crosscultural sound and music in health care and self-maintenance. Our participants include:

• healers
• nurses
• psychotherapists
• social workers
• music and sound therapists
• massage therapists
• musicians
• expressive arts and educational therapists
• teachers
• and lay-persons

International training and non-academic certification programs and national workshops instruct professionals and laypersons in the applications of crosscultural healing music at home, in hospice and hospitals and in private clinical settings and for self- health.

The international intensives are designed to allow participants to meet with healers, visit sacred historical sites, attend private concerts and experience culture.  In May and June we tavel to North India, Tibet and Nepal.

Pat Moffitt Cook, Ph.D., FAMI, CCMHP is the founder and director of the Open Ear Center. She is a pioneer in the research and application of cross-cultural sound and music in healing and education. Her doctoral work in music paralleled extensive practical training and certification in methods of Auditory Stimulation and Sensory Integration (Tomatis Method) and in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM).

For over 30 years Pat has traveled extensively 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 since 1994.

Pat is a teacher, clinician and author. She presents internationally at university, medical and music and sound therapy conferences in applications of sound technology, auditory stimulation, music and imagery, and on indigenous music in healing traditions. She facilitates ongoing international workshops and professional training programs throughout the year.

In addition to numerous 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).