Sound Potential engages the power of music to build understanding and empathy for humanitarian issues around the world. Using music as the foundation, our projects focus on: therapeutic healing for individuals and communities, including products, applications, music therapy sessions, and community interventions; and, raising awareness and education related to humanitarian issues, through performances, videos, recordings, and other programming.
overview
Sound Potential engages the power of music and the arts to build understanding and empathy for humanitarian issues around the world, using original compositions to develop projects and programs geared towards individual and collective healing. As we face political violence, genocide, war, and other forms of exile and displacement, individuals and communities increasingly suffer personal and collective forms of loss and trauma. In the aftermath, creative expression can generate powerful opportunities for healing and dialogue. Music and the arts can help us build connections that cross the borders that can divide us as human beings, engendering the tolerance and empathy so vital to reshaping the world.
Music serves as a vital tool for therapeutic healing to help people coping with trauma, pain, and other forms of suffering. Music also helps society heal in the wake of collective trauma. As we face political violence, genocide, war, and other forms of exile and displacement, individuals and communities increasingly suffer personal and collective forms of loss and trauma. In the aftermath, creative expression can generate powerful opportunities for healing and dialogue. Music and the arts can help us build connections that cross the borders that can divide us as human beings, engendering the tolerance and empathy so vital to reshaping the world.
Our ProDUCTS
Sound Potential develops guided video and audio tutorials for healing through original music. We collaborate with leading scientists, practitioners and educators. Our material has been showcases and used at institutions such as:
BBC Now
Contemporary Freud Society
Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons (SLS)
Tampa Bay Master Chorale, Florida
Thurgood Marshall Academy, Harlem
McGill University
Mount Sinai
National Sawdust
UC Santa Barbara
VIDEO: Music and Healing Tutorial Trailer: Part 1
To find out more about our tailored tutorials, please contact us at info@soundpotential.org.
Our Process
In pursuing this goal, we begin with exploration and research into social issues. Our current projects address issues that include domestic violence, refugee displacement, and genocide awareness, that we develop into programs through interdisciplinary collaboration with artists, academics, and scientists. Ittai Shapira then composes his music with these issues in mind and we build on the compositions to develop applications and programming that can foster individual and collective healing.
Using the music as the foundation, each of our projects focuses on a different population in need, with a creative engagement of science and technology to develop work that focuses on therapeutic healing for individuals and communities, including raising awareness and education related to humanitarian issues. These programs include:
therapeutic applications and products
music therapy sessions
community-based interventions
performances
documentary film productions
recordings
lectures
Read more about our projects here.
Testimonials
Batya R. Monder, MSW, BCD, FIPA President, CIPS (Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies)
"Using the music and the exercises helped my patient to slow down her breathing and feel less panicky.״
Beth Reese, Solo practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy at Elizabeth Reese, LCSW
FIPA (Fellow of the international Psychoanalytic Association)
“I used the Sound Potential guided tutorial for music and pain management as part of my recovery from serious and complicated issues caused by back injury. Following surgery, I repeated the tutorial of music audio and video with its suggested basic movements for about 15 minutes a day. I continued some practice over the next year, as it brought a very relaxed and often pain-free state. I still use the Andalusian Prayer piece periodically for intense muscle relaxation and overall well being.”
Paula A. Madrid, Psy.D. Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Trauma Expert, NYC
"I found the beautiful music and exercises to make a profound difference in my ability to move my wrist post-surgery in a way that physical therapy did not accomplish. The presence of such touching music was both healing and distracting from the severe pain that is usually felt during exercises to regain wrist strength."
Reuben Loveszy, Certified Exercise Physiologist, Personal Trainer and Fitness Coach
“As an athlete and fitness coach, I have found it hard to allow myself to slow down and relax -- both in my body and my mind. The exercises from Sound Potential helped me feel grounded in the present and subsequently reduced stress levels. Not only that, but my attention to pitch, dynamics, timing and phrasing improved as well. Although the medium is music, this type of training has carried over to many other aspects of my life, including movement and communication.”
info@soundpotential.org