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I. Advanced training in GIM

Basic and intermediate level: Resource-Oriented Music Imagination (RoMI) and advanced level: Guided Imagery and Music according to Helen Bonny (BMGIM)

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Target group & admission

1. Target group

The training is aimed at graduates of artistic therapy programmes (e.g. music, dance or art therapists) and at licensed psychotherapists and psychiatrists with a musical background.

2. Admission requirements & application procedure

The admission requirements follow the training standards of the European Association of Music and Imagery (EAMI).

A musically and/or psychotherapeutically oriented training is required, as well as at least two years of clinical-practical work experience.

For training candidates with an outpatient practice, permission to practise healing (psychotherapy) or a corresponding licence (Approbation) is required.

The course leadership decides on the musical-therapeutic aptitude and the ability to engage in a therapeutically oriented music-imagination process in an aptitude interview and, if necessary, a trial session with IMIT training therapists.

II. Structure of the GIM training

The training is divided into basic, intermediate and advanced levels.

MODULE 1
Basic level
MODULE 2
Intermediate level
MODULE 3
Intermediate level
MODULE 4
Advanced level
MODULE 5
Advanced level
MODULE 6
Advanced level
MODULE 7
Advanced level
RoMI certificate (EAMI certified)
Graduation in BMGIM

After completing the basic level (Module 1), the intermediate level (Modules 2 and 3) and providing the required proof of achievement, this independent part of the training is concluded with a certificate in “Resource-Oriented Music Imagination (RoMI)” (EAMI certified).

This certificate entitles the holder to use music in a supportive and resource-oriented sense in clinical work and is a prerequisite for participation in the advanced level of the training in Guided Imagery and Music according to Helen Bonny (BMGIM).

The advanced level of the training comprises Modules 4, 5, 6 and 7 and concludes with graduation in BMGIM. Graduation entitles the holder to apply the Bonny Method in the treatment of psychological and physical dysfunctions.

In-person phases and online seminars

The entire training at IMIT comprises a total of 7 multi-day in-person modules plus intermediate online seminars, as well as time for theoretical self-study, practice, documentation of practice, homework, training therapies and supervision.

The 3 in-person modules of the RoMI certificate course comprise a total of 108 units of 45 minutes, including virtual seminars.

The subsequent BMGIM training at the advanced level comprises a further 4 in-person modules and virtual seminars with a total of 164 units of 45 minutes.

The RoMI and BMGIM training comprises a total of 272 teaching units.

Self-study and practice

After the respective in-person phases, training candidates receive tasks for self-study, for practice and for practice documentation. Extensive material is provided for this purpose.

Self-experience, training therapy and supervision

The contents of the training are experienced and taught in an interweaving of theory and practice. This also includes self-experience processes in the group.

In addition to intensive RoMI and BMGIM self-experience processes during the in-person phases, training candidates undergo external individual training therapy with training therapists accredited by EAMI and recognised by IMIT, as well as — outside the in-person phases — supervision of the application of RoMI and BMGIM in therapy with patients by supervisors accredited by EAMI and recognised by IMIT

III. A detailed description of the training content of the RoMI certificate course (basic and intermediate level) as well as the advanced level (BMGIM) can be found at the following link.

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IV. Training costs
Literature

Recommended introductory literature on GIM