Professor Leslie Bunt, MBE, PhD, LGSM (MT), FAMI, FRSA, Director

Ian Leslie, Barbara Zanchi, Joanna Lander, Jasenka Horvat

Leslie Bunt’s AMI-endorsed GIM training continues to develop a more international perspective. Developments throughout 2022 led to the creation of a new name for this training which is now described as CHIRON INTERNATIONAL GIM TRAINING: THE BONNY METHOD AND GIM MODIFICATIONS with reference to Chiron, the mythical figure of the ‘wounded healer’ (a term introduced by Jung in 1951).

The training team assisting Leslie are all AMI Fellows working across Europe.

For information, please contact Leslie Bunt or other members of the Chiron team:

Croatia: Jasenka Horvat (jasenka24horvat@gmail.com)

Ireland: Ian Leslie (ianrobertleslie@gmail.com)

Italy: Barbara Zanchi (barbara.zanchi11@gmail.com)

UK: Jojo Lander (maiscotland@gmail.com)

Please contact advanced level trainee Hugo Wong (hugowongmt@gmail.com) who is administrating the trainings in Hong

Kong and Taiwan.

Trainings delivered in 2022 included an online Level I for music therapists from Hong Kong and Taiwan and the first Level I in Croatia. Level I online trainings were also completed in the UK and Ireland, with online and in person Level I and II seminars taking place in Italy.  

The Level I in Croatia is integrated into a university-based module on post-graduate specialist studies in creative therapies (music therapy) at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia, where Jasenka Horvat is an associate professor. This university-based initiative is similar to a new Level I that forms part of the MA programme and a specialist Continuing Professional Development module at the Bruno Maderna Music Conservatoire in Cesena, Italy where Barbara Zanchi is Director of a MA programme in Music Therapy. 

Forthcoming trainings in 2023 include:

Music therapists from the UK and Ireland Level II group will meet in person for the residential part of their training from 13-16 April 2023 at The Ammerdown Centre, England.

The Croatia cohort go on to Level II with online seminars taking place in January and February 2023 followed by the residential part in Croatia in May 2023.

Trainees from Hong Kong and Taiwan move on to Level II online in March and June 2023, followed by a residential seminar in Hong Kong at the end of September 2023.

For Italy a Level II and possible Level III are being planned for 2023.

The above trainings currently adhere to AMI’s 'Classic' style of training. Future Level I trainings from 2023 shall be adopting the 'flexible' approach with at least 35 hours at the Introductory Level and the remaining 155 at the Advanced Level.

Chiron training programmes offer guest presentations from experienced colleagues with a range of specialist interests.