Cross-Arts Synergies
Interdisciplinary arts practices where music meets movement, visual arts, dance, or storytelling — expanding the possibilities of expression and transformation.
Welcome
In September 2026, we meet on the island of Spetses — where sea, sky, and pine forests hold silence and song in the same breath.
Here, we invite you to explore how music and imagery ignite transformation, creativity, and wellbeing — in therapy, in community, and in everyday life.
This conference is a celebration of the living imagination — the subtle inner landscapes that shape how we hear, feel, and connect.
Together, we create a space for art and science, practice and reflection, personal experience and collective learning to move as one.
A gathering where sound meets imagination, presence meets expression, and the inner world finds new voice.
About EAMI
The European Association for Music and Imagery (EAMI) supports the development, research, and community of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) and Music & Imagery practices across Europe and beyond.
Ten years after the Association’s founding in Athens, we return to Greece with a spirit of renewal, dialogue, and continuity.
The Interplay of Music, Imagery & Wellbeing
How does music open inner perception?
How does imagery reshape emotional and embodied experience?
How do these practices help individuals, communities, and systems flourish?
We invite you to explore this living dialogue through six interconnected pathways:
Nature and the Senses
Eco-therapeutic and nature-based approaches that weave sound, imagery, and the environment to nurture connection, presence, and ecological awareness.
Healing and Learning Spaces
Clinical, educational, and community frameworks that integrate music and imagery to support growth, regulation, and emotional integration.
Embodied Awareness
Contemplative and body-centered pathways that explore the felt sense — aligning breath, movement, and inner imagery as vehicles for wellbeing.
Cultural and Philosophical Perspectives
Global and local viewpoints that deepen our understanding of harmony, resilience, and the many ways humans experience wellbeing.
Art as Collective Transformation
Creative practices that reveal how music and imagery can sustain personal and collective wellbeing — euexia and euzoia — through imagination and shared human experience.
Please note that the conference will take place exclusively in person; there will be no option for online attendance or streaming
The Organiser
Sonora Music Therapy Organisation
Sonora Music Therapy is a non-profit organization based in Greece, dedicated to the study, practice, research, and dissemination of music therapy and music-based approaches to wellbeing.
As the organiser of the 5th European European Association of Music and Imagery Conference, The Interplay of Music, Imagery & Wellbeing | Diverse Approaches and Perspectives, Sonora brings its extensive experience in clinical practice, education, and internationally recognised approaches such as Music and Imagery (MI) and Guided Imagery and Music (GIM).
Through its organisational role, Sonora has been instrumental in shaping a conference that fosters interdisciplinary dialogue, bridges research and practice, and highlights the contemporary relevance of music and imagery for wellbeing, mental health, and personal development across diverse professional and cultural contexts in Europe.
