Rock to Recovery with Constance Scharff (4K Reboot)

Summary

Constance Scharff, PhD, vice president for business development at Rock to Recovery, explains how the program uses group songwriting and music-making to help people facing trauma, addiction, and mental illness. She describes how music affects the brain and nervous system, and how even non-musicians can work together to write and perform songs that build supportive, healing communities. Recorded in 2021 and rebooted for New Thinking Allowed, this conversation with host Jeffrey Mishlove is a mainstream look at music as a tool for recovery and human transformation.

Key takeaways

• 1Rock to Recovery is both a for-profit and non-profit organization operating in over 100 treatment facilities and reaching thousands of people each year
• 2Constance Scharff is coauthor, with Wes Geer, of 'Rock to Recovery: Music as a Catalyst for Human Transformation'
• 3Scharff coauthored 'Ending Addiction for Good' with Richard Tait and wrote the poetry book 'Meeting God at Midnight'
• 4The program has non-musicians collaborate to write songs and create music, forming communities that support the therapeutic process
• 5Scharff discusses how music affects the brain and the nervous system in treating trauma, addiction, and mental illness
• 6Host Jeffrey Mishlove holds the only doctoral diploma in 'Parapsychology' ever awarded by an accredited university (UC Berkeley, 1980) and won the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition on survival of consciousness

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