Jim Borling (M M, MT-BC, FAMI), Professor of Music, Director of Music Therapy at Radford University,  Board Certified Music Therapist and a Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana and his Master of Music degree in Music Therapy from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.  Currently, Jim provides music therapy services for 'Avenues to Recovery', an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for both adults and adolescents recovering from addictions. His professional involvement with the field of music therapy includes positions within the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) as well as extensive work with the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT). Along with his wife Nannette, Jim is co-founder of MusicVisions, LLC, where he maintains a clinical private practice in his hometown of Roanoke, Virginia. Through MusicVisions, Jim specializes in the use of Music Evoked Imagery (MEl) as an approach to depth work in the field of Music Therapy. Jim's work with Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) has taken him to Germany, Mexico, and Korea as a visiting professor and trainer in the method.

Barbara Price Davis, MA, is the Executive Director of YouthCAN!, a non-profit substance abuse and delinquency prevention and intervention agency that believes is the transformational power of art.  Hired in 2000 to manage one small art program in the alternative high schools in Northwest Arkansas, Barbara has since grown the organization into a self-sufficient, stand alone agency, managing the Art Explosions Community Imagination Studio, a 6,000 square foot multidisciplinary art studio and its seven programs, now serving over 1,000 people each month, with clients coming from all sectors of the community—youth, adults, people in treatment facilities, mentoring organizations, cancer patients, etc.  Barbara’s background as a social psychologist and artist, along with her expertise in evaluation, fundraising, grant writing, and community relations has allowed this organization to become a recognized advocate for prevention in Arkansas

Dr. Joseph B. Modica is the University Chaplain and Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University in St. Davids, PA (www.eastern.edu), where he has served since 1993.  Dr. Modica earned the B.A., Queens College, City University of New York (Psychology); M.Div., Alliance Theological Seminary, Nyack, NY; M.Phil., and Ph.D., Drew University, Madison, New Jersey (New Testament and Early Christianity). He is ordained with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and pastored the Queens Center Alliance Church (Queens, NY) from 1986-1988. Joseph and his wife Marianne have four children: Benjamin (22), Meredith (20), Matthew (15) and Christopher (12). Marianne is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at Valley ForgeChristian College in Phoenixville, PA, where the family resides. Dr. Modica edited a volume of essays honoring Dr. Tony Campolo’s 65^th birthday entitled: The Gospel With Extra Salt: Friends of Tony Campolo Celebrate His Passions for Ministry (Judson Press, 2000). He has also recently co-edited a book of essays with Dr. Scot McKnight from North Park University, entitled Who Do My Opponents Say That I Am? Accusations Against the Historical Jesus, which is to be published by T & T Clark/Continuum in March 2008.