An Introduction to the Gong

Every home should have a gong. This livestream workshop is an introduction to the gong as a personal instrument for daily life: for spiritual and psychic development, inner exploration, meditation, grounding and wellbeing. 

As a home practice, the gong can support psychic and spiritual attunement; deepen and enrich relationships with guides, angels and spirits; cleanse and clear the energetic field; and provide essential grounding. It is particularly valuable for those working professionally with others. Having a gong in your home is not only a wellness choice, but an investment in your continued development and practice.

For those engaged in psychic and energetic development, the gong is a particularly powerful companion. The deep altered states it induces — theta and delta brainwave states — are the same states in which clairvoyant perception, mediumship and spiritual receptivity naturally arise. 

This workshop invites you to meet the gong more directly: to understand it, play it, and consider whether it might have a place in your life.

This in-person workshop includes:

• Understanding the gong: What the gong actually is, how it works, why it affects us so profoundly. The physics and the felt experience. Drawing on Joe Summerfield's background as a professional musician and psychotherapist, this goes beyond the surface.

• Receiving before playing: A guided gong meditation, giving you a fresh experience of the instrument as listener before approaching it as player.

• Gong technique: Basic approaches, mallets, dynamics, intention. Finding a personal relationship with the sound.

• Hands-on practice: Each participant spends time with the instrument, with feedback and support throughout.

• Creating a home gong practice: Using the gong for yourself, with a partner, with children. What a regular practice might look like as an anchor for daily wellbeing, spiritual development and psychic work.

• Choosing your gong: An introduction to different gong-making traditions and materials, what to look for, and what sizes work best for home use.

This is not a practitioner course. It is an introduction to working with gongs for personal use. 

Book now to take a journey with the gong, not only learning to play the gong but also to receive a gong sound bath with Joe Summerfield, professional musician and psychotherapist.

Entry requirements

Please email admin@collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk before booking if you have any of the following health conditions:

• Pregnancy
• Epilepsy
• Serious heart conditions
• Serious mental health conditions (e.g. psychosis)

Previous participants say:

"Joe Summerfield was a very kind, gentle and thoughtful presenter and the gong experience was an extraordinary journey in sound vibration."

"It was my first time attending a session like this and was a great new experience."

"Amazing experience and the College lecture room was the best place to have it."

"Wonderful meditations and sound baths. Joe Summerfield explained everything really well."