Learn Self-Healing with the Gong

Every home should have a gong. This in-person workshop is an introduction to the gong as a personal instrument for daily life: for self-healing, meditation, grounding and wellbeing. 

The gong is far more than a musical instrument – as a home practice, it 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.

What to expect

This workshop invites you to meet the gong directly: to understand it, play it, and consider whether it might have a place in your life. You will begin as a listener, receiving a guided gong meditation, before learning technique and spending hands-on time with the instrument yourself, with feedback and support throughout. This is a practical, experiential, in-person session held in the beautiful space of The College of Psychic Studies lecture hall.

This in-person workshop includes:

• Understanding the gong: what it actually is, how it works, and why it affects us so profoundly — the physics and the felt experience
• A guided gong meditation, experiencing the instrument as listener before approaching it as player
• Gong technique: mallets, dynamics, intention, and finding a personal relationship with the sound
• Hands-on practice with individual feedback and support
• Guidance on creating a home gong practice – for yourself, with a partner, or with children
• An introduction to gong-making traditions, materials, and choosing the right gong and size for home use

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is for anyone wanting a personal, non-practitioner introduction to the gong as a home practice – whether for wellbeing, meditation, grounding, or psychic and spiritual development. No prior experience is necessary.

Book now to take a journey with the gong – learning to play it, and receiving a gong sound bath with Joe Summerfield, professional musician and psychotherapist.

Meet your tutor, Joe Summerfield

Joe Summerfield brings a rare combination of expertise to this workshop, as both a professional musician and a psychotherapist. This dual background allows him to guide participants through both the technical and physical properties of the gong and its deeper psychological and energetic effects — making him uniquely placed to introduce students to the instrument's full potential for personal and spiritual practice.

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."