About the Chief Conductor

For more than 30 years, Doreen Marcial Poreba, APR, has made her living as an award-winning, accredited, public relations professional. At the same time, she has engaged heavily in the arts as an award-winning photographer, certified creativity coach, professionally trained musician and skilled sound therapist.

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Additionally, she is the author of two books — “Idiot’s Guide to Unlocking Your Creativity,” published in 2015, and “Shine Your Light — Your Guide to Creative Inspiration, Inner Wisdom & Happiness,” published in 2017. Women Supporting the Arts provided a grant in support of the latter book. In September of 2019, she also contributed to another book, “Inside Creativity Coaching,” and in 2019, her band, Connected Souls, released its first music CD, “Branching Out,” that features some of her original music.

In 2018, Doreen began using her creativity and musical talents in a way that goes beyond traditional presentations and performances. She started to study, experience and explore how to blend different sounds, frequencies and vibrations to bring participants into a state of “healthy resonance.” This state of balance and well-being can help bring about positive changes in mind, body and spirit along with a shift in consciousness and a feeling of openness that can lead to optimal creative expression.

She initially launched a new program, “Vibrational Voyages — A Pathway to Open Your Creative Flow,” to help individuals get back in touch with their natural creative flow and to expand upon their creativity. She has since expanded her sound therapy practice that goes beyond this initial program.

Her sound therapy experience began after meeting Deep Deoja, a sound healing practitioner from Nepal. He began mentoring her and then she enrolled and completed a sound therapy program with Eastern Vibration. She continued her studies with the Sound Healing Academy, and completed its Level One certification program in January 2020.

In-person programs were interrupted by COVID-19, but she enrolled in the Academy’s Level Two program at the next opportunity. The program involves a combination of online training and in-person one-to-one sessions, including case studies; completing workbooks; individual sessions with the instructor; reading materials; and studying training videos. Participants have one year to complete the program. On December 31, 2021, Doreen completed all of the program’s requirements and in January 2022, she received the school’s Diploma In Integral Sound Healing.

Her group sound healing sessions have proven to be very popular, selling out each time, and she also has received positive feedback from individuals who have benefited from her one-to-one sessions.

CREDENTIALS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Bachelor of Arts in Communication, Slippery Rock University, Magna Cum Laude graduate

Slippery Rock University Media Hall of Fame 2017 Inductee

Certified Creativity Coach from the Creativity Coaching Association - January 2014

Diploma in Integral Sound Healing for Individual Clients from the Sound Healing Academy - January 2022

Foundation Certificate in Sound Healing, Level 1, from the Sound Healing Academy - January 2020

Certificate in Sound Therapy, Level 1, from Eastern Vibration - May 2019

Accredited in Public Relations from the Florida Public Relations Association/Universal Accreditation Board - 1984

Author of “Unlocking Your Creativity” and “Shine YourLight — Your Guide to Creative Inspiration, Inner Wisdom & Happiness” and contributing author to “Inside Creativity Coaching”

Award-winning public relations professional and photographer

Multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and recording artist

Co-founder, Connected Souls Band

Member, ASCAP

Member, Sound Healers Association

Member, Florida Public Relations Association, Treasure Coast Chapter

Member, Gold Coast Public Relations Council