My vision is to use music as a kind of emotional technology tool to extend this dialogue beyond the music – to unite people from dissimilar cultural, ethnic or national backgrounds, overcome barriers, and improve society in Israel and worldwide.

Leshman describes how, at student workshops, the MFD method breaks down barriers. Before their first weekly meeting, students enter songs that are most meaningful to them onto the website Pick-A-Music (www.pickamusic.com). The site was conceived by Leshman as a social platform for sharing musical and personal experiences and facilitating the group activities that are part of the MFD in-depth process. /'Then, during the workshop, something amazing happens,/” says Leshman. /“In no time participants begin sharing intimate personal stories with one another though they never met before./” Workshop participants often surprise one another with their musical preferences and even more so with their stories. /“We can see that we mustn’t judge people. They’re much more complex than we think, as are their musical identities,/” he says.