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Staff Training to Make Better Music
On Friday, August 27th JB Music Therapy hosted a day of continuing education for members of the music therapy community. The day was jam-packed full of an array of speakers and presentations to broaden the scope and resources of more than a dozen music therapists and...
Shine Through Your Music
by Kelsi McInnes, BMT, MTA, Director of Special Projects at JBMT Have you ever felt that rush of exhilaration when you’ve set out to do something challenging and accomplished your goal? Perhaps it was finishing a hike that you weren’t sure you could or presenting at...
That’s Not Music to My Ears!
My in-laws have lived in the middle east for well over 10 years and have grown accustomed to the middle eastern musical scales and sounds - or so I had thought. While they were back visiting us over the summer we attended the local folk music festival together. As...
Musician and Music Therapist – a complimentary team
Here is a short case study by DIANA. Diana has recently joined our team...here is her account of a session, a short while after transitioning into one of our long term placements: During a recent session at a long term care facility, the son of one of my...
Louise Guy, Lived Her Best Life
A week ago I wrote about my music therapy mentor Fran Herman. Today I learned the loss of another mentor whom I barely knew, but who had great influence over me theses past few months. Louise Guy and I shared the stage at the University of Calgary at the invitation...
Music and Medicine
Long-term care workers find stress relief in Music; Landmark Study could save industry 1.46 Billion American Music Conference 2007 The Recreational Music Making (RMM) program drastically reduced employee burnout and turnover. The study revealed that the program...
Music and Dementia
Music Therapy and Dementia Dementia, characterized by severe impairment of the person's intellectual capacity, emotional disturbance and personality changes, is caused by a number of different reasons such as the loss of neurons in the brain due to head injury,...
Music, Moments and Gratitude – a New Music Therapy Video
I have had a wonderful summer and am consciously striving to not take these days for granted. Having the opportunity to spend time with my family and friends and going on an incredible Alaskan running cruise ...well it can’t get any better than that. Usually at...
Shannon Robinson – Celebrating a Special Music Therapist Through Her Work With Remarkable Children
This month JB Music Therapy is highlighting the 10th year of a well-loved music therapist in our company - Shannon Robinson, BMT, MTA.I couldn’t imagine a better way to acknowledge Shannon than to share her beautiful work at the Emily Follensbee School - work that...
Music Reduces the Despair that can come from having Multiple Sclerosis
She sits in her wheelchair in a small, one bedroom apartment, the sun is barely visible through the closed chocolate brown drapes. I unpack my tools for the day, percussion instruments, plain paper, a variety of art media, a songbook and my guitar. Janis has been...