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3 Considerations before Hiring a Music Therapist?
Music Therapists work with some of society’s most vulnerable including youth at risk, individuals with brain injury, those with mental health issues, learning challenges, and those in palliative care, long-term care and dementia care.
Make Music Work at Work
There is no easy solution to developing a productive playlist for two or more people. Like all good work procedures and strategies, it takes time and it starts with being proactive instead of reactive. Take the time to identify the diverse needs and cultures of the...
5 Strategies to Help Teach Music to a Special Needs Student
When introducing a new piece of music, play it through in its entirety - up to tempo and with all the dynamics and flourishes you hope to hear at the end of the teaching experience. Break down the lesson into small segments (ie. taking the instrument out of the case,...
Improve the Tone of your Home- Relieve the Stress
When my children were five and six, I thought I was going to lose my mind. Initially, I was so excited. That was the year both kids would be in school, and I would be able to spend my days happily at work and then come home, make a happy dinner, hug my children, and...
We are Finalists!
September 15, 2015 Dear Family, Friends, Colleagues, Partners and Clients, JB MUSIC THERAPY is honoured to have just been selected as one of the Finalists for the Community Impact Award after making it through two rounds of judging - starting with 400 nominations. The...
How to Create the Right ‘Music Kit’ for Work and Home
To bring music upfront and into the foreground (the answer for using music intentionally for health), it is important to ensure that your music preferences are accessible and in a form that you can easily retrieve when you need it. Like me, you may remember when you...
THE TOP 3 REASONS MUSIC SHOULD BE IN EVERY SCHOOL
Music programs in schools are being cut because of budget constraints. Somehow, the logic goes, music is “extra” thus it shouldn’t be funded. It pains me that we must fight to have the arts in school because the arts are thought of as fringe and not fundamental. Even...
4 WAYS TO MAXIMIZE MUSIC IN THE CLASSROOM
School's In. Here is what we know music can do for students - and all of us really: Relax the mind and lower stress levels Stimulate creativity by increasing blood and oxygen flow to the brain Create a clear passage to long-term memory Change an individual’s...
Why do our music preferences matter?
Our connection to music is intensely personal. Over the past several years the role of music preferences has strongly been linked to three important psychological functions. When we respond positively to the music we are listening to we are more likely to improve our...
I didn’t know but Fran Herman (music therapy pioneer) has helped me figure it out.
My face said it all.....I was shocked. 2 hours before this picture was taken I took a quiet stroll on the early morning Calgary downtown streets to a small cafe (Caffe Artigiano - highly recommended) several blocks from the conference site. I left my computer behind...