Increasing Accessibility
Ensuring that Everyone can Participate and Engage in a Meaningful Way
In this course we’ll explore accessibility considerations in music therapy sessions (and beyond) for students with high support needs. We’ll share tips, songs, and the materials we utilize to ensure that our sessions are accessible to everyone in the group.
About the course
How do we create a brave space for clients to process their musical experiences? And, how do we know when, what, and how to process these experiences together?
This course will address these questions, along with overall considerations for verbal processing and reasons that processing, whether verbally or otherwise, might be indicated or contraindicated for the clients with whom you work. In addition, you will have the opportunity to explore several musical experiences and processing examples and to create your own musical experiences and processing prompts to integrate immediately into your clinical work.
What you’ll learn
Meet your instructor
Jennifer Hicks, MMT, MT-BC, E-RYT (she/her/hers) is a board-certified music therapist, a licensed music educator, an experienced registered yoga teacher, and the founder of Joyful Noises LLC. Jennifer specializes in mentoring music therapy students and professionals through 1:1 supervision, the MT Mentor membership community, and continuing music therapy education (CMTE) courses. She also provides consultations, marketing support, and copyediting services for other small business owners and creative arts professionals. Jennifer’s vision is to create and support courageous communities that work towards social justice and encourage cultural humility, lifelong learning, gratitude, and living in the AND* to inspire joy and sustainable, wholistic wellness. Her mission is to use her foundation of music therapy, marketing, and mindfulness-based principles to:
Inspire and empower students, professionals, and clients to experience and create joy in their lives through living in the AND* and through prioritizing sustainable, wholistic wellness,
Create and support courageous communities built on cultural humility, where all are welcomed and encouraged to grow and where cultural intersectionalities are explored and honored as we work towards social justice together, and
Partner with music therapy and creative arts organizations and businesses as we seek to move our professions forward through guest lectures, presentations, supervision, and service.
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Increasing Accessibility
Ensuring that Everyone can Participate and Engage in a Meaningful Way
In this course we’ll explore accessibility considerations in music therapy sessions (and beyond) for students with high support needs. We’ll share tips, songs, and the materials we utilize to ensure that our sessions are accessible to everyone in the group.