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 On this page you will find continuing educational events sponsored by accredited and affiliate members. They are events selected to enrich the practice of the therapeutic musician. Contact your organization for CEU guidelines and the event-sponsoring program for more information on CEU's. You will find contact information for events listed in chronological order below.

If you are not a graduate of the sponsoring program contact your own program director for CEU approval and credit. If you are a member program and would like to post a therapeutic music educational event, please email the following information to Contact Us , for review and approval.

  1. Title of event
  2. Contact name
  3. Brief description (One short paragraph)
  4. Telephone, fax, link, or email address to contact the event coordinator
  5. Or, send an advertisement for approval in a document format
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Events 2011

 

Healing Musician's Center

 

offers continuing education services to CMP's, CTHP's and CCM's

 

Continuing education units (CEU’s) opportunities are now offered online. the Healing Musician’s Center sponsors webinars specifically created to advance your practice.

Schedule

  • Healing Rhythms: how to use pulse structures, about different rhythm types, and a modulation technique ... , October 21, 2011
  • The Art of Healing Modes: Participants learn their structural distinctions, potential receptive values and various healing aspects. November 11 & 18, 2011.
  • Subtle Energies & Music: Healing musicians influence, and are influenced by, subtle energy. The new science of subtle energies is emerging with surprising results ..., November 4, 2011
  • Labyrinth & Music: Learn how to bring the Labyrinth experience to the bedside of your patients and their loved ones. May 3, 2011.
  • Music and Spiritual Pain: Learn about Ethical Goals, the Universal Spiritual Elements, Spiritual Pain Patterns and Spiritual Pain Symptoms, and how to move towards Spiritual Awakening. June 3 and again on December 4, 2011
  • Chinese Musical Elements: Increase your bedside repertoire with new musical scales...January, 20,2012
  • The Art of Healing Modes: Participants learn their structural distinctions, potential receptive values and various healing aspects... February 3rd & 10th, 2012
  • What Makes Your Music Healing: Learn the healing elements inherent in your music ..., February 24, 2012

And there's more.. go to Healing Musician's Center

 

 

Music for Healing and Transition Program Events

The Certified Music Practitioner ® Support Network
Free Monthly Conference Calls specifically for CMPs. Each call will feature an experienced, working CMP, who will focus on a specific "best practice" topic.
4th Tuesday of the month at 8PM Eastern beginning in May 2011 and ongoing.
For information, contact MHTP

Enrichment Day

November 19th, 2011 @ 10AM - 4:30PM

Two Workshops by Melinda Gardiner RN, CMP in the Hudson Valley of New York and the foothills of the Berkshires in Our Lady of Hope Church (formerly st. Bridget's Church, 8074 Rt. 22, Copake Falls. NY

6 MHTP CEU's - Cost $50.00

#1 - Developing Unconditional Presence as a Therapeutic Musician: In this practical workshop, we'll learn about the work with specific techniques that enhance our ability to be fully present to our patients. These will include: 1) Looking more deeply into our practice of Unitative Listening, especially in relationships to resonance and entrainment; 2) Learning the Coherence technique developed by the HeartMath Institute and the underlying science behind it in relationship our music. We will work with the EMwave biofeed back tool and learn how to reach physiological coherence while playing and singing, as well as experimenting with bringing our patients into coherence; 3) Exploring the Ah Breath technique developed by Stephen & Ondrea Levine which will enhance your understanding of the breath and enhance your ability to work with your patient's breath musically.

#2 - Enhancing Your Therapeutic Presence with Your Voice: Learn and experience; 1) Why the voice is a vehicle that can intensify the possibility for greater intimacy and healing as you serve the patients; 2) How therapeutic singing differs from "performance" singing; 3) Opening-up possibilities for improvisation on your instrument; 4) Wordless singing: working with chant melody and intention; 5) Experiencing the therapeutic aspects of the intervals.

Contact Melinda Gardiner, Phone: 518- 325-5546, Fax: 518-325-3089, click here for registration information (PDF).

 

The 2012 MHTP Biennial Conference
The Heart-Centered Musician:  Manifesting the Vision

October 17-21, 2012
Lutheridge Retreat & Conference Center
Arden, North Carolina
Early-bird Registrations will open January 1, 2012
Now accepting papers relevant to the theme.
mhtp@mhtp.org

MHTP 4 CEU's for Attending Both Workshops by
Fabien Maman & Terres Unsoeld

An Introduction to Kototama: The Science of Pure Sound. Kotodama is the ancient Japanese science of pure sound. Initiated into this art and science, Fabien Maman has created his own precise techniques working with modes, elemental sounds, acoustic instruments and the voice.

Being offered:

Dec 11, 2011; 1-5pm, Banyen Books, Vancouver, BC

Dec 17, 2011; 1-5pm, New Renaissance Books, Portland, OR

 

International Harp Therapy Program Events

Finishing up this year's conferences on October 30th, 2011, is the UK conference in Derby, England in conjunction with the Derbyshire Harp Festival . Our focus is reaching out to service men and women, rehabilitation work with the harp and biofeedback techniques. In addition, we will feature the traditions of IONA.
Check out: UNITED KINGDOM INFO HERE

 

IHTP 8 CEU's for Attending
Music Care Conference, Waterloo, Ontario

Sat, Oct 22, 2011 9:00 am to: 5:00 pm

Keynote Speakers and Performers:

  • Therese Schroeder-Sheker, Founder of the palliative medical modality of Music Thanatology and the Chalice of Repose Project.
  • Dr. Richard Kogan, MD, Weill Cornell Medical College , Artistic Director Music and Medicine Program

Workshops:

  • Music Care in Grief
  • Musical Improvisation in Care
  • Vibroacoustic Harp Therapy
  • Music and Preserving Self in Dementia Care
  • Music Therapy and Individuals with Strokes and Acquired Brain Injury
  • Music & Neurological Research With Children
  • Music Performance Medicine
  • Music Therapy and Autism

Kathy Douse , MCC Administrator: Room 217 Foundation 905.852.2499 / www.room217.ca

For more information or to REGISTER NOW, click here

Presented in partnership by: Room 217 Foundation, Laurier Centre for Music in the Community, Music Therapy Association of Ontario, University of Windsor School of Music, Baycrest Hospital .

 

UK International Therapy Harp Conference

October 30, 2011

This conference will serve as:
~ an Introduction to Harp Therapy for interested people

~ new information for our Graduates to receive the required continuing education units in order to remain on our active Certified Therapeutic Harp Practitioner list.
Lectures by:
Julie Darling, Orla Busteed, Christina Tourin and Emma Butler

This conference follows the two day Derbyshire Harp Festival with featured teachers and performers:

Isobel Mieras
David Watkins
Viktor Hartobanu
Frank Sternfeld
Ben Creighton Giffiths
Christina Tourin
Helen Naylor
Theresa Eynon
Emma Butler

Affordable tuition £70 and great socializing with graduates of the International Harp Therapy Programme. For more information and registration, please go to:  IHTP Conference UK. You will also find the registration information for the Derbyshire Harp Festival at that link.  

 

Clinical Musician Home Study Program Events

More Events Coming Soon

Go to Harp For Healing for details, and other weekend events.

 

 

Affiliate Event: Vibroacoustic Harp Therapy Training Course

Location: Planet Harp, Macungie , PA & Hawthorn Suites, Fogelsville , PA

Date: Friday, November 4 (4:30 p.m.) through Sunday, November 6, 2011 (6:00 p.m.)

Instructors: Sarajane Williams, M.A., Licensed Psychologist, Linda Bloom, R.N., B.S.N.

Course Objectives:

* To become familiar with the vibrational medicine paradigm

* To develop a working, professional knowledge base and vocabulary for vibroacoustic harp therapy (VAHT)

* To become familiar with the use of VAHT equipment

* To experience the “hands on” implementation of VAHT, and to gain experiential insight in preparation for offering or supervising VAHT.

Eligibility Requirements: This intensive course is being offered to harpist-graduates of therapeutic music training programs, licensed health care professionals (i.e. nurses, doctors, chiropractors, psychologists, music therapists) and health care administrators who will supervise vibroacoustic harp therapists. A completed application form must be approved for acceptance into the course.

Preparatory Studies: Good Vibrations: Principles of Vibroacoustic Harp Therapy (book) and Therapeutic

Harp: ancient legacy, sound science, clinical applications (3-DVD set) by Sarajane Williams

What's included: Friday & Saturday night accommodations (private room) and 2 breakfasts at the

Hawthorn Suites Hotel, Fogelsville, PA (www.hawthorn.com); course materials and use of equipment; dinner and beverages at welcome reception, lunches and breaks; local transportation to and from Hawthorn Suites, Planet Harp and Lehigh Valley International airport.

What's not included: Good Vibrations textbook and Therapeutic Harp DVDs; transportation to and from the Lehigh Valley area; Saturday evening dinner.

Cost: Early registration: $795 before July 15, 2011, then $895.

Registration: Contact Planet Harp by phone 610-966-5677 or email: sara@planetharp.com.

Please register early ! Class size is limited (6-12 persons). The registration fee is non-refundable, but for cancellations before October 1, 2011, 50% of fee can be applied to a future course. Applicants who are not selected for the course will receive a full refund of the registration fee. Additional nights at Hawthorn Suites can be booked directly by the registrant.

 

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