🎨 Join us for Kids Creativity Day in Gettysburg: An afternoon dedicated to creative exploration! 🎶 🥁🪇 Children ages 5-12 of all abilities are welcome, and will rotate through three groups: Music Therapy | Art | Yoga This is a drop off event. Parents are invited to a session on nurturing creativity with your child, [...]
I am on a mission to figure out how to use "not so therapeutic" songs therapeutically. I know for me, it is really tough when my clients or students like songs that are not necessarily "appropriate" for school, or seem to me to have little therapeutic value due to the content and lyrics. But it's [...]
It's a snow day here in Pennsylvania - a far cry from the 80 degree Januarys we experienced when we lived in Florida! Before I go outside to shovel and sled with my kiddos, I wanted to write up a quick blog to continue the Session Idea Blast Series I started last week. In the [...]
Happy New Year! Things have turned chilly here in Pennsylvania. We have a snow storm on it's way at the end of this weekend, which means my kiddos will inevitably have a snow day on Monday! 'Tis the season of an erratic school schedule. Nonetheless, I have big plans for later on in January - [...]
I am back to working with preschoolers and I am LOVING it! I recently started a new contract, providing group music therapy at Amazing Kids Club Autism Center, part of True North Wellness Services in Hanover, Pennsylvania. I provide weekly group music therapy for the preschool program, and.... I had forgotten how physical it is [...]
I don't know about you, but when I'm learning new music therapy techniques, I love to see them IN ACTION. It's one thing to read about techniques in a book or hear about them in class, and it's another to see them being implemented in an actual session with clients. That's why I created a [...]
Have you ever had a time when you were going along, leading your session, and suddenly realized that things were totally out of control? Kids were screaming, people were wandering, and no one was following your instructions? Insert hand raising emoji here. I've been there. We've all had moments where it's a runaway train and [...]
Happy Happy New Year! I'm kicking off this year with a series of 3 "How To" posts. Today we're looking at something I hear again and again from participants who take the Tune In To Teens and Attention & Perception E-Courses: How do I plan engaging experiences for groups with mixed ages and abilities?! Read [...]
