Music Therapy Outlook
I am a music therapist at a psychiatric hospital, who has the opportunity to work with children, adolescents and adults. In school, we were taught to really plan the sessions out beforehand. The past year though I have been learning that this is not a philosophy I agree with when working with this population. I have come to learn that we all know deep down what we need to become healthier, and we have the capability to do this, we just need others to direct us in our thinking and help us have those "Ah - ha" moments. Although I have been believing in this philosophy more and more, it is still scary as a facilitator to not really have as much control in the session. I have been trying to incorporate more improvisation in my sessions, and to be more aware of those whom I work with to see if they are guiding me in a way to showing me as to what they are needing right then in their life. Today I really stretched myself with the children. I had a session planned out, but when I got their realized that the entire session would not work. Instead of becoming stressed over the situation, I talked with the group, and in a sense they came up with their own session. It turned out really well, and benefited both them and me in a way that needed at that time in our life. It's amazing how much more powerful our intuition is compared with our mind. I see that I need to spend more time looking inward and to just take that leap of faith more to trust what I internally know.
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You must be playing all of your instruments very well in order to do improvisation. Way to go!
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