Events
Therapeutic Music & End-of-Life Care with Melinda Gardiner & Guests
Mar 27 2010 10:00AM - 5:00PM
EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, March 27
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
CIIS Main Building
$135
6 CEUs (MFT, LCSE, RN)
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Therapeutic music is beginning to be recognized as a gently effective, transformative method to enhance soothing care in hospitals and hospices. It is grounded in the simple idea of meeting a patient's needs in the moment with live, acoustic, prescriptive music. Therapeutic musicians are trained in the art and science of intuitive listening, presence, and skillful
music-making to facilitate healing.
Students will learn about the profession and the programs that offer training, and will hear case histories from the instructor's experiences of providing music for patients. Students will also learn and practice Unitative Listening, an adaptation for musicians of The Therapeutic Touch method. Unitative Listening heightens a musician's intuitive assessment and listening skills, enhancing the ability to play or sing the music that is appropriate for a specific patient.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Melinda Gardiner is a registered nurse and Certified Music Practitioner®. She is a complementary therapist for Community Hospice of Columbia-Greene Counties in Catskill, New York, and a teacher of therapeutic touch. Melinda is the executive director and a faculty member of the Music for Healing and Transition Program, Inc. (MHTP), a national educational certification program, which trains musicians to serve the ill and dying with live therapeutic music. She is the author with Mona Peck of Shadows of the Living Light: Songs of Saint Hildegard of Bingen and Five Songs for Therapeutic Musicians.
