Foundations of Therapeutic Music Course – 2026

1. Getting Started

   2 lessons

   1. Welcome
   2. How to work through this course

2. Module 1 | Origins of Music

   11 lessons

   1. Destruction and Creation
   2. Have we lost our musical nature? Part I
   3. Have we lost our musical nature? Part II
   4. What actually is music?
   5. Why does music exist? Part I
   6. Why does music exist? Part II
   7. Your listening space
   8. Tension and Peace
   9. Sparks of musicality | Prelude
   10. Sparks of musicality | The shape-shifter
   11. The musicality of being human

3. Module 2 | The Musical Self

   14 lessons

   1. Grieving and Loving
   2. About this module
   3. Remembering the musical self | Family
   4. What is the self? Part I
   5. What is the self? Part II
   6. Motivations for listening
   7. How does the self develop? Part I
   8. How does the self develop? Part II
   9. Listening | Prelude
   10. Listening | To your space
   11. How is the self musical? Part I
   12. How is the self musical? Part II
   13. Mapping the musical self | Part I
   14. The musicality of loving

4. Module 3 | How Music Works

   13 lessons

   1. The silent life
   2. About this module
   3. Remembering the musical self | Nature
   4. Liking and disliking
   5. How does sound become music? Part I
   6. How does sound become music? Part II
   7. Unmanifested and manifested
   8. Confrontations
   9. Music and silence
   10. How does music become meaningful? Part I
   11. How does music become meaningful? Part II
   12. Sparks of Musicality | Perceiving
   13. The musicality of stillness and motion

5. Module 4 | Ways of Listening

   10 lessons

   1. About this module
   2. Blessing for different sounds
   3. Remembering the musical self | Urban
   4. How do we listen? Part I
   5. Your ways of listening
   6. How do we listen? Part II
   7. Listening | To the field
   8. Listening | To thresholds
   9. Sparks of musicality | Sharing consciousness
   10. The musicality of absorption

6. Module 5 | Dimensions of Music

   15 lessons

   1. About this module
   2. Listening | To layers
   3. Legion live in us
   4. What makes music so alive? Part I
   5. What makes music so alive? Part II
   6. Remembering the musical self | Identity
   7. What makes music so alive? Part III
   8. Examples of musical style
   9. Examples of musical form
   10. Examples of syntax (core subjective climates)
   11. Listening | With the body
   12. Sparks of musicality | Prelude
   13. Meanings and trajectories
   14. Sparks of musicality | Evoking worlds
   15. The musicality of recursion

7. Module 6 | Therapeutic Music

   25 lessons

   1. About this module
   2. Wounding and healing
   3. Walls and gardens
   4. How do we heal? Part I
   5. Mapping the musical self | Part II
   6. Sparks of Musicality | Alchemy
   7. How do we heal? Part II
   8. Mapping the musical self | Part III
   9. Listening | Receptive (short version) (P2)
   10. Listening | Receptive (full version) (P2)
   11. How do we heal? Part III
   12. Broken and whole
   13. Therapeutic Functions of music | Part I
   14. Therapeutic Functions of music | Part II
   15. Fuelled and balanced
   16. Therapeutic functions | Soothing
   17. Therapeutic Functions | Deepening & Resolving
   18. Therapeutic Functions | Bridging
   19. The first human aesthetic
   20. A taxonomy of therapeutic music
   21. How can music heal ?
   22. Music and nature
   23. Familiarity and novelty
   24. Words and worlds
   25. The musicality of organic conjunction (P1)

8. Module 7 | Therapeutic Climates

   17 lessons

   1. About this module
   2. Rituals for practice: Your philosophy
   3. Rituals for practice: Metaphors
   4. Mapping the musical self | Part IV
   5. Sparks of musicality: Resonance and dissonance
   6. Rituals for Practice: Musical Languages
   7. Rituals for Practice: Tasting Worlds
   8. Rituals for practice: The art of inquiry
   9. How do you curate and organise therapeutic music?
   10. The "library & playlist creator" spreadsheet
   11. Rituals for Practice: Your therapeutic musicality
   12. Rituals for Practice: The Musical Enactment Scorecard
   13. Rituals for Practice: Exploring Worlds (Musical Enactment Scorecard Timeline version)
   14. Rituals for Practice: Gifting Worlds
   15. How can we develop therapeutic musicality?
   16. Creating Playlists | Part I
   17. Rituals for Practice: Creating Playlists

9. Module 8 | Creating Playlists

   1 lesson

   1. Story

10. Course Synthesis & Closure

    4 lessons

    1. About this module
    2. What makes music therapeutic?
    3. What are we learning?
    4. What's next?