Foundations of Therapeutic Music Course (Taster)

1. Getting Started

   2 lessons

   1. Welcome
   2. How to work through this course

2. Module 1 | Origins of Music

   9 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. Your listening space
   6. Why does music exist? Part I
   7. Why does music exist? Part II
   8. Tension and Peace
   9. The musicality of being human

3. Module 2 | The Musical Self

   12 lessons

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

4. Module 3 | How Music Works

   12 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. The musicality of stillness and motion

5. Module 4 | Ways of Listening (Available 8th February)

   6 lessons

   1. Story
   2. In what ways can we listen?
   3. Listening modes and therapy
   4. Listening to silence
   5. Discovering more inside sounds
   6. Different complexities and details

6. Module 5 | Dimensions of Music (Available 15th February)

   6 lessons

   1. Story
   2. What gives music its character? Part I
   3. What gives music its character? Part II
   4. What gives music its character? Part III
   5. Holodelic Listening
   6. Different styles and instruments

7. Module 6 | Therapeutic Music (Available 22nd February)

   7 lessons

   1. Story
   2. What is healing / therapy?
   3. What are music's therapeutic functions?
   4. What are therapeutic roles?
   5. What are therapeutic directions?
   6. Holodelic listening
   7. Different musical functions

8. Module 7 | Attunement (Available 1st March)

   6 lessons

   1. Story
   2. What does personalisation mean?
   3. How do we balance music with silence?
   4. How can we personalise music?
   5. Curating subjective climates
   6. Holodelic listening

9. Module 8 | Creating Playlists (Available 8th March)

   6 lessons

   1. Story
   2. How do we create therapeutic playlists?
   3. How does one tailor music to the listener? Part I
   4. How does one tailor music to the listener? Part II
   5. Therapeutic functions
   6. Holodelic listening

10. Module 9 | Creating Climates (Available 15th March)

    8 lessons

    1. Story
    2. How do we create therapeutic climates?
    3. How can listeners prepare for therapeutic music?
    4. What does an ideal therapeutic setting look like?
    5. How do experiences become most impactful?
    6. What does integration truly mean?
    7. Musical language
    8. Holodelic listening

11. Course Synthesis (Available 22nd March)

    1 lesson

    1. Learning summary