Foundations of Therapeutic Music

1. Getting Started

   10 lessons

   1. Welcome
   2. How to work through this course
   3. Destruction and Creation
   4. Have we lost our musical nature?
   5. Remembering the musical self
   6. Ancient history and the invention of language
   7. The decoupling of meaning from sound
   8. Listening | To your space
   9. Listening to the field
   10. Connections and Enrichments

2. Module 1 | Origins of Music

   7 lessons

   1. Have we lost our musical nature? Part II
   2. What actually is music?
   3. Your listening space
   4. Why does music exist? Part I
   5. Why does music exist? Part II
   6. Tension and Peace
   7. The musicality of being human

3. Module 2 | The Musical Self

   14 lessons

   1. Grieving and Loving
   2. About this module
   3. What is the self? Part I
   4. What is the self? Part II
   5. Remembering the musical self | Family
   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
   14. 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

   9 lessons

   1. Blessing for different sounds
   2. About this module
   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 | Prelude
   8. Listening | To the field
   9. The musicality of thresholds

6. Module 5 | Dimensions of Music

   14 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. Listening | To character
   9. Examples of musical style
   10. Examples of musical form
   11. Listening | With the body
   12. Meanings and trajectories
   13. Sparks of musicality | Evoking worlds
   14. The musicality of recursion

7. Module 6 | Therapeutic Music

   16 lessons

   1. Love and will
   2. About this module
   3. What is the nature of change?
   4. Strength and vulnerability
   5. Listening | With emotion
   6. What are modes of change?
   7. Fragmented and whole
   8. Listening | With the body
   9. What are the conditions for change?
   10. Listening | With imagination
   11. What makes music therapeutic?
   12. What are the therapeutic functions of music?
   13. The distinct therapeutic functions of music
   14. Archetypes and forms
   15. Listening | With associations
   16. The musicality of becoming

8. Module 7 | Attunement

   11 lessons

   1. Resonance and dissonance
   2. About this module
   3. What makes attunement therapeutic? Part I
   4. Listening | To core subjective climates
   5. Acceptance and rejection
   6. Attention and re-direction
   7. The 3 distinct mechanisms of musical rejection
   8. How does attunement work? Part I
   9. How does attunement work? Part II
   10. Listening | With instinct
   11. The musicality of containment

9. Module 8 | Creating Playlists

   9 lessons

   1. Journeys and arrivals
   2. How do we create therapeutic music? Part I
   3. Listening | With associations
   4. How do we create therapeutic music? Part II
   5. Your musical language
   6. Attunement and misattunement
   7. How do we create therapeutic music? Part III
   8. Defining music-centredness
   9. The musicality of flow

10. Module 9 | Creating Climates

    10 lessons

    1. Intentionality and defeat
    2. About this module
    3. How do we create therapeutic climates?
    4. The human experience
    5. Listening | With wholeness
    6. When are we ready?
    7. What is good enough?
    8. Listening | Together
    9. What actually is integration?
    10. The musicality of integration

11. Course Synthesis

    6 lessons

    1. Teaching summaries
    2. Listening | With life
    3. Practices and experiences
    4. Tools and resources
    5. Where we go from here?
    6. Closure and next steps