Foundations of Therapeutic Music

1. Getting Started

   15 lessons

   1. Welcome
   2. Why this course is multimodal and experiential
   3. What this course covers
   4. How this course works
   5. Destruction and Creation
   6. Music as a transformative technology
   7. Mapping the musical self
   8. Why does music have such a magnetic quality?
   9. Familiarity and novelty
   10. Remembering the musical self
   11. Every piece of music evokes a unique emotional world
   12. Motivations for listening
   13. About your instructor
   14. Connections and Enrichments
   15. What's next?

2. Module 1 | Origins of Music

   8 lessons

   1. Have we lost our musical nature? Part I
   2. Have we lost our musical nature? Part II
   3. What actually is music?
   4. Your listening space
   5. Why does music exist? Part I
   6. Why does music exist? Part II
   7. Tension and peace
   8. 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

   22 lessons

   1. About this module
   2. Walls and gardens
   3. Wounding and healing
   4. How do we heal? Part I
   5. Mapping the musical self | Part II
   6. Remembering the musical self | Activities (P2)
   7. Broken and whole
   8. A taxonomy of therapeutic music
   9. Fueled and balanced
   10. Mapping the musical self | Part III
   11. How do we heal? Part II
   12. How do we heal? Part III
   13. Listening | Receptive (short version) (P2)
   14. Listening | Receptive (full version) (P2)
   15. Therapeutic Functions of Music | Part I
   16. Therapeutic functions of music | Part II
   17. Therapeutic functions | Soothing
   18. Therapeutic Functions | Deepening & Resolving
   19. Therapeutic Functions | Bridging
   20. Therapeutic Functions | Holding
   21. Music and nature
   22. Familiarity and novelty

8. Module 7 | Attunement

   11 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. 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