Honoring Your Relationship with Music will enable you to take a creative approach to understanding and appreciating your personal music journey. The online format is especially suited to a personal, self-paced learning experience. It is centered around reflective practices, visioning, imagery, and journaling opportunities that provide insight and action steps to keep your relationship with music healthy throughout your career.
– Carolyn Vierkorn, MM, MT-BC

If you are struggling with your relationship with music or are feeling burnt out on using music in work, I highly recommend this workshop. Through this workshop, I realized that I had an unhealthy relationship with music stemming from before I went to college. This workshop helped me to realize what was happening in my relationship with music and gave me the opportunity to creatively explore what I needed from music.

I will be actively pursuing a healthier relationship with music moving forward and focusing more on why I chose to go into music in the first place.  This means more music for me and less pressure on myself.  This workshop is organized, and you can take it at your own pace (which I love). Give yourself the chance to work on your relationship with music. I promise it is so worth it.  – Leandra Ward, MT-BC, NMT

This workshop is wonderful for remembering your roots in music and fostering renewed perspective and optimism with personal relationships with music. I highly recommend if you are feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, or not being kind to yourself. It is enjoyable and broken up into doable bite-sized pieces.
– Brittany Trinité, MT-BC

This workshop helped me examine my evolving relationship with music, through examining my past, current, and future hopes for that connection. I have personally struggled with engagement with music outside of my clinical role since becoming a practicing music therapist.

The mindfulness exercises allowed me to explore my own anxieties and some of the negative experiences I’ve had with music that sometimes hinder me from engaging with music for myself and outside of being a clinician. Through the action steps I outlined in this course, I hope to foster my relationship and identify as both a musician AND a music therapist again in the future.  – Jessica Wellman, MT-BC

When I went into my music therapy program at college my relationship with music began to change from something I enjoyed to something that is required for my career and income. As a now working professional this change in that relationship has continued to affect me personally and emotionally.

This workshop gave me an opportunity to examine what it is I am wanting to gain from my relationship with music and how I can serve music as well. In the program I was able to explore music has been to me in the past, is to me now, and what I want it to be in the future. I am leaving the program with concrete steps that I can take to reach the goals that I set for myself as I move forward.  – Mallory E. Volkmann, MT-BC

Ami’s workshop helped me pinpoint various areas of need in my own creative processing, expression, and outlets. Learning about musical burnout and the various types of fatigue we experience within the scope of burnout helped me understand more specifically where my roadblocks pop up when I am feeling stressed or shameful around my inability to engage with my creative self. The workbook offered multiple ways to look at my relationship with creativity and will be a very useful tool in the future. I also love that this workshop understands the ebbs and flows of creativity and validates the struggles of utilizing creativity in a helping profession. It also taught me how to target issues and create healthy boundaries to keep creativity alive in your spirit. Highly recommend!  – Claire Schad, MT-BC