Details of each video:

1. Research Keynote: Harmonies of Healing: Exploring the Neuroscience of Music for Patient and Practitioner, Heidi Moss Erickson, MS, BMus, BA. In this lecture/demonstration, we will explore how musical engagement stimulates brain regions associated with emotion, memory, and motor functions, fostering cognitive and emotional healing. We will also explore diverse ways to practice so that practitioners can flexibly adapt to the needs of their clients. Research Panel: MHTP Research Updates. Members of the MHTP Research Committee share information and their personal experiences about the emerging field of music in medicine research, some of the first steps of initiating research, spearheading a research project from its first inception, and a journey from MHTP student to CMP to research assistant.

2. Musical Keynote: Listening to What Music Can Reveal, Victor Lemonte Wooten, world-renowned musician, five- time Emmy winner, Grammy winner, and Author Music legend and storyteller. Victor Wooten shares with us an experiential, spontaneous, and heart-centered hour of Music and Life. Topics include his perspectives on Music, listening, health, nature, Life, and the things that connect all of us as musicians and healers.

3. Music in Healthcare: Awareness, Access, and Advocacy, Judy Simpson, MT-BC. Music in healthcare provides both benefits and challenges for consumers and musicians. This session will explore provider groups, qualifications, access points, stakeholders, and education opportunities to advocate for recognition and inclusion of the entire continuum.

4. Panel: Creating Collaborations: The History of the National Standards Board for Therapeutic Musicians. The NSBTM defines and upholds the educational standards for training programs for Certified Therapeutic Musicians. Its history is a story of the early different, but similar live therapeutic music training and certification programs’ leaders recognizing the essential need to speak professionally with one voice. Two of those leaders who were involved in the several years of work to form the NSBTM will give a brief history of its formation. That is followed by leaders of each of the current, five accredited training programs sharing their own program’s history.

5. Panel: Medical Specialties: Neonatal Intensive Care and Behavioral Health .Two CMPs, one a Registered Nurse Certified-Neonatal Intensive Care professional: Caitlin Ryan, BSN, RNC-NIC, CMP, and one with a long career as a clinical psychologist: Dr. Pat Clark, PsyD, CMP, offer information about the patient types one may encounter in Neonatal Intensive Care and behavioral health facilities,

6. Panel: History of MHTP: Share the Vision, Shape the Future Celebrating 30 years for a small nonprofit is a significant milestone. In this presentation, the story of how MHTP came to be and navigated various challenges over 30 years, is divided into its three decades. Individuals involved in managing MHTP in each of the decades share some of that journey through the Share the Vision...MHTP’s Decades Tour portion, and conference attendees help envision next steps in the ...Shape the Future: Conference Participants Breakout Rooms.

7. Panel: Job Opportunities Spotlight: Arts in Healthcare Programs Healthcare facility administrators and CMPs from three different arts in healthcare programs share how live therapeutic music makes a difference to their patients and offer a broad array of possible job opportunities for therapeutic musicians. Representatives from the following will share about the following programs: Gifts of Art has brought the world of the arts to Michigan Medicine for almost forty years. Learn about the varied music initiatives, how they function as part of Gifts of Art and also collaboratively across the larger organization. There will be an overview on the history, growth and mission of Moffit’s Arts In Medicine program, as well as a look at their ideal candidate, training process and a day in the life of their Artists-In-Residence. Three presenters will discuss their work and collaboration within the Department of Veteran Affairs National Recreation Therapy Service which encompasses Recreation and Creative Arts Therapies for veterans.

8. The Sound Health Network: Building a Music and Health Ecosystem, Julene K. Johnson, PhD, BM, Sound Health Network Co-Director. The Sound Health Network (SHN) is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco. This presentation includes: increase awareness about the SHN for MHTP’s community, disseminate information about how to identify music and health funding opportunities and share ways for the MHTP community and the broad live therapeutic music community to find collaborators related to music and health research.

9. Self-care Through Improvisation, Ruth Cunningham, Vocalist. This presentation will explore tools for selfcare including humming and toning, simple chants and poetry. You will also be introduced to using improvisation as a way to center and give music to yourself both as singers and instrumentalists. This can be helpful in times of challenge or distress and is also a way to explore new sounds that might be available to you without judgement.

10. Therapeutic Music: The Double Blessing, Angi Bemiss, CMP, CTHP, Arranger/Publisher Our music is perfect for medical and hospice settings. Knowing “what to do” and “how to be” begins with good preparation and mindfulness. Topics of this presentation: “What I’ve learned” during 25 continuous years as a CMP. This is a heartwarming reminder that therapeutic music is a “double blessing” – for those who listen, and for the musician.

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