Details of each video:

1. Music Keynote: Kepler, Chladni, and Kuhn: Sounding the Structure of a Healing Revolution; Daniel Barber, BSW, MS, Sonic Presence Coach. How are we being called to evolve professionally and personally and how have our predecessors, mathematicians, and scientific philosophers lit the way?

2. Musical Improv Workshop: The Essential Skill for “Enwholing” and The Learning Lab of Sound Improv; Daniel Barber, BSW, MS, Sonic Presence Coach. Come explore how skills learned through improvisation can make a difference in all kinds of ways. Discussion of how “essential skill” and other tools help you navigate, align, and tune yourself up with creative and musical inspiration.

3. Research Panel: The Joy of Research, Clara Takarabe, CMP; Music for Patients in Acute Brain Failure: Research and Practice in a Hospital Setting, Kathi Hanson, CMP, and Susan Wilkes, MM, MMHS, CMP. Panelists share methodology and results from their involvement in one quantitative and one qualitative research project.

4. Plenary: Self Care: Music Practitioners: The Impact of Hearing Loss and Tips for playing for Patients; Sherry Nalsen, CMP. Learn about types and causes of hearing loss; tips for speaking to the hearing impaired; and how CMPs can enhance the hospital experience for the hearing impaired patient.

5. All About Jobs Panel: Funding: Two Strategies for Seeking Funding from the Civil Monetary Penalties Reinvestment Fund: Healing Harmonies (Florida group); KimBennett, CCME, CMP; and Collaborating for Care with Music (Virginia group); Carole Grove, PhD, MEd, CMP and Elizabeth Fanning, PhD, MEd, CMP. Flexibility: Both examples from the University of Maryland Medical  Center--Providing Live Therapeutic Music Remotely During the COVID-19 Pandemic and A Hybrid Model of Integrative Care During COVID-19; Carol Joy Loeb, RN, HNB-BC, CMP. From our CMPs: Big Picture Results of the 2022 CMP Employment Survey; Debby Hix, PhD, CMP. Funding strategies include two different groups’ applications to their states’ Civil Monetary Penalties Reinvestment Fund; Flexibility examples of methods to provide live therapeutic music in times of public health emergencies; and, from our CMPs, results of the 2022 comprehensive survey about CMP employment.

6. Cultural Diversity Panel: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology for CMPs: Crossroads and Perspectives on Music and Culture; Melissa Angel Straus, DMA, CMP; Job Salazar Fonseca, MM, MHTP Student, and Victor Obo-Okon Effiong, MM, CMP. The panel addresses MHTP and the Cultural Perspective through topics including: What about music is culturally influenced? How does a CMP play for patients from another country or culture? CMPs from diverse cultural backgrounds will provide practical ideas for therapeutic encounters.

7. Plenary: Self Care: Easy Self-Care: Revitalizing with Sound: Mary O’Malley, MD, PhD, Attending Psychiatrist Jersey Shore Medical Center. This session will help you recognize symptoms of burnout (compassion fatigue and its effects on your brain and health). It will also explore the role of ‘soul’ and the meaning and importance of engagement and sacred relationship in healing and recovery. The session explores some easy practices to shift your perspective, manage your moods, and buffer stress. 

8. Science Keynote: How Love Connects Us: The Science of Energetic Interconnectivity, Rollin McCraty, PhD, Director of Research at the HeartMath Institute. Discussion of new understandings of how the heart and brain interact in a dynamic relationship that impacts many aspects of mental and emotional experience.

9. Plenary: Self Care: Music and Movement for Transformation; Rachel Allen, CMP, E-RYT 200. How are you these days? With so many challenges we all could use some support to increase our capacity for resilience. This session will include movement and sound practices that can be integrated into your daily life if you so choose.

CMPs are eligible to receive 2 continuing education units (CEUs) for viewing and responding each of these videos. Follow the instructions in this form (Word doc) to provide your response.

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