[Jee Yoon]

Maggie it was such a great refresher for me too!

I love your point about advocacy. Thank you for sharing your story and way to go! Its really great that you were able to educate your employers and benefit those families you serve. You were truly advocating for the clients and their caregivers.

[Jee Yoon]

Greta and Maggie,
yes secure attachments are so crucial. I’m excited to learn more about how music therapy can support a child in their development of secure attachments to safe caregivers.

[Jee Yoon]

I was reminded of the astonishing rate at which children develop in those first 5 years. It made me realize that during that time a music therapist has so many opportunities to meet and support a child.

I also did what Meredith and Elizabeth encouraged us to do, to get down on my back, then my hands and knees and see the world the way a baby/toddler does. I was surprised at what was triggered in me cognitively and emotionally when seeing the world from that perspective. It was quite stimulating and new. It made me feel small and the world so big. I know I can’t enter into the mind of a child, but I could imagine that it could be overstimulating and perhaps scary. It may also be joyful and thrilling experience to encounter the world for the first time, to learn and grow, and explore. It made me wonder how a baby/child, in such a big world, balances that curiosity and innate drive to develop, with the feeling of safety and security.

[Jee Yoon]

As a new mom who suffered from postpartum anxiety, and then raising two kids during a pandemic, I have such deep appreciation for early childhood music groups and EC music therapy. I had experience working in hospital pediatric ER, NICU, as well as teaching piano for over ten years, but when it came to my own children, esp. with postpartum anxiety, it was almost as if my training went out the window. I wish I had had the support of another objective trained music therapist to remind me, “Oh yes, this is normal, this is appropriate, these are the potentials, I’m not alone, etc.”

After my first I went to a library music group for babies that was run by a community volunteer, and though it was lacking many things a MT could offer, I still went faithfully every week. I can only imagine what it would have been like if a trained MT was offering a group near us. I hope to be able to bring to my work the understanding that there is a gap and that caregivers out there are so hungry for community-based EC music programs. I want to be client-centered as well as family-centered, never forgetting that these early years can be quite challenging and yet so rich and profound.

[Jee Yoon]

There it is! sorry everyone for all the submissions.

[Jee Yoon]

testing, again. I’ve set up a picture on gravatar but it doesn’t seem to be transferring onto my sprouting melodies forum posts.

[Jee Yoon]

Testing

[Jee Yoon]

Hi Meredith, I am having trouble uploading a picture to my gravatar account. I think it may be that my computer is old. I will keep trying but wanted to give you a heads up.

[Jee Yoon]

Hello Lynn, I’m excited to take this course with you! Your experiences as a music educator must be such an amazing context for your music therapy education. Congratulations on finishing coursework and hope for the best on your internship placement! I look forward to learning from you during our time together! Jee

[Jee Yoon]

Hello MAggie, It’s nice to meet you and glad you are in this course with us. As you can see, I’m getting the first week’s work done the last day of the week. So I understand the challenges of keeping up with CMTE courses. With two little kids I hardly have time to eat some days. I look forward to hearing the things you are learning from this course. Jee

[Jee Yoon]

Thank you Erika for being our online moderator. I’m from New York originally! I grew up in Flushing Queens, then in Long Island (Commack) East Coast! I’m curious how your beginnings as a sprouting melodies provider were. AGain thank you for being our moderator!
Jee

[Jee Yoon]

Hello Greta, Its nice to meet you! I hope to hear more about your work at the Children’s hospital, if there’s an opportunity. I had initially wanted to work in medical music therapy but in Portland, the job offerings are mostly in in patient/outpatient psych. So I think what you do is amazing and I hope this course provides you with the new and fresh material and inspiration you need for your day to day work. Jee

[Jee Yoon]

Hello everyone,
My name is Jee Yoon, and I live in Portland, Oregon with my husband and my two little ones who are now 3 years old and 9 months old. I received my bachelors in Music Therapy at Marylhurst University in 2017. I served adults in an inpatient psych hospital, and older adults with dementia and/or other diagnoses in different settings (foster homes, large assisted living facilities, for almost two years before I had my first child. Since then I have worked very minimally, especially since COVID as most of the facilities I worked at put music therapy contracts on hold.

After having children I realized what a need there is for the kind of community-based early childhood music groups that Elizabeth and Meredith talk about. Being a new mom I have experienced that need very keenly thus I wanted to become trained so that when my littlest is old enough I can provide such groups to the community I live in. And as a music therapist I want to become more skilled in working with young children and their caregivers/families.

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