[Meredith Pizzi]

Great points everybody! We do need to have open communication and always work on ourselves so that can model calm, positive interventions when supporting kids who are having a tough time.

[Meredith Pizzi]

We love this online community setup! It’s great to be able to connect and get to know each other in this forum. Glad to have all of you here!

[Meredith Pizzi]

Welcome, Cindy! We are so glad you are hear to join us! You will find that this training will definitely support your work in the school district and in creating a music play group within your early childhood program. When we speak about parents and caregivers in the training, you can can substitute the words “teacher” and “paraprofessional” and think about how this applies to them. Thanks for posting! Be sure to come back and read other’s posts and feel free to contribute to the conversation again.

[Meredith Pizzi]

I’m thrilled to be on this online course with all of you! I am Meredith Pizzi, proud to be a Board Certified Music Therapist and excited to see the course finally launch online after a year of planning, research, design and development! Here we are about to embark on a 10 week journey together and I am sure we are all going to learn a lot together.

I am a graduate of Duquesne University’s Music Therapy Program and I had the joy and honor of working with Beth Schwartz as my internship supervisor. I learned so much from her in my internship and really developed a love for working in early childhood. After my internship, I had a very successful private practice on Long Island, NY before moving to Boston in 2006. Once settled into Boston, I founded Roman Music Therapy Services, and in 2009 Sprouting Melodies was born! Since 2009, we have seen our revenues at Roman Music Therapy Services skyrocket, more than tripling in 3 years and a lot of that has to do with the growth of Sprouting Melodies and how well it has been received in our community. What brings me here is the desire to share with others what I have learned about early childhood and music making. And with all of the effort that has gone into growing Sprouting Melodies, I want to give other music therapists the opportunity to now make it part of their practices. I’ve learned so much, and the branding and program development is done! I just want to get it out there to music therapists and families all around the country! So what brings you here??

[Meredith Pizzi]

Hi Stacey, Are you still on the board?

[Meredith Pizzi]

I love these songs! You will be able to hear more songs in the sessions to come as well relating to specific Sprouting Melodies age groupings.

[Meredith Pizzi]

The comments in this thread remind me of a presentation Clive Robbins gave speaking about the Peek-a-boo qualities of working with children in music. They want to step out, just a little bit from behind their curtain, enough to say peek-a-boo, and test the waters of being in the music with you. And then they retreat. After watching from afar for a little bit, they will again peek out to engage for a moment, as long as they are able. I believe we see this peek-a-boo game at the various levels of development, and it may go on throughout a session, or for many, many sessions. Either way, we can provide a consistent, trusting environment that they want to keep revisiting until the feel safe and comfortable enough to remain in the open and stay in the music space with you.
Thanks for all of your thoughtful comments everyone!

[Meredith Pizzi]

I’m here at 8:00pm on Thursday. Is anyone else on here now?

[Meredith Pizzi]

Leslie is already singing all the time! She wakes in the middle of the night with Sprouting Melodies songs in her head! How fun is that?
Thanks for joining us here, Leslie!

[Meredith Pizzi]

Wow, Becky! The accolades keep coming! 🙂 Great to have you joining us!

[Meredith Pizzi]

I’m thrilled to be on this online course with all of you! I am Meredith Pizzi, proud to be a Board Certified Music Therapist and excited to see the course finally launch online after a year of planning, research, design and development!
Here we are about to embark on a 10 week journey together and I am sure we are all going to learn a lot together.

I am a graduate of Duquesne University’s Music Therapy Program and I had the joy and honor of working with Beth Schwartz as my internship supervisor. I learned so much from her in my internship and really developed a love for working in early childhood. After my internship, I had a very successful private practice on Long Island, NY before moving to Boston in 2006. Once settled into Boston, I founded Roman Music Therapy Services, and in 2009 Sprouting Melodies was born! Since 2009, we have seen our revenues at Roman Music Therapy Services skyrocket, more than tripling in 3 years and a lot of that has to do with the growth of Sprouting Melodies and how well it has been received in our community.
What brings me here is the desire to share with others what I have learned about early childhood and music making. And with all of the effort that has gone into growing Sprouting Melodies, I want to give other music therapists the opportunity to now make it part of their practices. I’ve learned so much, and the branding and program development is done! I just want to get it out there to music therapists and families all around the country!
So what brings you here??

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