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Welcome! I always get so excited to begin a new Sprouting Melodies session and to discover all the great things that music therapists are doing. Over the past five years, we have had well over 200 people take the Sprouting Melodies course and we are happy to welcome you to this vibrant community.
You will get to know the ‘videotaped’ me well over the next ten weeks, but here are a few more personal items. I am still working with young children four days a week at a wonderful site on Long Island, New York. My own children are grown and so I have had the chance over many years to experience all the different phases of childhood up close and personal! I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but during the summers my husband and I like to sail on Long Island Sound. If you have a chance, take a look at the blogs on the Raising Harmony web site. I often get inspiration for musical musings from the nautical world.
I’m looking forward to getting to know all of you. Meredith, Erika and I are here to make this journey a valuable one for you. Please feel free to reach out at any time.
BethKeymasterHi Everyone, I’m thrilled to welcome all of you to this online course! I am Meredith Pizzi, proud to be a Board Certified Music Therapist and excited to see the course launch in a new format after months of planning, research, design and development!
Here we are about to embark on a 10 week journey together and I look forward to hearing about your growth throughout the course.
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 programming and revenues at Roman Music Therapy Services skyrocket, 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. I have found it to be a wonderful part of our practice, a fantastic early childhood integrated experience, and as one of the music therapists on my staff says, Sprouting Melodies is great for burnout prevention!
I look forward to hearing about what brings you to this journey!
So what brings you here??
KeymasterThank you all for the kind words about the usefulness of these songs. I often joke that the reason I write so many songs is to get the last one I wrote out of my head! Please also remember that you can access many new songs written since we recorded this course on the blog page of the Sprouting Melodies website.
KeymasterThank you all for using this community in the way we had envisioned- becoming resources for each other! I know that this assignment has posed questions each time we have run the course, but we have found that after you ‘get it’ it becomes quite helpful in your practice.
KeymasterWelcome to all! You will get to know me well through the videos in the next few weeks, but here are some more details. I’ve been at my current music therapy job for almost 30 years! I still find joy in my work every day. I started at Alternatives for Children when my own girls were 3 months and 20 months. A boy came along a few years later. They are now adults and so I have a long, long perspective on motherhood.
My husband and I still live on Long Island in New York and I am fortunate to come from a large family where music is our prime entertainment. One of my passions in music therapy is composing new songs for young children. Since we recorded this course, I’ve written tons of new songs and upload them to the Sprouting Melodies web site. You can view them on the Blog link. We also just created a brand new Sprouting Melodies YouTube channel. Check it out!KeymasterWelcome, Claudia. I’ve always been fascinated by the unique way that music allows people to bond. One of the courses that we hope to offer through Raising Harmony in the future is about the key musical qualities present in attachment and bonding.
Beth
PS. As Erika mentioned, please use the created topics for discussions, it makes it easier to keep track as the weeks go by.KeymasterWelcome, Jen. Meredith and I are both mothers of three, so we know well the challenges of ‘having it all’. I look forward to hearing more about your inter-generational work.
Beth
PS. As Erika mentioned, please use the created topics for discussions, it makes it easier to keep track as the weeks go by.KeymasterWelcome, Alison. It is very exciting to have you on the course. The UK has an amazing wealth of music therapy programs for families, and I recommend the books by Amelia Oldfield to everyone.
PS. As Erika mentioned, please use the created topics for discussions, it makes it easier to keep track as the weeks go by.
KeymasterBack in 2013, Meredith and I were asked to contribute to the music therapy early childhood magazine – imagine doing a side by side comparison on Sprouting Melodies with Music Together and the Sing and Grow Program. You can find copies of imagine at musictherapy.biz.
July 26, 2016 at 9:38 pm
in reply to: How have you used these four music experiences in your practice?
KeymasterThanks to all for your thorough comments. Just as a reminder, make sure you keep a copy of your responses. That way you can refer back to your thoughts and plans in the future. Keep up the great work!
July 18, 2016 at 8:35 pm
in reply to: Sing and learn some of the songs presented in the video. Share with the board your experiences using these songs.
KeymasterThanks for all these stories of the music. I love hearing how the songs are being used, but I am also eager to hear the songs that you are writing and adapting!
If you are looking for more songs besides the ones notated in “You and Me Makes…We” hop on over to the Sprouting Melodies page. There are lots of new songs which I share on the video blog section called ‘Sprouting Melodies Sing at Home’.July 18, 2016 at 8:26 pm
in reply to: What was your most valuable takeaway from this weeks’ content?
KeymasterI’m so glad that many of you found the lists helpful. When I first put them together in the book, I did so because I couldn’t find all the information that I wanted in one, easy-to-use place. I hope this becomes a resource for you for many years to come. By the way, I just wrote a new blog on the Raising Harmony web site that further explains the importance of clapping – something that I did not cover anywhere fully enough the first time around!
KeymasterWelcome! It is always so exciting to see the variety of experiences and education that each of you bring to the Sprouting Melodies Training forum. You will get to know me through the videos over the next ten weeks, but here are a few more tidbits. For most of my week I am on the floor or in a tiny chair working through music with children at Alternatives for Children on Long Island, New York. We are fortunate to have great support and our program is almost 30 years old (the amount of time I have been working there!). I am also proud to be an adjunct faculty member in the music therapy program at Molloy College. Teaching really keeps me active in the profession as well as keeping up with the latest research and literature.
Your on-line forum moderator, Erika Svolos, is amazing and will be guiding you through the course as well as keeping you (and us!) on track. I will be jumping in to post and look forward to reading your responses. I am always available by email for any questions or comments. Feel free to get in touch with me at Elizabeth@RaisingHarmony.com.KeymasterHi Julia and Nicole,
I’m happy to answer your questions. If you can be on the call in a little bit we can discuss it further. To answer here quickly, the $100 membership fee is due upon signing on to become a provider. Following that, the $100 is due annually. However, the annual membership fee is waived if you have paid in at least $100 in royalties over the course of the year. So for providers who want to stay connected to the community, but aren’t running programs, and therefore paying in quarterly royalty payments, they would need to continue to pay $100 annually.
Liability insurance is something that you absolutely should have in private practice and is recommended for all music therapists in practice. We just need proof of your insurance, it doesn’t cost you anything additional because you are a Sprouting Melodies Provider.
And yes, the royalty payments only apply to your Sprouting Melodies revenue, not the entire portion of your business revenue. Let’s set up a time to talk more about the details! -
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