Individual & Group Programming

Music & Soul collaborates with partner organizations to offer programs tailored to meet the specific needs of the populations they serve. You can choose from the current programs below:

Music & Wellness Club Program

music therapy for assistance with mental wellbeing during COVID 19

This Community Music Therapy program is dedicated to supporting specific populations within community centers, facilities, and government-run institutions by providing a nurturing space for participants to relax, listen, share music, and voluntarily share what is on their minds. Other intentions for this program are to:

  • Promote mental well-being

  • Foster community and social resources for participants

  • Engage creatively and explore ways in which music can be a personal resource for sustaining and maintaining wellness.

  • Promote creativity and self-expression

  • Offer radical hospitality (taking the extra step to ensure people feel welcome, safe, and nurtured) to All participants and promote inclusivitySessions are being offered virtually and in person through partnering organizations.

Hive on Wheels Project

This project Pop-up Art/Music Hives in priority areas within Saint John, New Brunswick where there are large rates of people experiencing homelessness and poverty. Hives stem Public Practice Art Therapy, where spaces are created within the community for people to engage in art making. This Hive includes music making/listening as well through the lens of Community Music Therapy. This project’s efforts are to

  • Enhance accessibility to social resources

  • Enhance awareness regarding social detriments

  • Promote community activism

  • Promote Interdisciplinary Collaboration

  • Offer radical hospitality (taking the extra step to ensure people feel welcome, safe, and nurtured) to All participants and promote inclusivity

  • Provides unique opportunities for participants, regardless of who they are, to be witnessed Each participant’s engagement, however much, is valuable

  • Inspire creativity and artistic/musical engagement & expression

  • Model how art and music can be used to cope with needs arising within the Hive.

If you would like to learn more about where & when the next Pop Art Hive will be or would like to partner with Music & Soul click the link below.

Neurologic Music Therapy Program

This program provides Neurologic Music Therapy services to groups and individuals dealing with neurologic conditions and diagnoses. The approach used in this program stems from Neurologic Music Therapy. The interventions are used to maintain and strengthen neurologic skills:

  • Communication/Speech

  • Cognition

  • Motor functioning

  • Nervous system regulation and global functioning.

If this program interests you please get in touch through the link below!

Reiki & Music Program

Learn how to practice reiki for yourself!

Reiki has become a very popular method of self-care. Currently, it is being offered in a variety of ways but is not always accessible to All. This program teaches groups and individuals within communal, clinical, rehabilitative, and forensic settings the practice of the Usui Reiki Method. Informed by Community Music Therapy, Humanistic Psychology, and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, these Reiki courses:

  • Teach the foundations of the Usui Reiki Method including:

    • History of Reiki and Its Evolution Over Time

    • Precepts & Philosophy

    • Defining Energy & Energy Systems

    • How to Conduct a Self-Care Treatment

    • How to Conduct Reiki for Others (including, plants, animals, places, and objects)

  • Gives alternative energy tools, and perspectives for coping with difficult mental and emotional needs

  • Certify and attune participants to Reiki Level I, II, and III.

  • Offer deepened access to social resources and supports

This program is being offered either in the Sussex Office or at another designated location.

Need-Based Music Lessons

customized music therapy sessions for your individual needs

The Need-Based Music Lessons program provides accessible music lessons to children, youth, and adults with various academic, emotional, social, psychotherapeutic and musical goals. Humanistic and Community Music Therapy (CoMT) approaches are being utilized to adapt the typical music lesson model to meet students where they are at and tailor the lessons to their specific needs.  The instruments and musical concepts to be taught at this time include voice, piano, guitar, composition, improvisation, performance, and music theory.  By learning these musical concepts, students will be taught not just the fundamentals of music, but more so how music can be applied to support their overall wellbeing. 

Become a Partner

If you would like to partner with us, fill out the form below and we will get back to you within the week.