Thank you OCMT for this wonderful opportunity to be a sponsor as you commit to further educate and support music therapists around the world. Bear Paw Creek was originally founded to create products for music therapist and I absolutely love your profession and what each of you bring to it. I hope you will enjoy reading this blog post about my recent personal experience with music therapy in our daughter’s fight against cancer:
This episode of Mindstorm Mondays features Judy Simpson, MT-BC — the Director of Government Relations of the American Music Therapy Association. In the spirit of Social Media Advocacy Month, Judy shares with us important information to help you effortlessly answer the question, “So, what is music therapy?” and how to maximize the time you already spend…
As I write this blog post I find myself reflecting about just how far music therapy has come since I entered the field. I could have never imagined an online conference highlighting the work of music therapists worldwide when I was a new graduate of Michigan State University in back in 1981! With that said…
This week sees the celebration of Thanksgiving in America. While the historical origins of this particular holiday may be less than positive, the sentiment of expressing thanks is universal and beneficial. With the thought of gratitude in mind, the Online Conference for Music Therapy would like to express gratitude for our sponsors. Sponsors play an…
The OCMT Planning Committee is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers is OPEN for the OCMT 2017. The 2017 Conference is going to be held on February 4, 2017 at midnight GMT. (This is February 3 for those in the Americas). There are a variety of reasons why you should consider submitting a…
Summit Music Therapy Services (SMTS) is pleased to sponsor the Online Conference for Music Therapy! At SMTS we strive to provide high-quality online music therapy education. No hotels or airplanes, just quality information at your convenience. All of our course leaders have years of clinical experience and are published researchers in the field. We began…
Creativity in Decision Making Carol Ann Blank, MMT, MT-BC Blog Post #2 OCMT 2015 Through my studies at Drexel University, I have come to view my clinical work with parent-child dyads in individual music therapy through a systems lens. Systems-oriented thinking can be described as a way to understand the whole of a (biological) system…
