Description
Postponed
This event has been postponed until a later date. Registrants will be refunded.
If the voice is the most used instrument in music therapy practice, why do so many music therapists report feeling uncomfortable, vulnerable, and disconnected from their singing voices? In this three hour workshop, participants will be led through accessible, and playful vocal improvisation methods to stimulate regular singing practice and a healthier relationship with singing. We will create an environment of mutual respect and support, humor, expansion and community. Tools for shifting pitch, tone, timbre, and projection for clinical effect will be woven throughout the workshop. We will center vocal health, breathing, and self-exploration. We will learn to listen to client voices and ways to invite the client to use their voices. Toby teaches use the Use of the Voice in Music Therapy Practice at NYU and will be drawing on methods from her course.
About Toby Williams, MA, LCAT, MT-BC
Toby Williams is the director of the music therapy program at The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and an adjunct professor of music therapy at New York University. Receiving her Master’s degree in Music Therapy from NYU in 2004, Toby wrote her thesis on the use of humor and vocal improvisation while working at an outpatient psychiatric clinic in Brooklyn. Toby founded the music therapy program at Reach for the Stars Learning Center where she was lead clinician and internship supervisor for 15 years. Other work in inpatient psychiatry at Interfaith Medical Center, with people going through cancer treatment at The Herbert Irving Cancer Center as well as patients recovering from open heart surgery has given Toby a breadth of clinical and musical experience which she brings to the supervision and training of music therapists at BKCM. A graduate of Dr. Diane Austin’s Vocal Psychotherapy training Toby has supervised students and currently teaches the use of the voice in music therapy practice at NYU and maintains a small Vocal Psychotherapy private practice in Brooklyn, New York.
Workshop Registration and Costs:
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- $100 for 3 LCAT & CMTE credits
- $60 for 3 CMTE credits only
- $30 for Students (5 slots available)
If you are a BKCM Music Therapy faculty member, please enter your code at checkout.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will identify three different ways that they will incorporate sounding and/or singing into preparation for clinical practice (into their lives).
- Participants will identify three techniques for caring for their voices for music therapy practice and for self-care. (III.A.2.b)
- Participants will identify three tools to work on vocal improvisation and gain facility for an expansive and comfortable natural voice, (III.A.4, e,f,g)(III.A.5.f.6)(III.A.5.g)
- Participants will identify three interventions to invite clients to use their voices (III.A.2.t)
- Participants will identify two conscious listening techniques to attune to and work with clients’ voices (III.A.1.a) (III.A.5.r)
Prerequisites:
- None
Course Schedule:
- 6:00 – 6:10: Introductions & Group Agreements
- 6:10 – 6:40: Safety: Breath and Body Awareness
- 6:40 – 6:55: Vocal Sound: Exploring what your voice wants to say
- 6:55 – 7:10: Break
- 7:10 – 7:20: Locating one another in sound: learning to listen to self and others
- 7:20 – 7:30: Vocal Improvisation Techniques 1 – Structure
- 7:30 – 7:55: Vocal Improvisation Techniques 2 – Freedom
- 7:55 – 8:10: Break
- 8:10 – 8:40: Group Improvised Singing: Singing, Harmony, Solos
- 8:40 – 8:50: Q&A
- 8:50 – 9:00: Breath and Tone Ending
Cancellation and Refund Policy:
Workshop requires at least five participants. In the event 5 participants do not register, or if instructor becomes unavailable, all registered participants will receive a full refund of workshop fees. Partial CMTE credit cannot be granted in the event of course cancellation. “Make Friends With Your Voice” is approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) for 3 Continuing Education credits. The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, P-187, maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria.