Transitions Music Therapy

02/07/2025

Take heart, my friends 🤍

12/17/2024

12/05/2024

06/16/2024

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05/15/2024

📣 New Publication! Announcing the publication of my phenomenological research on palliative patient’s experience with guided imagery and music.

Killoran, S. M. (2023). Facing death through music: Palliative patients' experience of Guided Imagery and Music. Journal of the Association for Music and Imagery, 20, 27–50. https://doi.org/10.59451.jami.87535

03/10/2024

Thank you SingAble Camrose and Ardelle for a lovely afternoon of singing and community. A wonderful way to celebrate Music Therapy Month, and the power of music in our lives.

The month of March has for many years been marked by the Canadian Music Therapy Association as Music Therapy Awareness month. To celebrate, SingAble and the UA Augustana Music Area cordially invite you, your family and your friends to explore the powerful healing properties of music and song through a Music Heals Awareness community sing.

At a time when music is needed as never before to inspire healing, unity and peace, join special guests, Registered Music Therapist, Sheila Killoran, Physician Musician, Dr. Chris Nichol, and pianist, Dr. Roger Admiral.

Lovers of music and song at all ages and stages of life are warmly welcomed to joyfully combine spirits and voices in the reverberant acoustics of the UA Augustana Chapel on Saturday, March 9 at 3:00.

Donations for the Camrose Food Bank will gratefully be received.

03/10/2024

March is Music Therapy Awareness Month

Until music.

03/08/2024

Join our next Psychosocial-Spiritual Alberta Series ECHO session on March 21, 2024, to further explore emotional, spiritual and grief support strategies for palliative care practitioners. This time, certified music therapists from Alberta Children’s Hospital will share their experiences and provide insights on the use of music in grief and pediatric palliative care.

Details are as follows:

Session 4: Exploring the Benefits of Music in Grief and Pediatric Palliative Care
Who: Marc Houde, MTA, MMT and Sarah Van Peteghen, MTA, BMT

When: Thursday, March 21, 2024, 12 pm (MST)
For more information and to register:
https://compassionatealberta.ca/echo-hub

Covenant Health

03/05/2024

“Don’t Let The Old Man In” performed by Toby Keith; an emotional reflection of living and dying.

Song by Toby Keith

12/02/2023

Share your thoughts on grief by Dec. 7th!
Canadian Grief Alliance launched a national public consultation to learn about grief from your perspective. Please take 10 minutes to complete this short survey. Your experiences – what helped, and what didn’t – will inform future work by the CGA to help all grieving Canadians access the support they need, and equip those around them with the knowledge and tools to help.

https://questionnaire.simplesurvey.com/f/s.aspx?s=C5829F1A-0D6A-4E88-9419-1AFA2336B785

Your responses are anonymous and confidential. The survey closes December 7, 2023.

10/14/2023

Autumn, the season that teaches is that change can be beautiful.

Larch tree turned golden, Larix laricina

08/19/2023

Consider presenting your passion to the Alberta music therapy community! Call for presenters now open.

CALL FOR PRESENTERS!!

For MTAA's CE Day 2023 on October 14, we are looking for presenters to share interventions that can be adapted for multiple client populations, 15-20 minutes.

The deadline to submit a proposal is Friday, September 8, 2023
The link to the proposal form - https://forms.gle/Yn1FA3s5tRp2e4Xa8

Once you have filled out this form, our CE committee will get back to you to confirm your presentation.

If you have any questions, please connect with us at [email protected]

Thank you!

07/02/2023

In this 4-day free online event, Unraveling the Myths of Grief, we will enter into an authentic grieving process, unmask false and harmful messages about the grief process, affirm that your personal timeline is just right and welcome you to a community of grieving people.

06/27/2023

06/21/2023

Happy Indigenous People’s Day! Here is a favourite rattle song from a wonderful Indigenous singer/composer, friend and music therapist… Sherryl Sewepagaham Enjoy the day! 🌞

"Travelling Song: One Rattle, One People" is a project created by Sherryl Sewepagaham, music therapist with Alberta Health Services' Indigenous Health Progra...

05/27/2023

the next time
you refuse to sing
because you’ll never
fill a stadium
or decline the joy of dance
for fear of looking
ridiculous
or you resist risking
the new adventure
because you’re
not entirely ready or
you dim your shine
because you’re not
completely healed and whole

the next time
you hold yourself suspect
because you’re not
entirely qualified

just remember

a bird doesn’t sing
because it’s talented
a bird sings because
it has a song

the moon doesn’t only shine
when it’s whole
it can show up with
a single sliver of itself
and still light an entire
night sky

show up. sing. shine.
the world needs you
as you are.

~ © Angi Sullins : www.AngiSullins.com

[Image: Rekha Garton Photography]

05/15/2023

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An illustration of six bouquets of hand-drawn flowers, three bundles each in two rows. At the top of the image, the title, in hand-written style text, reads “Thinking of You.” The first bouquet is a bundle of pink flowers with pointed petals tied with a pink bow. The words “Mothers who have lost children” is printed below. The second bouquet is a bundle of tulips tied with a matching bow the phrase “Those who have lost mothers” are written beneath. The third bunch is a bouquet of blue spiral-shaped flowers tied with a neat pink bow. The phrase “Those with strained mother relationships” is printed under it. The second row of bouquets begins with a bunch of daffodils. The sentence beneath reads, “Mothers with strained child relationships.” The fifth bouquet contains 3 foxglove spikes tied with a blue ribbon above the words, “Those who have chosen not to be mothers.” The final bouquet is a quad of sunflowers, contained with a bow; beneath it, the phrase “Those yearning to be mothers” sits.]

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