Music for Wellness | Course Overview | Music Therapy | Suzanne Hanser | Berklee Online

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Have you found that music can immediately change your mood? Have you seen how music brings back special memories and pictures in your mind's eye? Have you noticed that a song can express exactly how you feel? Under the guidance of Berklee Online instructor and music therapist Suzanne Hanser, this course explores these questions and more. You’ll learn how music affects your mind, body, and soul, and you’ll practice evidence-based musical activities and exercises that can enhance your general well-being and wellness. This course is based primarily on different music therapy strategies that Suzanne Hanser has implemented over her decades of hands-on experience, honing these strategies into music-based practices that can help you get through everyday stress and strain, deal with the pain that you may encounter in the course of living a full life, and develop your inner resources and creative potential. Finally, you will create your own music wellness plan that includes a commitment to the practices that have worked for you, applying the music that has special meaning and impact for you.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:
Define integrative health and describe how engaging with music may enhance your wellness and wellbeing
Articulate and implement multiple strategies that involve:
Music for comfort
Music for awakening
Finding your voice
Listening for wellness
Music for peace
Assess the nature of your own stress and pain
Identify and apply music-based strategies for coping with stress, pain, and daily challenges
Develop your personal music wellness plan, including special playlists, music techniques, schedule, and a contract for implementation

About Suzanne Hanser:
Dr. Suzanne B. Hanser is founding chair of the Music Therapy Department at Berklee College of Music. She is past president of both the World Federation of Music Therapy and the National Association for Music Therapy. Dr. Hanser is the author of research articles, as well as several books: The New Music Therapist's Handbook, Manage Your Stress and Pain, with co-author Dr. Susan Mandel, and Integrative Health through Music Therapy: Accompanying the Journey from Illness to Wellness. In 2006 she was named by the Boston Globe as one of eleven Bostonians Changing the World. In 2009 she was awarded the Sage Publications Prize for her article, “From Ancient to Integrative Medicine: Models for Music Therapy.” She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Music Therapy Association in November 2011.

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