Merging DBT Mindfulness and Music: A Transformative Six-Week Program (5 CMTE Credits)

Want to incorporate mindfulness into your music therapy work but need more than a few isolated intervention ideas?

Merging Mindfulness and Music gives you a structured six-week program you can adapt for clients who may benefit from mindfulness-based music experiences informed by Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).

You’ll learn seven core DBT mindfulness skills, including Wise Mind, the WHAT skills, and the HOW skills, while exploring how music can help clients experience and practice concepts that may otherwise feel abstract or difficult to apply.

Most importantly, you won’t be left wondering what to do with those skills in a music therapy session. You’ll receive a six-week program template, a sample treatment plan, approximately 25 music-based interventions, and ideas for adapting those interventions to different clients, populations, and settings.

You’ll also receive an assessment and evaluation tool that you can choose to incorporate into your program and have the opportunity to adapt an intervention from the course or develop your own mindfulness-based music intervention for the population you serve.

By the end of the course, you’ll have both a stronger understanding of DBT mindfulness and a practical framework you can use to turn that knowledge into a structured series of music therapy sessions.

In this workshop, you will learn:

The seven core DBT mindfulness skills, including Wise Mind, the WHAT skills, and the HOW skills.
How music can be used to help clients experience, practice, and reinforce mindfulness skills.
How to use and adapt a complete six-week mindfulness-based music program for your own clinical setting.
How to develop a treatment plan for a structured mindfulness and music program.
Approximately 25 music-based mindfulness interventions with ideas for adapting them to different clients and populations.
Ways to select and modify interventions based on the needs of your particular setting.
How to use an assessment and evaluation tool to help examine client participation and outcomes when appropriate.
How to adapt an existing mindfulness music intervention or create an original intervention for the population you serve.

Instead of starting from scratch, you’ll leave with the structure, interventions, and resources to begin building a mindfulness and music program of your own.assignment.

Outline of Recordings:

This course will be a total of 227 minutes long. 227 minutes of prerecorded verbal instruction will take place, and then course participants will be assigned a homework assignment that will take approximately 50 minutes to complete and submit after the course is presented.

Learning Objectives:

1. Summarize the seven main DBT mindfulness skills outlined in the DBT Skills Training Manual (wise mind, WHAT skills, and HOW skills)

2. Create a mindfulness-based treatment plan which outlines relevant goals and objectives

3. Design and plan music interventions for each DBT mindfulness skill

4. Apply DBT-informed music interventions in a clinical setting

5. Adapt a DBT-informed music intervention to fit their individual client/group needs

6. Assess client progress using non-musical evaluation tools (Day-to-Day Experiences Self-Evaluation, DBT skills worksheets, etc.)

CBMT Domain Areas:

III.A.4: Utilize the following music therapy approaches to inform clinical practice: a. behavioral. b. community music therapy. c. culture-centered. d. developmental. e. health and wellness. f. humanistic. g. improvisational. h. medical. i. neurological. j. psychodynamic

II.D.6: Establish client goals and objectives that are: a. specific. b. measurable. c. achievable. d. realistic. e. time limited.

II.D.13: Structure and organize music therapy experiences within each session to create therapeutic contour (e.g., transitions, pacing, sequencing, energy level, intensity)

III.A.5.g: improvise using instruments, voice, or movement III.A.5.l: utilize song and lyric analysis III.A.5.m: utilize songwriting III.A.5.r: employ active listening III.A.5.s: employ mindfulness techniques with music III.A.5.aa: provide receptive music experiences

II.D.10: Design experiences to generalize goals and objectives across settings, people, subjects, behaviors, or time

II.B.7: Select musical and/or non-musical assessment tools and procedures to reflect purpose of assessment II.D.7: Determine a data collection system appropriate for the treatment goals and objectives. III.B.1: Monitor client’s progress by using the selected data collection system IV.A.6: Analyze all available data to determine effectiveness of therapy

Music & DBT Mindfulness: A full six-week program you can implement now! is approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) for 5 CMTEs-Continuing Music Therapy Education credits. The Spiegel Academy, CBMT Approved Provider #P-106, maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria.

Merging DBT Mindfulness and Music: A Transformative Six-Week Program (5 CMTE Credits)

In this workshop, you will learn:

Outline of Recordings:​

Learning Objectives:​

CBMT Domain Areas:​

Outline of Recordings:

Learning Objectives:

CBMT Domain Areas:

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