Engaging People - Jennifer Buchanan - Music Therapist, Author, Speaker

Size Matters – 4 Questions to Help Set the Best Group Therapy Size

Group therapy works, but size matters. Here are four ways to determine the optimal size for your therapy groups....

4 Ways Music Therapy Can Improve Social Bonds

Although music can certainly be enjoyed alone, when used within a music therapy context it can also help improve feelings of social bonding....

Music has Fewer Side Effects than Some Medications

JB Music Therapy has partnered with the Neuro Rehabilitation Unit at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to pilot a Music Therapy program for patients recovering from brain injury, stroke and spinal cord injury. The new partnership includes a music therapy group...

5 Ways Music Can Help You Through the Christmas Season

Christmas music is everywhere and for some people it seems to be starting earlier and earlier each year. Memories of ‘Christmas Past’ flood back during the first bars of “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree” and for some a happiness chord is...

Create Purposeful Playlists

Technology has changed enough over the last decade to allow us to take our entire music library with us and to arrange it into playlists for particular purposes. Because music can now be “on demand,” – it makes the creation...

4 Ways To Strengthen Your Equity Lens

* for those that may not know, the term ‘Equity’ is now also being used in a non-financial context..read on for more information. My colleague, Cynthia Bruce, is a researcher focused on equity issues in inclusive education in both public...

Top 3 Reasons Music Needs to Be in Every School

Music programs in schools are often cut, or significantly modified, because of budget constraints. Somehow, the logic goes, music is “extra” thus it need not be fully funded. It pains me that we must fight to have the arts in...