CMP Certified Music Practitioner through Music for Healing and Transition Program, Inc.
Degrees/Certifications:Certificate Advanced Degree
Posted byAni Cook
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This specially-trained musician provides live acoustic music at bedside, one-on-one, for therapeutic purposes. A CMP’s work is focused on the patient with the aim of bringing in-the-moment comfort to the patient’s whole being—emotional, spiritual, mental, and physiological—simply by having the patient be in the presence of the music. This is a fully online course.
A CMP uses only live music, and has no goal other than addressing a patient’s immediate needs to provide a healing environment. A CMP has met strict specific competencies for certification. A CMP works within the CMP Scope of Practice and adheres to the MHTP Code of Ethics and Conduct.
During the five MHTP modules, a student learns how to use live music therapeutically by:
- Applying elements of music to meet an individual patient’s condition in-the-moment
- Developing improvisational abilities
- Developing musicality, intonation, dynamics, and expression
- Understanding and applying Heart-Centered Awareness and entrainment
- Understanding the power of silence
- Using appropriate types of music to play/sing for specific conditions of individual patients