Songwriting for Care

Unleashing your inner songwriter: Songwriting skills for care partners and practitioners

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Unleashing your inner songwriter: Songwriting skills for care partners and practitioners

Focus: In this course you will explore how your stories and life experiences can be used to write songs that have a lasting impact on yourself and those around you. This course will guide you through a series of exercises that will teach you how to write songs on your own and with others in your professional or personal life.

Value: Songwriting is a unique and creative way to express ourselves. Through songwriting we can give others a glimpse into the most important moments in our lives and tell the people we love what they mean to us.

  • What does it mean to be a songwriter: My journey towards songwriting
  • How to find your inner songwriter
  • Models of songwriting
  • A step-wise songwriting model to write original compositions
  • Songwriting with and without an instrument
  • Examples of songwriting with people living with dementia
  • Writing your song
  • Recording your song
  • How to create a songwriting partnership
  • Ideas for dissemination

Target audience: Care partners, recreation therapists, music therapists, family members, educators, community musicians

Learning outcomes:

  • Develop your identity as a songwriter
  • Identify the different types of songwriting in practice
  • Demonstrate how to write a song with or without an instrument
  • Have the tools to create an original song
  • Apply your skills as a songwriter to write a song with someone in your life or in your practice


Your Instructor


Taylor Kurta
Taylor Kurta

My work as a music therapist focuses specifically on using music and songwriting in long-term care to support residents in creative self-expression and community building practices. For example, I often led large choirs within long-term care to promote friendship between residents and used songwriting as a way for residents to share their stories and leave a legacy for their families.

Now as a PhD student, I am focused on using collaborative songwriting to challenge stigma associated with dementia by supporting people living with dementia in sharing their experiences of stigmatization.Through my work, I have seen the many benefits songwriting can have in our personal and professional lives.


Course Curriculum


  Songwriting for care: Songwriting skills for care partners and practitioners
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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.

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