Using Music Care for Personal & Professional Resilience

Using Music Care for Personal and Professional Resilience

Focus of Course: This course (60% Skills, 20% Research, 20% Operations) will provide adult learners with information and strategies for using music care principles to build personal and workplace tools for resilience.

Importance: Adults who are in the midst of a pandemic and later, pandemic-recovery, will be looking for information and tools for how to implement resilience-building strategies for their personal and professional prevention toolkit. Music has distinct properties in this area, and therefore, will contribute uniquely to a higher level of self-efficacy rebounding form Covid-19 in the Canadian adult population.

Key topic areas:

1. What is resilience? Who needs it and why?
2. The nature of stress and why a holistic approach to recovery is effective
3. Staying self-aware with music and the arts
4. Music care for relationships and conflict management
5. Persevering beyond: motivational and other behavioural strategies using music
6. Improv 101: How can I be ready to adapt all that I learn for a new situation?

Audience: Any adult learner (i.e. healthcare worker, teacher, caregiver, administrator, etc.)

Learning Outcomes:

• Define resilience and position its relevance in today's societal context
• Examine five social-emotional skills that nurture overall health and well-being
• Demonstrate the role of music in building, maintaining and healing personal wellness
• Practice and design artistic exercises for personal and professional wellness
• Provide ideas for program-implementation at personal and organizational levels

Supporting Materials:

• Powerpoint slides
• Bibliography for further reading
• Handbook of Exercises