Workshop Schedule for
Clinical Applications for Music and Sound Healing 

                  These Modules can be taken individually and in any order.

A customized program or consultation can be developed based upon individual and institutional needs.

 

 

Clinical Applications for Music and Sound Healing

Do you long for –

More comfort and less stress in your life?

More recognition and increased success in your work?

Discover the benefits of music and sound healing in your professional practice and personal life.

 

Music is food for the body and soul

Do you want to –

Improve the healing environment for you and your patients?

Enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of your current clinical practices?

Evidence-based research shows that the application of music and sound healing protocols can produce improved patient outcomes, such as pain reduction, shorter length of illness and hospitalization, and increased patient comfort and satisfaction.

Clinical Applications for Music and Sound Healing

Four Module Workshop Series

Module 1:  Foundation for Music & Sound in Healing 

Principles of music and sound healing, entrainment, iso principle, regulating vital signs, music as a preventive measure, stimulation of immune system, Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory, sleep, changing the culture.

 

Module 2: Pain Reduction - Application of Music for Acute and
 Chronic Illness

Pain reduction, acute and chronic illness, music and sound environment during pre-, peri- and post-op periods, silence, potentiating medication, anti-emetics, contraindications.

 

Module 3: Stress Relief - Application of Music for Emotional and
 Psychological Healing

Stress reduction, delirium, anxiety, depression, relaxation, humor, emotional release, weight loss, PTSD, grief, hospice work, transitions, beginning and end of life.

 

Module 4:   Music and Imagery

Guided imagery, listening sessions, evidence-based research, Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory, esthetic and environmental factors in healing, additional principles of music and healing, criteria for selecting music.

 

 

Comfort & Healing Measures provides educational workshops for healthcare professionals to integrate and apply music and comfort measures as a standard of care in clinical settings.

Learn therapeutic interventions, clinical protocols and comfort care measures

Enjoy experiential learning processes and application of music to patient groups.

Receive resources for music; application for personal and patient stress relief and wellness care

 

Birgit Weeks, RN, MSN, CCRN

As a critical care nurse at Northwest Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle, WA, Birgit was first inspired to use music in the ICU with delirious patients.  She now uses music and complimentary measures with patients and their families. Birgit also conducts research with Musica Humana of Denmark.  Her vision is to bring music and holistic nursing practices into mainstream practice.