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Spontaneous Songwriting with Hannah Monaghan, MT-BC

Improvise songs with lyrics instantaneously with your clients! Learn how to assess client needs and implement this unique approach that provides highly rewarding, highly motivating supported experiences.

Register Now for $27

Read the full course description here
LIVE workshop Monday, March 24 at 6PM Eastern
Recording available afterwards.

Single CMTE class available thru 3/27
Available through VIP Membership only after 3/27

Hi, I’m Hannah Monaghan, MT-BC!

I am Hannah Monaghan, MT-BC, a music therapist in Minneapolis, Minnesota and I have a deep  passion for lyric improvisation and spontaneous songwriting. It has been a rewarding process to incorporate my clinical work and professional skills into a streamlined and educative product that gives back to the music therapy community. This topic is central to my practice and is an area that is ever growing and continuously challenging and rewarding for clients and therapists.

I’ve had a wide range of experience implementing spontaneous songwriting with various populations including children, adolescents, and adults with developmental or behavioral disabilities, older adults in hospice, individuals experiencing Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, and school age and community based services.

Join for this workshop & you will walk away with:

  • An introduction to lyric improvisation; what it is and how to apply it in sessions
  • 2 + clear intervention prompts and the skills to adapt them to the client’s needs
  • Discussion of relevant goals and objectives that can be addressed using this style, and how to design interventions for each

This course covers a basic demonstration of how to improvise songs with lyrics instantaneously with your clients. It provides introductory information on how to assess client needs and implement appropriate levels of structure to accomplish client-led creative expression. Spontaneous songwriting can be overlooked in the wealth of known/pre-recorded songs, lyric completion interventions, song adaptation, and traditional songwriting, but is a unique approach that provides highly rewarding, highly motivating experiences for clients as they are supported by the MT-BC. As these skills are applicable to a myriad of client populations, it serves any potential client for whom improvisational songwriting is appropriate, as well as the therapist working with them.

Collaborate Creatively ✨

Boost your creativity and confidence as a music therapist today!

Register now for $27

Read the full course description here
LIVE workshop Monday, March 24 at 6PM Eastern
Recording available afterwards.

Kind Words

Special thanks to Hannah for her time and energy this week as she presented to our team with strategies in songwriting for clients! Her amazing presentation with awesome resources has all of our team members excited to use new interventions and techniques in our practices!
Alliance Music Therapy 
Manager

[The presentation] worked so well and the feedback was great. We are looking forward to having you here again!
Great River Regional Library Staff