Every Episode
Eight episodes per page, newest season first. Click any episode to play it right here.
Music, Family, and the Roots of Recovery
Dr. Peter Jampel, President, Baltic Street Into Action. His personal experience of music in his family, how it promoted family connectedness, and the significance of family music history as a basis for music therapy evaluation.
Becoming a Music Therapist
Peter Jampel's personal journey in becoming a music therapist. The history of Community Music Therapy and performance at Baltic Street Clinic of South Beach Psychiatric Center.
Veterans and the ViA PATH Project
Working with veterans, understanding their traumatic experiences, and how participating in a theatre group project promoted improved capacity for self-expression in the Brooklyn V.A. system.
Music on the Inside: Reentry Through Mentorship
How the organization Music on the Inside (MOTI) promotes self-esteem and improves community reentry through musical mentorships with professional musicians, during and after incarceration at Rikers Island.
Peer Arts Training: The Power of Shared Experience
Mental health career development for people with lived experience, and how the arts offer an area of specialized training at the Howie the Harp Peer Training Program, supported by a BSIA grant.
Joel Layton: A Recovery Journey Through Music
Joel Layton, Peer Arts Specialist, discusses his own recovery process through music and how it led to his current career helping others through music and the arts at Baltic Street Clinic.
Dr. Nisha Sajnani: Drama Therapy on the Global Stage
Dr. Nisha Sajnani, NYU Drama Therapy Director and co-founder of the Jameel Arts Lab, discusses promoting and networking the arts therapies in research and clinical applications worldwide.
Dr. David Read Johnson: PTSD, Newtown, and the Ms. Kendra Project
Working with veterans and the development of the PTSD diagnosis at the New Haven V.A.; supporting survivors, families, and first responders of the Newtown school shooting; and engaging students through play and drama therapy.
Dr. John Mondanaro: Music at End of Life
Dr. John Mondanaro, Director of Expressive Arts Therapies, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine, on music therapy and palliative care.
Dr. Connie Tomaino: Music, Memory, and the Brain
Executive Director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function on working with Dr. Oliver Sacks, and research in music, neurologic rehabilitation, and dementia care.
Dr. Tamar Hadar: Healing After October 7th
Music therapist Dr. Tamar Hadar on working with Israeli survivors, family members, and wounded veterans of the October 7, 2023 massacre and the subsequent war.
Dr. Lisa Summer: Guided Imagery and Music
Music and consciousness, the history of Guided Imagery in Music (GIM), foundations of music and psychedelic research, and current applications with cancer patients.
Dr. Ken Aigen: Music and Autism
Dr. Ken Aigen, Director of the NYU Music Therapy Program, on how music works with people on the autism spectrum.
Anna Sevchuk Liudnova: Poetry Therapy in Ukraine
Psychologist and poetry therapist Anna Sevchuk Liudnova on working through poetry and the arts with wounded veterans and their families in Ukraine.
Toby Williams: Music Therapy in NYC Schools
Toby Williams, Director of the Music Therapy Program at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, on BCM's music therapy program in the NYC public school system.
Emily Autry: Creative Arts at Elizabeth Seton
Emily Autry, Director of Creative Arts Therapies at Elizabeth Seton Health Center, on music therapy with children and adolescents with severe developmental and neurological disorders.
Dr. Alan Turry: Improvisation at Nordoff-Robbins
How improvisational music therapy works with people on the autism spectrum at the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy.
MOTI: Musical Mentorship at Rikers Island
Alina Bloomgarten, President and Founder of Music on the Inside, and Mikell Green Grand, Community Outreach Coordinator, on the musical mentorship program and the history of MOTI and Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Art and Recovery: Gayle Bluebird and Meghan Caughey
Peer arts advocate Gayle Bluebird and art therapist Meghan Caughey on how art promotes recovery, and how lived experience now informs teaching medical students the value of art in recovery.
Music as a Global Resource
Prof. Barbara Hesser (NYU) and Dr. Brydie-Leigh Bartleet (Griffith University) discuss global music therapy projects from India and Australia featured in the Music as a Global Resource compendium.