Music Facilitation Services for Addiction Treatment Centers, Detox & Recovery Based Organizations
Delray Beach, FL
What I Do as a Music Facilitator
I am an accomplished musician and producer in recovery from alcohol and drug abuse. As a Music Facilitator I provide SUD/Addiction Treatment Centers, Detox and Recovery Based Organizations with Group Music Sessions, Music Interventions and Music-Based Activities for their clientele.
Group Sessions...
- Custom & 12 Step Music-Centered Group/Individual Sessions
- Active Music Making & Songwriting
- Music Listening/Lyric Analysis
- Guided Music Meditation
Guitar Lessons...
One of the most stimulating forms of music intervention is giving clientele in treatment/recovery the opportunity to learn to play a new instrument. My method of teaching guitar allows for students to be able to strum and play right from the start!
Production...
- My Studio to You or You to my Studio
- Multiple DAW Interfaces
- Song writing, arrangements, collaboration
- Backing tracks for any cover song a client wants to sing/jam/record
- Instruments available upon request
The Tongue Drum & HandPan
Drumming that produces discernable notes… notes are melodies. Put in the hands of a creative Music Facilitator a normal drumming circle could turn into a group “concert share”. When put in the hands of clientele the creative element this instrument brings is invaluable in evoking emotions and creativity.
Listen to this handpan/guitar duo below…
Sample Session & Intervention(s)
Relapse Prevention - Dou You Really Want To Go There?
Session Topic/Steps: Busy Dyin’ by Richie Suppa – Lyric & Song Anaylisis, Lyric Writing, Song Play.
Goals: Self-awareness, affirmation, efficacy of where client is in the present, emotional and behavioral reflection, relapse prevention
Tools: Music assisted relaxation, lyric analysis, lyric/song writing
Materials: Pen/paper for group members, printed lyric of Busy Dyin’, pair Bose S1 speakers, mini-mixer, laptop w/HDMI/wireless interface to room video monitor, guitar.
Downloaded and in the que: CROWN CHAKRA – Powerful Healing Meditation Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38rQO3dMZrc) and Brad B. version of Busy Dyin’
Lyric: “Busy Dyin’” by Richie Suppa – play Brad B. recording/video of song.
My Favorite Music Interventions
Active Music Making - Drumming/Percussion
From a clinical perspective there are many approaches to therapeutic drumming, and an infinite variety of drumming interventions and activities. Drumming benefits the recovery of substance abuse and dependence through relaxation, increased theta-wave production, brain-wave synchronization, pleasant experiences, emotional release, reintegration of the self, and a decreased sense of isolation (Winkelman, 2003).
In other words Drum Circles are fun and there are plenty of drum group activities that can help guide you through treatment and ongoing recovery. The rhythm of your heart is the beat of a drum.
Active Music Making - The Tongue Drum
This is drumming and melody creation combined! One activity could include me playing my guitar and we would have a call on/response melody creation from each client. Or we could reverse the process and have the client come up with their own melody on the Tongue Drum and I would work an arrangement around that. Or we could play a nice low-end "chakra" and have clients jam to that. And on from there...
Active Music Making - Song Writing
Expressing anger, sadness, frustration and anxiety by writing song lyrics can be a tool for emotional healing, no matter what type of trauma or obstacle a person is trying to overcome. Those struggling with addiction might write about the effects of their substance abuse. In this activity clientele are asked to describe words from the past like “insanity,” “darkness” and “lies”, then action words like “strength,” “surrender” and “believe", and finally for where they want to be like “free,” “purpose” and “peace.”
As a Music Facilitator I come up with an arrangement everyone likes and the group starts writing the lyrics.
Music Listening/Lyric Analysis
Relapse prevention plays a major role in aftercare and we must provide clients with the tools to maintain their recovery. Interventions similar to the "Sample Session" listed in detail on this website are a great tool to teach clients to "Play The Tape" when thoughts of using trigger the euphoria of using without even thinking about the consequences...
More to come…
My Story
I had been drinking and drugging for all of my adult life and it slowly consumed me to the point that I could not function (if you can call it that) without using. From 2009 up to my last treatment center in 2018 all my money and time went mostly to drinking and drugging.
I remember rocking and sobbing on my bed early one morning (which was every morning) in March 2018 knowing that the only fix was a drink, and to continue drinking and whatever would follow. I finally made the right choice to detox and on to treatment in Delray Beach…
I played my first sober gig EVER in November of 2018 and it was then I realized so much that I had missed in life.
Can’t wait to meet you all, connect and be present with one another…
