Song Therapy and Popular Music

We specifically celebrate the power of familiar popular music in all its contemporary historical and cultural forms

The power to bring people together offering safe familiar musical spaces particularly so for those facing sobering health challenges in their lives

Familar music provides a reassuring vehicle to promote social cohesion acceptance non judgement and security

For many but not all popular music specific to a particular cultural tradition represents the surest way of providing this initial safe secure space

At the right time new musical adventures can then be explored with the understanding that familiar secure melodic patterns are always there ready to fall back on whenever required

The celebration of familiar popular music and song is at the heart of our Song Therapy training programme