23.7. 1993 Vitoria-Gasteiz / Spain - World Federation of Music Therapy

skills and digestion of theories and metatheories
through reading, discussions and writings.
The basic tools (diagram 1)
This kind of traing where the student's self exploration
becomes basic tools for the future professional work
also prevents the students from becoming copies of the
senior music therapists within the program.
The basic tools can be lined up in the following areas:
1. Learning to be familiar with their personal
improvisational language - especially in music,
2. Experiencing the power of music as a tool for
reflections of psychical possibilities and readyness.
3. Learning to be part of ongoing processes in an active
and consciously reflected way.
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4. Learning to deal with projections, introjections and
self containment in practice.
5. learning to develop a high level of sensitivity
6. Lerning how to be involved and at the same time
survive as a music therapist.
For me there are two important points concerning the
last area: The students must learn to protect
themselves and build up their own energy in and
between the process work. And they have to learn to
have their own needs fulfilled in a proper way, so that
the clients won't be placed in a situation where they
must fulfil the needs of the therapist.
The Framework around the Self experience
work - The MA Music Therapy Prowram at