Music Therapy & Climate Change

About the Event

Climate change has disrupted the natural rhythms of the planet, impacting the body, mind, and spirit. Many people experience anxiety, depression, isolation, respiratory distress, changes in heart rate and blood pressure, and other responses to environmental disruption. For some, experiences of fires, floods, extreme heat, storms, earthquakes, displacement, and destruction are deeply traumatic.

Music therapy improvisation offers a way to work with and through these experiences. Improvisation is an embodied, relational, and creative process that allows us to respond to what is happening in the moment. 

Experiences that may be difficult to express in words can find form through spontaneous sound, rhythm, silence, movement, tension, and musical relationship.

Participants can explore sounds associated with climate change—the wind, rain, thunder, fire, falling trees, floods, ice, snow, or earthquakes—and discover what these sounds evoke personally and collectively. 

Musical improvisation allows us to move flexibly between sounds, feelings, and meanings, without needing to determine an outcome in advance. Through listening and responding to one another, improvisation creates a space to experience uncertainty together, transform difficult experiences, and discover possibilities for connection, adaptation, resilience, and hope.

Register by emailing [email protected].