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Welcome
2024-2025 Season
The Massachusetts Music Therapy Alliance (MMTA) is pleased to announce our upcoming 2024-2025 Mini-Conference Series:
Interdisciplinary Ideas for Interventions and Techniques in Music Therapy
DATES: October 19th, December 7th, February 8th
We hope you will join us for a three-part series exploring a wide variety of interdisciplinary applications to enhance and freshen up your music therapy practices! Over the course of this season, we will learn ways to regulate ourselves and our clients, receive a plethora of intermodal expressive arts interventions, and discuss clinical techniques from the perspectives of a handful of different counseling modalities, all while connecting in community and through music. Stay tuned for more info!
We are glad to announce that all three meetings will take place IN PERSON at our usual meeting space at
The Congregational Church of Weston. There will be an option to join a virtual livestream via Zoom as well.
Mini-Conference #1: Community Meeting
We will begin this season's exploration with sharing and learning ways to regulate both ourselves and our clients
through rich discussion and a guest presentation by Miles Cummings, MS, OTR/L
DATE: Saturday, October 19, 2024
TIME: 9:30 welcome, 10am-12:30pm meeting
LOCATION: The Congregational Church of Weston, 130 Newton St, Weston, MA
LIVESTREAM: https://zoom.us/j/95677939609
MODERATOR: Kim Johnson, LMHC, MT-BC
Mini-Conference #2: "Exploring the Roots & Rhythm of the Heart: HEARTful healing through the arts "
with Dr. Krystal Demaine, Ph.D., MT-BC, REAT, RYT, CTRS-C
This integrative arts workshop invites tuning into the pulse of the heart, our internal music, from
a somatosensory and integrative arts approach including, breathwork, gentle movement, music
making, creative visual art, and reflective writing all while considering how music in the heart
can influence one’s personal story, identity, health, and connection to self.
Dr. Krystal Demaine is a professor of expressive therapies at Endicott College School of Visual and Performing Arts
in Beverly, MA. She is a board‐certified music therapist, registered expressive arts therapist,
certified trauma and resilience specialist, certified in Trauma Sensitive HeartMath, and a registered yoga teacher.
In her more than 20 years as an expressive arts clinician, writing has been used for sense‐making through
song, story, poetry, and creative reflection. She is the author of The Roots and Rhythm of the Heart (2022),
and Expressive Therapeutic Writing (Demaine & Einstein, 2024, Routledge).
DATE: Saturday, December 7, 2024
TIME: 9:30a welcome, 10-12:30pm meeting
LOCATION: The Congregational Church of Weston, 130 Newton St, Weston, MA
LIVESTREAM: TBD
MODERATOR: TBD
Mini-Conference #3: Panel on Integrating Clinical Techniques from a Variety of Counseling Modalities
Description coming soon!
DATE: Saturday, February 8, 2025
TIME: 9:30a welcome, 10-12:30pm meeting
LOCATION: The Congregational Church of Weston, 130 Newton St, Weston, MA
LIVESTREAM: TBD
MODERATOR: TBD