Monday Morning - Time to Get Ready for a Full Week...

I FINALLY have a full week of music therapy ahead of me. It's been a long time since I was able to have a full week of music therapy sessions in a space dedicated to music therapy. I am nervous about this. Funny, hunh. A therapist with 22 years of professional experience being nervous about running a schedule chock full of music therapy for her clients? Strange.

I've been awake for several hours now, thinking about how I am going to arrange the clients who want to have adaptive lessons. That's the thing currently interrupting my sleep. Who do I put with whom? Do I have enough time in my schedule to accommodate all of these kids? Will my schedule fit with their schedules? Is there enough space for us all?
 
As these questions keep running through my head, I am struck by how ridiculous it is to have this type of thought pattern after all these years and after all this time.

I know it will be fine. I will find a schedule that will work. Kids will be happy to play the big instruments that have been in storage for the past 18 months. Everything will work the way it needs to work, but I still have butterflies about making this the best experience that the clients can have in this new space.

 I think the butterflies are an essential part of being a therapist. I know without them, I wouldn't be able to interact with my clients the way I do.

 So, it is now time to get myself ready to go out into this brave new music therapy world. Time to finish up the schedule, figure out session strategies for this week, and ask questions about when the computer will be moved into the music therapy room. We will be introducing one class to the music therapy room today - the other two classes have already been to the room for music therapy. I should (Goblin alert!) take part of my homework to read during my office hour today, but I'm not sure where to start. Maybe my office hour should be spent examining the Oxford University Press site for articles from my currently growing philosophy/theory list. Off I go!!




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