The Journey is Over
If you've been reading this blog for the past year and a half, you know that my facility has been undergoing renovations. One of those renovations was the construction of a new music therapy space. Yesterday, I moved everything but my computer into the new music therapy space. I start treatment in the new room today, and I get to be the first therapist to do music therapy in my new room today.
This is an important thing for me.
I digress - I spent yesterday moving things (yet again) and placing them in the cabinets from the old music therapy space. I have brought some stuff home - unfortunately - but almost everything that I need is in the cabinets ready to go! I am also ready to go.
This past year has been challenging on many levels. I now know that I can be an itinerant therapist, even though I prefer not to be moving around all the time. I know that the space that I've "been given" (seriously, that was the quote!) is going to be inadequate for the types of therapy that I feel are important for my clients. The folks who made all of the decisions are starting to realize that my objections, aired over two years ago, were accurate. I have moved five times in the past 18 months (three of those moves in the past four months) and spent time trying to figure out how to fit stuff into each of the closets, small rooms, and shared rooms that I've used as a place to sit. I've learned that music and art therapy are low on the priority list for getting things done.
I've been collecting comments from visitors to the room from yesterday:
My priority always and always is my clients. Who knows what type of music we will be making as the donors walk around. We may be singing, we may be hitting drums, we may be sitting quietly (not likely). One thing I will not do is compromise my therapy in order to "have a good show." Anyway, off I go into the world in order to break in a new space for music therapy and then get some kids acclimatized to the place we will do music therapy from now on (as far as I know).
This is the end of the renovation era. Thank goodness!
Today is the beginning of the new way of doing music therapy at my facility.
This is an important thing for me.
I digress - I spent yesterday moving things (yet again) and placing them in the cabinets from the old music therapy space. I have brought some stuff home - unfortunately - but almost everything that I need is in the cabinets ready to go! I am also ready to go.
This past year has been challenging on many levels. I now know that I can be an itinerant therapist, even though I prefer not to be moving around all the time. I know that the space that I've "been given" (seriously, that was the quote!) is going to be inadequate for the types of therapy that I feel are important for my clients. The folks who made all of the decisions are starting to realize that my objections, aired over two years ago, were accurate. I have moved five times in the past 18 months (three of those moves in the past four months) and spent time trying to figure out how to fit stuff into each of the closets, small rooms, and shared rooms that I've used as a place to sit. I've learned that music and art therapy are low on the priority list for getting things done.
I've been collecting comments from visitors to the room from yesterday:
- They really should have made the ceilings higher.
- Where is the light switch?
- Did they soundproof at all?
- It's really cold in here.
- It's really warm in here.
- Do you have enough room?
- Wow, this is really smaller than the last room.
- Are we all going to fit in here?
My priority always and always is my clients. Who knows what type of music we will be making as the donors walk around. We may be singing, we may be hitting drums, we may be sitting quietly (not likely). One thing I will not do is compromise my therapy in order to "have a good show." Anyway, off I go into the world in order to break in a new space for music therapy and then get some kids acclimatized to the place we will do music therapy from now on (as far as I know).
This is the end of the renovation era. Thank goodness!
Today is the beginning of the new way of doing music therapy at my facility.
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