A Radical Healing Practice-Workshop for Black MT's

Somatic Abolition: A Radical Healing Practice-Workshop for Black Music Therapists with Marisol Norris, PhD, MT-BC Marisol is the founder and CEO of the Black Music Therapy Network. A leading scholar in Black aesthetics in music therapy, she has presented internationally expanding the applied practice of radical healing frameworks. Her practice and supervisory experience centers on the liberatory function of artistic processes within Black communities dismantling relational and structural violence through community-based advocacy, education, and action. When: TBA Where: BMTN Zoom Live! Course Description: Culturally sustaining practices call for a contextual understanding of the multiple ways in which racial systems of oppression impact clients' lived experiences and influence therapeutic processes. While music therapy education increasingly centers on developing cultural awareness, knowledge, and skill as an ethical imperative, this training minimally explores intersectionality within Black practitioners' experiences and the embodied decision-making that supports culturally sustaining practice. Somatic abolition is a living embodied anti-racist practice that critically examines relational and structural violence caused by racial oppression and deepens the development of somatic attending skills to support Black music therapists. This course aims to deepen practitioners' ability to explore embodied experiences rooted in somatic abolition practice. Pre-req: MT-BC