Expressive Arts: Music, Movement, And Spiritual Expression

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This course provides an introduction to the creative process and the use of that process in development of music, movement, and spiritual expression in traditions and cultures of healing. It presents evidence that the expansion of the creative potential with all of us is valuable for professional counselors to recognize and use in treatment. Further, the course will include definitions, historical roots, theoretical underpinnings, and basic elements of music, movement, and spiritual expression in art therapy. Course topics will include an examination of the major contributors in the field, and how music, movement, and spiritual expression can be used to affect behavioral, emotional, and psychological changes, and how art therapy can be used in the context of various psychological approaches. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. Course Learning Outcomes 1. Analyzing the physical structure of music, including order and time. 2. Analyzing physical and emotional responses to music. 3. Analyzing intrapersonal interactions affected by music. 4. Designing musical therapeutic interventions and reinforcements. 5. Evaluating the use of silence as a therapeutic tool. 6. Synthesizing movement into a mirroring of intrapersonal interactions and responses. 7. Analyzing movement as a cognitive and emotional response to a stimulus. 8. Analyzing movement as a unique form of communication within the therapeutic process. 9. Analyzing the meaning derived from spirituality as a psychological survival tool. 10. Evaluating the meditative experience in terms of cognitive and emotional response. 11. Synthesizing methods and techniques of meditation for enhancement of inner peace. 12. Analyzing spiritual symbols in cultural or spiritual affiliations in terms of cognition and emotion. 13. Synthesize music and movement to enhance spirituality. 14. Assessing client spirituality within philosophy of life, hope, trust, and self-actualization. View Class Schedule