Mary’s Woods Hospice Session PlanApril 11, 2013 Liska McNally, MT-BC Dana Wright & Shyla Starnes, Student MTs

ADAPTED FROM PAST TREATMENT PLAN: Goal: To decrease symptoms of anxiety, depression, nausea, and pain : through receptive and expressive interaction to familiar musicGoal: To decrease symptoms of anxiety, depression, nausea, and pain: through creative expression—namely songwriting Goal: To decrease anxiety: through music assisted relaxation

Materials:Guitar, Basket of Percussion, Paper & Pens

Here Comes the Sun!

1. Hello Song Improvised w/ guitar (Dana)“Here Comes the Sun”*“Sound of Spring/improv”

2. Singing with percussion (themed around sun/spring/new life) (Shyla?)Some song ideas could be…“Spring Fever” - Elvis“Spring in Manhattan” - Tony Bennet “Late winter early spring” John Denver

-I justed googled these for some spring song references – feel free to choose a song(s) that you know and are comfortable with.

3. “Story of Spring”: Songwriting Experience (Liska?)

4. Relaxation and Deep Breathing to Guitar (DADGAD) (Dana) “Smelling a flower”

5. Closure/Goodbye Song (Dana) if needed

*Here, we will invite the group to choose instruments they think represents the sound of spring, and maybe share why. “What do you think it sounds like?” Perhaps improvising in the lydian mode for elevated mood!