April 2010

A Sneak Peek at the Podcasts I Love

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My friend Michelle Erfurt posted the following on Facebook this week:
Kimberly, have you done a blog post listing the podcasts you listen to? If so, will you help me find it? If not, will you write one?
Michelle–I would love to!
I loooove listening to podcasts. And audiobooks. I listen to them primarily when I [...]

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Private Practice 101 (Week 8): Final Considerations

April 27, 2010
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This is it! This week we end our Private Practice 101 series. My hope is that all the information we provided over the past 8 weeks has either helped you now or will help you in your future private practice endeavors.
So to finish off our series, some final thoughts and miscellaneous items to think about [...]

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Top 12 Reasons Why Music as Therapy Works

April 22, 2010

UPDATE: The Posit Science article was posted! You can read it here.
I was recently invited to write an article for Posit Science, a company dedicated to brain fitness and interested in neuroscience. Although it’s not yet posted, I wanted to share it with you, as I’ve written out many of the “arguments” I use to [...]

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Private Practice 101 (Week 6): 6 Reasons Why Marketing a Business is Like Finding a Spouse

April 15, 2010

We’re nearing the end of our Private Practice 101 series! By now you’ve started to lay down the foundation of your business, from it’s structure to paperwork to getting paid.
But it doesn’t matter how strong your business structure and services are…if no one knows about them.
Today we start talking about marketing. I’m going to cover [...]

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Highlights from the 2010 Midwestern Region AMTA Conference

April 13, 2010

If you can’t tell by my multiple postings, Facebook updates, and tweets…I love conference time! The learning, the energy, and the connecting makes me feel refreshed, recharged, and ready to go.
Some of my favorite highlights from last weekend’s conference (including links to hopefully useful information for you) include:

Hill Day. A group of us participated in [...]

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Handouts from the 2010 #mwamta Conference

April 12, 2010

For those who attended my presentations at the Midwestern Regional Music Therapy Conference in Fort Collins this past weekend, here are the handouts!
“Functional Neuroscience for the Clinical Music Therapist”
Click here to download a handout (pdf) from this presentation
“Music Therapy in a Web 2.0 World: How You Can Harness the Power of the Internet”
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A Pre-Conference Update

April 8, 2010

The Midwestern Region of the American Music Therapy Association is hosting it’s conference this weekend–here in Fort Collins! I talked last week about why I like going to conference. This week,  a list of what I’m looking forward to the most this weekend:

Taking my first CMTE (an intensive, 5-hour continuing education training). The topic is [...]

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Private Practice 101 (Week 5): The Paperwork

April 6, 2010

We are now officially halfway through our Private Practice 101 series! So far, we’ve discussed your purpose and reason for starting a business, finding people to help you on your journey, setting up your business structure, and what it takes to get paid.
Today’s topic: Paperwork.
In my mind, there’s one reason paperwork exists: it’s a communication [...]

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