Music Therapy Clinician: Supporting reflective clinical practice Volume 1 | Page 30

there in terms of folks needing
transportation and needing to make
sure someone was paid and all
kinds of stuff…it would have been
way too complicated. So I guess
that kind of gets into some of the
challenges, and I wonder, and I
realize I’m not saying this fully, but
I’m wondering if you guys faced
any challenges in terms of, I guess,
I don’t know…just…challenges.
Should I ask one person at a time,
so we don’t get all jumbled. Go
ahead.

Roia:

Christine, I’m going to
pause you, because you’re breaking
up again, and I wonder…I don’t
know if you have to move closer to
a wall or…or something, but I was
just hoping that you’d be able to
say what you have to say so that
we can hear you better, because we
want to hear you!

Christine:

don’t mind, Angela.

Sure.
You’re
breaking up a little bit too, so I don’t
know what it is about the quality of
the connection, because I’m
basically hovering over the phone.
But it’s a little better now.

Roia: Alright.

Roia: Hm. I am sitting still. Well,

Christine: I can start, if you

Angela: Sure.

let’s see. Keep going, I’ll see if I can
find something on here that will
help us.

Christine: I think one of the

Christine:

challenges…we were sort of a
stand-alone creative arts therapy
organization, and so we sort of
represented a music school - you
know, there was art, music and
movement therapy available at the
site, but it was built with music and
dance in mind, so the physical
space wasn’t really a problem. And
we, of course, I think, had…we
were very fortunate to have enough
support to sort of develop some of
the things that we needed. Like, we
needed to purchase a good quality
piano that could travel, because, as
you know, the quality of your performance [garbled] the piano
accompaniment really depended on
the quality of the piano. And if we’re
going to travel and perform in other
community locations, we didn’t
want to be dependent on that…or
leave that to chance, so we
purchased a, I think, a really nice
keyboard.

Roia: Christine…
Christine: Yes…

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Do I need to
repeat anything that I already said?

Roia:

I’m pretty sure I heard
something about you wanted to
find a good quality piano to make
sure that you guys Y]X[]B