New Online Offering!
New Online offering from Bedside Harp — A dynamic online course offered through Bucks County Community College open to all harp therapists and therapeutic musicians throughout the country.
“Conversations on Ethics for Harp Therapists,” is a requirement for Bedside Harp mastery level graduates, and is also open to anyone wishing to enhance their understanding of the responsibilities and challenges facing harp therapists working in healthcare today. In fact, we urge all who work for Bedside Harp in any capacity to enroll if you have not yet taken it. Highly interactive and thought provoking, this course received high marks from all who took it in its pilot form last winter. Many of them, in fact, believed it should be a required course for all adults from all walks of life.
If this is your first entry into distance learning, rest assured that our format will be very, very user friendly for everyone. The course will be run more like an ongoing discussion of the material we cover.
This fascinating, substantive course is highly relevant to your work. There will be lots of examples we’ll discuss—most from real life dilemmas harp therapists have experienced. In fact, many times we’ll begin a discussion by saying, “What would you do if….” The reflective paper at the end of the course will just be a summary of what you feel you got from this course of study. There may also be some exercises where you’ll partner with another to discuss a concept or situation a little more in-depth. Should you not have computer access any week of the course, I would ask that you catch up on your postings and readings as soon as you’re back online. Please note that we’ll run the course over the period of 13 weeks, in order to give you a break midway so that you can catch up on readings and writings.
The Bucks County Community College Course code for “Conversations on Ethics for Harp Therapists” is WSMCE 4020 C30 and will run from January 4 through March 29, 2010.
Formal Course Description: A twelve week (24 hours) online conversation focusing on ethical issues harp therapists are likely to encounter. We begin with an examination of personal ethics and values, moving on then to looking at the ethics codes of our profession and other professions as well, to determine where conflicts and/or clashes could arise. Also involves discussions on projection, transference, counter-transference, boundaries, reflective listening, interactive speaking, and business ethics. Those continuing their mastery studies, will be required to watch the HBO movie, Miss Evers’ Boys, after this course and before taking our next online offering, “Conversations on Research for Harp Therapists.” Main text is The Ethics of Touch, by Ben E. Benjamin, Ph.D. and Cherie Sohnen-Moe.
Requirements include frequent (at least twice weekly) online responsive postings on discussion board, journaling, and a reflective paper at the course’s end. This course is a prerequisite to all subsequent courses in the mastery level. Cost is $250.00 payable to Bucks County Community College. Registration deadline for this course is December 15, 2009. Register by calling Carol Mikulski, Executive Director, Continuing Education, Bucks County Community College at 215-504-8578. Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive a certificate from the College.