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Want to get more EIMI training?
Join one of our topic-based weekly group courses!
Small cohorts 5-10
(Take training with your friends - or make new ones!)
Practical Professional Development,
worked through in your group and applicable in class the next day
Real community with like-minded educators
5-week long, 2 hour group sessions
PLUS
one-on-one meetings with leaders before and after the training
$150 per course
(Ask about discounts)
Topics for Training
Get the training you need, when you need it!
Getting Started
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Length: 5 weeks
Format: Live Virtual training
Description:
How does the brain interact with music?
The truth is, music lives at the center of the brain - in the same area where our deepest emotions live. This has TREMENDOUS implications for music making, music learning, and music listening.
In this session, we will cover:
The Brain as a Car: How to visualize the musical brain (and achieve brain balance).
Teaching the Forebrain: Best practices for teaching the thinking brain.
Training the Hindbrain: Best practices for teaching the moving brain.
Optimizing the Midbrain: Best practices for training the feeling brain.
This training is a pre-requisite for all topic-based groups.
Topic-Based Groups
The Musical Brain and Teaching
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Length: 5 weeks
Format: Live Virtual training
Cost: $150
Description:
What do principals, school board members, and superintendents want most? What do parents and community members think the purpose of music is?
The truth is, we have more compelling and more profound proof that music is the basis of human thriving than we every had. Using the discoveries in Applied Music Psychology since the 1990s, we will go over proven methods for increasing budgets, engaging your community, and creating real change.
Session Objectives
Understand the basics of brain structure in relation to music production.
Discover the implications of brain mechanics for practicing, teaching, and performing.
Review the strongest new arguments from Applied Music Psychology
Brainstorm common ways to create advocacy opportunities
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Length: 5 weeks
Format: Live Virtual training
Cost: $150
Description:
Did you know that the same area of the brain that processes music is also the area where we feel our biggest emotions? That means as a music teacher, you ARE dealing with your students emotions, every day - you don’t have a choice!
In this session, we will work through tools which you can use to deal with emotions - yours and your students’ - in a healthy and productive way that creates happier classrooms, more dedicated practicers, and overall better music
Session Objectives
Understand the basics of the emotional brain structure in relation to music production.
Discover the implications of brain mechanics for practicing, teaching, and performing.
Go through the common emotional responses to learning music, and review the most effective ways to interface with those emotions.
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Length: 5 weeks
Format: Live Virtual training
Cost: $150
Description:
Music is a joy - practicing should be too!
The truth is, joy is a source of strength. There are many ways to motivate a student to play and practice their instrument, but joy is the most effective and the most enduring.
Session Objectives
In these sessions, we will work through
The roadblocks between a music learner and joy,
Dive deep into the practice map, and
Learn techniques for returning students to a state of joy during hard work.
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Length: 5 weeks
Format: Live Virtual training
Cost: $150
Description:
Enough is enough!
For too long, musicians and music teachers have glorified the kind of endless (and inefficient) work patterns that can only end in burn-out. The truth is, burn-out doesn’t help ANYONE. Not you, and definitely not your students.
Session Objectives
In these sessions, you will learn
Brain mechanics made easy for busy working teachers,
How an emotionally regulated music teacher can uniquely strengthen the emotional and mental health of students, and
What self-care practices are most effective for self-regulation.
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Length: 5 weeks
Format: Live Virtual training
Cost: $150
Description:
The study of Applied Music Psychology has unearthed an uncomfortable truth:
We’ve all been learning how to read music, wrong.
it turns out, there is a significantly more brain-efficient way for students to learn to read music.
It is easier for the brain (taught correctly) to read music than for the brain to read language. So, how can we make it easy for your students?
Session Objectives
In these sessions, we will go over
The most brain-efficient way to teach music reading (starting at age 2!)
How to create neural pathways that make sight reading (the physical performance of written music) a breeze
The ways that bad music reading can be remediated and transformed into better brain-efficient methods.
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Length: 5 weeks
Format: Live Virtual training
Cost: $150
Description:
What would it be like if your music classroom was full of kids who really knew how to practice?
In these sessions, we will work through new discoveries in applied music psychology which show us how we can help our students:
Confidently work through the four stages of competence and into sublimity,
Never again get discouraged, bored, or even frustrated with their practice,
Use the scaffolding skills they learn in their music classes in other classes and other activities - because music makes the best kind of people!
Session Objectives
Understand the basics of brain structure in relation to skill acquisition in music.
Discover the implications of brain mechanics for practice, and how to communicate and embed that knowledge into students,
Create a structure for how to do this work in each attendee’s individual context.
This course is especially useful for teachers who regularly work with autistic and ADHD students.
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Length: 5 weeks
Format: Live Virtual training
Cost: $150
Description:
What if you could plan your curriculum in a way that left your students asking, “But what’s next? I just can’t wait to know!”
In this session, we will engage with what it means to optimize the curriculums and repertoire that you teach for your students’ unique brains.
Session Objectives
in these sessions, we will
Cover the way that obsession is built in humans (from a brain structure perspective)
Analyze the curriculums you are currently using with an eye toward brain optimization, and
Use that optimization to create more joy and engagement for students (especially ones with neuro-spicy brains!)
The Musical Brain and Performance
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Length: 5 weeks
Format: Live Virtual training
Cost: $150
Description:
Great news! It turns out, stage fright isn’t just treatable; it’s curable.
In the last 25 years, the field of Applied Music Psychology has unearthed some incredible truths about the way that music exists in the brain. These golden nuggets have given music performers brand new ways to help ourselves thrive in music classrooms, practice rooms - and even on stage.
In this session, you will learn techniques which you can use to overcome your performance nerves not just once, but forever.
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Length: 5 weeks
Format: Live Virtual training
Cost: $150
Description:
How do you connect your deepest emotions to your performances (and see past the technique)?
There is a way to unearth natural musicality by connecting the sounds of the music with the deep emotions of the performer. This goes beyond technique, and reaches into the heart and purpose of music.
In this session, we dive in to what it means to feel music, how to connect story and context to a performance, and how you’ve really be exploring emotions in music since the day you were born.
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Length: 5 weeks
Format: Live Virtual training
Cost: $150
Description:
It’s common wisdom now that mastery requires 10,000 hours of practice. If that’s true, how can someone ever master performance?
It’s possible - right in your own practice room!
Since the 1990s, Applied Music Psychology has been discovering the mental states and processes of performance. And it turns out that we can replicate that during our practice!
In this session, we will discover
The common brain activity experienced by music performers,
How to replicate that brain activity in the practice room, and
How to make yourself mistake-proof on stage.