We will gather for discussion, music, and community building focused on exploring:

• How do we un-colonize music therapy?

• How can MT education be freer?

• How do we build community resources and vehicles to share information?

• How do we care for each other and for our communities?

This forum will be held by Jasmine Edwards, Zein Hassanein, and Audrey Hausig, who are music therapists and educators committed to rooting their practice and pedagogy in liberation. Their combined clinical experience includes medical and mental health settings with people of all ages. Their areas of study include un-colonizing healthcare, sociocultural dynamics in therapy, and the responsibility of therapists to seek justice inside and outside the therapy room. 

The forum will take place live and in-person, January 17th, 2026 from 9:30-5:00 at the Philly Free School: 4950 Springfield Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19143

Cost: Professionals: $60, Students: $40

 (Full refunds are available until 12pm 1/16/25)

register: www.philadelphiamusictherapy.com or philadelphiamusictherapy@gmail.com

*This event will not be recorded and is not available for reparations pricing.

Learning Objectives:

-Define abolition, social justice, and anti-oppressive practice. 5B-3 

-Demonstrate 3 ways that abolition, social justice, and anti-oppressive concepts and  

  values might be operationalized in clinical practice. 2D-5, 28

-Identify 2 ways that they will take action related to liberating their music practice in their respective contexts. 5B-13, 65

Course Schedule:  9:30-5:00pm (360 minutes)

9:30: Musical check-in & song share  

10:15: Check in: Hopes & Intentions

11:00: Theory and Frameworks

12:30: Break: Lunch Provided

1:30: Praxis Matters: What Now? 

3:00: Break 

3:30: Accountability Action Planning 

4:30: Closing music 

5:00: Wrap up 

“Abolition Music Therapy Forum: A Day of Consciousness Raising”  is approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) for 7 Continuing Music Therapy Education credits (7 ethics) . Philadelphia Music Therapy #P-203 maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria. In addition, the provider is solely responsible for the registration process for this program, including pricing.