Conferences, Workshops, and

Other Presentations

Sample Clinical Presentations

Sample Presentations for Musicians or Other Non-Clinical Groups

Length
Sample Organizations

Are you looking for a vibrant, interactive presenter who will engage and stretch your participants in life-changing ways?  Do you want fresh, non-threatening, empowering tools for being in and moving through loss and grief, to use within the scope of your profession or your personal experiences?  

Dr. Berger's conference and workshop teaching spans from hospice clinical careproviders, to bereavement and other psychosocial therapists, pastoral care professionals, music therapists, music educators, Alzheimer's professionals and caregivers, cancer support groups, and numerous non-music loss/grief or other end-of-life presentations for a variety of needs.

Sample Clinical Presentations

• Composing Life Out of Loss
• Music Meets Memories: Catalysts for Healing Grief
• Hear, Here: Global Sounds of Mourning through Music
• The Soul's Music: A Well-Spring for Spiritual Care
• Hospice & Hope: Music Therapy with the Dying & Bereaved
• Seasons of the Soul through Dementia's Journey
• Finding Meaning & Hope in the Midst of Dementia
• "Oh Freedom!" Wisdom for Hospice from African-American Spirituals
• Moving through Grief: Music as a Guide.

Sample Presentations for Musicians or Other Non-Clinical Groups

• Composing Life in the Midst of Stress
• Life Music: Rhythms of Body & Soul
• Life Music: Themes & Counterthemes of My Journey
• Life Music: Harmonies & Dissonances In My Path 
• Moving through Loss & Grief: Music as Guide
• Mourning's Morning: Exploring You Music of Meaning & Hope 
• Birthing Our Passion for Music

Length

For your group's needs, sessions can range from a 60-minutes to more intensive 1/2, full-day, or 2-day formats, with standard continuing education credits given by most clinical boards.  

Sample Organizations

• National Hospice Organization, and varied state hospice & palliative care organizations
• Association of Death Education and Counseling
• World Congress of Music Therapy
• American Music Therapy Association
• Association of Professional Chaplains, and regional, state, and local ministeria
• Center for Interfaith Relations
• American Orff-Schulwerk Association
• Kentucky Choral Directors Association
• Regional, state, and local groups, for general or specific needs: Alzheimer's, ALS, Breast Cancer, general end-of-life care.

Contact

To explore opportunites with Joy, use the "Contact" or "Contact Joy" links, provided on each page.  To leave a voice mail, call (502) 593-3916.