It's My Life CD

Activity: It’s My Life CD

Target participant group: Teenagers would be a great target participant group for this activity.

Therapeutic potential of this activity: Through this activity it allows the therapist to gather information and someone’s life and the perceptions of their past through music.

What other groups may benefit from this activity?: Anyone who has an interest in music would greatly benefit from this activity all around.

What groups may not be as appropriate for this activity?: If someone is not very into music, than this activity may not be the greatest to dig information out from them.

Activity description: Find out the clients musical tastes through songs, musicians, and CDs. Explain to the participant that they will be designing their own CD that includes the CD title, a cover design, and a play list of songs. Make sure that they select a theme to their CD but it can be as vague or specific as they want to get. Any of the songs can include real songs or fictitious song titles. From the songs that the client chooses, you can tell how they are feeling and what is going on in their lives. This project can keep continuing and focus on other aspects of the client’s life.

Resources needed: All that you need for this activity include an empty plastic CD jewel case, paper, construction paper, markers, colored pencils, and then also a form of music through CDs or a computer.

Best leadership style for this activity: There are many ways you can go about this activity, you can let the client have free rein on the songs that they pick, and you just sit back and watch how everything works out and try to decode what the songs are trying to say, or you can give suggestions to songs to help them get a head start. You don’t want to do the deciding for them since it is their “life” CD.

Where did you find this activity?: The best place I saw this activity was on http://www.lianalowenstein.com/e-booklet.pdf.

Where can others find more information on this activity? This is a very unique activity that I have never seen before, so I don’t know how many other activities are out like this, but I am sure there is more information out on google.