Healing Harps
Julietta has been a member of Healing Harps
since 2002. She studied harp pedagogy and special education with Ron
Price, the founder and executive director of Healing Harps, during her
master degree work at NIU. She is currently publishing their second
volume of multilevel harp ensemble arrangements and has contributed
some original arrangements along with other members. She has found
playing the harp in hospitals and nursing homes very rewarding.
Teaching harp to people with special needs is something she plans to
continue learning about and participating in. Creating truly expressive
music is a fundamental part of being a human being. The inclusive
philosophy that focuses on the positive in each person is what makes
Healing Harps so important. High standards are the foundation of self
respect, but a philosophy of condescension and exclusion renders music
meaningless. “Respect for music and respect for people results in a
philosophy like the one found in Healing Harps, which I embrace.”
One of her deepest aspirations is to work with
students who possess gifts and special needs. Such a learner needs a
uniquely tailored learning environment, and has much to offer the
world. Obstacles help us understand the struggle of humanity, and gifts
give us the tools to communicate hope and strength to the world. Some
of the greatest artists in history faced this dichotomy.
Special education training taken at Northern
Illinois University with Dr. Ron Price, founder of Healing Harps from
06/2002 - 05/2004: Nine graduate semester hours taken in special
education, three as Music in the Therapeutic Process. Clinical
experiences included providing music activities at the Monmouth group
home for children with special needs, private harp instruction to
students with gifts/challenges, and Healing Harps Modules I and IV
which focused on neurology and teaching harp to students with special
needs. From 05/1995
-12/1996 she worked for Christian Record Services Camps for
the Blind,
providing services for, and working alongside, the visually impaired.
Her research and clinical experience with special needs includes the
following areas: visual impairment, cerebral palsy, mental retardation,
arthritis, high functioning autism, hearing impairment,
fibromyalgia, specific learning problems involving memory, while
continually researching additional areas to add to this experience.
She currently works for the Arts-in-Medicine
program at the University of New Mexico.
For more information on Healing
Harps visit www.healingharps.org
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"If I
give you a leaf or a pearl that you trample in the dust, then I am
sorry. I give them to you because I want to. It is my gift-or
offering-to you; you do with it as you wish." Alice Coltrane
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