Empathy through music

For this directive, I listened to various classical music pieces and chose 4 different songs. I tried to find pieces that were upbeat, sad, angry, anxious sounding, etc. I played the first piece for the group and then asked everyone to draw the feeling they got from the song. They did the same thing for all 4 pieces and then got to talk about their art work and the feeling that inspired it. They were able to compare their art work, so it was interesting to see who got similar feelings from the same musical piece. This was a different approach, yet another way to help the patients tune into feelings.