Community & care
Faith-Based
A positive, values-aligned creative outlet that drives strong youth engagement and ends in a community showcase, built from the SEL books, a keynote, and a recording day with your youth ministry.
We support youth engagement, character and values development, and community building with the SEL books, keynotes, and the music recording program.
FAQs
Straight answers.
The K through 4th grade editions. Leaders looking for songs about emotions and feelings generally use it in a group setting where the music carries the activity and the workbook gives it structure. These books are great for programs running a Vacation Bible School helping students understand how secular music effects their decision making.
The author grew up non-denominational so some themes in the book correspond with scripture.
It is music psychological material built on music psychology. It does not conflict with faith-based programming and it does not carry religious content of its own — congregations use it alongside their own curriculum rather than in place of it.
Yes. Music Events built on the Psychological Effects of Music Youth Resource Books, plus recording and video production.
Congregations looking for cultural enrichment programs generally want something that connects young people to heritage and community rather than another lesson. Music does that without requiring anyone to be musical.
The Psychological Effects of Music Youth Resource Books, music Events, and recording or video production.
The Psychological Effects of Music Youth Resource Books, music Events, and recording or video production.
Leaders looking for youth engagement activities ideas or enrichment programs ideas that volunteers can lead will find these require no musical training of the facilitator.
Yes, many programs use the curriculum to help students understand how secular music is leading them down the wrong path. All music is edited to be appropriate. The music referenced is mainstream not gospel, but only used to help them to understand how its been affected their entire life. It’s been described as transformational and help students to be transformed by the renewing of their mind.
Yes. No musical training is required. That is the main practical constraint in volunteer-led programs and the material is written for it.
The teen advanced edition works in youth group settings, where the value is usually a shared vocabulary for a group rather than individual completion.
Yes. Recording and video production programming is popular with youth groups, and many congregations already have media or worship tech volunteers it connects to naturally. The programming itself is secular and technical — what participants create is up to them and your ministry. It also works as team building for youth leadership teams.
No. We send our own staff to run the programming. We do not train your staff to run it. Recording and production is a skill set, not a procedure. Trying to hand it off in a few hours would be like teaching a doctor to perform surgery in an afternoon — you would get a session that technically happened and a result nobody wants to hear. Volunteers can lead the books. They cannot run a recording session on three hours of instruction, and we would not pretend otherwise.
No. We are supplemental. We do not replace your SEL curriculum, your trauma-informed practice, or any program you already have in place. If you run a core SEL program, keep it — ours adds a music-based component alongside it. If you have trauma-informed protocols, training, and referral pathways, those stay in force exactly as they are. Nothing in our material substitutes for them, and our facilitators are not a substitute for your clinical, counseling, or behavioral staff. Your ministry curriculum and teaching stay entirely as they are. Ours is secular material added beside it, not a substitute for it.
Yes. The Psychological Effects of Music interactive Youth Sunday is built for exactly this — a family engagement event where parents and children participate together rather than sitting through a presentation. That is the difference that matters for attendance. Families come to an event where something happens; they skip an information night. The session is music-driven and participatory, so a parent who speaks little English and a fourth grader are in it on the same terms. Family and intergenerational events are already how most congregations gather. The session is secular and participatory, so it works alongside your own programming rather than competing with it.
Yes. The Psychological Effects of Music interactive Youth Sunday works for congregational events, youth ministry gatherings, leadership retreats, and community outreach. The session is secular and participatory. It sits alongside your own teaching rather than substituting for it.
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How this program runs
Same SIWM work. Built for Church.
Start with the social emotional learning books. Add a keynote. Bring a recording program when you want participants writing and performing — we produce the song and video.
CASEL SEL competencies; character/values development; National Core Arts (Music/Media Arts).
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The Psychological Effects of Music
SEL books & curriculum
SEL books by Ava Johnson plus keynotes for the same rooms.
Ava the Aviator
Keynotes & assemblies
Interactive talks on the science of sound and the psychology of music.
The studio
Recording & music video program
Participants write and perform. We record, produce, and film.