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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 4-7, 2020 C-3 The Park Record The Cole Project partners with the Christian Center Give the gift that gives all year! Get a gift subscription to the PARK RECORD A great gift for New Neighbors, college students, second homeowners, etc. COURTESY OF ANGELA BUSCH From left: music therapist Meg Smith, certified music therapist Tony Ollerton, the Cole Project founder and executive director Angela Busch, and Maestro Music Therapy’s Amanda Maestro-Scherer take time for some fun at the 2019 National Alliance for Grieving Children Symposium on Children’s Grief at Snowbird. Ollerton and Busch will bring the Cole Project sessions, which use music to help teens and young adults cope with a loss, to Park City at the Christian Center of Park City. Sessions use music to help deal with grief Mail or home delivery outside of Summit County: (Includes The Park Record E-Edition) 1 Year $80 2 Years $138 SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Music has a lot of uses. Many ostudies have shown that music -can make people happy, help them remember the past and even odeal with grief. e The Cole Project, a Salt Lake City-based nonprofit, uses music gto help people work through their sgrief, and Park City will get the gchance to experience this poweer during peer-to-peer, inclusive and creative group sessions at sthe Christian Center of Park City dstarting this month. , Registration is open for the ses-sions that will scheduled accordging to the participants’ schedules, ssaid Rob Harter, Christian Center executive director. w “These sessions, which are specific to youths and young nadults, create safe spaces for them .to process through whatever loss tthey are grieving through,” Harter -said. “We offer individual coun.seling services, and it seemed slogical to have a peer-to-peer support group as another avenue for us to provide these kinds of services.” The sessions will be led by certified music therapist Tony Ollerton, director of Expressive Therapies of Utah. “(The participants) don’t have to have any musical skill or previous music experience to be part of the group,” Ollerton said. “We provide the different music opportunities for them to explore their grief.” Those explorations will be done by listening to music, talking about certain songs that help the participants through their grief and, if the participants want, writing or co-writing songs, according to Ollerton. “Music is such a huge part of the culture of an adolescent and young adult population, more than any other population,” she said. “It is used to form identity. It’s used in the way they talk with each other and how they express themselves. So, utilizing this medium provides an opportunity for them to also explore their grief.” Ollerton has found that many people who have participated in the Cole Project sessions were already using music by themselves Mail or home delivery within Summit County: (Includes a free Sunday Tribune and The Park Record E-Edition) 1 Year $56 2 Years $98 The Park Record E-Edition only: $4.67 per month with auto pay COURTESY OF ANGELA BUSCH Tony Ollerton, a certified music therapist, is one of the facilitators in the Cole Project. to cope with losses. “So by getting them together in a peer-support model, gives them the opportunity to see how others are also dealing with the same feelings they are,” she said. “This gives them a place where they can deal with grief together and find support.” The Cole Project was founded by its executive director Angela Busch in memory of her son, Cole-Michael, who passed away at age 15 in 2001 from brain cancer. “We knew from the beginning that his prognosis wasn’t good, and I began gearing up in my mind how we were going to get through it,” Busch said. Cole-Michael’s death left Busch, her husband and younger children ages 11, 7 and 3, to deal with the loss. “As his mother, I was trying to figure out how was I going to lead my other children through this,” Busch said. “The first thoughts I had was to find a support group for my children because I remembered I didn’t have one when I was a teen.” Busch’s father died when she was 15, and she was advised not to talk about it. “Consequently, I really didn’t grieve over him, and that put me in a corner,” she said. “I never spoke about it out loud, and that sat in my mind as to why don’t we talk about death and dying, particularly with young people.” With that in mind, Busch knew she needed to do something to help her own children and her son’s friends. “I found that a lot of Cole’s friends, most of whom had known him since elementary school, were also grieving,” she said. “So Please see Project, C-4 For information or to sign up for The Cole Project, call 385-4191320, email hope@ thecoleproject.org or visit ccofpc.org or coleproject.org. 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