Introducing The Hip-Hop Therapy Project: Using Hip-Hop Music and Culture to Understand, Heal, & Unite
The Hip-Hop Therapy Project is an organization that uses Hip-Hop music & culture to engage youth and young adults in educational and therapeutic environments, as well as in community capacity building work.
Milwaukee, WI (PRWEB) November 2, 2005
The project fosters around the concept of Hip-Hop Therapy. Hip-Hop Therapy (HHT) is a innovative and culturally sensitive approach that incorporates traditional therapies, such as music therapy, cognitive and behavioral therapy, and narrative therapy fostered around the inclusion of Hip-Hop music and culture. While utilizing the formats of the traditional approaches, Hip-Hop Therapy introduces and analyzes Hip-Hop music, its lyrics, and culture as it relates to the person in therapy or community development. Analyzing Hip-Hop music, lyrics, culture engages participants, creates discussion, and critically analyzes life issues and struggles, while exploring and testing their own reality, self-concept, decision-making skills, attitude, behaviors, and emotional state before the onset of a crisis or serious situation.
The project was founded in 2004 by Nakeyshaey M. Tillie Allen, affectionately known as "The Hip-Hop Therapist ". Ms. Tillie Allen has recognized how in the last 30 years, Hip-Hop music and culture has become a pervasive part of our overall mainstream society. Hip-Hop is often viewed as the "Voice of a New Generation of People". Recognizing Hip-Hop's value, mass appeal, and staying power, mostly known for its connection with Rap Musicians, the Project connects those components of Hip-Hop and its influence amongst everyday people - with everyday life issues and struggles, and engages them to learn how to address those life issues and struggles. It also employs the support of qualified helping professionals who utilize the approach Hip-Hop Therapy with said populations.
Under Ms. Tillie Allen's leadership, the project has facilitated educational and therapeutic groups in schools, group homes, and youth organizations in and around Milwaukee, WI and Chicago, IL. The project is currently expanding its operations and services by interacting and collaborating with Youth, Social Service, Mental Health, and Hip-Hop organizations all over the country, with the most recent efforts taking place in Los Angeles, California.
Besides educational and therapeutic groups sessions for youth and young adults, the project also offers keynote speaking, consultations, coaching, and training services for helping professionals and organizations that are interested in the Hip-Hop Therapy model.
For more information about The Hip-Hop Therapy Project or to schedule one of our services, please contact Ms. Tillie Allen at 1-866-862-2921 or visit us www. hiphoptherapyproject. com.
About The Hip-Hop Therapy Project:
The Hip-Hop Therapy Project is a social entrepreneurial venture that collaborates with a variety or organizations to utilize Hip-Hop Music and Culture, along with therapeutic concepts, to serve as a culturally sensitive catalyst for personal and collective change by Understanding, Healing, and Uniting those who are most affected by, embody, and enjoy Hip-Hop, as well as those who disregard Hip-Hop music and culture as the powerful force that it is in our global society. The Project also serves as a mental, emotional, and social resource and supports for agencies and organizations that services and engage
High-risk populations.
Contact:
Nakeyshaey M. Tillie Allen, Founder and Director
The Hip-Hop Therapy Project
PO Box 06822
Milwaukee, WI 53206
Www. hiphoptherapyproject. com
1-866-862-2921
