Overview of All Educational Programs Offered

The Chalice of Repose Project is pleased to offer several kinds of graduate level educational programs. We are meeting the needs of students of diverse profiles and locations. In general, this page describes all the separate programs for a quick overview, following which we encourage you to go to the separate sections of our website for greater detail. These courses draw an international constituency. Our applicants come from all over the world, and the courses are taught in English. Please note that all personal information provided in your inquiries or applications remains confidential.

Contemplative Musicianship Program (CMP)

• Open to applicants from all over the world (North & South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa): singers, instrumentalists, composers, chaplains, clinicians and people of prayer with basic music competencies, a love of music, and a longing for a deep formation in the spirituality of music.
• This program is the pre-requisite for application to the Music-Thanatology Program.
• This is a Distance Learning Program and combines web lectures and broadcasts with brief intensive residencies in Oregon. The entire course is taught in English.
• The application process for CMP13 will begin November of 2009. The CMP13 cycle begins in June 2010. If you would like to receive a detailed brochure with syllabus & application, please go to CMP13 Application Process.
• The application process for CMP 14 will begin soon on a TBA date.

Music-Thanatology Program (MTH)
Applications will be open internationally to singers, instrumentalists, composers, chaplains and clinicians who have successfully completed the above pre-requisite CMP program in any cycle and who have at least an undergraduate degree or equivalent from a university, college, conservatory, seminary or institute.

• CMP students who are in their tenth month and tenth module are welcome to apply for entry into the School of Music-Thanatology. Participation in CMP is not a guarantee of acceptance into Music-Thanatology. All Music-Thanatology applications are reviewed in light of the strength of the student’s previous nine (9) months of academic and musical work. The application process begins with the CMP tenth module online. Graduates of this program would seek professional employment in hospitals, hospices, home health care agencies, parish ministries projects, and/or private practices.
• Early probationary acceptance into Music-Thanatology will be made on the assumption that the applicant will complete CMP requirements prior to entry into the new program.
• MTH is a Distance Learning Program, and combines web lectures and broadcasts with intensive residencies in various cities to be scheduled followed by clinical internships in several approved locations where collaborative institutional relationships are formalized.
• Students currently enrolled in any CMP cycle receive Music-Thanatology application notices in their tenth module online.

Master’s Degree Program in Music-Thanatology (MDP)
We are pleased to announce that The Chalice of Repose Project and The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC have entered into a long-term collaboration to establish an interdisciplinary master’s degree program in music-thanatology. The three schools of nursing, music and social service are working together on this exciting opportunity, and the clinical internship possibilities in the capitol are superb. We hope to be able to begin in 2009, and are currently working on the many development steps towards that end. We will post news and information as soon as it is available. If you would like us to notify you when this program opens, please email the following information to mastersprogram@chaliceofrepose.org:

• Name
• Mailing address
• Email address
• Telephone
• Brief Background (education and work experience)

Note: This information is confidential and will not be used for any reason other than notifying you of the upcoming educational program.