Founder and Director, <a href='https://musicalintervention.com/'> Musical Intervention </a>.
For over 20 years, Adam Christoferson has been providing a platform for some of society’s most challenged people to write, record and perform original music. Through his organization, Musical Intervention, Adam has seen music’s powers in transforming the lives of adults and children within inpatient psychiatric units, awakening the minds of the elderly on a dementia unit, giving the homeless and addicted the inspiration they need to seek support, and bringing together wildly diverse populations together for a common good. His mission is to provide people with a musical platform as a way to connect with the world around them and more importantly to allow them to connect with themselves. Adam’s experience with two parents that were diagnosed with schizophrenia equipped him with the ability to facilitate and train others on how to create music with people with varying backgrounds. Throughout the years, he has written and produced hundreds of songs with people and advocates from all walks of life. He’s hosted open mics at soup kitchens and local shelters where he discovered that there is a creative well of talent that is often overlooked in this population. These experiences paved the way for the opening of Musical Intervention Headquarters (MIHQ), a drug and alcohol-free, creative community space where people can be inspired and connect with others to pursue recovery. This program has also had pop up success in New York City, Bonnaroo Music Festival and showcases around the world proving its value to communities every time. After creating an actual performance space and studio where people freely come and collectively create music and family, Adam helped to coordinate a research project to measure the impact that MIHQ has on the overall community’s mental health. MIHQ is ran by peers with lived experience as well as dozens of volunteers and interns who have all helped execute the mission of inspiring the world one song at a time. Through his involvements, Adam has managed to bring together governments, hospitals, service providers and the creative community together to address the opioid crisis and to serve the MIHQ community by referring people to agencies and services options.
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