“Let's Sing to Life”—A Practice Report on Implementing a Therapeutic Community Choir for Healthcare Professionals at the Hospital Clínica Keralty Ibagué

In this practice report, a therapeutic community choir for healthcare professionals called “Let's Sing to Life” is presented and discussed through the lenses of musical care, community music therapy, and person-centered care. Hereby, group singing is positioned as a situated, ecological, and transformative practice that fosters empowerment of participants in taking care of their health. Collation of brief questionnaires and the music therapist's field diary indicates that the choir has the potential to constitute itself as an important strategy to transform the hospital's organizational culture towards a more participatory and resilient model of care that transcends the aesthetic dimension of musical experiences into a resource for self-care and humanization in clinical environments. Identified limitations, such as small groups and fluctuating participation depending on workload and shift rotation, the lack of standardized measures to evaluate the choir's impact, and high dependency on institutional funding, warrant further attention. Future steps should include a codesigned, formal research project that integrates the voices of the participants and responds to the dynamics of the work context.