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My name is Jeni Dominelli
I’m the Founder/CEO of The Beat of Life, a Nashville based nonprofit organization that brings therapeutic songwriting programs into prisons, youth centers/schools, mental health settings, and other vulnerable communities – with the mission to use the power of music to tackle our toughest personal adversities and some of the nation’s most critical social issues… and tell healing and redemptive stories through song.
At the same time, we’re creating the power of connection in a world perhaps more than divided than ever through the universal language of music.
My vision for The Beat of Life began with a simple idea: that perhaps music is more than just an incredible form of entertainment. Perhaps it possesses such extraordinary power to transform our deepest suffering into our greatest songs. Perhaps it possesses the extraordinary power to transform the stories that wound us into the very stories that heal us.
This vision quickly gained support from scores of Nashville’s professional and hit songwriters/artists and musicians, who testified to the same sentiment: that music had been a type of saving grace for them, too… and that wanted to help The Beat of Life help those who needed that power the most. The organization quickly became perfectly positioned in the turbulent times we live in today.
For more than a decade, The Beat of Life has forged powerful community partnerships with correctional and government agencies, mental health facilities, and youth centers across the country, helping vulnerable individuals write original songs… and new life narratives.