my location doesnt do System mapping (my locations term making a family tree of ones alters) as in who sprung from who and focus on the alters type of activities. Just the way my location works with dissociative's so as to not cause a problem called false alters and false memory syndrome, fictitious disorder imposed by others.

Instead what my location does is called "charting alters" similar to for example if you went to a doctor and the medical doctor keeps a chart (file) on your overall health and problems and good points or when you go to a mental health treatment provider and they keep files on you and your sessions.

example if I dissociated during therapy my therapist would "chart" that alter by keeping track of what triggered the dissociating into that alter, what their sense of agency is (by sense of agency I mean things like what the alters job, purpose, reason for being created was, what makes them take control, how much control that they have...)

the treatment providers "chart" would be kept in the files.

if the person\ alter that the alter resides with in knows they have DID the treatment provider in my location makes a photocopy of the "chart" and gives the one the alter resides with in their copy of the "chart"

because calling them out or requesting to talk with a specific alter which would be a violation of ethics for treatment providers in my location, it may take a long time to chart the alters. the treatment provider and client (me when I was doing this with my treatment provider before I was integrated) has to just continue on with their normal way of doing things.

the one good thing about this was that there was never a question of what if no alters take control. therapy is talking about hard and triggering things and dissociation in my location is the natural reaction to anything triggering. which means every session I went to there was an opportunity to "chart" my alters.

for those who would like to try the "charting" style talk with your treatment providers. they can help you keep accurate "charts" of you and your alters.

question to LP... Im not sure what you mean by incorporating music, could you explain more about that...