News - 2017

So pleased to hear from Lindsay and Hannah, that the Training for Trainers project was a success. The Local Partners who took part in this short course earlier in the week are today running their own training for 7 local staff working in different centres for... Read on

Georgiana Savin is a Romanian psychotherapist who completed our Distance Learning Programme in 2015. At that time she was working in a Special School in Cluj, where she ran music sessions until 2016. Georgiana still volunteers at the school, but she also has her... Read on

Today sees the start of our Blended Learning Programme in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. We are delighted to be working in partnership with Musicians without Borders to offer this introductory training in how music can be used with young children with disabilities... Read on

Our International and UK Programme Manager, Lindsay McHale, and our Rwanda Programme Officer, Hannah Hulin, have arrived in Kamembe, Rwanda. They will spend a week here delivering training for staff who work with children with disabilities. Thank you to @rwanda_aid... Read on

Taking a look at Jane Robbie's 17 years working for Music as Therapy International - the experiences, the changes - and what the future has to bring for her and the charity (with special thanks to our Ambassador, Kate Robinson for capturing this story) Jane... Read on

On Friday 3rd March we went back to visit the team at Waterways Children's Centre in Thamesmead, South East London. It was such a delight to observe the practitioners running the Interactive Music-Making (IMM) Groups with such enthusiasm and ownership. Having... Read on

We are delighted to launch a new resource born out of our work in Romania, Rwanda and Georgia last year, but highly relevant to music therapists, students, educators, health professionals and the wider public worldwide: Our Research Summary is a unique 175-page... Read on

Enormous thanks to Newton Prep Parents' Association for sharing the proceeds of their recent Quiz Night with Music as Therapy International. Their generosity will almost cover the cost of one whole Interactive Music-Making Award, introducing interactive music... Read on

Film-maker Charlotte Mackie is in the middle of travelling around the UK to capture the experiences of the amazing staff who have participated in our training projects here on home soil, and the people they work with. This footage will be turned into a short film... Read on

Our Interactive Music-Making Learning Programme for Early Years practitioners will run again from September 2017. Visit www.interactivemusicmaking.org for more information on the approach and the training we offer. Only last month we heard from one of our graduates... Read on