Music as Therapy

Nursery World features Interactive Music-Making

Our Interactive Music-Making Course will be featured in the next issue of NurseryWorld in their column "My Best Course".  One of our graduates, Marion Payne, who is still using her Interactive Music-making skills in her work for the Greenwich Portage Service, encourages others to consider the course. 

Professional Recognition for the Interactive Music-Making Course

Following our recent shortlisting for an Advancing Healthcare Award (the picture was taken at the Ceremony which some of the tutor team were able to attend), we were pleased to also receive the following from Donald Wetherick, Chair of the British Association for Music Therapy:

"Congratulations on  being runners up in your category in the Advancing Health Care Awards 2013.  I am very pleased for you, and it is wonderful that music therapists are achieving such high profile recognition. You are doing the profession proud!"

Project Myanmar Consultancy

We are delighted to be working alongside Israeli Music Therapist, Tsvia Horesh to help her build on her initial investment  at the Eden Centre in Myanmar. Tsvia ran a short introductory music therapy training course there last year which was well attended by local staff looking for new ways to work with children with disabilities who attend the centre. Tsvia approached us again this year to explore ways of further embedding the training. We offered to pilot a structured consultancy package to help her plan, co-ordinate, implement and evaluate her own skill-sharing project. It's an exciting development for us both and we are very much enjoying this new way of working together.

Project Beit Sahour Follow-up visit

 On Saturday 6th April Hazel Child and Teleri Dyer will be returning to our project in Beit Sahour to provide support for our Local Partners. If you would like to keep up to date with how their trip is going then you can view their blog which will be updated during their visit.

We hope your time spent at each of the schools is enjoyable and productive!