List of activities

Our newly developed online music and dementia training course, tailored for a multicultural UK audience. The course has been designed to help both home and professional caregivers to embed music into their dementia care provision and will be available for wider rollout in late 2024.

It is the third year that Music Helps is running in partnership with Kshetra Assisted Living by Heritage ElderCare Services Pvt. Ltd. Music Helps is an online tool to make music an integral part of dementia care provision across care facilities and homes more widely in India and for people living with dementia and of Indian heritage in other countries.

The continuation of providing supervision to an identified group of 4 practitioners that started in 2023. These practitioners are known to the Music Therapy Center in Tbilisi, and the centre hopes that their involvement in supervision from an international, professionally-trained music therapist, will strengthen their provision of services.

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We donated new local drums, called Kebero, to Lebeza Psychiatry Clinic and Gefersa Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre in Ethiopia to replenish and add to their set of musical instruments.

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Our 14th delivery of this Distance Learning course and the 2nd year in partnership with Asociația “Sound Art E-Motion”. The course comprises a series of 7 monthly tutorials and written assignments, participation in an Intensive Study Weekend and a supervised Practical Assignment.

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The opportunity for supervision was offered to an identified group of 4 practitioners who were initially internally trained at the Music Therapy Center in Tbilisi. This is following the request of the center’s director, Teona Kacheishvili, who believes the involvement of her staff in supervision from an international, professionally-trained music therapist, will strengthen their provision of services.

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We offered 3 CPD events for early years practitioners to come together and share successes, troubleshoot, and pool resources. We also supported our UK Partners through regular email bulletins, sharing opportunities and new, tailored musical resources for our UK Partners working with people living with dementia and for those working with adults with learning disabilities.

We returned to our partners for a Follow-Up Visit at Hospice Ethiopia, FENAID, Gefersa Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre and Lebeza Psychiatric Clinic to support their continued use of music, see their practice, share successes and troubleshoot.

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We donated new musical instruments to two Local Partners in Romania to replenish their musical instruments.

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After a few years of not travelling to Rwanda, we have returned to support the Rwandan Trainers (Audace Musoni, Fidele Nshimiye and Alphonsine Musabyemariya) with their own music sessions and their other music initiatives.

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