List of activities

We returned to spend time with our partners at three schools run by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land in Ramallah, Bethlehem and Beit Sahour, to support their continued use of music following our introductory training the previous year. Sharing successes, developing practice and trouble shooting!

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Furthering our ambition to encourage music therapists in the UK to consider the potential for sharing their skills in this country, we convened a one-day event in London.

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Further Romanian partners worked with us to have their own music training courses evaluated by Music as Therapy International. Once we had approved their training content in dialogue over a number of months, we awarded 2 partner teams “Recommended Trainer” status.

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We were delighted to donate new musical insturments to a local partner who had been using music since training with us in 1998. The request came as she embarked on working in a new setting and needed the resources to enable her to embed music into her work with children with autistic spectrum disorders in Bacau.

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The 3rd delivery of training delivered through our Distance Learning Model, this course comprised a series of 7 monthly tutorials and written assignments, participation in an Intensive Study Weekend – hosted by our partners from the Day Centre ‘Sf. Maria’ in Cluj – and a supervised Practical Assignment. The course can accommodate up to 12 practitioners interested to learn how they can use music within the care and/or edication they provide for young children with disabilities in different care settings around the country.

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In response to local request, we put together a Training DVD as a culturally meaningful way to introduce the concept of music therapy and some of the key principles to a wider audience of people working with children and adults with special needs in Rwanda, as well as being a resource to consolidate our existing rwandan Partners’ understanding of how they are currently using music.

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We provided consultancy and financial support to an independent music therapist, Tsvia Horesh, enabling her to deliver a 10-day Introductory Training course to Burmese teachers interested to develop skills to use music to help children with disabilities in a number of different settings. The training was hosted by the Yangon School for the Blind and the Eden Center for Disabled Children.

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A 6-week introductory training project shared across three schools run by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. Teachers and social workers in the schools in Ramallah, Bethlehem and Beit Sahour were interested to learn how they could use music to support the social and emotional needs of the children who attended the schools.

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The 2nd delivery of our Interactive Music-Making structured training for early years practitioners in London. Accredited by the University of Greenwich and delivered in partnershp with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, the course comprised a series of 12 weekly seminars, a practical assignment and a written assignment. The course was shortlisted for an Advancing Healthcare Award, in the category “Achieving Excellence in Training and Development”

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We returned to spend time with our partners at Public School No. 200 in Tbilisi, to support their continued use of music following our introductory training the previous year. Sharing successes, developing practice and troubleshooting.

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