List of activities

The tailored support we offer was pulled together and enhanced under the banner of our new “Motivation Programme”, guided by our Sustainability Review findings from 2018. This comprised CPD events for practitioners to come together share successes, pool resources and troubleshoot, a quarterly newsletter, enhanced online resources and a mechanism through which individual partners might request specific support at any time.

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Guest lecture to undergraduates at The Academy of Contemporary Music (Guildford), with a focus on project development.

Guest lecture to students on the Masters in Music Therapy course at the University of the West of England, with a focus on skill-sharing as a technique for music therapists to extend the reach of their work and responsible international development practice.

We returned to Abbeyfields, Ballachulish to support staff with their ongoing use of music following the introductory training project delivered in 2017. Sharing successes, developing practice and troubleshooting.

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Delivery of our Interactive Music-Making structured training for early years practitioners in London. Hosted by James Wolfe Primary School and delivered in partnership with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, the course comprised a series of 12 weekly seminars and a practical assignment, evidencing their practice with a Practice Portfolios and a live presentation.

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We offered a series of 3 CPD events to early years practitioners who had graduated from our Structured training. An opportunity to share successes, pool ideas and troubleshoot.

We returned to the care settings who accessed introductory training from us in 2016-17 to assess the medium term impact of these projects and to support the staff’s continued use of music with those in their care. Additionally we were keen to find out what practitioners and their managers felt was needed in terms of future support and/or training.

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We attended the British Association for Music Therapy conference in London, chairing a Roundtable presentation with 5 Advisory Panel music therapists who shared their experiences of delivering introductory training projects in the UK using our sill-sharing approach, with a focus on lessons learned and inviting discussion among other UK music therapists sharing their skills independently.

We shared in the delivery of a conference hosted by Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge) and funded by the Utley Fundation, alongside fellow Dementia and Music Commissioners from Anglia Ruskin University, Methodist Homes for the Aged, Playlist for Life and Music for Dementia 2020.

Our Director was a commissioner working with the Utley Foundation and ILC-UK to explore the existing use of music in dementia care, and collating the wide-ranging evidence for its benefits, including using music to tackle anxiety, depression and stress in people living with dementia.

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