List of activities

Instead of attending the World Congress of Music Therapy in person as we have done before, in 2023 we have four electronic Posters appearing at the congress. Three of the ePosters are focused on the use of music in some of the countries where we are active and are co-created with Partners from Georgia, India and Rwanda, and some of our Advisory Panel members. The fourth ePoster is focused on our international Partner survey report published in 2021.

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In 2019-2020, we invited our Partners around the world to complete a survey so we can understand more about the impact of their initial music trainings and in 2021 we created a report based on their responses. We shared the report with our international Partners, which we also translated into 6 local languages spoken by many of our Partners (Romanian, Arabic, Kinyarwanda, Georgian, Amharic and Burmese).

We attended the World Congress of Music Therapy in Japan where Alexia Quin presented a paper exploring how music therapists who have led international skill-sharing projects have been inspired to undertake a series of pilot projects in the UK, supporting and enhancing care practice for young children, adults with learning disabilities and people living with dementia.

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A number of our Advisory Panel of Music Therapists came together at the World Congress in Krems (Austria) to give presentations showcasing our work: Lovell, E. & Rowland, C. Distance Learning in Music Therapy when the distance is 1,555 miles!, Quin, A. & Robbie, J. Introducing Music Therapy to New Communities, Anderson, C. & Haire, N. Sharing good practice in Rwanda and beyond: the role of digital media and Quin, A. & Rowland, C. Cross-Cultural skill-sharing as an introductory training model: Successes, Limitations and Considerations.

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A 3-week project providing training to staff working with the Peruvian charity Tinkuy Peru, helping local children from disadvantaged families in Huancayo by providing free tuition and offering emotional support.

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Co-wrote and presented a paper with one of our Local Partners from Ungureni (Romania) entitled, “A Combination of Expertise: A UK-Romanian Partnership Develops the Use of Music Therapy In Institutions” at the First International Congress of Music Therapy and Recreative Medicine in the 21st Century, Moscow .