List of activities

We were delighted to award a 2012 graduate from our Distance Learning course with a set of musical instruments to support her continued use of music with children, young people and their families in Bistrita.

For the third year, the University of Transilvania organised a national music therapy conference in Brasov, at which we were delighted to present and give workshops to participants from around the country, as well as to attend many interesting presentations given by people across Romania with an interst in music therapy (including several of our Local Partners).

We returned to visit our local partners in Kigali who had taken part in the introductory training provided in 2017, which was delivered in partnership with Hope and Homes. The visit was an opportunity to observe practice, evaluate skills, offer on-site support and collect local views of what additional training or support is needed.

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We returned to our partners at the ARMS Centre for people with autism, to share successes, pool ideas and troubleshoot.

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We travelled to the Occupied Palestinian Territories to undertake the first phase of a 2-year evaluation of our distance learning course “Music for Young Children with Disabilities”. With the help of Sounds of Palestine and Musicians Without Borders, we were able to meet with, interview and observe sessions run by our Distance Learning Programme graduates 2016-18.

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We returned to visit our Local Partners at Public School #198, Public School #200 and the Parents Bridge Centre (Tbilisi) to observe practice, evaluate skills and offer on-site support and additional training, as well as to discuss the development of the new Music Therapy Centre in Tbilisi.

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.

We provided musical instruments to replenish those used by our local trainers in Rwanda, and to continue facilitating, supporting and advising their locally-led training activities.

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A 6-week on-site skill-sharing project providing training to caregivers working in 3 care settings in and around Addis Ababa: Hospice Ethiopia, FENAID and Gefersa Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre.

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