List of activities

The 5th delivery of our Interactive Music-Making structured training for early years practitioners in London. Hosted for the first time by Clyde Early Childhood Centre and delivered in partnership with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, the course comprised a series of 12 weekly seminars and a practical assignment, evidencing their learning with a Practice Portfolio and the option to complete a written assignment.

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We partnered with Musician Without Borders to pilot the use of our Distance Learning Model in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This pilot enabled us to explore the relevance of extending the model beyond Romania with all materials translated into Arabic and tailored to local culture and care practice.

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This 6-week project was delivered in partnership with ‘Hyderapals’, a small organisation already working in the Hyderabad in a number of schools and centres across the city. Led by an Indian music therapist, we provided training to teachers at Patashala Primary School and staff at the ARMS Centre for children and adults with autism.

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We returned to our partners at Public School No.198 and staff at the Parent’s Bridge centre for children and adults with learning disablities in Tbilisi for a week, to support their developing use of music with the children who attend the school. Sharing successes, developing practice and troubleshooting.

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We visited our Local Partners in Cyangugu to support their practice and help them prepare to share their experiences at the proposed Conference and launch of the Tubakunde Exchange initiative. The participating partners were left ready to host the exchange visits later in the year.

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Launched with a Conference held for 70 Local Partners and Tubakunde Network members this initiative was designed to enable members of the Tubakunde Network – a group of organisations working with people with disabilities across Rwanda – to visit our Local Partners in Cyangugu, observe their music work, access a music therapy training DVD we have produced and receive a small starter pack of musical instruments.

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We attended a conference held by Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Our contribution was a roundtable alongside people from other organisations, where we considered together “What is the relevance of skill-sharing to music therapists working in the field of dementia care?”

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Marking the 20th Anniversary of our pilot project in Romania, we brought together 70 of our Local Partners and other key influencers for a celebration of all that had changed, sharing of good practice and building links between academics and practitioners to think about what lies ahead. Local Partners presented their work (papers and poster displays) and Advisory Panel members shared clinical work from the UK. The papers were published in Romanian for wider dissemination.

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The 6th 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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We convened our first CPD event for early years practitioners who had graduated from the Interactive Music-Making programme. An opportunity to share successes, pool ideas and troubleshoot.