List of activities

We returned to our partners at the Noel de Nyundo Orphanage and Ubumwe Community Centre, beneficiaries of our Introductory Training Project in 2014, to share their successes, provide professional guidance and trouble shoot within a 1-week follow-up visit.

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The 4th delivery of our Interactive Music-Making structured training for early years practitioners in London. Accredited by the University of Greenwich and delivered in partnership with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, the course comprised a series of 12 weekly seminars, a practical assignment and a written assignment.

We contributed to and presented at a conference on ‘Education and parenting’ in Oradea, Romania.

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A 2-year research project to identify the potential role for Music as Therapy International here in the UK. This ultimately led to the launch of our Bringing It All Back Home Programme in 2016.

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We returned to our partners at Public School N.200 (Tbilisi) for a short visit to provide professional support to the teachers who had continued using music since originally receiving training from us in 2011.

Shared across two settings in Tbilisi, this 6-week training project provideed training to teachers at Public School No.198 and staff at the Parent’s Bridge centre for children and adults with learning disablities in Tbilisi.

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The 5th 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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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 6-week project, delivered in partnership with Hope and Homes and The Gallagher Trust, providing training to staff caring for children and young adults with disabiltieis at the Noel de Nyundo Orphanage and Ubumwe Community Centre in Gisenyi, near Rwanda’s border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This project had been deferred from 2013 as a result of local unrest.

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Our Director, Alexia Quin, was invited to give one of the key note presentations at this year’s British Association for Music Therapy conference, held in Birmingham. Her paper was entitled “Embedding Innovation into the Counterpoint of Music Therapy Practice Today” and was subsequently published in the British Journal of Music Therapy.

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