Academic Developments
As recognition of the Arts Therapies grows in Romania, we have continued to prioritise the Academic Development needed to support this.  However this is a difficult area to navigate around!  We are always interested to hear from organisations and individuals involved in the development of related training opportunities, both at a Vocational level and at a Graduate and/or Post-Graduate level, to gain insight into what role Music as Therapy might be able to play in the future development of music therapy in Romania.  Please send us an e-mail if you think your work could be relevant (or ours to you!).
Meanwhile, our provenance is endorsed by the work we have been doing with Greenwich Teaching Primary Care Trust Music Therapy Service and Greenwich University.
Over the past two years we have been working together to devise an accredited training course targeting people working with Under 5's who are keen to use interactive music-making as a way to address developmental needs of children in their care.  This is a very new initiative and we'd be interested to hear from anyone who has been involved in anything similar or who is keen to see training such as this more widely available.  It is hoped that our course will pilot in September 200.  For more information or to share news of other similar initiatives, please do send us an email.
CPD Series:  Working as an international Music Therapist:  Cross-Cultural Concerns
The Music as Therapy Advisory Panel place importance on feeding our experience back into the UK Music Therapy profession.  This year we followed up last year's Continuing Professional Development Seminars ("New Ways of Serving Communities at Home and Abroad") with a one-day event:  "Working as an international Music Therapist:  Cross-Cultural Concerns".  The course was conceived to support the growing number of music therapists who have sought consultancy from Music as Therapy on projects being undertaken overseas and was attended by 28 therapists with experience of working in a number of international contexts. Click here to view the programme.