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Music Therapy Foundation Course

Start date:

October 2024

Places:

Places are awarded on a "first paid first serve" basis due to demand

Cost / delivery:

£875 / 10 weeks, online or on-campus

Intermediate: 19 October - 11/14 December 2024

Advanced: 11 January - 8 March 2025

(8 x two hour Wednesday evening classes plus two Saturdays)

Introduction

A programme of experiential workshops will be led by the course facilitator. One full-day Induction (Saturday) and introductory workshop to begin the course to be held until October 2022 with weekly evening classes to follow; finishing with a full Plenary Day to close in March 2023. 

Participants will be encouraged to keep a personal diary of the course, with particular emphasis on their psychological process in and via the experiential sessions.

Reading will be suggested, whilst hand-out essential reading will be provided that anticipates the following week’s seminar topic.

Did you know?

The course will provide an overview of music therapy practice in the UK and follow the psychodynamic model as taught on the Roehampton University MA training.

Course structure

Classes will comprise interactive seminars on various aspects of practice and theory (1 – 1&1/4 hours), including video material, followed by workshop/experiential sessions.

The workshop segment will introduce the elements of clinical improvisation, whilst the experiential portion will provide a direct experience of group music therapy, the balance between these two elements shifting to the experiential as the course progresses.

Outcomes

You will need to complete 70% of the course and the assessment process in order to receive an electronic attendance certificate.

Please note that completion of the Music Therapy Foundation course does not guarantee a place on the MA Music Therapy programme at Roehampton University.

For the Intermediate Courses the Dates are 

Date

Time

Title

19 October

 

 10-2pm

Opening Plenary Day

 

23 October

7- 9pm



 

30 October

7- 9pm

 

6 November

7- 9pm

 

13 November

7- 9pm

 

20 November

7- 9pm

 

27 November

7- 9pm

 

4 December

7- 9pm

 

11 December

7- 9pm

 

14 December

10-2pm

Closing plenary day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the Advanced Courses the Dates are

11 January

10-2pm

Opening plenary day

15 January

7-9pm

 

22 january

7-9pm

                   

29 january

7-9pm

 

5 february

7-9pm

 

12 february

7-9pm

 

19 february

7-9pm

 

26 february

7-9pm

 

5 march

7-9pm

 

8th march

10-2pm

Closing plenary day

 

 

 

Suggested reading

Music Therapy Foundation Course

Introductory Reading List


Music Therapy (Creative Therapies in Practice series) by Rachel Darnley-Smith and Helen M Patey (5 Feb 2003)  pub: Sage

'Music Therapy in Context' - by Mercedes Pavlicevic - pub: JKP

‘The Drama of being a Child’ - by Alice Miller - pub: Virago Press

Please note that the latter two options are encouraged after some experience of the Foundation course & theory.

 

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Intermediate: 19 October - 11/14 December 2024

Advanced: 11 January - 8 March 2025

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