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| WORKSHOPS SATURDAY: Intuitive Dance, Gitte Carlsen Dancing is a possibility to move and express needs and wishes. It is also possible to get in touch with and express feelings like happiness, sadness fear anger etc. and at the same time get relief through dancing. The workshop is about dancing your own dance, being present in every moment and getting a chance to discover your feet, the breath, the heart, the compassion and the stillness in you. We will dance through grounding, fire, water and air, using the breath, the movement and the awareness. Gitte Brandenburg Carlsen is a selfemployed consultant working with communication, leadership, personal development, dance etc. Occupational Therapist with ten years experience from work in Psychiatry, working with painting therapy, movement etc. 3 Years of psychological training and education. Certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication since 1997. Has worked with dance as a gateway to connection on a deeper level both with herself and others since 1998, the last three years with very intensive training. Intuitive Music, Carl Bergstr�m Nielsen Intuitive Music is both ensemble improvisation training and creating compositions for improvising musicians. I deal with the paradox of teaching free improvisation by proposing exercises and analysing afterwards what we did, not by telling people exactly what to play! Exercises may focus on playing techniques, on awareness and group-dynamics. And on analysis of musical sound. - if we can grasp such free music with relevant descriptive notions, we may strengthen our ability to overview it and also stimulate our appetite for playing. In my workshop I'll try to give you a little taste of all this! Since the seventies, I have been active as a composer and musician with such free music forms. Since 1984 I have practised music therapy with mentally retarded people. My experience with intuitive music courses includes teaching at AAU from 1983 and guest appearances for music therapists and other kinds of musicians internationally. Psychodynamic movement, Inge Nygaard Pedersen In this experiential workshop I want to focus on different ways of training music therapy students in developing their skills of being sensitively present in relationship with clients in clinical work in what I call 'disciplined subjectivity'. I will focus on: - consciousness of being centred/not centred - consciousness of setting/opening borders in a relationship - consciousness of the dynamic of the connection of an inner child and inner authority/caring figures I have during many years developed a few simple prototype exercises including movement and voice improvisation, which I will demonstrate and explain. The exercises are part of the students' mandatory self-experience training in the Aalborg Master Programme. I am the founder of the Aalborg Music Therapy Programme since 1982, Ass. Professor since 1986. Trained as an analytical music therapist and a GIM therapist. Since 1995 Head of the Music Therapy Clinic at Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital Clinical piano improvisation, Helle Nystrup Lund When improvising in theatre, the actors are trained to accept and work with whatever idea is introduced into the improvised play by the other actors. In short they are trained to say YES! The same attitude is fruitful when playing music in a therapeutic relationship, the therapist saying YES to the ideas brought up by the client. In this workshop we will work with: Basic improvisation techniques: Therapeutic methods: -melodic, chordal and atonal -accompaniment -jazz style using �walking bass� -matching, reflecting All participants are encouraged to listen and to play. The exercises are REALLY GOOD, funny and entertaining and made to be appropriate for all - beginners as well as advanced pianists. You just have to say YES and come to this workshop! Helle Nystrup Lund works at Aalborg psychiatric hospital as a music therapist, as well as teaching piano improvisation techniques at the University, and working as a musician at a theatre. Along with her degree in music therapy, she is trained as a jazz pianist from the renowned �Berklee, college of music�. Qualitative VideoObservation in music therapy - or the pursuit for patterns of interaction! Ulla Holck, ph.d., lector, Aalborg University. The overall purpose in Qualitative VideoObservation (QVO) is to become aware of implicit knowledge/meaning in those being observed. That is, meaning that cannot be acquired through interviews. In music therapy this approach can be used to analyse patterns of interaction between client and therapist. This can be interaction patterns which take place outside of the therapists awareness, because they are very subtle or because the therapist takes them for granted. Or it can be patterns of interaction that, because of the therapists �blind spots�, are repeated without closer reflection. After a short introduction to the theory and method, the workshop participants will have a chance to try out QVO. First through a common exercise and then applied to videorecordings from my ph.d. thesis on music therapy with children without language. Focus will be on revealing patterns of interaction, and then discussing their significance for the therapeutic interaction. 2 workshops on voicework , Sanne Storm Clinical Voicework Workshop 1,5 hour workshop This workshop takes it�s spring in the setting for a depressive woman, who has chosen �Body- and Voicework� as her therapeutic instrument, - a key to a better understanding of herself and her psychological state and reactions. You will in the workshop experience the different body- and voice exersices yourself, and be presented to how drawing is used as a way of mapping the progress. Let Yourself Sound. 3 hour workshop In this workshop the focus is on the Human Voice. Often we use only a small part of the many possibilities we contain to produce voice or sounds. In this workshop you will have a chance to: - Enter and explore the playing field of voicework. - Examine your voice field, discover or rediscover the enjoyment by making sound and sing. - Explore your voice in all its colours, both beautiful and ugly sounds. - Understand the connection between body and voice, breathing and sounding. - Discover the voice as a key to understanding psychological perspectives. The workshop contains body- and voice exercises. Both workshops are lead by Sanne Storm, MA in Music Therapy from Aalborg University, Denmark. Sanne Storm is working as a music therapist at Psychiatric Hospital, T�rshavn, Faroe Islands, and teaching in �Body- and Voicework� and Clinical Voicework in the music therapy training programme at Aalborg University, Denmark. She has worked with Roy Hart Centre�s Voice Training Methods since 1998, and just completed a two-year pedagogic course in Roy Hart voice training in 2004. Working within an international student association � Juliane Grundt (EAMTS) The European Association of Music Therapy Students has been founded three years ago at a student meeting like this one. Eight motivated students came together for a first discussion about what an association of music therapy students could look like. This Workshop won�t be a presentation of the history and current activities of the EAMTS. This time you will get the chance to actively use your creative potential and find out about your organizational talent. We will play with our ideas, discuss possibilities and difficulties and might form a kind of an �as-if-organisation�. You should get an impression about what working in an international association looks like. What are the most important topics you have to think of? what comes first and what has to wait a little? What has to happen until you can achieve your goal? Questions like this will be explored. And, finally, this workshop could be the first step towards joining the board of the EAMTS. SUNDAY'S SPEECH: "Researching the therapeutic experience of classical music", Lars Ole Bonde Research of the music and the music experience in music therapy can follow many ways and paradigms (see Bonde 2005a). Improvised and composed music demand specific research designs and methods. In this speech I will focus on classical music as used in especially BMGIM (The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music)*, and I will address questions like: " What is the specific therapeutic potential of classical music in receptive music therapy? " How can classical music serve as metaphor of human experiences and relationships? " How can classical music evoke and support therapeutic metaphors and narratives? " How can the influence of classical music on clients/patients be researched? The paper will present material from a doctoral research on BMGIM with cancer survivors (Bonde 2005b). * BMGIM is a model of receptive music therapy developed by Dr. Helen Bonny in the 1970ies and practiced in the US, Europe and Australia. It is described as a "musical exploration of consciousness". In a relaxed state the client listens to carefully selected and sequenced classical music and reports his/her imagery in a continuous dialogue with the therapist. This "music travel" is framed by two verbal dialogues. References: - Bonde, L.O. (2005a): Researching the music. in Wheeler, B. (ed., 2005) Music Therapy Research, 2nd edition. Barcelona Publishers. - Bonde, L.O. (2005b): The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM) with Cancer Survivors. A Psychosocial Study with Focus on the Influence of BMGIM on Mood and Quality of Life. Aalborg University. Dr. Lars Ole Bonde is M.A. in Musicology and Nordic litteratur, GIM music therapist and PhD in music therapy. He has been teaching at the music therapy education in Aalborg since 1991, and was Head of studies 1997-2004. Head of Department (Musicology and music therapy) from 2005. Dr. Bonde has been involved in lots of different research project, in the field of musicology, music education and music therapy. He has also published lots of books and articles; also related to both musicology and music therapy. His main teaching areas are: music psychology, theory of science, music therapy theory, GIM and research theory - and method. |