Dr. Heidi Ahonen, Professor of Music Therapy, WLU; Director of Manfred and Penny Conrad Institute for Music Therapy Research, Canada Workshop: The therapist’s and counselor’s own self is a tool s/he uses as a transference object and role model in the therapeutic relationship. They also uses themselves as containers into which a client can release [...]
Dr Jaakko Erkkilä: Pre-Conference Workshop Wednesday, May 25 at 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Clinical improvisation in music psychotherapy Improvisation is widely used as a method in music psychotherapy. However, there are numerous improvisational models in the field (Bruscia, 1987) and it is obvious that clinical improvisation is understood differently among the music therapy society [...]
Dr. Alan Turry Pre-Conference Workshop Wednesday, May 25 at 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Clinical Improvisation: Expanding Musical Resources Participants will have the opportunity to expand their musical resources and techniques for improvising, playing and composing. A variety of modes and idioms will be explored. Focus will be primarily on piano, but ideas for guitar [...]
Music Therapy Improvisation Collective Presented by: Dr Colin Andrew Lee; Monqiue McGrath; Marc Houde Abstract This workshop we hope will provide the seed for developing a music therapy improvisation collective dedicated to providing space when music therapists can meet to share specific musical/clinical/emotional ideas from their ongoing work. The vision of the collective is primarily [...]
Benedikte B. Scheiby: Pre-Conference Workshop Tuesday, May 24 at 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Maximum of 20 participants) The use of Analytical Music Therapy improvisation techniques in supervision as tool of identification of the psychodynamic phenomena parallel process in a clinical music therapy context Music is our finest work tool. Therefore it makes sense to [...]

