{"id":5451,"date":"2018-04-03T11:05:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T10:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/school.chethams.com\/?p=5451"},"modified":"2018-04-03T16:12:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T15:12:55","slug":"students-learn-more-about-music-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/blog\/students-learn-more-about-music-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Learn More About Music Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last term, fifteen Sixth Form students took part in a course introducing them to the world of music therapy. The course was led by music therapist, Holly Dickson, in partnership with leading\u00a0charity, Nordoff Robbins<\/a>, whose goal is to ‘change lives through music’.<\/p>\n

The students were interested in the course for various\u00a0reasons, from\u00a0exploring\u00a0potential career options to understanding\u00a0prior\u00a0experience of using music\u00a0to communicate with elderly relatives.<\/p>\n

Consisting of a series of evening sessions, students\u00a0learnt about the\u00a0origins and ethos of music therapy, engaged in\u00a0practical improvisation work to begin to see how music can have a positive impact on someone with, for example, learning difficulties or dementia,\u00a0reflected\u00a0on the\u00a0relationship between therapist and client and explored\u00a0the psychology involved.<\/p>\n

The course culminated in students working with music therapists in a variety of places, including care homes, refugee centres and special schools, incorporating sessions for both\u00a0individuals and groups.<\/p>\n

Not only did students come away from every session inspired and excited by what they’d learnt, they also impressed the music therapists they worked with, who were full of praise for them\u2026<\/p>\n

It was wonderful to involve students from Chetham\u2019s recently in some of my music therapy sessions.\u00a0 They were sensitive and attentive to what was happening, and we chatted in between sessions about why what they were witnessing was significant for the individual receiving therapy. It wasn\u2019t long before I was throwing them in the deep end, asking them to play alongside students with varying learning and developmental difficulties \u2013 I think they forgave me for it though!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was great to have the students participate in my work at this care home.\u00a0 They were enthusiastic and keen to apply the principles they had learnt during the school-based workshops in \u2018real life\u2019 music therapy settings. \u00a0Both students eagerly took up the challenge of making music with people living with dementia in many different ways, and their presence brought\u00a0exciting new musical ingredients and possibilities into the sessions!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We had a great session with three youngsters who have autism; having the three Chetham\u2019s students there was super, as they could model some solo playing!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Having the Chetham’s students in school with us was great. They each brought along their own musical skills and very bravely\u00a0jumped in at the deep end to make music in sessions, to my clients\u2019 great delight!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congratulations to all the students involved!<\/p>\n

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Last term, fifteen Sixth Form students took part in a course introducing them to the world of music therapy. The course was led by music therapist, Holly Dickson, in partnership with leading\u00a0charity, Nordoff Robbins, whose goal is to ‘change lives through music’. The students were interested in the course for various\u00a0reasons, from\u00a0exploring\u00a0potential career options to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":5452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-outreach"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5457,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions\/5457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}