Preliminary PDS Program

Time / Experiential Musicking / Integrating practice / Expanding Practice and Reach
8.00am / Registrations
8.30am / Opening
8.45am / A mindfulness approach to experiencing pitch, modes and intervals
This workshop will invite participants to experience the microelements of music (pitch, intervals and scales) using a mindfulness based approach. It will enable participants to reflect on their subjective experience of the microelements and discuss the experience in the context of the qualities ascribed to them in Anthroposophic Music Therapy (AnMT).
Presenter: Arne Schaafsma / Catching the third wave: Key ideas and possibilities
In the last twenty years we have witnessed a wave –sometimes referred to as the ‘Third Wave’- of approaches to therapy that emphasise solutions, strengths, ‘local knowledge’ and collaboration rather than approaches that emphasise problems, deficits, diagnosis and ‘treatment’ by professional experts. This workshop will introduce some of the key ideas from this wave and explore their usefulness in creating hopeful, collaborative and meaningful conversations.
Facilitator: David Lees / Start ups from the ground up: Overcoming the blocks to building your ideal practice
Music therapists are known for creating work with no funding. However, as the job industry becomes more unstable, RMTs have to revisit the skills that allow them to build their work from the ground up. Two senior RMTs will share their experiences of establishing and expanding a large music therapy clinic and a small private practice (and the challenges that got in the way!). Explore how you can overcome the blocks to establishing, building and expanding your music therapy reach.
Facilitators: Jacinta Calabro, Iani Sujono
10.15am / Morning Tea
10.45am / Hip Hop with Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers
Brisbane based Hip Hop artist and community musician, Kim Bowers will take participants through exploring the limits of their voice, vocal improvisation, beat boxing, learning how to write and perform hip hop. Kim facilitates workshops in music making, rhyming and empowerment with young people from Aboriginal/Torres Strait and diverse cultural backgrounds.
Facilitator: Kim Bowers / The musician, therapist and self
This workshop hosts a panel of two current music therapy students and one new graduate RMT. Each will present research and experiences in the fields of musical and therapeutic identities in music therapy practice and professional sustainability. Facilitated by a senior RMT, delegates will be guided through self-reflection and small group discussion on how these elements cross paths in music therapy practice.
Panelists: Tanya Silveira, Max Schollar-Root, Eliza Stubbs
Facilitator: TBC / Measuring the ‘unmeasurable’: Soft outcomes training
How do people feel after receiving your services? These kinds of outcomes are commonly known as 'soft outcomes', and they are very important if service providers want to 'prove' that what they do is having an impact. During this workshop you will learn strategies to work out what you need to know, how you're going to capture the information and measure it, and how to present it in a way that is readable, interesting and relevant.
Facilitator: Bridget Coyne
12.15pm / Lunch
12.45pm / Social catch-ups/networking/Nia Dance experience
1.15pm / Musicking in supervision: Using a music-centered supervision approach to enable, expand, and energise work and practice
This workshop provides opportunities for RMTs to experience the use of music-centered supervision approaches. Individual and group sessions framed by the constructivist approach which use music improvisation as the supervisory tool will be used to creatively explore issues which impact professional practice.
Presenters: Jeanette Kennelly and Angela Delaney / Integrating music therapy practice with developments in neuroscience
Workshop participants will actively explore the application and integration of relevant neuroscientific findings with reference to various fields of music therapy practice (including but not limited to trauma, mental health, human development, family work, special needs and dementia). Relevant theories relate to neuroplasticity, brain development, attachment, the polyvagal theory, sensorimotor integration, affect regulation, trauma responses, and treatment models (and more!).
Facilitator: Rosemary Signorelli / Economics of Therapy
Abstract to come.
Facilitator: Vicky Abad
3.15pm / Afternoon Tea
3.45pm / 40 years young. Who are we? Where are we going?
“Turning 40 is one of the key psychological milestones in a person’s life when they evaluate who they are and where they want to be going.” George Negus
After three days of evaluating, exploring, integrating and celebrating music therapy, we will come together as a team of music therapists to explore the identity of music therapists (as individuals), Australian music therapy (as a professional collective) and the communities of which we work with and serve. How can we strengthen our individual MT identities in order to increase our reach and quality of work?
Facilitators: Christobel Clark, Helen Carrington and Claire Stephensen
5.00pm / Round up
5.15pm / Close