When: Saturday, September 11 from 1:30 - 3:30 pm. Informal reception follows the workshop.

Location: Mountainview Room, Fairhaven United Church Home (Burnaby site), 4383 Rumble Street, Burnaby (nearest cross street is Sussex). Street parking available.

MTABC members have complimentary registration to this workshop. Non-members welcome at a registration cost of $35.

Workshop description:

As Music Therapists, following our primary service to our clients and patients, we serve two accountability systems -- clinical and educational standards and the musical or artistic standards. In this workshop, we will take time to pause and reflect on how well we are doing as artists in our profession. Sometimes the urgency of the clinical work with our clients can over shadow the artist within each and every one of us. We might forget that imagination and creativity are at the core of our work.

How can we nurture our artistic natures so that we can serve our clients and our two accountability systems equally? The Field of Play, a set of theoretical ideas that can help to nurture our consciousness as artists and healers, will be briefly described. Then we will engage in a dialogue about how to use these theoretical ideas. Finally, we will engage in musical improvisations that give us an experiential sense of the benefits of the artists within ourselves and our clients.

Bio

Carolyn Kenny began her work in Music Therapy in 1969 and has worked with people from age 3 - 102 over the course of her career. She founded the first Music Therapy program in Canada with Nancy McMaster and the first Master of Music Therapy program in Canada. She has conducted presentations in many places around the world and published books and articles about Music Therapy and Indigenous Studies. Her book, "Music and Life in the Field of Play: An Anthology", published by Barcelona Publishing Company is a collection of many of the written works she has created over the last 30 years.

Her most recent publication about Music Therapy is a chapter in an upcoming book about Music Therapy and Trauma. Her chapter is entitled "Belonging: The Art of Social Becoming". This chapter describes her work with a young adolescent girl who was the victim of bullying in her school. Currently, she works as a Professor of Human Development and Indigenous Studies in the Antioch University Ph.D. in Leadership and Change. She lives in Santa Barbara, California and tries to visit Canada (her second home) as often as possible!

For further information, please contact Emily Teng, Professional Development coordinator at: profdev@mtabc.com.