An exciting two day event on music and medicine, with talks, discussions, experiential sessions, and interactive workshops:
UCL embodied psychotherapies series, supported by the Music Mind Spirit Trust in collaboration with Dr Christos Sideros.
MUSIC AND MEDICINE: CURRENT PRACTICE, FUTURE POSSIBIITIES
Gilliatt Lecture Theatre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology Queen Square London WC1N 3BG
FRIDAY, 10 MARCH - AFTERNOON WORKSHOP with Calista Kazuko Georget, Dr Chika Robertson and Prof Nigel Osborne.
15:55 Reinvigorating Musical Memories through Sustainable Eco-MAPs (Musically Attuned Performances)
This workshop explored the impact that early and significant musical memories have upon us throughout our lives, from the cradle to the grave. The following questions were explored: Are there common emotional qualities evoked from a familiar tune that can enhance our quality of life? Can any of these 'universal' emotional qualities of music be predicted through emerging technologies, such as those being developed by our workshop facilitators, even cross-culturally? Might these predictions align with personal, individual responses elicited from our own enlivened musical memories? Can both our verbal and non-verbal communication skills be enhanced through musical exchanges? Participants were able to contribute to the Uchi Project's global music memories eco-map and have the opportunity to share, as they may like, their own intergenerational and intercultural musical stories using MMST’s tried-and-tested SongTrees methodology.
Calista Kazuko Georget, recording artist and composer, Uchi Project Director and Young Artist Musical Ambassador (YAMA) Mentor of the Music Mind Spirit Trust
Dr Chika Robertson, Professor of Violin, Royal Academy of Music, SongTrees Director, and CEO of Music Mind Spirit Trust
Professor Nigel Osborne, MBE, composer and aid worker, Emeritus Professor of Music and Human Sciences at the University of Edinburgh
SATURDAY, 11 MARCH - MORNING PLENARY by MMST Trustee, Prof Nigel Osborne
11:20 Music as medicine: three brief essays - on trauma, anxiety and rare epilepsies
These are three short snapshots of work in progress in music medicine: Nigel presented a bio-psycho-social model for mediated work supporting children who are victims of con-flict, with clips of current work in Ukraine, introduced a successful resource on the NHS Recovery College Online to address anxiety and other mental health issues and described a non-mediated musical intervention to reduce epileptiform activity in children with rare epilepsies.