Tuesday 29 March 2011
BBC Wales Music Day – is there more to music than just singing into your hairbrush?
To coincide with BBC Wales Music Day, Liz Coombs, Senior Lecturer in Creative and Therapeutic Arts and Programme Leader for MA Music Therapy has an article published as part of the Government''s consultation on measuring the nation''s wellbeing. The article focuses on the role that music can play, both in therapeutic terms and more generally, in increasing wellbeing levels. The full article can be found on the website of the Office for National Statistics. http://well-being.dxwconsult.com/blog/
Monday 7 February 2011
Back from Bethlehem
After a few hairy moments while landing at Luton in December due to unprecedented snow and ice the CTIE team made it back in one piece from their Bethlehem adventure.
During the week-long visit, the students and staff sampled Palestinian hospitality, staying with families and in the SOS Village, going to a Palestinian wedding and visting famous sites such as the Church of the Nativity. Additionally they spent some time exploring the Separation Wall, erected in 2003 by the Israelis. Photographs of the trip can be viewed on Tom Bond's Daily Photo (www,tombond.co.uk). I think there may also have been one or two shopping expeditions!
In terms of the practical work, Hannah and Sian were able to run therapeutic art sessions in the SOS School and Village. In organising these, they faced many challenges, including language issues and unfamiliarity with the nature of therapeutic work. However, they both rose to the occasion, and I think the course and University can be proud of the way they stepped up to the plate and determinedly carried out their therapeutic work. I know they worked very hard to ensure they delivered the sessions as well as they could. Everyone at SOS was very appreciative of this, and on the last evening we were all invited to dinner in the appartment belonging to Abu Tamer, Director of SOS Palestine.
Excitingly, while there Liz Coombes was invited to another school in Beit Sahour, a locale of Bethlehem. They have expressed great interest in a therapeutic music programme, and also hosting Newport University students as volunteers in the future. If you would be interested in being part of any such volunteer programme, do get in touch with Liz via her University email (Elizabeth.Coombes@newport.ac.uk).
Watch this space for images shortly to be uploaded
During the week-long visit, the students and staff sampled Palestinian hospitality, staying with families and in the SOS Village, going to a Palestinian wedding and visting famous sites such as the Church of the Nativity. Additionally they spent some time exploring the Separation Wall, erected in 2003 by the Israelis. Photographs of the trip can be viewed on Tom Bond's Daily Photo (www,tombond.co.uk). I think there may also have been one or two shopping expeditions!
In terms of the practical work, Hannah and Sian were able to run therapeutic art sessions in the SOS School and Village. In organising these, they faced many challenges, including language issues and unfamiliarity with the nature of therapeutic work. However, they both rose to the occasion, and I think the course and University can be proud of the way they stepped up to the plate and determinedly carried out their therapeutic work. I know they worked very hard to ensure they delivered the sessions as well as they could. Everyone at SOS was very appreciative of this, and on the last evening we were all invited to dinner in the appartment belonging to Abu Tamer, Director of SOS Palestine.
Excitingly, while there Liz Coombes was invited to another school in Beit Sahour, a locale of Bethlehem. They have expressed great interest in a therapeutic music programme, and also hosting Newport University students as volunteers in the future. If you would be interested in being part of any such volunteer programme, do get in touch with Liz via her University email (Elizabeth.Coombes@newport.ac.uk).
Watch this space for images shortly to be uploaded
Tuesday 7 December 2010
Newport Creative Therapies students to bring festive cheer to Bethlehem Orphans
STUDENTS from Newport's university are hoping their Christmas visit to Bethlehem will bring some festive cheer to Palestinian Orphans.
Final year students Sian Williams and Hannah Davies, both 24, will be using the skills learned in their BA Hons Creative Therapies in Education course to help children traumatised by the conflict through art.
They will be joined by final year photography student Tom Bond, 25, course leader Les Petrie and music therapist and UWN lecturer Liz Coombes.
Liz Coombes, who went to Bethlehem in 2009 on a similar visit, paints a stark picture of the ordeals many Palestinian children go through: "The situation for a child living in Israel and the Palestinian Territories is hard for us to imagine. Children regularly witness violence and the horrific injury or killing of friends and family members."
"An important factor contributing to a child’s recovery from these traumas is the opportunity for expression, attachment and trust that comes from stable, caring and nurturing relationships with adults.
"This therapy can provide the necessary tools to help achieve this.
The team will drive to Luton airport on Thursday 9th Dec and fly to Tel Aviv, then making their way to Bethlehem on the West Bank.
The group will be staying at the SOS Children’s Village and School, a complex for orphans in Bethlehem ran by orphan's organisation SOS children.
Mr Petrie said they didn't anticipate any problems getting across the border to the West Bank “as the situation is pretty stable at the moment.”
Mr Petrie adds the visit is a great opportunity not only to help the Palestinian children but to expand the students' skills. "A visit like this helps them to adapt to difficult circumstances and to show they can work anywhere."
The visit is a milestone for the School of Education as the students going to Bethlehem are among the first to complete the BA Hons degree in Creative Therapies; a course of which Mr Petrie says: "There is nothing like it the UK," adding "the University is set to become a centre of study for Creative & Therapeutic Arts and the therapies in Wales and the West of England."
* You can also follow progress of the team's visit by going to the blog at southwalesargus.co.uk/bethlehem
• By Martin Wade » South Wales Argus » NEWS
Final year students Sian Williams and Hannah Davies, both 24, will be using the skills learned in their BA Hons Creative Therapies in Education course to help children traumatised by the conflict through art.
They will be joined by final year photography student Tom Bond, 25, course leader Les Petrie and music therapist and UWN lecturer Liz Coombes.
Liz Coombes, who went to Bethlehem in 2009 on a similar visit, paints a stark picture of the ordeals many Palestinian children go through: "The situation for a child living in Israel and the Palestinian Territories is hard for us to imagine. Children regularly witness violence and the horrific injury or killing of friends and family members."
"An important factor contributing to a child’s recovery from these traumas is the opportunity for expression, attachment and trust that comes from stable, caring and nurturing relationships with adults.
"This therapy can provide the necessary tools to help achieve this.
The team will drive to Luton airport on Thursday 9th Dec and fly to Tel Aviv, then making their way to Bethlehem on the West Bank.
The group will be staying at the SOS Children’s Village and School, a complex for orphans in Bethlehem ran by orphan's organisation SOS children.
Mr Petrie said they didn't anticipate any problems getting across the border to the West Bank “as the situation is pretty stable at the moment.”
Mr Petrie adds the visit is a great opportunity not only to help the Palestinian children but to expand the students' skills. "A visit like this helps them to adapt to difficult circumstances and to show they can work anywhere."
The visit is a milestone for the School of Education as the students going to Bethlehem are among the first to complete the BA Hons degree in Creative Therapies; a course of which Mr Petrie says: "There is nothing like it the UK," adding "the University is set to become a centre of study for Creative & Therapeutic Arts and the therapies in Wales and the West of England."
* You can also follow progress of the team's visit by going to the blog at southwalesargus.co.uk/bethlehem
• By Martin Wade » South Wales Argus » NEWS
Wednesday 13 October 2010
'Working Ethically with Children and Young People' - Peter Jenkins
Counselling Seminar Announcement:
'Working Ethically with Children and Young People'
Peter Jenkins profile:
• The Author of ‘Counselling, Psychology and the Law’ (2007)
• Senior Counselling Lecturer at Salford University
• UKCP Ethics Committee Member
• Extensive experience of training practitioners about the legal aspects of practice.
'Working Ethically with Children and Young People'
Friday 12 November 2010, 1.30 - 4.30
Caerleon Campus, University of Wales, Newport
Speaker: Peter Jenkins
This is a seminar for those working therapeutically in this complex field
which provides an opportunity to network with fellow practitioners
and to learn from Peter Jenkins, the leading authority on working ethically and within the law
with children and young people.
You will be joining students on the new Masters in 'Counselling Children and Young People'
and the BA(Hons) 'Creative Therapies' programmes.
You will also experience the University of Wales, Newport which has a long established reputation for training counsellors, is recognised for producing ‘World-leading’ research in this field
and is fast becoming a centre for therapies training
throughout the west of Engalnd and Wales.
• The Author of ‘Counselling, Psychology and the Law’ (2007)
• Senior Counselling Lecturer at Salford University
• UKCP Ethics Committee Member
• Extensive experience of training practitioners about the legal aspects of practice.
Limited places are available so book now to avoid disappointment.
Tickets are £30 each.
Tickets are £30 each.
To book a place please contact
Eliza.jones@newport.ac.uk / 01633 432520
Monday 11 October 2010
Bridget gets stuck in on 'Play for Life' Discovery Day!
Playschemes throughout the borough of Bridgend and Cardiff met together
for a "Play for Life" celebration day during the summer vacation
and Creative Therapies student
Briget Evans
was also there to work with the children.
As part of the Discovery Day, children were encouraged and enabled to make dens, rope bridges and other exciting activities for each to experience. Sculptures made from cooled melted wax were also created as a tactile experience and the day was capped with a visit from the Ospreys rugby team.
The Creative Therapies team are keen to encourage students to become involved with working with a wide range of groups in order to broaden their experience and understanding while on the CTIE programme.
Wednesday 1 September 2010
BREAKING NEWS!...BREAKING NEWS!...BREAKING NEWS!...Final Year Creative Therapies students fly to Bethlehem to work with Palestinian orphans...
During December this year, Les Petrie & Liz Coombes will be taking two final year Newport University BA(Hons) Creative Therapies students to Palestine to work therapeutically with Palestinian orphans in the 'SOS Village & School' in Bethlehem. Liz (Music Therapist & Creative Therapies tutor) has been working in Palestine during the last year and the 'SOS' organisation is keen to forge further links with the Creative Therapies programme at Newport University. This is not only a great opportunity for the students to gain experience of working with people from another culture but also to experience working within the culture first hand. This will clearly strengthen students' personal profiles as they seek professional appointments during their last year of the programme.
The work in Bethlehem will add to the learning gained from two of the Creative Therapies modules which deal with diversity related to culture. It will also help to prepare them for their final Placements which will begin after the Christmas vacation and add further quality to their final research dissertations.
The amazing thing about the Creative Therapies programme is that students, when they qualify, can choose to develop their therapeutic work in venues all over the world; never has there been so much need for this type of work. Creative Therapies tutors are now also looking towards Jordan and Portugal for the possibility of future student placement links within different cultures.
Ghanaian Music Workshops in Bristol with Ben Lawrence
Ben Lawrence has been teaching and performing for Ghanaian music for 20 years and studying annually with some of Ghana’s top musicians since 1992.
There are two spaces left on his performance group (Ghanaian drum and percussion) and two spaces for his Ghanaian Xylophone group.
If any one is interested telephone: 0117 9354132
Also, there are 5 places left for a weekend drum course on 24th - 26th September.
Ben Lawrence will help you to develop your music using instruments from Ghana, looking at traditional rhythms and improvisational techniques as well as developing a rhythmic sense and ability to play as a group. Ben aims to set people at ease, giving them confidence in their ability to understand, enjoy and feel the music, filling your head and body with rhythm.
Venue: Ben's Home - 52 Averay Rd, Stapleton, Bristol. BS16 1BH
Performance Group - Tuesday 6.45 - 8.15pm from September 7th 2010
Ghanaian Xylophone - Tuesday 8.30 – 10.00pm from September 7th 2010
Classes run for 12 wks to 7th December.
No class on 26th October & 16th November.
Cost £96 per class. Booking essential as places are limited.
For Bookings phone Ben on 0117 9354132 / 07977904195
There are two spaces left on his performance group (Ghanaian drum and percussion) and two spaces for his Ghanaian Xylophone group.
If any one is interested telephone: 0117 9354132
Also, there are 5 places left for a weekend drum course on 24th - 26th September.
Ben Lawrence will help you to develop your music using instruments from Ghana, looking at traditional rhythms and improvisational techniques as well as developing a rhythmic sense and ability to play as a group. Ben aims to set people at ease, giving them confidence in their ability to understand, enjoy and feel the music, filling your head and body with rhythm.
Venue: Ben's Home - 52 Averay Rd, Stapleton, Bristol. BS16 1BH
Performance Group - Tuesday 6.45 - 8.15pm from September 7th 2010
Ghanaian Xylophone - Tuesday 8.30 – 10.00pm from September 7th 2010
Classes run for 12 wks to 7th December.
No class on 26th October & 16th November.
Cost £96 per class. Booking essential as places are limited.
For Bookings phone Ben on 0117 9354132 / 07977904195
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