Creative Therapies in Education Visiting Lecturer and Music Therapist Liz Coombes is off to Bethlehem soon to work on a Music Therapy project in an orphange. The project is run by 'Music as Therapy International' in collaboration with local partners SOS Childrens Village Bethlehem, Canon Paul Miller and Music Therapist Claire Tillotson.
Music as Therapy, sends Music Therapists to childrens homes/community centres around the world to educate and raise awareness of Music Therapy and to provide sessions .
During Liz's 6 weeks she will be teaching social workers and teachers, and other carers how to use music creatively and therapeutically with young children who have either Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties or Additional learning Needs. And this is what Creative Therapies in education does too!
While Liz is away she will be keeping us all up to date through the blog and will put together a presentation on her return. Liz will also be bringing this work to life through our course content in the module 'Working with Diverse Populations' where we look at cross cultural contstructions of health, ill health, therapy and the arts.
Best of luck to Liz and we can't wait for our first installment!!
