Jamie Owen Show

To all you blog followers, on Wednesday morning 19th August I will be on the Jamie Owen show Radio Wales, talking about Project Bethlehem and the BA in Creative Therapies in Education. Hope you can catch it!

Learning Arabic!

Just to let you all know the latest on Project Bethlehem.... I thought it might be a good idea to learn a bit of Arabic before going, just so I can say a few basic phrases, and also learn some sentences that might be handy when leading a workshop. Any suggestions as to what sentences might be useful? I'm thinking things like: "Let's all play together" and "Now it's your turn".

A tutor at the Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning has kindly agreed to give me a few lessons, and I've got the first one this Thursday. It'll be really interesting to see how quick/hard it is to pick up. I'll let you know.

Music Therapy project in Bethlehem!!

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!!

New career opportunity for Creative Arts Practitioners

Art Therapist Assistants are now being employed in the public, private and voluntary sectors to work alongside Art, Dance, Movement and Music Psychotherapists. This career path is ideal for graduates of Creative Therapies in Education and also provides a fantastic vocational opportunity before postgraduate study in one of the Arts Psychotherapies. Follow the link to find our more about the work of an Art Therapist Assistant.

http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/details/Default.aspx?Id=515

New Module

Students on the Creative Therapies in Education course will this week begin a new module entitled: Expression and the Arts. More to follow...

Some of our Creative Therapies in Education students hard at work!

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