2021 imagine Webinar Series
$49.95
Engage in a virtual early childhood music therapy journey around the world! Our webinar speakers are experts in their countries and highlight updates on COVID-19 service adaptions and changes in music therapy practice with young children and their families. The 10 webinars have been live-recorded between October and December 2021. Each webinar starts with an intro video, a welcome note from the host, a 35-minute presentation followed by 10-minute Q&As with live attendees, a closure note by the host, and an outro video. This webinar series is presented by Music Therapy Consulting in collaboration with the imagine.magazine and features authors of our colors of us series.
Instructions:
- Purchase this on-demand package for a reduced price.
- Get a passcode to the 10×50 minutes videos.
- Watch the videos until June 30, 2023.
- Download your “Certificate of Attendance” for each webinars and add your name/date of the recording accessed.
- Claim 10 CMTEs for the entire webinar series under CBMT’s “Other Continuing Education Opportunities” if you are an MT-BC.
- NOTE: Music Therapy Consulting does not take any responsibility for technical issues. This imagine webinar package is nonrefundable.
This imagine webinar package includes:
WEBINAR #1: USA: ECMT Online Service Delivery; Presenter: Dr. Petra Kern; Description: Award-winning publisher and editor-in-chief of imagine, Dr. Petra Kern keeps her promise to share evidence-based information and trends related to early childhood music therapy through various media since 2010. In this webinar, she introduces the 2021 imagine series and takes you to the first stop of your early childhood music therapy journey around the world. Learn about the concept of the three-tiered service delivery model as it applies to telepractice with young children and their families in the USA.
WEBINAR #2: Latest Research: Updates on MT & ASD; Presenters: Dr. Melissa Mercadal-Brotons and Mercè Redorta; Description: Nobody knows the Spanish landscape of music therapy better than Melissa Mercadal-Brotons, the director of the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya and current Past President of WFMT. Together with her colleague, Mercè Redorta, an early childhood music therapy specialist at the NEXE Fundació for children with multiple disabilities, they will illustrate music therapy interventions provided to infants and families in Catalonia during the COVID-19 era. Learn about their adaptations, unique music activities to address specific therapeutic goals, and music-based resources assigned to parents for use at home.
WEBINAR #3: UK: Including Families in Music Therapy; Presenter: Rachel Swanick; Description: As the senior clinical therapist at Chroma, the UK’s leading arts therapies organization, Rachel Swanick works with adoptive families and specializes in assessment of parent-child interactions. In this webinar, she addresses the importance of engaging family members in music therapy sessions with children, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn about emotional resilience, reflective functioning and mentalization, as well as how to work creatively with the family to build a positive sense of attachment.
WEBINAR #4: Italy: Being Present in Online Music Therapy; Presenter: Ferdinando Suvini & Rachel Sweet; Description: The dynamic duo of Ferdinando Suvini, professor at the conservatories of Ferrara and L’Aquila, and Rachel Sweet, music therapist at Empoli, take you to Italy, a country hit hard by COVID-19. In next week’s webinar, they will explore if it is possible to improve our quality of communication with young children during remote services. Reflect on the nature of qualitative relationships in online work – an essential process within this new mode of service delivery in music therapy.
WEBINAR #5: Argentina: Music Therapy with Pandemials; Presenter: Gabriel Federico; Description: President of the Argentine Association of Music Therapy, director of the CAMINO Center, and mind behind the book Musical Journey Through Pregnancy, Gabriel Federico shares stories of families who delivered their babies during the global pandemic. In this webinar, he looks into the ins and outs of tele-interventions with these young families. Learn about strategies that worked and how music therapy service delivery has forever changed in Argentina
WEBINAR #6: International: ECMT During a Global Crises; Presenter: Dr. Indra Selvarajah; Description: With an extensive knowledge of crisis prevention and intervention, Dr. Indra Selvarajah, Medical Music Therapist and Lecturer at University Putra Malaysia (UPM) and Founding President of the Malaysian Music Therapy Association, reveals telepractice experiences gained from her work as Chair of WFMT’s Global Crises Intervention Commission. In this webinar, she provides a glimpse into WFMT’scrises intervention work with young children and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Look into various preschool classrooms and learn about applying culturally sensitive frameworks in disaster response.
WEBINAR #7: Mexico: Music and Therapeutic Resources During the Pandemic; Presenters: Patricia Altieri Ramírez; Description:Lecturer for early childhood education at the Benemérito Instituto Normal del Estado in Puebla, Mexico, and doctoral candidate at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Puebla, Patricia Altieri Ramírez is passionate about music experience and its impact on teacher training. In this webinar, she discusses the adaptations made in working with families of various social-economic contexts. Learn about strengthening bonds between children-parents and service providers as well as challenges and opportunities encountered during the pandemic.
WEBINAR #8: Thailand: Advocacy and ECMT Practice During the Pandemic; Presenters: Puchong Chimpiboon and Dr. Dena Register; Description: The first music therapist graduating from a music therapy degree program in Thailand and member of WFMT’s Practice Commission, Puchong Chimpiboon currently practices in the country’s largest hospital. He works with pediatric patients and children with special needs. Together with Dr. Dena Register, who established the music therapy program at Mahidol University, they address advocacy for continued development of clinical programs during the global pandemic and share services provided. Get inspired, envision opportunities for your work, and develop your own plan of action.
WEBINAR #9: Australia: Creative ECMT Practice During Lockdown; Presenter: Josh Birch; Description:Within 12 months of graduating with a Master of Music Therapy degree, Joshua Birch founded an early childhood intervention music therapy program in Melbourne, Australia, while also pursuing a PhD. In this webinar, he highlights how Australian music therapy practitioners supported families of children with special needs while navigating one of the most severe and extended lockdowns in the world. Learn how to meaningfully engage young children with disabilities via telepractice and how to effectively deliver a music therapy program in settings outside of the family home, including a child’s kindergarten environment.
WEBINAR #10: Canada: Online Sessions for Children with ASD; Presenters: Esther Thane; Description: Accredited music therapist and certified Vocal Psycho-therapist, Esther Thane is the Director of ET Music Therapy and creator of Meet In The Music© (MITM), a cloud-based music therapy curriculum for autism spectrum disorder hosted on UnitusTI by Mundo Pato Inc. In this webinar, she shares examples of online interventions and highlights digital music therapy materials that can be used in telepractice as well as with families between sessions. Take away session ideas and explore a music therapy app that can be shared with autistic children.
