Category: Conferences

Oct. 9 and 10, 2013
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI

Music, Mind and Medicine: Creativity and Consciousness in Clinical Care is a two-day event that will present and examine the current state of  scientific, artistic, and clinical thinking around the use of music in therapy, medicine, and education. A group of world class experts, many of whom are trained both as scientist-clinicians as well as highly accomplished musicians in their own right, will convene to meet the primary objectives of the conference:

• The presentation of the most contemporary thinking and “cutting edge” research related to the neuroscience of music and its relationship to therapy, medicine, and human development
• Emphasize the unique social and emotional characteristics of improvisation and its connection to creativity and consciousness
• Development of the most important questions and methods to pursue for future research, clinical practice, brain development, and expansion of artistic expression.

Through a series of presentations, performances, and experiential opportunities, the panel and conference attendees will engage in a dialogue structured to deepen our understanding of all aspects of music production and perception. This includes the musical and extra-musical processes involved with extemporaneous music-making, the underlying neural correlates of improvisation, and the application of that knowledge toward clinical applications of music. Both days of the conference will include performances, lectures, and audience participation to generate a more complete understanding of music, creativity, and improvisation, including its cognitive, emotional, and social implications.

Interested attendees will include physicians, musicians, health care practitioners, educators, music therapists, and psychologists/counselors; generally, those involved with research, music, and/or the clinical treatment of people with developmental, neurologic, and mental health disorders.

Learn more at the Music, Mind and Medicine: Creativity and Consciousness in Clinical Care website. Link will open in new tab.

Click this link to contact us and have your conference or event listed on the Music Medicine Collaboration website. Subscribe to our mailing list to learn all the latest news. Links will open in same tab.

June 23 & 24, 2014 

Toronto Canada

The Canadian Association for Music Therapy (CAMT), in partnership with the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and the Music and Health Research Collaboratory (MaHRC) will be hosting its 40th Annual National Conference in Toronto, Ontario on June 23-24, 2014. This is a milestone conference for CAMT as we celebrate 40 years of music therapy in Canada! We are proud and excited to be hosting both this event and our colleagues from across Canada and beyond!

Music therapy is the skillful use of music and musical elements by an accredited music therapist to promote, maintain, and restore mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Music has nonverbal, creative, structural, and emotional qualities. These are used in the therapeutic relationship to facilitate contact, interaction, self-awareness, learning, self-expression, communication, and personal development (CAMT, 1994).

The mission of the Canadian Association for Music Therapy is to promote excellence in music therapy practice, education, research and development; to increase access to high quality music therapy services; to further the awareness of music therapy in Canada and to serve as an organizational agency for its members (CAMT, 2013). In Canada, music therapists are working with a variety of clients in diverse settings such as: hospitals, nursing homes, schools, community centres, hospices, group homes and in private practice. Our Canadian Association have over 500 accredited members serving the public and contributing to holistic health care and quality of life.

Visit the Celebrating 40 Years of Music Therapy Across the Lifespan website to learn more. Link will open in new tab.

Click this link to contact us and have your conference or event listed on the Music Medicine Collaboration website. Subscribe to our mailing list to learn all the latest news. Links will open in same tab.