Family Hub - Get Together at the 11th Nordic Music Therapy Conference in Aalborg, Denmark, 26–29 June 2024:

Informal network meeting at lunchtime on Saturday, 29th June 2024! (Info below.)
Come and share your experiences!

If you attend the NCMT, join us at our Round Table:
"Music therapists working with families ‘face the music’ with a metaphorical holiday playlist"

At the 2012 Nordic Music Therapy Conference, a group of music therapists who described their practice as being ‘with families’ gathered together to share their approaches and discuss key issues. Over time, this group created a community of practice originally named the ‘Music therapy with families network’, and which now has evolved into the concept of a ‘hub’ to represent a meeting place for ideas, activity, and professional support. 

This roundtable brings together a panel of experienced practitioners and researchers who will reflect on their evolving understandings of the practice of music therapy ‘with families’. Presenters include members of the ‘hub’ with a diversity of music therapy practice with families across the lifespan, from infants to older adults. Each presenter will select a song as a metaphor to illustrate a key aspect of their practice with families. The song might represent an important outcome, or a principle underpinning practice, or a theoretical perspective.

We recognise the professional nurturing that takes place at conferences when music therapists take a ‘holiday’ from their regular work, and we link this concept to the ways that some families share music together when travelling on vacation. During the roundtable, we will co-create a ‘playlist’ that can be shared with delegates. The roundtable panel will also invite the audience to reflect, discuss, and add songs to the playlist. By doing so, we aim to ‘face the music’, and use these songs as an ongoing resource to scaffold our continued reflective practice.

We will also have an informal network-meeting at lunchtime on Saturday - take your lunch package and meet us at the main entrance of the Musikkens Hus!

Come, if you are interested in connecting to other musik therapists working with families or caregiving persons throughout the lifespan!

Keep a lookout for our logo!