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2012 Regional Conference
Pre-conference Institute:
“Therapeutic Applications of Music Therapy across Cultures:
When a Paradigm Shifts”
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
8:30 AM- 5:30 PM
This Pre-Conference will highlight cross-cultural music interventions that have been effective when working with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. Multicultural considerations in assessment, treatment and research will be examined and various methods utilized in multicultural music therapy will also be presented. These include improvisation to enhance acculturation strategies, culturally-centered music and imagery tools to assess ethnic identity, and the use of songs from diverse cultures to facilitate cultural adjustment. In addition, the ways in which therapeutic traditions of sound and music, e.g., Nada Yoga and Raga Chikitsa, can be utilized during sessions will be discussed. Through case examples drawn from a variety of ethnic and racial populations and experiential exercises, participants will learn the application of music indigenous to clients in their practices and training. Recommendations pertaining to music therapy education and future research will be made.
CMTE Credits: 9
Presenters
Seung-A Kim, PhD, AMT, LCAT, MT-BC
Trimurthy Sairam, PhD
Noah Shapiro, MA, LCAT, MT-BC
Sangeeta Swamy, PhD, MT-BC, LMHC
SCHEDULE
| Morning Session | |
| 8:30-8:35 | Welcome! |
| 8:35-10:10 | The Use of Improvisation and Folk Songs in Culturally Informed Music Therapy Seung-A Kim |
| 10:10-10:20 | Break |
| 10:20-12:20 | Nada Yoga and Raga Chikitsa: The Two Eyes of Indian Music Therapy Trimurthy Sairam, PhD |
| 12:20-1:20 | Lunch |
| Afternoon Session | |
| 1:20-3:00 | Receptive Music Therapy Techniques: Assessment, Interventions, and Implications for Multicultural Populations Sangeeta Swamy |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break |
| 3:15-5:00 | Sounds in the World: Improvisation, Awareness, and Clinical Application of Multicultural Music Noah Shapiro (Experiential Exercises) |
| 5:00-5:30 | Questions/Assessment |
1) The Use of Improvisation and Folk Songs in Culturally Informed Music Therapy
Presenter: Seung-A Kim
A comparative study of Eastern and Western philosophies through folk songs and improvisation will be observed, and their implications for Culturally Informed Music Therapy will be discussed. Through case examples of immigrant families, theories of acculturation, and acculturative stress, individualistic VS collectivistic principles are examined with a particular focus on how immigrant clients use music as a medium to better achieve cultural integrity during their cultural adjustments. The culture-specific meaning of health and illness will also be addressed through examining indigenous music. Using music in coping and prevention strategies will be recommended.
Seung-A Kim is an Assistant Professor at Molloy College and an analytical music therapist at Agape School in N.Y., focusing on work with Korean-American families. She received her doctoral degree from Temple University, specializing in multicultural music therapy. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Kim has worked with a variety of ethnic/racial groups and has also been both Academic and Clinical supervisors. Her specialties include Culturally Informed Music Therapy (CIMT), cross-cultural supervision, and Analytical Music Therapy (AMT). She is the author of several chapters in peer-reviewed books and has presented nationally and internationally.
2) Nada Yoga and Raga Chikitsa: The Two Eyes of Indian Music Therapy
Presenter: Trimurthy Sairam
Nada Yoga (“Nada” referring to sound intonation) is one of the ancient yogic traditions from India. The practice necessitates intense concentration of selected sound patterns. For a Nada
Yogi, the selected sound pattern represents the 'whole universe,' nay, his or her own core being. Raga Chikitsa (“Raga” referring to an unique melodic scale and “Chikitsa” meaning cure) evolved from these yogic traditions and is deep-rooted and subjective. The goal is holistic: to achieve an overall state of 'enlightenment.' This assists in developing the much-needed confidence and flexibility in one's day-to-day existence. The resulting benefits a healthy and positive approach towards life are much needed for an individual as well as for his or her respective community.
Dr. Trimurthy Sairam, President of the Nada Centre for Music Therapy in India, has done pioneering research on the ethnic concepts and practices relating to music therapy in India. He received his doctorate in alternative medicine, and has since authored several books and articles on music and music therapy. He also directs an online course on the therapeutic application of sounds and has given numerous presentations including AMTA and World Federation.
3) Receptive Music Therapy Techniques: Assessment, Interventions, and Implications for Multicultural Populations
Presenter: Sangeeta Swamy
This presentation will provide an overview for the use of receptive music therapy techniques in a multicultural context, including how to select music to be most effective with certain populations, a review of existing techniques, and considerations in developing one’s own techniques. Participants will gain a greater understanding of diasporic, transnational, and globalized identities from a variety of cultures using Culturally Centered Music & Imagery, an arts-based assessment tool. The workshop will conclude with a music and imagery experiential, along with case examples of culturally-centered music & imagery interventions among Latina, East Indian, and Maori populations.
Sangeeta Swamy, PhD, MT-BC, LMHC, is an award-winning musician, educator, scholar, and Board Certified Music Therapist. Committed to cultural sensitivity and social justice through music, she has worked with children, teens and adults from a variety of cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds for over twenty years. Born in India and raised in Southern Illinois, she brings a lifetime of personal experience with different cultures, as well as experience teaching cross-cultural communication, and power, privilege and oppression in the expressive arts therapies. She has taught at Lesley University, the Metropolitan State College of Denver, and is currently a faculty member at Duke University. She has training in Level II of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music and is the founder of Sound Mind Music Therapy in Chapel Hill, NC, where she facilitates cross-cultural adjustment music therapy programs for children of immigrants.
4) Sounds in the World: Improvisation, Awareness, and Clinical Application of Multicultural Music
Presenter: Noah Shapiro
We will explore how familiarity with multicultural music is helpful to music therapists as improvising clinicians. Participants will view clinical examples, examples of students incorporating multicultural styles into their music, and will play instruments together with recordings of music from various cultures, followed by discussion. With so many immigrants living in so many countries, and with the wide availability of music from all over the world, it has become increasingly valuable for music therapists to be familiar with musical practices and styles from international sources, sometimes originating outside of one’s own background. Since music therapists often work with people who are not musically trained, the sounds in our sessions may sometimes be unfamiliar and seem strange to us. If our listening and playing repertoire is broad, we can become less likely to judge our client’s music, and more able to relate to them in their playing and tastes.
Noah Shapiro, MA, MT-BC, LCAT is a clinical supervisor at Bellevue Hospital, NY, NY and an adjunct professor at NYU. As a music therapist for 30 years, as a teacher and a supervisor, he has worked with the mentally ill, the elderly, children, students, using voice, guitar, percussion and piano.