Conference organized by Kharkiv National University of Arts named by I.P. Kotlyarevsky on January 14-16, 2023, online on the Zoom platform.
The organizers and moderators of the conference are Dr. Julia Nikolaievska, Professor of Art History, and Dr. Irina Sukhlenko, Professor of Art History.
The day dedicated to art therapy was held in collaboration with Art Therapy Force. It brought together speakers and practitioners from the USA, Scotland, the United Kingdom, Croatia, Canada, Poland, and Ukraine (Kharkiv, Dnipro, Odesa). It included the presentation of the Art Therapy Center at I.P. Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv National University of Arts and the student art therapy community (led by Y. Nikolaievska). Students from I.P. Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv National University of Arts showcased videos of their work with children from shelters in Lviv, a children’s hospital in Kharkiv, and children displaced from occupied cities, created during sessions with composer and music therapist Nigel Osborne as part of the elective course “Music and Creative Arts in the Community.”
Conference Program:
10.00 Nigel Osborne (UK)
MBE BA BMus (Oxon) DLitt DHumLItt honPhD Dr.honoris causa (Kharkiv), FRCM FEIS FRSE Emeritus Professor of Music and Human Sciences University of Edinburgh
A REVIEW OF MUSICAL THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN IN SHELTERS, HOSPITALS AND RECENTLY LIBERATED VILLAGES IN UKRAINE, OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 2022
10.45 Olena Pryhunkova, Danilo Lazarev, Veronika Ivonina
PRESENTATION OF VIDEO CLIPS OF CHILDREN’S SONGS CREATED DURING MUSIC THERAPY SESSIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS BY STUDENTS OF I.P. KOTLYAREVSKY KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ARTS
11.15 Jonathan Walton (Croatia)
Musician and computer programmer, clinical trials manager for Х system epilepsy work
MUSIC AND EPILEPSY (USING MUSIC TO HELP NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS)
11.45 Clea Friend (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Musician and community music practitioner
USING MUSIC TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE
12.15 Alexander Pantelyat (USA)
M.D., FAAN Music as Medicine. Medicine for Musicians, аssistant Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director, Johns Hopkins Atypical Parkinsonism Center/CurePSP Center of Care/Co-Principal Investigator, LBDA Research Center of Excellence, Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Movement Disorders Fellowship Program, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine Kerry Devlin (USA)
MMT, LPMT, MT-BC (she/her), Senior Music Therapist, Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Music Therapy: Shenandoah University, PhD Researcher, Aalborg University Kyurim Kang (USA)
PhD, LPMT, MT-BC, NMT
CURRENT RESEARCH AND PRACTICE AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS CENTER FOR MUSIC AND MEDICINE
13.00 Dr hab. Krzysztof Stachyra (Poland)
Prof. UMCS, MT-C, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland, President of the Polish Association of Music Therapists (PSMT)
TOWARDS PROFESSIONALISATION OF MUSIC THERAPY: A MODEL OF TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION IN POLAND
13.45 Olena Lybo (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Senior Lecturer, I.P. Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv National University of Arts, Ukrainian Cultural Foundation Expert, organizer of cultural projects
DRAMATHERAPY AS A MEANS OF ENRICHING SOCIOCULTURAL EXPERIENCE
14.15-15.00 Break
15.00 Vladislava Andrushchenko (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Practical psychologist, art therapist, specialist in working with children and adolescents, Kharkiv City Clinical Hospital No. 16
ART THERAPEUTIC METHODS IN A CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL: EXPERIENCE, OBSERVATIONS, PSYCHOLOGIST’S REFLECTIONS
16.00 Dr Alpha Woodward (Canada)
PhD, MTA, FAMI
MUSIC THERAPY AFTER THE WAR: THE MOSTAR STORY
16.45 Nataliia Myronova (Dnipro, Ukraine)
Methodologist, Higher Category Teacher, Head of the Solo Singing Department at the Dnipro Children’s Art School No. 14, founder and board member of the “Orf Schulwerk Association of Ukraine,” certified vocal coach EFP “Estill Voice” USA, author and facilitator of seminars on creative music pedagogy, head of the methodological platform of art schools in Dnipro
THERAPEUTIC ASPECTS OF THE ORFF APPROACH
17.15 Marina Sliot (Odesa, Ukraine)
Music educator, Orff pedagogue, music therapist. Specialization includes working with children with special educational needs, support groups for parents of children with SEN (Special Educational Needs).
SPECIFICS OF CONDUCTING MUSIC THERAPY GROUP SESSIONS FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS IN CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
The conference was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, the State Agency of Ukraine for Arts and Art Education, with the presence of the Head of the State Agency, Olga Rossoshanska, and a speech by the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Halyna Hryhorenko.