International conference

"MUSIC THERAPY IN EUROPE AND LATVIA"

GRIETA PĪRĀGA

"The purpose of the presentation is to update palliative and hospice care in Latvia, as well as the volunteer movement of the hospice care system. I will share stories about various actions of the Hospiss LV foundation, in which I have participated both as a volunteer and as a music therapist. I will update the topic of humanity in hospice care"

Music therapist. PhD. at the University of Salamanca, Faculty of Medicine. Doctoral thesis on Burnout Syndrome in music therapists in Spain. Specialized in Music Therapy and Geriatrics and Neurorehabilitation. Co-director of Huella Sonora Music Therapy. President of the Spanish Scientific Society of Music Therapy. His activity is focused on clinical intervention, training and research.   He participates as a speaker at numerous national and international conferences. He coordinates the Master of Music Therapy at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Extremadura. Trainer specialized in Burnout Syndrome, Geriatrics, disability and business vision in Music Therapy and self experience in Universities, Associations and public-private centers

Nicky Roland has been integrating art therapy and mindfulness since 2014. She qualified as an art therapist in 2008 and a mindfulness teacher 2014, and her passion is bringing the two modalities together. The core values embedded in her approach include inviting kindness and care, encouragement of non-judgemental responses, patience in allowing change to occur, and appreciation and recognition of how we are in the present moment.

Nicky works face-to-face in East Sussex and London (and online). She sees clients individually and offers a weekly online art therapy and mindfulness group. She is a supervisor and trainer, and offers CPD training with organisations which include: London Art Therapy Centre, British Association of Art Therapists and Hertfordshire University. She has presented at conferences internationally. She has previously worked within the NHS and the voluntary sector.

Jeannette MacDonald

She was a member of the first Executive Council at the inception of ADMP UK in 1982 and has twice chaired the Association.

Jeannette teaches and lectures nationally and internationally and is currently a core tutor on the DMT Masters Course, Codarts, Rotterdam. She is visiting lecturer for Masters’ Courses in Barcelona, Warsaw, Zagreb, Beijing and Shanghai. Jeannette teaches in Lisbon at Psinove Psychotherapy Clinic. She teaches for Apollo Education in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou and for the Beijing Dance Academy and Beijing University. She has published several book chapters and peer reviewed articles and continues to maintain a private therapy, supervision and consultancy practice. She is a regular contributor to national and international conferences. Jeannette is the ADMP UK deputy delegate to the European Association for Dance Movement Therapy and a Senior Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Jeannette maintains strong links with the dance profession and is a Life Member of the Royal Academy of Dance and a Practical Teaching Supervisor on its teaching courses.

She is a registered member of UKCP:

Jeannette is available for clinical supervision, personal therapy, course consultancy in London, Exeter and Rotterdam. Email for initial free consultation. [email protected]

Andželika Postu

A pianist and music therapist, is the founder of the Romanian Music Therapy Association. She works as a music therapist at the Charité University Hospital for Psychiatry in Berlin and is a PhD student at the University of the Arts in Berlin, researching music therapy in Romania from an ethnographic and academic point of view. As an associate lecturer, Angelica Postu teaches Introduction to Music Therapy seminars at the National University of Music in Bucharest and at the "Gheorghe Dima" Music Academy in Cluj.

PhD, is a music therapist and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University (Denmark). He is a teacher of the Bachelor, Master and PhD music therapy programs at the same university. He is accredited as a music therapist by the Portuguese Association of Music Therapy (APMT) and the country representative of Denmark in the European Music Therapy Confederation (EMTC). Dr Gattino is the editor of the Portuguese Journal of Music Therapy (RPM). He is a member of the International Music Therapy Assessment Consortium (IMTAC) and also a member of the Publications Commission of the World Federation of Music Therapy (WFMT) [[email protected]]

Loreta Kačiušytė Skramtai 

Doctor of Social Sciences, Master of Health Sciences (Music therapy)

Snieguolė Dikčiūtė  

composer, a doctoral student at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.

Ieva Ergle

Graduated dance and movement therapist, psychotherapy specialist (psychoorganic analysis). Co-author of the book "Art therapy" (2011). Works with adults in groups at the "Eating Disorders Resource Center" and individually in the private practice.

(LDTA (Latvia Dramatherapy Association))

 Dramatherapist, Supervisor, Actress, Lecturer

Master degree in Health Care (Arts therapist with specialization Dramatherapy)(Riga Stradins University), certified dramatherapist (registered with the Ministry of Health). Certified supervisor.

Lecturer in  The Arts Therapy programme at Riga Stradiņš University.. 

Private practice..

Work experience: Mental health care hospital “Gintermuiza” (psychiatry), RIGA EAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (HIV/AIDS, rehabilitation)

Conducted dramatherapy workshops in Greece, Germany and Great Britain.

BA in Theatre actressStudies and still works as a freelance actress.