Join us for an introduction to music therapy with Alex Brown, our community-based music psychotherapist, at Taigh Chearsabhagh.
Alex will facilitate an experiential music therapy workshop, designed to explore a range of approaches including vocal exercises, image making, and guided imagery with music. As part of the morning’s activities, Alex will also speak about his practice and answer any questions you may have about being a music therapist.
Alex trained as a music therapist in London, and went on to work in the community with a group of psychoanalysts called the Psychosis Therapy Project, as well as in psychiatric hospitals. Alex is particularly interested in non-corrective ways of working with mental illness and neurodivergence, and often adopts Jungian frameworks to reflect on the therapeutic process. Alex moved to Uist in summer 2022 and began practising as a music therapist across the community.
This workshop is for anyone interested in arts therapies as a career development, people working in therapy-adjacent roles (e.g. care settings, support workers), creatives working in participatory or relational settings, and anyone who would like to know more about how music therapy works. The workshop will be a safe and confidential space in which to learn, as well as a creatively generative space.
Refreshments will be provided, as will all the materials required for the workshops.
Please register through our ticketing system below using the Pay What You Decide pricing options. There is a travel bursary available to help cover fuel or public transport costs, which you can request by emailing susannah@taigh-chearsabhagh.org
If you are keen to attend this event, but cannot make the date, please register your interest by emailing susannah@taigh-chearsabhagh.org in case we reschedule or repeat this workshop.
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This workshop is part of a Culture Collective legacy fund, bringing together our aims of improving mental health and wellbeing in the community as well as supporting creative professional development opportunities locally. The legacy funding is a counterpart to the Even Here, Even Now programme we have hosted since late 2024.
Even Here, Even Now is a campaign and manifesto advocating for island-based artists in Scotland, supported by An Lanntair, Shetland Arts, Taigh Chearsabhagh, and Pier Arts Centre. Find out more about Even Here, Even Now here: https://www.shetlandarts.org/projects/even-here-even-now