CAMT CONFERENCE - KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 2020 - Canadian Music ...

CAMT CONFERENCE
      2020

   KEYNOTE
   SPEAKERS

OPENING KEYNOTE
It's True! You CAN do Music Therapy for nearly half a century!
– My Story
Bernadette Kutarna, MA, MTA

In nearly 43 years of music therapy practise in hospitals, in schools and in the
community in southern Saskatchewan the “Ah Ha!” moments continue to be explosive,
revealing and inspirational.

The SPACE CREATED by each individual, each group, each bit of research, each
conversation with music therapy colleagues, with families and with diverse
professionals, gives way to curiosity - leading to exploration, growth and change for the
individual, the group and the music therapist.

Touching base on people who have experienced trauma, we will explore the trials and
tribulations, the laughter and tears, and the learning, to speculate what is around the
corner in our music therapy practice and how we can NURTURE POTENTIAL.

                         Bernadette Kutarna, MA, MTA
                         Bernadette Kutarna earned a Bachelor of Music in
                         Performance from the University of Regina, major in clarinet
                         and minor in pipe organ. Her mother was a piano teacher and
                         Bernadette achieved her Grade 10 Piano. A Bachelor of Music
                         in Music Therapy from Michigan State University followed in
                         the late 1970's, with her internship in Montreal at the time of
                         the early years of the CAMT.

                        Bernadette holds a Master's in Applied Psychology in Music
                        Therapy degree from Antioch University, Ohio, focussing on
                        music therapy with people who have communication
                        challenges and with youth who experienced civil unrest trauma
                        and who came to Canada as refugees. Her master's
internship was completed in Johannesburg South Africa with the late Mercedes
Pavlicevic.

INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE
Inclusive Approaches to Music Therapy Practice,
Research and Teaching
Katrina McFerran, PhD, RMT

In this keynote, Professor McFerran will explore the changing landscape of music
therapy and the increasing demand for music therapists to be hospitable in their
approaches. She will draw on her practice with young people to reflect on the ways that
expanded ideas about identity have begun to replace more traditional notions coming
from psychology and medicine, which have traditionally focused on fixing problems.
Instead, the recent emphasis in music therapy on resource orientation and contextual
sensitivity has already expanded approaches beyond problems and towards celebration
of difference. However, it is not always easy to apply these ideas in workplaces that
demand evidence of benefits, even as they encourage collaborative and participatory
approaches.

This talk will use case study and research examples to illustrate why music therapists
are changing their practices to incorporate critical thinking. Kat will illustrate how
challenging this has been through her own journey into community music therapy,
systemic thinking, anti-oppressive practices and learning to move beyond binary
assumptions. She will explore how the social movements that are sweeping through our
nations can be addressed in teaching, practice and research, and consider where we
are all going if we move away from traditional beliefs about how things have always
been done.

                        Katrina McFerran, PhD, RMT
                        Dr Katrina McFerran is Professor of Music Therapy in the
                        Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne.
                        She is an international leader on the topic of music therapy and
                        adolescents, and has focused her work on both practice and
                        research with young people across a range of contexts. She is
                        a collaborative researcher, undertaking interdisciplinary
                        projects across music studies and also creating a range of
                        open access materials that may be of interest to all those
                        interested in Music and Health. This includes her work as
                        Editor of the Voices journal, as well as her creation of the
                        MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on How Music Can
                        Change Your Life. Katrina has also focused on the importance
                        of youth voice in her research, relying primarily on qualitative
and participatory approaches, although she has also enjoyed using objectivist
approaches when suitable for exploring different questions. Most recently, she has
established a new PhD and Masters program for other creative arts therapists who had
not previously been established at this level in Australia - Dance and Drama Therapy.
Katrina has around 90 refereed journal publications and has written three books – one
on Adolescents, Music and Music Therapy (2010); Creating Music Cultures in the
Schools with Daphne Rickson (2014), and another on Writing Research Questions in
Music Therapy with Michael Silverman (2018). She has also co-edited two texts, one in
Music Psychology, and another recently released by Oxford University Press, The
Oxford Handbook of Music, Adolescents and Wellbeing (2019).

CLOSING KEYNOTE
The Sound of Silence: A music therapist’s reflection and exploration
on use of self
Carolyn Marshall (Williams), MMT, RP, MTA

This keynote presentation will reflect on personal and professional experiences in
relation to the creation of space and nurturing potential for client, therapist and
educator alike. By providing clinical vignettes to illustrate the consistent use of self as
therapists and individuals, this presentation hopes to provoke and inspire attendees to
identify the “spaces” of “potential” that are presented throughout clinical practice and
day-to-day life.

                         Carolyn Marshall (Williams), MMT, RP, MTA
                         Carolyn Marshall (nee Williams) is a certified music therapist
                         and registered psychotherapist who holds an Honours Bachelor
                         of Music Therapy degree from the University of Windsor and a
                         Master of Music Therapy degree from Wilfrid Laurier University.
                         Carolyn assumed a full-time music therapy position at SickKids
                         Hospital in January 2012 as part of the newly formed Creative
                         Arts Therapies Program. Her inpatient caseload is comprised of
                         patients from the Multi Organ Transplant, Paediatric Advanced
                         Care Team, General Paediatric and Infectious Disease units.
                         Carolyn’s role also expanded to involve weekly individual
                         counseling and group sessions in the Substance Use Day
                         treatment program through the Division of Adolescent Medicine.

Carolyn is a soprano and sang with the 22 voice Toronto based ensemble, “The
Nathaniel Dett Chorale” for over 10 years. Carolyn is passionate about leading praise
and worship and enjoys lending her voice to smaller community projects, or special
occasions such as weddings and memorial services. She is a member in good standing
with the Canadian Association for Music Therapist and served as a board member of
the Music Therapy Association of Ontario from 2011-2013. Carolyn has given several
conference presentations and workshops throughout Ontario and some cities in the US
over her professional career.

Carolyn is presently a Board Member of Hospice Toronto and serves as Senior Pastor
in her local church assembly, Bible Teachers International. Carolyn is a proud aunty and
enjoys spending time with her new husband, family, friends, dining out and travelling.