Interactive Concerts
We provide Interactive Concerts for residential groups and day-care centres for people with mild to severe multiple disabilities. The basis of the concert is a combination of improvised music and repertoire. Music offers positive outcomes, such as releasing emotions and promoting cognitive, motor, social and emotional development. In addition, the contact between the participants and their carers is improved and this has positive influences on the living and working atmosphere
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Training
With our music training programme, we give healthcare workers tools to do more with music in their daily care practice. Family and other caregivers can also participate in our training courses. We always involve experts who are active within the location, such as music therapists, activity coordinators and local professional and amateur musicians.
The concert lasts 1 to 2 hours.
For people with disabilities:
•Improvement of physical and psychological well-being
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Improvement of cognitive, motor, social and emotional development
•Better concentration
•More pleasant and easier contact with supervisors and care staff
For the employees:
• Better working atmosphere and less stress
• Staff gain more self-confidence by developing their own musical talent and musical leadership
• Staff enjoy their work and contact with clients more
• Interactive tasks in healthcare take less time, because clients/patients are happier and cooperate better