President Presents World Music Remedy Week

 

The World Federation of Music Remedy has voted in favor of a World Music Remedy Week (WMTW), to happen from 10^th to fifteen^th April every year. Throughout World Music Remedy Week, music therapists and supporters are inspired to have interaction in actions that enhance consciousness of and advocacy for music remedy. World Music Remedy Week additionally serves to spotlight the worldwide connectedness of music remedy, which may be particularly necessary for growing international locations.

Consciousness weeks are widespread all through the world and supply alternatives for individuals to decide on a day or days, inside the week (or maybe constructing as much as the week), that they may have interaction in an advocacy exercise. In shifting from a day to per week the WFMT doesn’t anticipate that it is going to be needed for music therapists to have interaction in additional duties, or expend extra time and vitality, than we did for Music Remedy Day. Fairly we imagine the week will present us with extra flexibility to decide on a day or days inside the week that we would execute our duties.

The method of selecting a global music remedy day, week, or month that works for universities and different related workplaces and doesn’t coincide with different necessary consciousness days or anniversaries, has been advanced. We’ve got labored laborious to make sure that the dates we’ve chosen won’t trigger additional hurt. Nevertheless, we recognise that there can’t be an ideal answer, and that along with problems we all know of, there could also be extra that we’ve not uncovered. Nevertheless, as a world group, we’ve gathered quite a lot of worldwide views and evidently holding Music Remedy Week from tenth – fifteenth April will present a constructive answer which does the least hurt to our members. We’ve got additionally chosen dates that we predict will likely be straightforward to recollect. We imagine six days offers sufficient time/house for a number of reflections, collaborations, and/or occasions, and permits individuals to show their consciousness to different actions/causes on a selected day/s ought to they select to.

 

Incapacity Day of Mourning

Music Remedy Week will change World Music Remedy Day, beforehand held on the 1^st of March. 

The 1^st of March continues because the Incapacity Day of Mourning. On this present day, the World Federation of Music Remedy encourages music therapists to face by their disabled colleagues and purchasers, to recollect individuals with disabilities murdered by their households, and to replicate on ableist points that exist inside societies, and inside our personal occupation.

We’re deeply sorry for the hurt that has been brought on by the earlier coinciding of World Music Remedy Day and the Incapacity Day of Mourning, and very grateful to the individuals who have engaged with us, helped us to hear and study, and to discover a new means ahead.