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Friday 12th June, 2020
Kirstin Robertson-Gillam, PhD, RMT, CMPACFA, CMAMTA:
"A Jungian Approach to Therapy using Music and Creative Arts"
Reflections and discussions will focus on ideas expressed in Joel Kroeker’s book “Jungian Music Psychotherapy: When Psyche Sings”.
Kirstin will discuss Kroeker’s six principles of Archetypal Music Psychotherapy (Kroeker, 2019) & make comparisons to the six principles of Creative Music Psychotherapy (Robertson-Gillam, 2014):
1. Perception: A creative act of perceiving sound.
2. Loosening attachment to mastery and liberating expression.
3. Improvisation; Improvisation is the inner state manifested in outer form; “music is metaphor in motion”. The expression of spontaneous composition can be a means for unconscious contents to be communicated, which are currently beyond the reach of words.
4. Sound; Is an image between sound perception and mental imagination regarding affect, somatic response and chains of echoic association. Sound is an “auditory image, a psychological expression of the totality of the self” as auditory mandalas. (Jung, 1972: 20).
5. Active Imagination; Through Musical Images.
6. Holding irrelevant aspects that can lead to consilience.
Robertson-Gillam’s six principles of Creative Music Psychotherapy are under the acronym C.R.E.A.T.E. and are aimed at improving mental, spiritual and physical health and increasing brain integration:
1. C=Cognitions; involves practising mindfulness techniques.
2. R = Relaxation; involves learning the stress response,
3. E= Effort – which involves learning focused attention,
4. A = Awareness – learning to build awareness,
5. T = Talk it, sing it, draw it, tame it,
6. E = Energy flow from negative to positive.
The Friday night lecture will touch on salient points of this topic and will be further worked through the next day, Saturday in a workshop setting.
Dr Kirstin Robertson-Gillam is passionate about empowering people to achieve their potential. She has a private practice specialising in communication disorders and issues of trauma, dementia, Parkinson’s Disease, and general and EAP counselling. She developed her unique psychotherapeutic approach using imagery and visualisation, mindfulness meditation, visual arts, music making and singing from her own research. She underpins her work with psychological theories and current research.
Kirstin completed a psychology major in her BA along with ethnomusicology and musicology majors at the University of New England. She then studied a Master of Counselling at Western Sydney University followed by research in a Masters degree which focused on reducing depression in severe dementia with a choir therapy and reminiscence program. Her PhD is focused on reducing depression in mid-later life with a community choir therapy program.
You can contact Kirstin directly:
P: (0409) 533 466
E: kirstinrg@bigpond.com
W: www.kirstinrg.com
While prevented from meeting face-to-face at Lyneham,
we are meeting on-line via Zoom.
The Guest Speaker's presentation is at 8 pm for an hour or so,
then we resume for questions and discussion, finishing by 10pm.
Cost: Jung Society members free, All guests $10.
Pay via TryBooking: https://www.trybooking.com/BJNNV
(When you pay, you'll receive an email with link to tickets,
which has a link to the on-line meeting!)
or pay via bank transfer:
to Canberra Jung Society, BSB: 012 951 Account: 2141 58567
(Reference your name and send us your email,
so we can give you the link to the on-line meeting!)
Details: www.CanberraJungSociety.org.au
Kirstin Robertson-Gillam, PhD, RMT, CMPACFA, CMAMTA:
"A Jungian Approach to Therapy using Music and Creative Arts"
Reflections and discussions will focus on ideas expressed in Joel Kroeker’s book “Jungian Music Psychotherapy: When Psyche Sings”.
Kirstin will discuss Kroeker’s six principles of Archetypal Music Psychotherapy (Kroeker, 2019) & make comparisons to the six principles of Creative Music Psychotherapy (Robertson-Gillam, 2014):
1. Perception: A creative act of perceiving sound.
2. Loosening attachment to mastery and liberating expression.
3. Improvisation; Improvisation is the inner state manifested in outer form; “music is metaphor in motion”. The expression of spontaneous composition can be a means for unconscious contents to be communicated, which are currently beyond the reach of words.
4. Sound; Is an image between sound perception and mental imagination regarding affect, somatic response and chains of echoic association. Sound is an “auditory image, a psychological expression of the totality of the self” as auditory mandalas. (Jung, 1972: 20).
5. Active Imagination; Through Musical Images.
6. Holding irrelevant aspects that can lead to consilience.
Robertson-Gillam’s six principles of Creative Music Psychotherapy are under the acronym C.R.E.A.T.E. and are aimed at improving mental, spiritual and physical health and increasing brain integration:
1. C=Cognitions; involves practising mindfulness techniques.
2. R = Relaxation; involves learning the stress response,
3. E= Effort – which involves learning focused attention,
4. A = Awareness – learning to build awareness,
5. T = Talk it, sing it, draw it, tame it,
6. E = Energy flow from negative to positive.
The Friday night lecture will touch on salient points of this topic and will be further worked through the next day, Saturday in a workshop setting.
Dr Kirstin Robertson-Gillam is passionate about empowering people to achieve their potential. She has a private practice specialising in communication disorders and issues of trauma, dementia, Parkinson’s Disease, and general and EAP counselling. She developed her unique psychotherapeutic approach using imagery and visualisation, mindfulness meditation, visual arts, music making and singing from her own research. She underpins her work with psychological theories and current research.
Kirstin completed a psychology major in her BA along with ethnomusicology and musicology majors at the University of New England. She then studied a Master of Counselling at Western Sydney University followed by research in a Masters degree which focused on reducing depression in severe dementia with a choir therapy and reminiscence program. Her PhD is focused on reducing depression in mid-later life with a community choir therapy program.
You can contact Kirstin directly:
P: (0409) 533 466
E: kirstinrg@bigpond.com
W: www.kirstinrg.com
While prevented from meeting face-to-face at Lyneham,
we are meeting on-line via Zoom.
The Guest Speaker's presentation is at 8 pm for an hour or so,
then we resume for questions and discussion, finishing by 10pm.
Cost: Jung Society members free, All guests $10.
Pay via TryBooking: https://www.trybooking.com/BJNNV
(When you pay, you'll receive an email with link to tickets,
which has a link to the on-line meeting!)
or pay via bank transfer:
to Canberra Jung Society, BSB: 012 951 Account: 2141 58567
(Reference your name and send us your email,
so we can give you the link to the on-line meeting!)
Details: www.CanberraJungSociety.org.au
