Active LightWorks is a Brighton-based charity that provides low cost complementary therapies to promote well-being and self-reliance in health management. We do this through a wide range of community projects.
Kate Murdoch
07806 489482
Therapies offered
Therapeutic sound
Bio
I am a Sussex-based therapist specialising in music activities for acute healthcare environments, and cultural enrichment, with a focus on wellbeing using harp-like instruments from East Africa, together with voice. I have trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (London), with Musique & Santé (Paris) and in Tanzania.
I have been making music at the bedsides of children and babies in the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital since 2008, including as part of an ALW project. I am now training as a Trainer with Musique & Santé and the Royal Northern College of Music from autumn 2011, and starting a music project for wellbeing for early years children in Hastings, funded by Youth Music.
Therapeutic Sound/‘Musician in Hospital’ is a therapeutic approach (but not music therapy) which uses live music with individuals, or groups of patients, to promote physical and emotional wellbeing. In hospital settings it will usually take place at patients’ bedsides, or in day rooms to assist with relaxation, pain management and respite from anxiety issues. It is particularly useful for patients in isolation, or adults and children who are unable to receive other tactile complementary therapies, for example, patients in HDU. Soothing vibrations (in this case, the sounds of African harp instruments) can contribute positively to clinical environments, benefiting visitors and staff as well as the patients themselves.
Kate Murdoch
07806 489482
Therapies offered
Bio
I am a Sussex-based therapist specialising in music activities for acute healthcare environments, and cultural enrichment, with a focus on wellbeing using harp-like instruments from East Africa, together with voice. I have trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (London), with Musique & Santé (Paris) and in Tanzania.
I have been making music at the bedsides of children and babies in the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital since 2008, including as part of an ALW project. I am now training as a Trainer with Musique & Santé and the Royal Northern College of Music from autumn 2011, and starting a music project for wellbeing for early years children in Hastings, funded by Youth Music.
Therapeutic Sound/‘Musician in Hospital’ is a therapeutic approach (but not music therapy) which uses live music with individuals, or groups of patients, to promote physical and emotional wellbeing. In hospital settings it will usually take place at patients’ bedsides, or in day rooms to assist with relaxation, pain management and respite from anxiety issues. It is particularly useful for patients in isolation, or adults and children who are unable to receive other tactile complementary therapies, for example, patients in HDU. Soothing vibrations (in this case, the sounds of African harp instruments) can contribute positively to clinical environments, benefiting visitors and staff as well as the patients themselves.