Music can touch people deeply, and lead to wellbeing as an all-encompassing word for everything that makes life worth living, or at least can make it liveable. Musicians can play an important role in these processes, not as pseudo-therapists, but from their own artistic identity, with an approach in …

This paper seeks to understand the role of valuing in urban live music ecologies. It explains how multiple actors (e.g. directors of music venues, musicians, policy-makers, and real estate experts) in Dutch live music ecologies negotiate the different values of live music. To examine this dynamic, we …

Literature Based Presentation

Lecture for the master students of the interprofessional CRASH programme focusing on promoting arts and wellbeing in societies.

Presentatie voor cultuurcoaches van verschillende wijken van de stad Groningen over het project Hoor je ons?, met als doel kennismaking en verkenning mogelijkheden op het gebied van verduurzaming en doorwerking van het initiatief en valorisatie van de onderzoeksresultaten.

Paneldiscussie in het Forum Groningen met live publiek en livestream.

Introduction: Depression can be a serious problem in young adult students. There is a need to implement and monitor prevention interventions for these students. Emotion-regulating improvisational music therapy (EIMT) was developed to prevent depression. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility …

Empirical studies in the creative arts therapies (CATs; i.e., art therapy, dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, psychodrama, and poetry/bibliotherapy) have grown rapidly in the last 10 years, documenting their positive impact on a wide range of psychological and physiological outcomes …