Scotland

Patient dignity is a central theme of the New South Glasgow Hospitals.

The selected artist, designer or team undertaking this project will develop a vital element of the Working Well, People and Spaces Therapeutic Design and Art Strategy for the New South Glasgow Hospitals.

Focused on approximately 70 rooms across the Hospitals, variously called quiet, relatives and family rooms, this project aims to create dignified spaces for waiting and the important conversations between staff, patients, and families/carers.

A symposium showing the breadth of clinical practice within the charity and celebrating 15 years of work in Scotland.

There will be a varied programme of presentations, case studies and practical workshops, intended to appeal to all those who have an interest in music therapy.

A series of four intensive professional development workshop weekends offering perspectives from Dance Movement Psychotherapy.

These intensive weekends aim to:

   * Introduce selected aspects of the discipline of dance movement psychotherapy

   * Support the development of awareness of relational and personal issues in non-verbal communication

   * Offer embodied knowledge of therapeutic practices with children and adults with diverse abilities to professionals from diverse backgrounds

QMU is currently actively recruiting for two courses (MSc and short course introduction to the subject) starting in October 2011.