the toolkit: Improv w/ Shanda Bezic – Red Nose Remedy
“the toolkit” is a workshop series designed to bring together a community of like-minded artists who use their practices to serve the greater good.
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HeART Care Symposium (2024)
MAC was proud to be a part of the HeART Care Symposium in November 2024, presented by the Ottawa Art Gallery.
Resource: Craft Psychology: How crafting promotes health, Book (Dr Anne Kirketerp)
‘Craft Psychology’ by Dr. Anne Kirketerp explains the science and psychology behind crafting and its effects on health and wellbeing.
Resource: Group drumming as a burnout prevention initiative among staff members at a child and adolescent mental health care facility (South African Journal of Psychology)
The research concludes that drumming and recreational music-making groups may represent a potentially powerful and cost-effective burnout reduction strategy, particularly within the context of public mental health in South Africa.
Resource: Recreational Music-Making: A Cost-Effective Group Interdisciplinary Strategy for Reducing Burnout and Improving Mood States in Long-Term Care Workers (Advances)
Research that concludes Recreation Music-Making reduces burnout and mood dimensions, as well as TMD, in long-term
care workers.
Resource: Group drumming and well-being: A promising self-care strategy for social workers (Arts & Health)
Research that concludes recreational drumming is a promising group-oriented self-care strategy among social workers, who often hold high-stress occupations.
Resource: Comfort Sound Drumming: Successfully adapting the traditional drum circle for hospitalized cancer patients and their caregivers (John R. Beck)
The article discusses the use of interactive group drumming among hospitalized cancer patients, specifically hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients, and the positive impact this approach has had on patients as shown in a pilot study conducted in Wake-Forest Baptise Medical Center in North Carolina.
Resource: The effects of group improvisational music therapy on depression in adolescents and adults with substance abuse: a randomized controlled trial (Nordic Journal of Music Therapy)
Research on the effect of group improvisational music therapy on depression in adolescents and adults with substance abuse.
Resource: Therapeutic Potential of a Drum and Dance Ceremony Based on the African Ngoma Tradition (Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine)
Research on the benefits of drum and dance ceremonies based in the African Ngoma Tradition.
Resource: African drumming: a holistic approach to reducing stress and improving health? (Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University)
Research on Djembe drumming. Findings include that Djembe drumming may improve cardiovascular health and at the same time may decrease stress and anxiety levels.