MUMBAI: Australian pacer Brett Lee has launched a music therapy academy in Delhi, as one of the core initiatives of his charity foundation ‘Mewsic’ in India.
Following the footsteps of his former Australian captain Steve Waugh, Lee instituted a foundation in 2011 to help the sick with music therapy and to support underprivileged children and the girl child in India.
Lee said, “Music is widely undervalued as a powerful tool to help people overcome trauma they may have experienced, deal with disabilities and better cope, express themselves and respond to treatment when suffering from physical and psychological ailments”.
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The academy set up in partnership with UK-based non-profit organization, Music Therapy Trust will train Indian musicians to make a difference in the lives of children affected by trauma, illness or multiple psychosocial or cognitive challenges by offering an international post-graduate diploma in clinical music therapy. The course will be led by US based music therapist Lucanne Magill.
“Our clinical music therapy is a much personalised approach in which we assess the specific needs of the patients aimed at improving their quality of life. The five students whom we have begun to train in our maiden post-graduate programme are all talented musicians, but not full-time. One of them is a psychologist who will use the training in clinical therapy. A banker, who is an amateur musician, wants to be a full-time music therapist after training. They will be taught to use music for healing,” Magill told agency.
