Working Together: Music Therapy New Zealand Te Rōpū Puoro Whakaora o Aotearoa hui 2025

Join the Music Therapy Community for our annual hui - nau mai haere mai

The programme for the day includes:

• Waiata session 

• MThNZ 2025 AGM - all welcome

• Update and discussion on the future direction of MThNZ

• tasty food and refreshments

• Guest speaker: Dr Graham Sattler CEO, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra

• Music Therapy panel discussion

• Musicking together

Earlybird tickets available to 31 August

Registration options:

• all-day ticket includes refreshments and lunch from $50

• afternoon only attendance from 1pm (not catered) from $10

Afternoon sessions - from 1pm

$10 for MThNZ members and unwaged

$20 for non-member / waged

Dr Graham Sattler - 1pm Our guest speaker is Dr Graham Sattler, CEO of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Adjunct Senior Fellow in the School of Creative and Digital Arts at the University of Canterbury (Aotearoa New Zealand). Graham brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise and experience as a musician and facilitator of transformative experiences through music in community settings. 

Graham says, “I have a particular interest in the differentiation between, and collaborative power/potential of, music activity and (clinical) music therapy. My PhD (and subsequent academic activity and practice) focus on the sociocultural impact of group music activity, particularly in marginalised cohorts.”

Music Therapist panel discussion - 2pm Reflecting on professional boundaries and collaborations in music therapy and community music with Katie Pureti, Hazel Barrett, Sophie Sabri, Liz Wallace, May Clulee 吳美珠 and facilitated by Kimberley Wade. In this session Music Therapists will share their experiences of collaboration and partnering with the communities they work with in a variety of contexts.  

Musicking Together - 3pm Music Therapists, Community Musicians, allied health workers, students, musicians, non-musicians tatou katoa

Contact the organiser with any questions.