In the 16th Week of Psychology, Pragma invites you to an interesting musical workshop "With music through life: how music strengthens us, accompanies us and guides us through challenges and obstacles" which will be held on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 6:30 pm via ZOOM platform. The goal of the workshop is to highlight the importance of music in the life of an individual, and especially music education (formal and informal) for children and adults. Music, as an integral part of every person's life, contributes much more to our psyche than we are aware of, although we regularly use it to improve mood, motivation and social interaction. But music can do more than that:
"Should our musical culture really exhaust itself only to take a little beauty and peace from music after a working day, full of conflict? Isn't that music here to offer us something more?" (N. Harnoncourt)
APPLICATIONS are mandatory, and you can apply here.
Expert and interesting guests will share their experiences and knowledge in the field of music education, musicology, pedagogy and psychology with us:
Ph.D. Davor Brđanović, graduated in piano from the Academy of Music in Zagreb and received his PhD (Educational Sciences) from the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb. In addition to pedagogical work and active playing, he also engages in scientific work, publishes scientific articles (19), presents at professional and scientific meetings (32), participates in projects (21), participates in science popularization activities, cooperates with civil society associations, is a member of various commissions (e.g. jury of Varaždin baroque evenings), writes professional and scientific reviews, co-authored several textbooks for the subject Musical culture, etc. His scientific interests are directed towards music, pedagogy, music pedagogy and psychology in music. For significant achievements in educational activities - for achievements in the field of scientific and professional work - Ivan Filipović received the state award of the Republic of Croatia for 2020. Professor Brđanović is employed at the Music School in Varaždin as a piano teacher in the title of professor advisor. As a senior assistant professor, he is an external associate of the University of the North (Varaždin), where he teaches subjects in the field of pedagogy (pedagogy, music pedagogy, didactics and curriculum, etc.). He is a member of Matica hrvatska.
Terezija Štimec has a degree in musicology and music pedagogy, and currently works as the head of the music department in a high school in London. She holds an MA in Musicology from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and a PGCE with QTS from Birmingham City University, where she received the Jane Crawford Award. She participated in numerous music camps in working with children as one of the leaders, and she also completed training in the application of the Suzuki musical method in working with children. He believes that music can change people's lives and that music education is an important factor in improving society by making this world a better place.
Marija Granić holds a master's degree in psychology from the association Pragma, where she deals with the promotion, improvement and protection of human rights, upbringing and education, mental health protection and addiction prevention, and individual psychological counseling of young people, parents and adults. Since 2017, he has been working on psychological topics on the Get Healthy portal, and since 2021, he has been teaching psychological subjects at the Institution for Lifelong Learning of the Master. She completed the initial stages of psychotherapy in Transactional Analysis and the first stage of Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. Thanks to a ten-year musical education, she acquired the profession of a theoretician musician with the piano as the main instrument, and also plays the guitar. Conducts musical-psychological workshops for children with the aim of encouraging the development of socio-emotional skills through musical games. Recreationally, she is engaged in dancing, and for several years she was active as an athlete competing in sports dance. Her areas of interest are developmental and cognitive psychology, psychology of music and psychology of sports, and she defended her title with her graduation thesis on the topic "Relationship of music preferences and frequency of listening to music with well-being and stress".
*The program activities of the "Movement" program of the Pragma association are carried out with the financial support of the Ministry of Health. The content of the document is the exclusive responsibility of the association and under no circumstances can it be considered as a reflection of the position of the Ministry of Health.