Programme

The summer school programme will be realised at Domus Laurana in Lovran which is the oldest settlement on the Opatija Riviera, and it will last for 6 (six) days – from 03 to 09 September 2023.

Your arrival at Domus Laurana in Lovran is in your private arrangement and arrival registration is expected on September 3, 2023 by 5 p.m.
The type of excursion provided by the program that will be offered will depend on the weather.

The summer school will be held in English. No specific musical skills are required.
However, if a participant plays a musical instrument, they may take it with them if they want.
The programme is organised by the Catholic University of Croatia, Department of Psychology, and conducted in collaboration with the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Faculty of Psychology, Milan, Italy.

The summer school is primarily intended for rehabilitators and therapists (in particular speech therapists and music therapists), psychologists and psychiatrists, educators and trainers, musicians and experts working in the musical field with educational, therapeutic, or rehabilitation goals, as well as other professions and students of related subjects.

The curriculum consists of lectures (the purpose of which is to explain the theoretical basis of the rehabilitation procedures to be presented and to describe and give examples of rehabilitation procedures to be learned), practical exercises (in which participants are involved in the implementation of rehabilitation procedures and their adaptation to the areas in which they work), and workshops (personal development – growth workshops, whose purpose is to encourage participants to reflect their own characteristics and characteristics in the music experience process and to build up some professional communication and interpersonal skills with the help of music).

The plan of the scheduled activities is as follows:

List of teachers

• Alessandro Antonietti (PhD, full prof) Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
• Dario Benatti, music therapist, Professor of Musical Techniques for Wellbeing, Faculty of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
• Alice Cancer (PhD, research assist.), Professor of Cognitive Enhancement, Faculty of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
• Ljiljana Pačić-Turk (PhD, assoc. prof), Head of the Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
• Ksenija Burić (PhD, prof), music therapist, Orff music pedagogue; head of Musical Therapy at the Croatian Association of Musical Therapists
• Josipa Gelo (psychologist), Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
• Branko Meštrić (M.Sc.), board member of the Croatian music therapists association
• Ana Haramina (PhD, teaching assist.), Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia

Certificate

After completing the programme, the participants will receive a Certificate of Programme/Summer School Attendance and acquired ECTS credits. The certificate will be accompanied by a document containing the list of subjects, learning outcomes, acquired competences and 3 ECTS credits.