The Laurier Milton Lecture Series will return this April with a presentation on the healing properties of music and the role it can play in mental health.
The lecture, entitled “Music for Mental Health in Therapy and Everyday Life”, will be delivered by Elizabeth Mitchell, a professor at Wilfred Laurier University’s Faculty of Music and the Coordinator for the school’s Bachelor of Music Therapy program. Mitchell’s presentation will include research, as well as examples from her practice, on the benefits that engaging with music, both through performance and listening, can have for mental health.
The lecture will also contain advice for participants on how to use music in their everyday lives to improve their mental wellness. Mitchell has been teaching and practising clinically at Laurier since 2007, serving as the university’s first Music Therapist-in-Residence.
The Laurier Milton Lecture Series is a collaboration between WLU and the Milton Public Library, with the goal of providing new, educational ideas to Milton citizens. The series launched in September, and it has included topics like “How the Canadian Army saved Halifax after the 1917 Explosion” and “Designing a Better World – One Experience at a Time”.
Academic events like these, often advertised through poster printing and social media, are open to the public, as well as students and the faculty. The lectures are delivered virtually through the Zoom platform.
Music for Mental Health will be broadcast over Zoom on the evening of April 14. As with the other lectures in the series, it will be available as a recording afterwards.
