BSc (Hons), PhD (Macq); MA (Ohio State Univ); Grad Dip Mus Ther (UTS), Cert.Adv.Grad.Stud.in Expr.Arts Ther., (European Grad.School)

Lecturer
Academic area: Education: Music Therapy

Telephone: +61 2 9514 5254
Email: Rosemary.Faire@uts.edu.au
Room: K2.422
Campus: Kuring-gai

Professor Rosemary Faire is a university educator and therapist whose career has spanned biology, somatic education, music therapy and expressive arts therapy. She has designed and run courses in tertiary and adult education settings since 1981, and has over twenty years experience working with individuals and groups in the contexts of personal development, movement therapy, music therapy, and community arts.

Rosemary co-ordinates the FASS Master of Arts in Music Therapy course, lecturing in Music Therapy and Integrated Arts Therapy core subjects, and the electives Verbal and Body Psychotherapies and The Arts in Supervision and Self Work. She is a Registered Music Therapist with the Australian Music Therapy Association (AMTA), and a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist with the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA). Her work as a therapist has been centred on mental health and community music therapy.

Research Areas:

• the integration of Intermodal Expressive Arts Therapy self care resources into Music Therapy training and supervision;
• fostering networking and collaboration among Creative Arts Therapists working through different arts modalities;
• sound and dance improvisation groups for community wellness; the personal meaning for participants;
• environmental community arts/ ecological expressive therapies in social change work and community cultural development;
• intrapersonal learning within Music Therapy training - the role of somatics and expressive arts experiential learning as part of the self development of therapists.

Publications:

Faire, R.J.(2005). What do you care about? Arts therapies in support of civil courage in a "World gone slightly mad". Poiesis: Journal of the Arts & Communication, 7:178-190.
Ways in which the arts therapies can be used in service of broader social change.

Faire, R.J.(2005). Community Music Therapy for World-state Trauma and World-grief Expression, Poster, World Congress of Music Therapy.
http://www.zulenet.com/ecosomatics/community_music_therapy.html (opens an external site)
Applying the framework of Joanna Macy.

Faire, R.J. (2005). An Autobiographical Expressive Arts Therapy Method: Song Lyrics that Reverberate Across a Lifespan, Workshop presented at 11th World Congress of Music Therapy: From Lullaby to Lament, Brisbane, July 2005.
http://www.zulenet.com/ecosomatics/workshop_songlyric.html (opens an external site)
A method for personal exploration of the song lyrics in the soundtrack of your psyche.

Faire, R. & Langan, D.(2004). Expressive Music Therapy: Empowering engaged citizens and communities. VOICES:Main Issues,4(3)
http://www.voices.no/mainissues/mi40004000159.html (opens an external site)
Deep ecology, ecopsychology in community music therapy.

Faire, R.J. (2004). Stories from Out of the Blue: Spontaneous Self-healing Fairytales for Grownups, self-published book. For excerpts:
http://www.zulenet.com/ecosomatics/RosemaryFaire/RosemaryFaire.html (opens an external site)
Describes a form of self-work in which stories emerge from one's imagination with healing potential.

Faire, Rosemary (2004) Myself: How to be as if - A Review, Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts and Communication, 6, 176-178.
A review of Russell Meares' book “Intimacy and Alienation: Memory, trauma and personal being“ exploring the potency of imagination to alter ingrained habits of self.

Faire, Rosemary (2003) Music Therapy, Expressive Arts Therapy and Mental Health, pp52-57 in Issakidis, C., Hanlon, P., Robertson, S., Kellehear, K. et al. (2003) There's No Health Without Mental Health, Contemporary TheMHS in Mental Health Services, Sydney Conference Proceedings 2002, TheMHS Conference, Sydney, Australia.
A paper presented as part of the Creative Arts Therapy team at Cumberland Hospital, Parramatta.

Faire, R. (2002), 'Soundasations - Sound and Dance Conversations: The story of an evolving community improvisation ritual'. In Music Alive, the Community Music section of Music Forum, 8/2, pp34-35, December-January.
An article about a monthly self-organising jam held in Sydney for 13 years. The book is available from:
http://www.zulenet.com/ecosomatics/Soundasations/default.html (opens an external site)

Faire, R. (2002), 'Even Smarter Bodies? Increasing the Somatic Literacy of PDHPE teachers', ACHPER Healthy Lifestyles Journal, vol 49(1): pp16-20
Description of incorporation of Somatic Education into training of PDHPE teachers.