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: CREA Community Music Therapy Project

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

Dr 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 fifteen years experience working with individuals and groups in the contexts of personal development, movement therapy, music therapy, and community arts.

Rosemary co-ordinates the Education Faculty's Graduate Diploma in Music Therapy, lectures in Music Therapy and Integrated Arts Therapy subjects and co-ordinates the CREA Community Music Therapy Project, which offers individual and group sessions for students and the general public. Dr Faire also works as a Music and Movement Therapist in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation. She recently qualified as a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist with the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA).

Research Areas:

• postgraduate studies in Intermodal Expressive Arts Therapy
• 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 experiential learning groups as part of training and supervision of students

Publications:
Faire, Rosemary (2004) Myself: How to be as if - A Review, Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts and Communication, 6, 176-178.

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.

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

- 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.

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

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

Faire, R.J. (2004). Stories from Out of the Blue: Spontaneous Self-healing Fairytales for Grownups, self-published. excerpts can be found at: http://www.zulenet.com/ecosomatics/RosemaryFaire/RosemaryFaire.html

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