Biography of a Music-Thanatologist

Biography

Full name

Abigail Turquand Robinson

Qualifications

2005 Visual Performance BA
2003 Certified Music Thanatologist with CARITAS Clinician Musicians, St Patrick’s Hospital and Care Home facilities in USA
2002 Graduate of the Chalice of Repose Project’s School of Music Thanatology, a synthesis of spiritual psychology, anthropology, medicine, harp and voice studies
1986 Diploma of Higher Education in Art and Design in Social Contexts, DCA

Professional associations

Music Thanatology Association International

Services

I provide workshops, lectures, and individual sessions to enable others to be present and spiritually enlivened through sounding, listening, movement and visualization exercises. My main focus is to provide people with the tools to nourish themselves as well as each other. I also work with people who are dying and their families through the use of Music-Thanatology vigils.

Experience

My two and a half year intensive training and six month internship in Music Thanatology (through the Chalice of Repose Project’s School of Music Thanatology in Montana, USA) was a synthesis of psychology, music, medicine and anthropology.

My clinical practice with Caritas Musician’s Clinicians focused on the use of music to ease physical, emotional and spiritual suffering for dying patients and their families.