Hello dear research friends, interested and those who would like to be!

 

Yay, it’s done! The last of the 15 workshops took place yesterday at HSLU Music and was also a great success. Can you imagine 15 workshops? In the almost six months I’ve been involved, a lot has happened and we’ve accomplished a lot more. Don’t forget the 20 interviews with the workshop participants from all three locations, because they weren’t without their share either.

But that shouldn’t sound negative now, because I really enjoy the work a lot and I got the impression that the participants also enjoyed it a lot. It was great that all the people with Parkinson’s who had already participated in the workshops in June were also present this time. And we even got a new member, because Jane joined us. Since last Wednesday she is on a trip to Switzerland and because she speaks excellent German, she gave us the honor of her presence. It was wonderful that our Lucerne participants had the chance to speak with one of our British collaborators.

I also tried to make the workshop a bit more active compared to the other two and to lead exercises on and with the music to really test out what is possible and what is not. For Jane it was therefore certainly also exciting to take part in the workshop again in a different way. So there was a lot of dancing again, including salsa, African and line dancing. It was really great! 😀

After the workshop we had lunch together again, which must have lasted 1 1/2 hours because there was so much to talk about. It was really great to see how the participants were happy about the reunion. I really hope they felt comfortable with us and I look forward to working with them again.

Now that the data collection of the consultation phase is complete, it is time to finalize the course program. Fortunately, the feedback from most has been very positive, so we don’t have to completely rewrite it but just tweak the details.

So wish us luck and keep your fingers crossed that the ethics committees will be as enthusiastic about the program as our hard-working collaborators from England, Lucerne and Ticino! 😉

Thanks for reading this blog and feel very free to leave comments. I can’t wait to tell you about all the other exciting things and experiences.

Best wishes and see you next time you read!