{"id":40858,"date":"2026-11-10T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/?p=40858"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:35:53","slug":"namsferd-til-irlands-listir-og-velferd-i-nyju-samhengi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/namsferd-til-irlands-listir-og-velferd-i-nyju-samhengi\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Tour to Ireland: Arts and Welfare in a New Context"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The week of October 25-31, 2026, second-year students in the Master's program Arts and Welfare went on a study trip to Ireland. The visit is part of the course The Laboratory II, which is a required course in the third semester. The course is a platform where guest lecturers and artists working in fields related to welfare, community projects, and participatory arts share their experience and knowledge with students and faculty. The main goal of this journey was to offer students a dialogue and collaboration with other students and experienced instructors working in the field of art and welfare, thereby adding to their experience and knowledge.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

The group visited the university of Limerick<\/a> and received a particularly warm and encouraging reception there. The group worked, among other things, with master's students and teachers in the Community Music program. Then there was a full-day workshop with master's and doctoral students in dance under the guidance of Dr. Jenny Roche, where the focus was on somatic movement work. This approach is based on the connection between mind and body, with the goal of releasing physical tension, stress, and trauma that have settled in the nervous system. Jenny also arranged for the group to receive a very lively and informative lecture on research and movement work with people with Parkinson's, which Dr. Orfhlaith Ni Bhr\u00edain has conducted in collaboration with the university's health sciences department.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

The students then received a special presentation from the director of The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Dr. Helen Phelan, which, among other things, runs The Irish World Music Caf\u00e9<\/a> where newcomers meet once a week and sing with the locals.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

After socializing and singing with people of various nationalities in Limerick, the group went out to the countryside where Marta Fabregat<\/a> led the group on a hike in the forest with an approach she calls Sensed ecology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This dialogue and sharing prove to be extremely valuable for the students and teachers of the \u201eArts and Well-being\u201c program, which is now in its third year. It was the unanimous opinion of students and teachers that the Irish are not only at the forefront of developing art-related events for vulnerable groups, but are also exceptionally hospitable, and that strong connections between Icelanders and the Irish are readily apparent.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":1,"wds_primary_departmens_cat":0,"wds_primary_global_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"departmens_cat":[],"global_cat":[],"class_list":["post-40858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40897,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40858\/revisions\/40897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40858"},{"taxonomy":"departmens_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departmens_cat?post=40858"},{"taxonomy":"global_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/global_cat?post=40858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}