GERLICHOVÁ Markéta (CZ)
Markéta GERLICHOVÁ (CZ)
She comes from Prague where she was born in 1969. After her studies of physiotherapy and a year of practical work she graduated from The Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University in 1996, with specialization in „Integrated studies of special pedagogy", having completed the state exams in Special pedagogy, Somatopedia, Logopedy and Teaching music.
Her specialization in teaching music was not random. During her studies she was influenced by Doc.Alena Tichá -, who was a voice coach and worked particularly with non-singers who started singing under her guidance. Another teacher who greatly influenced her during her studies was Doc. Jaroslav Herden - most of all for his kind and wise attitude to music and people.
During her university studies she worked in England in a Community Centre for people with special needs (Camphill Community) where she experienced and practised various perception of music. She has had her own experience with choral singing as well.
Since 1997 she has worked at the Rehabilitation Clinic of Charles University in Prague as a special pedagog, physiotherapist and music therapist. She further developed her music therapy specialization under Josef Krček in the „Musica Humana" school within the Academy of Social Art in Tabor and The School of Free Arts at Goethean (Prague/Dornach). The topic of her thesis was „Music Therapy for Patients with Brain Injury". This has been her long lasting professional topic. Since 1998 she has used music therapy as a part of rehabilitation of patients after traumatic brain damage in the outpacient care centre of The Clinic of Rehabilitation Medicine. At present she is studying in a post-graduate programme at the Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University. For many years she has been attending the workshops of Pesso Boyden System Psycho-motor lectured by Phd. Y.Lucka and Phd.L.Kobrle. She has incorporated this method in her music therapy approach.
Thanks to her family background - her father is a violin player in the National Theatre and her mother is a special pedagog - and her specialization - physiotherapy, special pedagogy and music therapy - she has done a wide range of work. She works with people after brain injuries using music therapy, she teaches student doctors physitherapy and ergotherapy at 1st Medical Clinic of Charles University, she works with people with mental somatic problems and with children and their parents (e.g. Nova Trojka Centre in Prague 3). She is a lecturer in music therapy courses, and provides group therapy to people with mental somatic problems. She is a member of the Czech Orf Society, Czech Association of Music and Drama Therapy, and Czech Music Therapy Association. In 2009 she was elected a Czech delegate to the European Music Therapy Confederation. She is the author of the music therapeutical method of Ikapus.
She is married, has one son and lives in a small village near Prague.