Listening into the World Concert with Deborah Seabrook

The contemplative and evocative music on this program represents part of a vital exploration for Deborah Seabrook. In 2020, Deborah began publishing and presenting about the climate crisis as a music therapy scholar. She has since been deeply reckoning with how to live amidst personal tensions, including of activism, complicity, hope, and despair.

Through this program, Deborah explores the complexities of living in the metacrisis. Contemporary solo piano works by Jocelyn Morlock, Arvo Pärt, Caroline Shaw, and Ann Southam are interwoven with improvisational reflections on excerpts from contemporary writers including Báyò Akómoláfé, and the Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures Collective, inviting listeners into a deeply relational experience.

Deborah aims to co-create a musical experience with listeners that supports us to co-sense, imagine, and perhaps even momentarily inhabit a kind of responsible kinship with ourselves, each other, and all living things.

About the speaker

Dr. Deborah Seabrook, PhD, RP, RCC, MTA (she/her) is a Registered Psychotherapist with the CRPO, a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BCACC, a Certified Music Therapist with the CAMT, and a Climate-Aware Therapist with the CPA-NA. Her work as a clinician, educator, and scholar is grounded in deep listening, compassion, and creativity.

Deborah’s current research and publications aim to shift consciousness around the climate emergency and metacrisis and motivate transformative action. Her scholarship explores how counselling psychology and music psychotherapy can support the composting of harmful systems and move us toward greater kinship with all living beings.

Deborah is currently full-time faculty in the Counselling Psychology program at Yorkville University, where she recently received the President’s Award for Teaching Excellence. She supports mental health professionals from across Turtle Island through her Music-Integrated Therapy Training program and private practice, Seabrook Music Therapy.

Deborah currently lives on the traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg.

While this event is free, please consider a small donation to Concordia's Arts in Health Centre which is hosting the event! Our student creative arts therapists provide free therapy to the greater Montreal community through our donor-funded clinic and community partnerships.