Abstracts of the 11th Nordic Music Therapy Conference 2024: Let’s face the music

Every morning of the Nordic Music Therapy Conference, the organising committee evoked high spirits in the participants by a vivid introduction to the day's programme, live music and community singing, humorous sketches of the "holy cows" in music therapy literature, and thought-provoking and moving poetic quotations about the relationships between nature and human beings.A prominent theme of the conference was the encouragement to face the present ecological and political crisis in the world by employing music and music therapy to promote health, regeneration and resilience in clients as well as therapists.The conference programme was comprehensive, and every day the participants could choose between nine tracks of paper presentations, workshops, symposia and roundtables.Thus, they could benefit from a selection of activities, but not from the other simultaneous activities.Favourably, the present collection of abstracts offers information about the complete contents of the conference, permitting insight in a rich variety of projects, ideas, experiences, methods, achievements, theories and references.It is amazing to scan this multi-faceted display of the current music therapy field and to feel joy in acknowledging the growing worldwide activity.The online publication of the present abstracts permits easy selection of contributions by searching for themes, names or keywords.However, it may be tempting and rewarding to spend a few hours scrolling down the whole collection with curiosity and critical interest.Many thanks to the hard-working organising committee for providing access to this rich source of information, experience and engagement!Erik Christensen on behalf of the editorial board of the Danish Journal of Music TherapyThe Danish Journal of Music Therapy (Tidsskriftet Dansk Musikterapi) is published in Danish language twice a year in