September & October 2013 In Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way, she talks about ‘filling the well’, an essential part of nurturing the creative spirit. So, I thought I’d share with you some of the music events I’ve been to…
Inspirational Workshop Leaders
This is part two of the posts referring to the Alzheimer’s Society training day in Theale on 15th April 2011. Aside from the song-share and the Communicating with People with Dementia presentation, most of the day was led by Mary…
Communicating with People with Dementia
On the 15th April I hopped onto a train down to Theale for a long day of training with the Alzheimer’s Society. The training comprised of workshops on vocal warm-ups, health & hygiene, songs and rhythm, group composition, a song-share and…
Singing and Health unConference – follow up
The conference was fantastic – more than I could have hoped for. There was a great turn-out, and I so enjoyed meeting you all. It was also encouraging that no one knew everyone, at least to start with. We had…
Singing and Health Unconference to be held in Oxford
A FREE half day Singing and Health ‘unconference’ will be held on Friday 8th April, 10am -1pm at Peace House, Paradise Street (sounds dreamy I know) in Oxford. The idea was formulated in a bakery in Headington last month with the lovely…
Singing for the Brain Training
On Sunday I attended a training day for people involved with Singing for the Brain. There were facilitators, volunteers, dementia support workers and fundraisers – over 60 in all. Great fun and it was useful to meet other people working…
Asking the Right Questions
I’m really keen on reflective practice – that reflecting and thinking about what I’ve already done impacts, and hopefully improves what I will do in the future. This falls into the lovely messiness of action research/action learning, it’s difficult to…
Blimey… it’s December
It’s been such a long time since I last blogged, I wanted to pull together the many ideas and inspirations and anything else which has caught my attention or fed into my practice over the last few months and place…
Arts in Trust – Cheltenham General Hospital
Yesterday I spent the day shadowing a musician working as part of the Arts in Trust programme in Cheltenham General Hospital. I felt a little apprehensive about the day, as I have been blessed not to have spent a great…
Where To Begin?
Despite being very behind with my blogging (partly due to house-move/no broadband for 2 weeks) I am really happy that a couple of people stumbled upon my blog and have got in touch, expressing interest in this field of work.…