This is a rough (and speedy!) recording I made last night, featuring my husband Tim on shaky egg. It’s a song I came up with during a music therapy session, after a tip-off from a teaching assistant who explained how…
Singing for Health Guides: Singing and People with Dementia
I was contacted a while back by a gentleman from Chattanooga in Tennessee wanting some advice on running singing groups for people living with dementia. I blithely emailed back saying that a blog post was in the pipeline on this…
Things I learned
I’m at a transition point at the moment. In less than a month I will be starting on the Nordoff Robbins Master of Music Therapy degree programme, and yesterday I said goodbye to one of the groups I’ve been working…
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…
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 :: A Rich Seam
I recently came across Singing Hospitals for the first time at an evening Singing and Health event at the Dana Centre at London’s Science Museum. In trying to find out more about this organisation I came across this video of…
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…
Community Singing Groups
A month or so back someone asked me for a few pointers about community singing groups/ community choirs, so I came up with some ideas and issues that I have come across and here they are in a quick blog…
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…
5 Things…
I’m trying to get better at logging/blogging learning points from different experiences – Tim Davies of Practical Participation has suggested a technique which is simply to think of ‘5 things I learnt from…’. So that’s what I will be trying…