"Wisdom begins in wonder."
- Socrates
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I design, facilitate, coach, and share music and creativity.
I care about creating more choices for people to build up people.
For over a decade, I taught piano lessons, ukulele lessons, voice lessons, and all sorts of different classes and workshops to help people gain skills in music, movement, theatre, media, and writing. I noticed that not only did they gain specific knowledge and experiences by participating in creative processes, they also gained non-arts skills, including especially transferable skills. While developing this variety of skills, the intrinsic benefits of the arts served to also enhance how people connected with others around them. They learned more about themselves and their collaborators. The transferable skills I was seeing them develop were also useful core skills to resilience and future thinking: problem solving, communication, systems thinking, and courage and compassion in the face of challenges.
I still teach music lessons in Owen Sound. I still teach music lessons online. I still teach piano lessons and voice lessons, improv, poetry, songwriting and production, but I do it in small communities of learners. The programs are meant to take students through a variety of musical and imaginative experiences, to build their musicality and ability to improvise while also giving them the systematic and goal oriented progress of pointing their compass in the direction of their interests and getting personal feedback. They gain knowledge of course, but we also work on developing their sense of feeling music in their imagination, attuning to others in collaborative activities, and understanding themselves as musicians.
Music is powerful and multifaceted.
My goal is to equip students with a functional and inspiring set of creative tools that will serve them not only as musicians but as future caring creative citizens.
I care about creating more choices for people to build up people.
For over a decade, I taught piano lessons, ukulele lessons, voice lessons, and all sorts of different classes and workshops to help people gain skills in music, movement, theatre, media, and writing. I noticed that not only did they gain specific knowledge and experiences by participating in creative processes, they also gained non-arts skills, including especially transferable skills. While developing this variety of skills, the intrinsic benefits of the arts served to also enhance how people connected with others around them. They learned more about themselves and their collaborators. The transferable skills I was seeing them develop were also useful core skills to resilience and future thinking: problem solving, communication, systems thinking, and courage and compassion in the face of challenges.
I still teach music lessons in Owen Sound. I still teach music lessons online. I still teach piano lessons and voice lessons, improv, poetry, songwriting and production, but I do it in small communities of learners. The programs are meant to take students through a variety of musical and imaginative experiences, to build their musicality and ability to improvise while also giving them the systematic and goal oriented progress of pointing their compass in the direction of their interests and getting personal feedback. They gain knowledge of course, but we also work on developing their sense of feeling music in their imagination, attuning to others in collaborative activities, and understanding themselves as musicians.
Music is powerful and multifaceted.
My goal is to equip students with a functional and inspiring set of creative tools that will serve them not only as musicians but as future caring creative citizens.