Songwriting Workshops
MINDFUL SONG WORKSHOPS
We will integrate music and mindfulness with small groups of 4-5 students that will focus on developing and expanding your songwriting skills: 6 two-hour classes, over six weeks. We will use the materials that students bring into the workshop to discuss basic principles of songwriting, and explore with my guidance and peer encouragement. Weekly song "assignments" will be based on the materials students' present. I have extensive large-group experience, workshopping songs over the writing of 9 musicals in my role as Musical Director/Composer for the Possibility Project, which cast a diverse group on teenagers, mostly non-musicians, to tell their stories through song. This workshop is ideal for those with some songwriting experience. In a small group setting we can really dig deep. If you're stuck/clogged or need some support, structure or guidance, or a safe and playful place to explore your songwriting. Check it out.
Mindfulness meditation training will be offered as an element of the process to help expand creative capacity, focus, but mostly to note the kind of thinking, self judgment, self doubt and negativity that can often plague the Creative; the thinking that can stop us from sitting down at a piano, typewriter or easel.
The benefits from Mindfulness/Awareness practice, that I've experienced, by looking at this thinking with an attitude of friendliness and non-judgment, are expansiveness, joy, self-compassion, more ease and above all, playfulness - all brought into the creative process. A path to creativity through self acceptance, or a path to self acceptance through creativity. Aka become your favorite songwriter.
The next 6-week course will be offered in September. Times and location TBD based on the public health situation. We may do it on zoom again, but hope to do it in person.
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