LifeMusic as a tool for well-being in the workplace.
Lifemusic for team building and group awareness.
- How can music find a place directly in the working environment?
- How do the members of your working group relate?
- How might your team enhance its sense of purpose - vision - direction?
Lifemusic
website: http://www.lifemusic.org/
Music has a unique potential to promote balance and awareness in group dynamics. The lifemusic method employs semi-autonomous (i.e. partly directed) music improvisation as a means of enhancing positive group interaction. The approach is instantly accessible and proceeds through carefully chosen, graduated phases requiring no previous musical training or experience. (Clients who do have some previous musical training or instrumental ability will also benefit.)
Courses are designed for groups of between 5 and 12 participants and are tailored to suit the specific requirements of individual groups. Half-day “taster” sessions are possible but the best results can be achieved through courses lasting between one and five days. The work is appropriate for all professional levels including middle, upper and senior management.
Lifemusic is therapeutic though not, in a strict sense, therapy. The work proceeds at two levels:
1) Musical process which reflects patterns of feeling and creates “attunement” through imaginative play.
2) Discussion and reflection where the musical process opens up channels of positive communication.
Note: any issues or shared feelings which may emerge remain entirely confidential. The lifemusic group is a safe space.
The lifemusic method is designed to provide a range of additional outcomes - feel-good factors - of particular value to people working in busy corporate environments. These include:
- Sense of well-being
- Group cohesion
- Relaxation and stress relief
- Enhancement of creative thinking
- Stimulation of the imagination
- Promotion of trust
- Heightened awareness of self in relation to the group
- Simple fun
One or more follow up sessions can be arranged to monitor any issues which arise as a result of the initial course. These can be in the form of one or more “50-minute hours” with the team or, if desired, they may take the form of additional lifemusic sessions.
Specific challenges can be isolated, discussed, “massaged” and, hopefully, resolved. Issues from the lifemusic sessions can also be worked through in relation to any other professional development procedures if this is felt to be appropriate or relevant.
Lifemusic sessions can be booked through the lifemusic website.
