LifeMusic as a tool for well-being in the workplace.
Lifemusic for team building and group awareness.
- How can music assist team development in corporate environments?
- How can music support transformational management?
- How can music enhance individual professional development?
Lifemusic
website: http://www.lifemusic.org/
Music has deep potential to promote balance, awareness and understanding between people. It is also the perfect antidote to stress. The lifemusic method employs music improvisation as a means of enhancing positive group interactions. The approach is instantly accessible and proceeds through carefully chosen, graduated phases requiring no previous musical training or experience.
Courses are designed for groups of between 5 and 12 participants and can be tailored to suit specific requirements. Half-day “taster” sessions are possible but 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 improvisation and imaginative play.
2) Discussion and reflection where the musical process opens up channels of positive communication.
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
- Stress relief
- Enhancement of creative thinking
- Stimulation of the imagination
- Promotion of trust
- Heightened awareness of self in relation to group
- Simple fun
Follow on sessions can be arranged to work on 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 they may take the form of additional lifemusic sessions.
Specific challenges can be isolated, discussed, “massaged” and, hopefully, resolved.
For more detail contact rod.paton@gmail.com
