Soundcastle CPD - Pathfinding: The Art of Discovery

Event information

Date: Tuesday 26th May 2015
Time: 1.30pm - 5pm
Venue: St. George’s Bloomsbury, 6-7 Little Russell Street, WC1A 2HR
Early Bird Price: £30 (Book before 27th April 2015)
Standard Price: £35

1.30-2pm Registration, Refreshments and Networking
2-5pm The CPD session will start promptly at 2pm

Are you looking for ways to empower others to discover their true creative abilities? All too often we hear the words ‘I’m not musical’. At Soundcastle, we believe that everyone is musical and sometimes people just need a little encouragement to find their voice! This introductory CPD session will explore practical activities and ways of communicating that will build confidence within diverse groups of people and enable them to discover their own unique creative identities. The primary focus of this CPD is to examine different paths to discovery through the following ideas:

- How to discover and stimulate creative confidence
- How to discover and nurture creative abilities with sounds, stories and play
- How to discover brand new music through group collaboration
- How can we as facilitators engage in reflective practice to enable us to discover new things from our participants?
- What can we discover about ourselves when facilitating others?

For educators, musicians and animateurs, this CPD will broaden your skills of creative facilitation within your own artistic settings and work on personal tools to continue developing your own, unique leadership approach. Using practical activities, tried and tested in our own Soundcastle projects, this CPD session will enable you to immediately put your skills of facilitation into action on the day itself and receive constructive feedback from the Soundcastle team. The session will include time for group reflection, questions and analysis of the day’s events in a friendly and supportive environment.

It gives us great pleasure to share the Soundcastle approach and we hope to welcome you on the 26th May.

100% of our previous CPD participants would recommend a Soundcastle CPD to their colleagues! Here is some of their feedback:
- ‘Refreshing to have creative ideas for teaching and new skills to implement in workshops’
- ‘Can directly apply to my teaching and I can already see things that I can develop’
- ‘Very knowledgeable, confident, experienced leaders, who can clearly explain their practice in an accessible way’
- ‘This was my first Soundcastle CPD and I feel it was amazing value for money and I have learnt so much’
- ‘Very dynamic and full of different activities’
- ‘It was a useful afternoon and I would definitely come to another event. I'll use what I have learned today in the future for sure’
- ‘The reflection time enabled us to go over all the activities in detail as well as any changes we could make’
- ‘It was informative as well as hands on which is the perfect balance’

Soundcastle is an award winning Music Social Enterprise, uniting communities through captivating musical experiences and projects. Spearheading our own advanced Soundcastle Method of facilitation, we constantly pioneer, research and remodel our leadership approach to match the ever-changing contexts of the arts world and ensure that we respond to current issues. In this way we continue to develop and refine methodology adaptable to diverse social settings, so that we can raise standards in our sector. Engaging with a range of practitioners and organisations, we make sure to keep up to date with the latest practices in the creative arts world to remain fresh, inspired and constantly at the highest professional level of delivery.

For any further queries, please contact Hannah Dunster on 07799 062 969 or email hannah@soundcastle.co.uk