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SMALL TEAM OF COURSE FACILITATORS AND ADVISERS
About our External Course Advisor
Dr Catherine Pestano is based in London and is an established community
music leader, singer song writer and social worker. She is chair of 'Culture
&' and previous chair of 'Sound Sense'. She brings a wealth of experience
to our small team. She is an external examiner for the Open University
and provides our Song Therapy Network with advice and guidance as we build
this is supportive movement for independent community music makers worldwide.
In 2019 she was awarded a Doctorate by Winchester University as acknowledgement
of her contribution to practice in diversity, community music and social
work. More information here
About our Student Support Officer
Claire
Chappel is an experienced BACP* qualified counsellor and provides formal
and informal support to students who might be facing challenges in their
music making workplaces. She offers support via telephone, email and ZOOM.
Her services are currently supplied free of charge to students. She is
based in West Somerset, UK. More information here.
*British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists
About our Mindfulness Facilitator
Lynsey Wellington is a highly experienced mindfulness practitioner who
delivers a two hour unit attached to module three of the course. In addition
she advises on developments in mindfulness practice and offers her own
programmes of mindfulness training. She is based in Gloucestershire, UK.
More information here.
About the Course Facilitator
Nigel Neill is a professional community musician based in the south west
of the UK running four community choirs in Taunton, Exeter, Minehead and
Tiverton. He has worked extensively with learning disability groups and
in life limiting care settings as well as providing on going music programmes
for the brain injury charity Headway throughout Somerset; working with
Parkinsons UK in North and West Somerset and providing music for those
with dementia in residential home settings. He has worked closely with
the mental health charity Rethink and is currently developing a music
well being programme for Sompar NHS Trust to be rolled out in the Spring
of 2020. Academic qualifications include a combined science honours degree;
post graduate certificate in music and health (uwe) and certificate (level
four) in counselling skills (uwe); four years running a school of sound
engineering in the noughties and he has taught sound engineering and music
and song composition at Peterborough Regional College in the nineties.
Nigel recently studied music therapy for two years in Bristol, before
switching to counselling skills for a third year; his professional background
is music performance, recording, composition and song writing; composing
original instrumental music for bbc television and recording many established
artists. Nigel is married with no children and is sixty years old. He
lives in West Somerset. More information here
About our Independent Song Therapy Network Advisers
Liz Radford and Peter Brown were among the first to complete our Song
Therapy Certificate course and both expressed an interest in helping to
build the Song Therapy Network into the future. Their specific roles are
undefined but the plan is that they will provide independent support and
advice for those on the course and for those planning to build their song
therapy careers in the future. They also provide feedback and third party
advice to the Course Facilitator and will help with assessments as student
numbers grow in the future.
Liz
Radford
Liz has a degree in Psychology / Sociology from Lancaster University and
achieved a Distinction Certificate and Enhanced Certificate in Song Therapy,
studying with the Song Therapy Network. As
a professional songwriter, she has written for singers, film and TV and
also for leading brands and advertising companies such as Saatchi and
Saatchi. Her songs have charted in several countries, including #1 on
the iTunes Jazz chart in USA / Canada. Based in Dorset, UK, she continues
her work as a songwriter and musician whilst developing song therapy sessions
for the workplace, aimed specifically to address issues arising from stress
and anxiety.
Peter Brown
Peter is based in Winchester, Hampshire, UK, where he provides services
through the Winnall Rock School (WRS); a charity that supports young people
by providing free music workshops and tuition. Promoting wellbeing through
the soul-bearing acts of singing and songwriting is key to this and Peter
is extending links with other counselling and support services to promote
this.
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