Deep Listening, Broad Listening

Are you looking to enhance your awareness of what's going on in your music therapy sessions?

Are you wanting to slow down and look closely at the musical and extra-musical interactions occurring between between yourself and your clients?

Do you sometimes feel that you might be missing important information, but don't have time to stop and pay attention?

Then you've come to the right place.

Professor Gary Ansdell has spent his career as a Nordoff-Robbins trained music therapist delving into micro-analysis of music therapy sessions. Recording, indexing and analysing sessions to gain greater insights into clients and his own musical contributions.

In this tutorial Gary discusses why developing our listening skills is so important - more important even than our playing. He believes we need to slow down and pay closer attention to what is happening musically, increasing our awareness of how and what we're playing, and how and what our clients are playing.

In broad listening Gary encourages us to observe the extra-musical aspects of our sessions - what is happening 'around and down' the music? How are we noticing these details and how can they improve our practice?

While this practice of indexing and analysing sessions is common in NR music therapy, it is a useful tool for all music therapists to consider. Acknowledging barriers and presenting options for non-NR trained music therapists this tutorial provides you with the tools to improve the quality of your listening.

Developing your deep and broad listening skills will assist you to improve your client's outcomes, your music skills and your reflexive practice. Join us for this fabulous tutorial on Deep and Broad Listening in music therapy.