Training

Funded by the Foyle Foundation, Expanding Horizons Traineeships offer an incredible opportunity for early career and emerging music artists to learn, practise and develop alongside highly experienced artists.

Forest School is an inspirational process, that offers ALL learners regular opportunities to achieve, develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experiences in a woodland or natural environment with trees.

Our courses are designed to provide you with the theoretical understanding and the practical skills in order to design, develop and run (or support) your Forest School.

Led by Course Director Pete Brown, the GEM Foundation Course on Museum Learning virtually explores a variety of topics relating to learning in museums, heritage and cultural settings, from access and inclusion to interpretation, from management to evaluation, interrogating different ideas and approaches to help you develop your skills and understanding.

This training is for organisations commissioning and working with creative practitioners in the field of arts and health. This could include statutory and charitable organisations delivering community arts programmes (i.e social prescribing schemes) and arts organisations that commission artists. This training is not designed for individual artists.

Are you an artist working to support health and wellbeing? Come & join a safe non judgemental space and reflect on your work.
-Connect with a supportive community of creative health peers.
-Enhance your therapeutic skills & support self-care.
-Develop awareness of how your work impacts you including potential secondary trauma.
£10 a session, monthly online . Part funded by ESCC.

A 7-week online leadership programme, specially designed to empower creative minds to lead more equitable organisations.

100% of previous participants recommend the course to their peers! Are you ready to commit and drive change too? Do not delay!

Two days of practical music-making ideas for people working with children who have complex needs in health, education and care settings. We have a proven track record in designing hands-on, stimulating and enjoyable training for those working with children who have serious illness, learning difficulties, or disabilities. It is running in London on 7/8th November and in York on 11/12th November.

Midlife Reimagined is an invitation to step into change and growth. Midlife provides an opportunity to be our more authentic selves; to find out who we are and what really matters as we find our next path. The retreat is for people who consider themselves to be in midlife, and in a time of transition, who want to reflect, go deep and emerge with a new sense of purpose and agency.

Your course comprises two core subject-area modules exploring Music, Wellbeing and its Evaluation, and Applied Professional Practice. Through these modules you’ll expand your understanding of the relationship between musical engagement and wellbeing, and learn to identify the methodological and ethical challenges of researching in real-world settings.