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Written for the general reader, requiring absolutely no expertise or experience around music or singing.
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The Foundation is a charity whose charitable objects are to illuminate the relationship between music and health and wellbeing. This is largely done through discovering how to Unlock the Power of Song, through what is called the Giving Voice* Process (GV).
GV is a unique and invaluable resource for life that can be harnessed by individuals 24/7 in virtually any situation. Developed by Jill Rakusen, it’s an educational and self-directed tool that can have a major impact on overall wellbeing and on our relationships – including with ourselves, with music and with the world. It can help us grow, better handle stress, be less controlled by our emotions … and become more at one with the world. Among other things.
It’s an unusual, and primarily an internal, process, and the basics can be grasped quickly and easily – particularly by people with little or no musical experience or perceived ability.
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Explore What we are about and What we do
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See Who we are and our Recent and future events - incl video Say I Love You to the World
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Visit our Blog Unlocking the Power of Song for insight into this approach, including its potential role in daily life
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Purchase Unlocking the Power of Song: A Companion for Challenging Times
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Join our Mailing list
THIS IS HOW YOU CAN LEARN THE BASICS
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use Jill’s book (which is also an inspiring Companion for Life)
- join one of our 2-session online ‘mini-courses’ (we do a rolling programme of these).
NB no musical or vocal expertise is needed, and you may find you gain most by refraining from singing aloud during the course sessions (apart from Jill, no-one is required to sing to the group during the course). This is what Sarah discovered during one of these courses –
“I felt really amazing. It was like the song took over my whole body … and I couldn't stop smiling! I had my eyes closed all the time, I didn't want to open them. It was wonderful. … And I realise there's still so much more I can get from this song”.
More about Sarah’s discoveries, including the power of Silent Singing, and Jill’s suggestions along the way, can be found in our blogpost 'Sound and silence: how music can be more powerful and transformative than we realise’.
* The Foundation is not to be confused with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists' Giving Voice Campaign, or their branches which run a Giving Voice Choir and a Giving Voices Choir and have Facebook pages called Leeds/Sheffield Giving Voice.