The main focus of my work as a trainer is to support people in learning and incorporating different forms of spontaneous music-making, improvisational singing, embodiment, and voice work into communities and organisations.

Spontaneous singing can energize people, engage them creatively, and foster well-being and human connection within organisations. Vocal improvisation expands horizons and offers new, essential skills that go beyond the value system of conventional music education and activities.

I began offering training and mentoring initially as CPD for music services, in music healthcare programs, and for other NGOs. I still deliver training in these settings and am passionate about bringing more vocal improvisation to music-related institutions, while offering new perspectives on practice and creativity for musicians, music students, educators, and community workers.

Back in 2017, I launched the first Vocal Improvisation Training for Vocal Leaders – now called Enabling Singing Villages. These trainings have been held a couple of times a year since then. Through them, I am fortunate to have the opportunity to meet, equip, and inspire a diverse and curious group of talented music-makers: singers, choir leaders, music therapists, teachers, and ceremony holders—in their practice and sharing of vocal improvisation and spontaneous song.

For many participants, individual mentoring became a complement for the Vocal Leader’s training, either beforehand as preparation for the course, or afterwards as a way to follow-up and consolidate the learnings.

My style as a trainer is emergent and dialogic, body-centred and inviting awareness, wholeness and a resonant presence.  I encourage mutual learning and offer flexibility, adapting tools and structures to the process, the needs and questions of participants and the flow of vitality in the room. 

I train and mentor individuals through their journeys in voice, in the discovery and deepening of vocal improvisation practice.  To develop their musicality and to help expand their facilitating skills.