WELLBEING
Our songwriting projects are designed to support the “Five Ways to Wellbeing”. They are particularly helpful in relation to Connecting, Taking Notice and Learning:
- Loneliness and isolation can be alleviated as people connect with each other and develop a sense of shared purpose. We can also help with post-Covid re-integration by running projects that bring people together online at first and then develop into offline friendships and activities as restrictions ease.
- Skillful facilitation, and the songwriting process itself, encourages people to take notice of the world around them, to recognise and share their own thoughts and feelings and to view subjects from other perspectives.
- People will learn new skills in singing, writing and recording and also be gently supported to do things that they may find challenging.
- Singing as an activity also has a range of well-established health benefits, from improving posture and breathing to lifting mood and lowering blood pressure and stress levels.
Projects can be adapted to work with groups of people with all sorts of wellbeing needs, but would be particularly suitable for people experiencing social isolation, anxiety, stress, and chronic health conditions such as autoimmune disorders, fibromyalgia and medically unexplained symptoms. The projects work perfectly online, which has been brilliant during the recent Covid-19 pandemic, and suits those who are housebound, anxious or unable to travel far.
“To feel like we put those words together, it was a proud moment, like ‘Wow! We have done that!’. It’s really sweet to do something.”
“To feel like we put those words together, it was a proud moment, like ‘Wow! We have done that!’. It’s really sweet to do something.”
“It was an experiment, and it was about exploring ourselves – like ‘we can do it’. And actually for me, singing it, I just tried first time, and then both my kids picked it up and we were singing it for weeks. And my little boy started trying to play it on the piano, so the whole mood was ‘Spring’!”
“It was an experiment, and it was about exploring ourselves – like ‘we can do it’. And actually for me, singing it, I just tried first time, and then both my kids picked it up and we were singing it for weeks. And my little boy started trying to play it on the piano, so the whole mood was ‘Spring’!”