Singing Workshops
Singing workshops, presentations and sessions that Fay White is available to run.
Contact her on [email protected] for a quote.
• Get singing!
Lots of us have been told that we can't sing. "You just mime dear" or "Don't give up your day job" or even "Do you have to?" Everyone has a right to sing. It’s part of being a healthy human being. It’s a way to feel alive and free. This workshop is a safe place to sing. There'll be no criticism, no solos. Easy, beautiful, simple songs. No musical training required, just willingness to have a go. Confident singers welcome too. Wear comfy clothes and be prepared for a good time.
• Sing passionately without blowing your valves
This session explores ways to sing with clarity, passion, strength & authenticity. Learn how to communicate meaning, humour and nuance in songs; and feel confident to sing strongly from your own centre. Includes hints about how to cope with performance nerves.
• Songs and singing in healing, health and stress management
Singing is one of the most arcane modes of human expression. In ancient cultures it was linked with the sacred, with healing and with all stages of life and death. Singing promotes health. The body loves it! - the deep breathing, the stimulation to circulation and the rise in energy. Emotions find their catharsis and tension is released. The mind is taken up by the task and given a welcome rest from pain and problems, and the spirit is freed to soar.Leboyer, who championed gentle birthing, strongly advised mothers to sing to their babies, to strengthen and harmonise the bond between them and to calm and reassure them both.
Singing with others is something again. It softens boundaries, helps us bypass social differences and gets us in touch with our common humanity. It soothes our loneliness. It creates a delight that is energising and refreshing. It feeds the soul with beauty and lifts the spirit, strengthening hope and the will to go on. Singing is personally empowering too. People who find their voice find confidence. People who find their song together, create social movements for change. Most importantly, singing is full of joy. It is fun, it is sensuous and deeply pleasurable. And pleasure heals.
• Singing from the heart
Lose your inhibitions about singing freely, let your voice fly and sing from your heart with passion and feeling. This will be a refreshing, light-hearted session using rounds, simple part-songs and contemporary songs and ballads in the folk style. There is no need to read music. Confident and closet singers all welcome. Bring a friend, wear comfortable clothes.
• Womansong
A session of singing for women to put courage in us, energise us, make amazing harmony, sing up a storm. Easy and simple. Songs that celebrate, make you laugh, make you cry, that protest about bad food and bossy fashion. Easy. Wear comfy clothes. Bring a friend.
• Fire and ice
Put the fire in your belly and your inhibitions on ice. Free up and get a chance to belt out a song. Singers and so called "non"-singers all in together. New songs to express joys, sorrows, hopes and dreams. Enjoy the buzz of the group experience.
• Workshops or Presentations also on the following themes:
- Develop the skills to become a community singing leader
Fay co-designed the original training for Singing Leadership teams in Victoria, Australia. An introduction can be covered in a one-day workshop where potential singing leaders experience teaching songs by ear, are taught some direct instruction methods, then have the opportunity to try it out with the group. Other team members learn some organisational skills to support and frame this work, The full training course involves 2 full weekends separated by a number of weeks or months during which participant teams set up and begin their own singing group or session.
- Head, Heart and Habits - Singing for environment education _
Methods and repertoire to appeal to head, and heart and to train children in practical Landcare habits. eg. "Compost Maker's Work Song" which is fun but also informative with the composting method embedded in the song.
- Contemplation on themes of spirituality, justice and community
Fay’s interactive presentations on justice, spirituality and wisdom are an engaging mix of poetry, story and song. She’s led specifically geared sessions for community groups, women’s groups, teachers, nurses, chaplains and youth workers, and has facilitated exploration of environment, spirituality, wisdom and justice themes at conferences and gatherings all over Australia.
- The role of singing in education for literacy, language and co-operative behaviour
Fay and two colleagues ( Jane Thompson and James Rigby ) have developed a method of classroom singing for literacy and language education which has assisted a shift in culture and played a part in enhancing co-operative behaviour in a school in Victoria, Australia. This work was supported by the CASS Foundation. Several schools have followed suit with this method. Fay is available to speak about this to school staff, and/or to mentor the method in a school.
Contact her on [email protected] for a quote.
• Get singing!
Lots of us have been told that we can't sing. "You just mime dear" or "Don't give up your day job" or even "Do you have to?" Everyone has a right to sing. It’s part of being a healthy human being. It’s a way to feel alive and free. This workshop is a safe place to sing. There'll be no criticism, no solos. Easy, beautiful, simple songs. No musical training required, just willingness to have a go. Confident singers welcome too. Wear comfy clothes and be prepared for a good time.
• Sing passionately without blowing your valves
This session explores ways to sing with clarity, passion, strength & authenticity. Learn how to communicate meaning, humour and nuance in songs; and feel confident to sing strongly from your own centre. Includes hints about how to cope with performance nerves.
• Songs and singing in healing, health and stress management
Singing is one of the most arcane modes of human expression. In ancient cultures it was linked with the sacred, with healing and with all stages of life and death. Singing promotes health. The body loves it! - the deep breathing, the stimulation to circulation and the rise in energy. Emotions find their catharsis and tension is released. The mind is taken up by the task and given a welcome rest from pain and problems, and the spirit is freed to soar.Leboyer, who championed gentle birthing, strongly advised mothers to sing to their babies, to strengthen and harmonise the bond between them and to calm and reassure them both.
Singing with others is something again. It softens boundaries, helps us bypass social differences and gets us in touch with our common humanity. It soothes our loneliness. It creates a delight that is energising and refreshing. It feeds the soul with beauty and lifts the spirit, strengthening hope and the will to go on. Singing is personally empowering too. People who find their voice find confidence. People who find their song together, create social movements for change. Most importantly, singing is full of joy. It is fun, it is sensuous and deeply pleasurable. And pleasure heals.
• Singing from the heart
Lose your inhibitions about singing freely, let your voice fly and sing from your heart with passion and feeling. This will be a refreshing, light-hearted session using rounds, simple part-songs and contemporary songs and ballads in the folk style. There is no need to read music. Confident and closet singers all welcome. Bring a friend, wear comfortable clothes.
• Womansong
A session of singing for women to put courage in us, energise us, make amazing harmony, sing up a storm. Easy and simple. Songs that celebrate, make you laugh, make you cry, that protest about bad food and bossy fashion. Easy. Wear comfy clothes. Bring a friend.
• Fire and ice
Put the fire in your belly and your inhibitions on ice. Free up and get a chance to belt out a song. Singers and so called "non"-singers all in together. New songs to express joys, sorrows, hopes and dreams. Enjoy the buzz of the group experience.
• Workshops or Presentations also on the following themes:
- Develop the skills to become a community singing leader
Fay co-designed the original training for Singing Leadership teams in Victoria, Australia. An introduction can be covered in a one-day workshop where potential singing leaders experience teaching songs by ear, are taught some direct instruction methods, then have the opportunity to try it out with the group. Other team members learn some organisational skills to support and frame this work, The full training course involves 2 full weekends separated by a number of weeks or months during which participant teams set up and begin their own singing group or session.
- Head, Heart and Habits - Singing for environment education _
Methods and repertoire to appeal to head, and heart and to train children in practical Landcare habits. eg. "Compost Maker's Work Song" which is fun but also informative with the composting method embedded in the song.
- Contemplation on themes of spirituality, justice and community
Fay’s interactive presentations on justice, spirituality and wisdom are an engaging mix of poetry, story and song. She’s led specifically geared sessions for community groups, women’s groups, teachers, nurses, chaplains and youth workers, and has facilitated exploration of environment, spirituality, wisdom and justice themes at conferences and gatherings all over Australia.
- The role of singing in education for literacy, language and co-operative behaviour
Fay and two colleagues ( Jane Thompson and James Rigby ) have developed a method of classroom singing for literacy and language education which has assisted a shift in culture and played a part in enhancing co-operative behaviour in a school in Victoria, Australia. This work was supported by the CASS Foundation. Several schools have followed suit with this method. Fay is available to speak about this to school staff, and/or to mentor the method in a school.
