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Mastering ChaosTM Leadership Training Programme

© Andrew Hodges (June 2009)

Sound Improvisation Workshops are enjoyed because, counter-intuitively, a group of people are able to create exquisite coherent music in the present moment without any previously agreed plan or structure as if by magic.    You might think that this is also only possible with trained musicians.  In free group sound improvisation there are no wrong notes, no agreed plans just the sounds combining in the moment so anyone at any level of ability can do it.

But why do something so strange?  If you believe that some of the concepts in the list below intrigue you then you might have an idea as to how the sound improvisation experience could be of value to you.  

  • Work confidently with the unexpected

  • Respond ‘rationally’ with the ‘irrational’

  • Make good choices in difficult situations

  • Develop and deepen intuition both as an individual and part of a group

  • Learn how to process and work with the unforeseen

  • Make sense of the unfamiliar  

  • Discover how individuals can be heard, valued and respected in the group dynamic 

  • Learn the value of ‘mistakes’ and how they can be accepted and worked with as potentially interesting material

  • Develop and encourage reciprocity (give-and-take) between individuals in a group situation

  • Learn how to make brilliance possible without the burden of 'always having to get it right'

  • Deepen and extend the experience of listening and hearing

  • Learn about yourself and others without language

  • Work with paradox and contradiction

  • Enhance and deepen positive group and individual intention

  • Creatively handle conflicting ideas

  • Discover new meanings for individuality in a group setting

  • Develop creativity and learn how to encourage it

Finally, why not just step off the beaten track –

“Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” 

                                                                         WILLIAM BLAKE (1842-1910)

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