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"Music For All"
Violinist, Blogger, Podcaster & Coach
Andrew Hodges : Mastering Chaos?
The Mastering Chaos Blog:
A Musician's Guide To Navigating Complexity
Andrew discusses how musical development throughout life has such a significant impact on our health, mental well-being and our general happiness. We humans not only benefit from creating it and making it, but we also develop skills which have benefits in other aspects of our life and work.
It's Not Just A Hobby
For many of us, music isn't just background noise – it's a passion, a refuge, a language with its own grammar and flow. But when we call...
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Mastering Chaos: A Musician's Guide
There is something about the way music is created and performed which can help us all work and play better together. The Mastering Chaos...
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Sensing Toxicity
Patterns In The Chaos Musicians can sense when something in their music feels off, even if it's subtle. Outside of your musical...
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Improvisation v. Structure: An Organisational Paradox
Try this thought out for size: “ All human behaviour is in some way or other improvisational in nature.” We often think of Chaos as...
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The Story Of Human Communication
How did we get here to the point where our ability to communicate is beyond comparison with any other species? Unravelling the roots of...
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Decision-making, Intuition and Interoception
Have you ever had the sense of intuitively knowing precisely what to do at certain moments in your life? Accompanying this is that...
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Leadership Styles & The Workplace Culture
Most people believe they have an understanding of leadership styles. Most people have had the experience of being led by someone, and...
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"The Business of Improvisation - Just Firefighting?"
One or two people may know that whilst I can turn my hand to a decent bit of violin improvisation I have spent a considerable amount of...
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Musicians? What Do WE Know?
There is a view that everyone is musical. This might, in some people's minds, be difficult to accept, however time after time, when you...
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Bowed String Instruments & Cognitive Development
Learning a bowed string instrument can help with cognitive development in a number of ways. Here are some examples: Improves fine motor...
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Flow: In Music And Beyond
Flow is a state of deep concentration and absorption in an activity. It is often characterised by a sense of timelessness, effortless...
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Being a leader isn't easy at the best of times...
As a leader how much do you inhibit or even block your team's potential by adopting an unhelpful leadership style? And do you even know...
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The Four Musical States
How do we musicians, at our very best, work so well together? And ... given that it's in our very nature as humans to be musical, how...
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Music Improvisation - A Peak Experience?
Many people think of a peak experience as requiring unique special circumstances. Descriptions of peak experience often involve being the...
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Improvisation, Chaos & Organisations
The Mastering Chaos approach employs music improvisation methodology as a very effective lens to examine team building issues and can be...
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And When It's All Going So Badly...
Let’s be clear. This article will be upsetting for some. The scope of this article is very much the far end of the leadership spectrum....
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How Good Does It Feel When Things Are Working Really Well?
The sublime is a feeling of awe, wonder, and amazement that is often associated with nature or art. There is a view that these extreme...
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Changing Business Culture - A Musician's Guide
We're going to discuss the business of culture change in an organisation from the perspective of music improvisation. In music this is...
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Entrainment
The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could centre themselves in it, the whole world...
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Haven't We Always Been Free?
Since the rise of our capitalist society humans have been sold the work ethic (Sharon Beder: "Selling The Work Ethic"). It seems almost...
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