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"Music For All"
Andrew Hodges
Mastering Chaos: "The Musician's Way"
Andrew discusses how musical development throughout life has such a significant impact on our health, mental well-being and our general happiness. We 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.
Andrew Hodges
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Mastering Chaos: The Musicians Way
There is something about the way music is created and performed which can help us all work and play better together. The Wisdom Of The...
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Andrew Hodges
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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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Andrew Hodges
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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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Andrew Hodges
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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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Andrew Hodges
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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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Andrew Hodges
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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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Andrew Hodges
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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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Andrew Hodges
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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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Andrew Hodges
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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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Andrew Hodges
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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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Andrew Hodges
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Changing Business Culture - The Musician's Way
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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Andrew Hodges
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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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Andrew Hodges
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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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Andrew Hodges
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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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Andrew Hodges
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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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Andrew Hodges
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"Music Does Not Exist"
As a violinist and composer, the music I create appears from within me barely half-formed. In truth it's very hard indeed to say how the...
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Andrew Hodges
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Mind The Gap
Do you feel as if you're permanently on the brink of what feels a bit like a precipice? Do you sometimes feel as if you're teetering on...
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Andrew Hodges
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Decision Making Over Time: "The Musician's Way"
Decision-making can be musical. I can see several questions emerging in your mind as you read this. The purpose of this blog is to...
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Andrew Hodges
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Establishing Trust The Musician's Way
Musicians tend, by the way they work together, to build trust with each other, creating a strong foundation for musical collaboration....
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Andrew Hodges
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The Availability of Truth in Musical and Non-Musical Interactions
What is truth and does it matter? Most of us, when asked this question, will probably think they have sufficient understanding of truth...
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