WHY TRY A SONGWRITING WORKSHOP?

The art of the song -  the process

As a songwriter, over the years I have been fortunate enough to have experienced lots of positive feedback for my craft. The applause and the reviews and the awards are all a nice way of being told that you're songs work somewhere along the line.

That positive feedback has only encouraged me further to develop my craft and to get better at what I do. It's why I know that only when we get positive encouragement do we ever flourish as artists. Far too often songwriters become isolated and are left with a rather negative inner voice that can often sabotage so much of their creative exploration that it can often be a battle to write a song at all!

I know this because I too have been in that battle!

But when I decided that I wanted to teach songwriting I realised that in order to do this well, I really needed to learn to understand my own process. When I broke it down I discovered that writing a song was not actually such a mystery!!  I managed to develop many creative and wonderful ways to help people access the songs within them. I truly believe that everyone can write a song if they want to and that we can always find inspiration for our songs and better still, that we can eliminate 'writers block' for ever!!

I thought that breaking down my songwriting process would take out the magic from it. I was used to 'waiting' for songs to arrive whenever they decided to and there was something mystical about this for me.

However, it turns out, it unleashed a whole new way of looking at songwriting and what's more, it meant that I no longer had to 'wait' for inspiration. Today I can write a song about ANYTHING and at any time, and as a touring and recording songwriter a mum and a coach, with limited time, this has been a complete revelation to me.

The Art Of The Song courses teach methods and techniques that will allow you to write songs whenever YOU want to write them and in these workshops you can learn to write a song from scratch without any previous experience.

If you do write already, then I can help you develop your craft even further and encourage you to write in many different styles.  Most of all, I understand how to make songwriting accessible for everyone.

Art is a gift from the Universe to all of us. Right now we need access to as many vehicles of expression as possible to help us navigate the multitude of emotions we feel just being a human being on planet earth.  . Songwriting is one of the greatest!