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SUMMARY:Webinar for Professional Development Series 9: Music Performance A
 nxiety and Musical  Improvisation: How Worldview and  Mental Well-Being In
 fluence Music Making - Dr Tawnya D. Smith\, University of Illinois
DTSTART:20150211T170000Z
DTEND:20150211T183000Z
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CONTACT:Pamela Burnard
DESCRIPTION:This webinar focuses upon dissertation research that examines 
 the convergence of music learning with the expressive arts as a means to c
 reate a balance between internal and external ways of knowing. A workshop 
 series consisting of four two-hour sessions was designed specifically for 
 this study to explore free musical improvisation and art response with six
  participants who self-identified with music performance anxiety. In this 
 workshop the participants learned to identify self-referents and expand th
 eir conscious awareness of inner dialogue\, emotions\, and physical sensat
 ions during music making.  Analysis revealed that worldview and mental wel
 l being both influenced the participant’s perceptions of their music per
 formance\, and that expanded self-knowledge increased the participant’s 
 sense of agency.\n\n*Tawnya D. Smith* is a recent Ph.D. graduate of the Un
 iversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the area of Curriculum and Ins
 truction.  She also earned a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Exp
 ressive Arts Therapy at Lesley University in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.  D
 r. Smith is an integrative researcher who explores expressive arts therapy
  principles in arts learning environments to promote holistic learning gro
 unded in the learner’s authentic and developing self.   Her background i
 n music education has led her to experiment with free musical improvisatio
 n and multi-modal art response as a means for learners to explore the self
  in a community setting.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS5
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