We were awarded funding from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Innovation Studio to hold two workshops to develop bespoke singing for health training. Our aim was to use these workshops to develop training specifically for Singing for Health leaders in Scotland.
In this first workshop, we shared and discussed the kind of training singing for health leaders felt they needed, whether that be CPD, new starter training, ideas for practice-based sessions, bespoke training working with people living with specific conditions, etc.
We were joined by Nicola Wyndebach, Director of Training for Sing to Beat Parkinson’s and Anne Ritchie from the Cheyne Gang, who both shared how they developed training programmes for singing leaders working in Singing for Parkinson’s and Singing for Lung Health.
The agenda for the workshop was: