SPEAKERS
Trish Watts
Voice as a Life-Line for Belonging
VMT focuses on ‘re-membering’ all parts of our being. As we give voice with an inner hospitality to the disapproving, discarded and often forgotten parts of ourselves, we release self-torment and abuse. Focusing on creating a space for ease, this session will explore the timbres of the voice, engaging active imagination, sonic/emotional range and listening to body wisdom.
Melanie Harrold
The Singing Body
There are times when saving our lives can be about surrendering our voices to the breath and trusting the sounds of our longing, desires and joy emerging from our hearts and our guts. This workshop will be an experiential taster of breath, movement and sound embodying the planes of expression within the shifting vocal resonant patterns of Voice Movement Therapy and The Singing Body.
Sophie Martin
Many Ways to Voice - Acknowledging History, Land and the Heart
Inspired by the Australian tradition of acknowledging the indigenous country we stand on -this workshop will take you on a journey of voice through relationship to heart, history and community. We will weave songs and storytelling together through our connections to our countries, expressing through body and voice.
Lerina van Rensburg
How Singing and VMT can be a Lifeline for Teenagers
Boniswa Kamba
Taking Voice Movement Therapy as Master of your Own Life Story
TBA
Li Parker
Our Voice as a Lifeline Between Us and the Environment
How do we connect to the journey of climate change? How do we find our voice in activism and give voice in sympathetic resonance with the planet?’
Veronica Phillips
Let's Make Something Beautiful
To offer a space for you to explore, experience free expressive embodied vocal sounding; to expand your appreciation of the BEAUTY of your unique voice and its many colours individually and together. We will work with BREATH and BODY; VMT focus on Vocal Timbres, enhanced by imagery. We will end with sounding a positive affirmation together.
Crystal Bliss
From VMT to Play Therapy and Back Again! Throughline, Lifeline
In this presentation I will draw connections between my Voice Movement Therapy training and the skills I further developed as a Registered Play Therapist, highlighting applicable person-centered facilitation skills, as well as ways of being that help create a healthy and playful experience for client and practitioner alike.
Julia Norton
When Faced with the Unknown: Voice Acting, Creativity and Enoughness
In this workshop Julia will share her insights into how Voice Movement Therapy supports and informs her daily life as a working voice actor and voice coach. How staying present in the unknown is essential to not only combat performance nerves, but also in encouraging creative risk taking. There will be the opportunity for engagement.
Denise Casey
Lullabies from the Liminial
Mali Sastri
The Voice Movement Journey
The Voice Movement Journey is a powerful tool and technique we use in Voice Movement Therapy to explore sound, movement, breath, emotion, thought, image, dreams, and imaginings in an immediate, contained, and improvisational way. Voice Movement Journeying can help us process, integrate, digest and metabolize parts of ourselves and aspects of our lives, and can lead us to unexpected revelations — vocally, or otherwise.
Lena Måndotter
Letters to a Young Singer
A film about song and psyche with introduction and discussion by Lena Måndotter.
EVENT SCHEDULE AND TIME ZONES
South African (GMT+2) Time Schedule
Date |
Time |
Description |
Facilitator |
| 1 Apr | 7:30 AM | Voice as a Life-Line for Belonging | Trish Watts – Australia |
| 1 Apr | 8:30 AM | The Singing Body | Melanie Harrold -United Kingdom |
| 1 Apr | 9:30 AM | Letters to Young Singer (30 min film) | Lena Mandotter – Sweden |
| 1 Apr | 10:30 AM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 11:00 AM | Many Ways to Voice – Acknowledging History, Land and the Heart | Sophie Martin – Australia |
| 1 Apr | 12:00 PM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 12:30 PM | How Singing and VMT can be a Lifeline for Teenagers | Lerina van Rensburg – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 1:30 PM | Singing together | Lerina van Rensburg – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 2:30 PM | Our Voice as a Lifeline Between Us and the Environment | Li Parker – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 3:30 PM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 4:00 PM | Let’s make something beautiful | Veronica Phillips – United Kingdom |
| 1 Apr | 5:00 PM | From VMT to Play Therapy and Back Again! | Crystal Bliss Lardy |
| 1 Apr | 6:00 PM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 6:30 PM | When faced with the Unknown’ – Voice Acting, Creativity and Enoughness | Julia Norton – USA & Worldwide Coach |
| 1 Apr | 7:30 PM | Lullabies from the Liminial | Denise Casey – USA |
| 1 Apr | 8:30 PM | The Voice Movement Journey | Mali Sastri – USA |
UK (GMT+1) Time Schedule
Date |
Time |
Description |
Facilitator |
| 1 Apr | 6:30 AM | Voice as a Life-Line for Belonging | Trish Watts – Australia |
| 1 Apr | 7:30 AM | The Singing Body | Melanie Harrold -United Kingdom |
| 1 Apr | 8:30 AM | Letters to Young Singer (30 min film) | Lena Mandotter – Sweden |
| 1 Apr | 9:30 AM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 10:00 AM | Many Ways to Voice – Acknowledging History, Land and the Heart | Sophie Martin – Australia |
| 1 Apr | 11:00 AM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 11:30 AM | How Singing and VMT can be a Lifeline for Teenagers | Lerina van Rensburg – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 12:30 PM | Singing together | Lerina van Rensburg – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 1:30 PM | Our Voice as a Lifeline Between Us and the Environment | Li Parker – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 2:30 PM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 3:00 PM | Let’s make something beautiful | Veronica Phillips – United Kingdom |
| 1 Apr | 4:00 PM | From VMT to Play Therapy and Back Again! | Crystal Bliss Lardy |
| 1 Apr | 5:00 PM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 5:30 PM | When faced with the Unknown’ – Voice Acting, Creativity and Enoughness | Julia Norton – USA & Worldwide Coach |
| 1 Apr | 6:30 PM | Lullabies from the Liminial | Denise Casey – USA |
| 1 Apr | 7:30 PM | The Voice Movement Journey | Mali Sastri – USA |
North American Eastern Time Zone (UTC-05:00) Schedule
Date |
Time |
Description |
Facilitator |
| 1 Apr | 1:30 AM | Voice as a Life-Line for Belonging | Trish Watts – Australia |
| 1 Apr | 2:30 AM | The Singing Body | Melanie Harrold -United Kingdom |
| 1 Apr | 3:30 AM | Letters to Young Singer (30 min film) | Lena Mandotter – Sweden |
| 1 Apr | 4:30 AM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 5:00 AM | Many Ways to Voice – Acknowledging History, Land and the Heart | Sophie Martin – Australia |
| 1 Apr | 6:00 AM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 6:30 AM | How Singing and VMT can be a Lifeline for Teenagers | Lerina van Rensburg – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 7:30 AM | Singing together | Lerina van Rensburg – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 8:30 AM | Our Voice as a Lifeline Between Us and the Environment | Li Parker – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 9:30 AM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 10:00 AM | Let’s make something beautiful | Veronica Phillips – United Kingdom |
| 1 Apr | 11:00 AM | From VMT to Play Therapy and Back Again! | Crystal Bliss Lardy |
| 1 Apr | 12:00 PM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 12:30 PM | When faced with the Unknown’ – Voice Acting, Creativity and Enoughness | Julia Norton – USA & Worldwide Coach |
| 1 Apr | 1:30 PM | Lullabies from the Liminial | Denise Casey – USA |
| 1 Apr | 2:30 PM | The Voice Movement Journey | Mali Sastri – USA |
Pacific Time Zone (UTC - 0:700) Time Schedule
Date |
Time |
Description |
Facilitator |
| 31 Mar | 10:30 PM | Voice as a Life-Line for Belonging | Trish Watts – Australia |
| 31 Mar | 11:30 PM | The Singing Body | Melanie Harrold -United Kingdom |
| 1 Apr | 12:30 AM | Letters to Young Singer (30 min film) | Lena Mandotter – Sweden |
| 1 Apr | 1:30 AM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 2:00 AM | Many Ways to Voice – Acknowledging History, Land and the Heart | Sophie Martin – Australia |
| 1 Apr | 3:00 AM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 3:30 AM | How Singing and VMT can be a Lifeline for Teenagers | Lerina van Rensburg – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 4:30 AM | Singing together | Lerina van Rensburg – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 5:30 AM | Our Voice as a Lifeline Between Us and the Environment | Li Parker – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 6:30 AM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 7:00 AM | Let’s make something beautiful | Veronica Phillips – United Kingdom |
| 1 Apr | 8:00 AM | From VMT to Play Therapy and Back Again! | Crystal Bliss Lardy |
| 1 Apr | 9:00 AM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 9:30 AM | When faced with the Unknown’ – Voice Acting, Creativity and Enoughness | Julia Norton – USA & Worldwide Coach |
| 1 Apr | 10:30 AM | Lullabies from the Liminial | Denise Casey – USA |
| 1 Apr | 11:30 AM | The Voice Movement Journey | Mali Sastri – USA |
AUSTRALIA- Melbourne (AEST) Time Schedule
Date |
Time |
Description |
Facilitator |
| 1 Apr | 4:30 PM | Voice as a Life-Line for Belonging | Trish Watts – Australia |
| 1 Apr | 5:30 PM | The Singing Body | Melanie Harrold -United Kingdom |
| 1 Apr | 6:30 PM | Letters to Young Singer (30 min film) | Lena Mandotter – Sweden |
| 1 Apr | 7:30 PM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 8:00 PM | Many Ways to Voice – Acknowledging History, Land and the Heart | Sophie Martin – Australia |
| 1 Apr | 9:00 PM | BREAK | |
| 1 Apr | 9:30 PM | How Singing and VMT can be a Lifeline for Teenagers | Lerina van Rensburg – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 10:30 PM | Singing together | Lerina van Rensburg – South Africa |
| 1 Apr | 11:30 PM | Our Voice as a Lifeline Between Us and the Environment | Li Parker – South Africa |
| 2 Apr | 12:30 AM | BREAK | |
| 2 Apr | 1:00 AM | Let’s make something beautiful | Veronica Phillips – United Kingdom |
| 2 Apr | 2:00 AM | From VMT to Play Therapy and Back Again! | Crystal Bliss Lardy |
| 2 Apr | 3:00 AM | BREAK | |
| 2 Apr | 3:30 AM | When faced with the Unknown’ – Voice Acting, Creativity and Enoughness | Julia Norton – USA & Worldwide Coach |
| 2 Apr | 4:30 AM | Lullabies from the Liminial | Denise Casey – USA |
| 2 Apr | 5:30 AM | The Voice Movement Journey | Mali Sastri – USA |