PODCAST [30] Community music, coaching and wellbeing – with Rachael Perrin, of Soundcastle

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Introduction

In this episode, I talk with  Rachael Perrin, a co-founder of community music organisation, Soundcastle, which runs projects in the south of England, coaches and trains music practitioners across the UK, and has an online community to support them.

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What’s in this episode?

We talk about:

  • bringing together the music and social care worlds and wanting to find ‘other uses for music’
  • Soundcastle’s Musical Beacons work with families and People’s Music Collectives work with adults on a journey of mental health recovery
  • the crossovers between coaching, mentoring and community music
  • the importance of creative autonomy
  • and wellbeing, the thread that runs through everything from projects to collective decision-making

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