Lana Turner, from Montréal, is on the Leadership Track of the Musicianship and Leadership Program. This track helps participants learn effective group facilitation skills alongside developing music improvisation skills.
HOW DID SHE WIND UP IN THE MLP?
Although she’d been in the MfP wider circle of improvisation courses and workshops and although she’d had her interest piqued by meeting Irene years before, the time wasn’t quite right.
However, last December she attended an MfP workshop with a friend and that pulled her in!
She came to the MLP wanting to learn another framework and approach to improvisation in order to develop her own improv, creativity and self-expression.
GETTING INTO THE FACILITATION TRENCHES
She got to experience guiding a workshop this spring at a weekend workshop at CAMMAC (Canadian Amateur Musicians/Musicians Amateurs Canadiens) in the Laurentians. She loved the learning experience and enjoyed meeting the MfP community—“wonderful people with a wide range of musical capabilities.”
Lana has noticed a growing confidence in improvising. And as she learns more how to hold space for others along, she finds she is also growing in understanding the psychological aspects of facilitating—using the appropriate tools and steps and MfP forms and games to encourage everyone’s musical journey.
HER ADVICE FOR OTHERS
Lana loves to encourage people to “dive into their own well of creativity in whatever way that means for them.” She would also suggest and highlight how “music improvisation is a wonderful way to learn more about yourself, heal and feel freedom through music.”