🎹 Empathy grows through collaboratively creating music, such as jamming or playing in a band.
❦ Students are required to listen very attentively in order to synchronize with other musicians while expressing their emotions, as if having musical conversations.
Supported by studies, co-creative music-making including musical creation, music composition, music production, and musical practice is linked to improve empathy, especially in children, through mechanisms like interpersonal coordination, empathy, and seeing things from another’s point of view.
Playing or creating music in a group requires focused listening, forecast of a collaborator’s timing and expression, and real-time emotional compatibility — all essential empathic processes.
Singing and Piano lessons are offered in Nanoose Bay, serving Parksville, Nanaimo, Qualicum Beach, and Ladysmith areas in BC.