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Salome Raheim is a singer and Associate Professor of the University of Iowa School of Social Work (USA).

 David Denborough is a singer-song writer and community practitioner with the Dulwich Centre Foundation

In this workshop, the first of its kind to be held, Salome and David will explore the ways in which songs and music can accompany and inform narrative practice with individuals, groups and communities. This workshop is relevant to narrative practitioners who have an interest or love of music (irrespective of whether they can sing or play themselves). It is also relevant to musicians/singers who know nothing about narrative practice but would like to explore how to use music and song in their work with people who have gone through hard times.

Songs have a power. They can be used to:

• externalize problems,
• express values, hopes and dreams,
• carry collective history,
• bring people together around shared projects,
• support the construction of preferred individual and collective identities,
• and much more!

Salome and David will share stories and songs of their work in the USA, Australia and elsewhere and participants will have the chance to explore how a range of musical narrative practices can be engaged with in their own contexts. 

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