Using Melodic Mantra With Children is a one hour webinar + melodic mantra video series.

For years now you’ve been asking for more info on how to use melodic mantra with children, and my reply is always the same - they already know how to do it! It’s just us that needs to learn.

Which, essentially is truth!

But I hear what you’re saying, and so I’ve put together a bunch of hacks, tips and tricks for introducing melodic mantra practice into the life of children and I would love to finally share them with you!

Melodic mantra is a regulatory tool, a very simple and effective way of singing that soothes and empowers, and has many, many different therapeutic benefits.

And given that it is very aligned with childlike ways of singing, this becomes an excellent tool for their wellbeing toolkit.

This webinar and video series is designed for anyone who spends time with children! In homes, in schools, in care, in the therapy room…

Registration includes a 1 hour live webinar, and a series of videos each containing child specific melodic mantras for you to learn and sing with children.

Tickets: $40 or sign up to A Gathering Of Voices for $24 and get access to the webinar FREE!

A Gathering of Voices™ is an award winning, non-performance based singing experience.

We don’t rehearse, we don’t practice, we don’t perform and there is no requirement to have any musical experience or to feel confident in a singing situation. As anyone who is part of the AGOV online community will know - there is never any obligation to sing!

Every singer needs listeners, people to hold space for their voice and words to be heard, and that’s an important job all on it’s own.

If you called to be part of this workshop, but aren’t sure if you’re ready to sing in front of others, you are still welcome!

Think of AGOV as more of a therapeutic experience.

A Gathering of Voices™ is a singing group that sings melodic mantras (single phrase affirmations and statements) and song seeds (short songs, or chorus like songs).

There will be no need to learn lyrics or sing in perfect harmonies.

You will be guided by Alli to sing freely and the result and feeling that this brings will allow for deep creative expression, emotional release and will completely fill your cup.

Cost: $40pp

During this 3 hour workshop we will use our voices in raw tone, melody and harmony, experience unscripted singing and have the opportunity to create and share our own songs with the group.

Children over twelve years welcome.

Hosted at The Don, Wynyard. We can't wait to see you, and sing with you!

Half day event featuring David Gilkes, Auntie Sharron mirii Bell and Allison Davies.

9 - 2.30pm

Gladstone Entertainment Centre, 56 Goondoon St

$100

Maggie Dent will be joined by two incredible colleagues, child psychiatrist and educator Dr Kaylene Henderson and Allison Davies, who specialises in music and the brain and brings a neurodivergent lens to the presentation.

We've taken this event across Australia to Cairns, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Hobart, Wollongong, Adelaide, Melbourne and Canberra, there have been many parents on socials asking Maggie to bring this seminar to NZ, and so, here we are!

Something really special happens every time we do this conference... parents, ECEs, teachers, and whoever is in the room, tell us that they feel so well-resourced in going home with some tangible strategies to tackle the anxiety that the children they live and work with are feeling. They often also feel reassured to see the things that they are already doing are helpful.

Come and join me as we practice creating ‘sweary melodic mantras’. An opportunity to sing our mantras into existence with the intensity they deserve.

A way of intensifying our message. A way of breaking free from the ‘good girl/boy’ messaging many of us are still bound to even as adults. A way of expanding our repertoire and releasing deep emotional wounds. 

Swearing, in fact, can be therapeutic.

Half day event featuring James Fraser, Auntie Sharron mirii Bell and Allison Davies.

9 - 2.30pm

Mayfair Ridge Tavern

$100

With the fast pace of modern life and the hidden pressures on our children, they need our guidance more than ever to better manage fear, worry and anxiety – even more so since the pandemic.

In this very special conference, which has been touring since 2019, Maggie Dent is joined by two of her favourite experts to share their insights into anxiety in childhood and what we can do about it.

Together, they will not only explore why anxiety and associated behaviours occur, they will reveal tangible, simple strategies to improve our children’s ability to regulate themselves. Alli will speak on supporting children (especially neurodivergent kids) to thrive through the experience of music.

Come and join me for my next free webinar, Using Your Voice as a Tool for Trauma Recovery, where I’ll host a 1 hour webinar followed by a 30 minute Q+A.

Every registrant will receive the replay.

With the fast pace of modern life and the hidden pressures on our children, they need our guidance more than ever to better manage fear, worry and anxiety – even more so since the pandemic.

In this very special conference, which has been touring since 2019, Maggie Dent is joined by two of her favourite experts to share their insights into anxiety in childhood and what we can do about it.

Together, they will not only explore why anxiety and associated behaviours occur, they will reveal tangible, simple strategies to improve our children’s ability to regulate themselves. Alli will speak on supporting children (especially neurodivergent kids) to thrive through the experience of music.

Tending To Our Selves is a full-day workshop that creates space for us to tend to the most fragile parts of ourselves in a way that soothes, and reconnect with the parts of ourselves we may have forgotten in a way that rekindles relationship to self. We will remember who we are, and witness each other do the same. 

Throughout this workshop we will journey in meditation, experience voice work and group singing, take up physical space, soothe ourselves with lullaby and connect with our inner voices.

By coming together in this ceremonial container we expand our capacity to bear witness to ourselves and each other, in all our humanly truths. We remember who we are in this moment, we love and connect with that version of us and we tend to her needs fully and without shame or intent to ‘fix’.

This workshop will be co-hosted by Allison and Siobhán Delaney.

Tending to our grief is a full-day workshop holding space for the myriad layers of grief. A space to be held in the arms of community as we tend to our grief, offering a doorway into deeper ways of being with life. This workshop will be co-hosted by Allison and Siobhán Delaney.

A 90-minute webinar, hosted by Allison Davies.

A 90-minute webinar, hosted by Allison Davies.

Come and join me as we practice creating ‘sweary melodic mantras’. An opportunity to sing our mantras into existence with the intensity they deserve.

A way of intensifying our message. A way of breaking free from the ‘good girl/boy’ messaging many of us are still bound to even as adults. A way of expanding our repertoire and releasing deep emotional wounds. 

Swearing, in fact, can be therapeutic.

FREE WEBINAR with JESSICA MAGUIRE

When experiencing fear, your vocal pitch might rise, and you could find yourself speaking more rapidly or feeling compelled to fill any moments of silence. Maybe your mouth becomes dry, and your throat constricts or sounds croaky. Or, maybe your voice becomes flat and monotone.

Expressing yourself might trigger feelings of apprehension, making you feel exposed when asserting yourself or reluctant to draw attention by speaking up. Speaking well requires freedom and balance in the muscles around the larynx and jaw. Ideally, a flexible and free posture also supports your breath.

Your vocalisations can be a portal to accessing what's known as the Social Engagement System of your vagus nerve. This is the state that primes you for communication and connection. You feel calm, connected, and safe. Your voice will have variation in rhythm and pitch, your body will feel comfortable, your breath full and your posture relaxed.

You'll learn:
⭐️ To build confidence and trust in your ability to communicate
⭐️ Improve your personal and professional relationships
⭐️ Learn what state of your nervous system you may be communicating from and the behaviours that can arise from this
⭐️ How to partner with your body to cultivate assertiveness and confidence
⭐️ Learn to speak with freedom rather than rules and restriction

Registrations are required beforehand and you’ll have access to stream the webinar for 28 days following this event.

With the fast pace of modern life and the hidden pressures on our children, they need our guidance more than ever to better manage fear, worry and anxiety – even more so since the pandemic.

In this very special conference, which has been touring since 2019, Maggie Dent is joined by two of her favourite experts to share their insights into anxiety in childhood and what we can do about it.

Together, they will not only explore why anxiety and associated behaviours occur, they will reveal tangible, simple strategies to improve our children’s ability to regulate themselves. Alli will speak on supporting children (especially neurodivergent kids) to thrive through the experience of music.

With the fast pace of modern life and the hidden pressures on our children, they need our guidance more than ever to better manage fear, worry and anxiety – even more so since the pandemic.

In this very special conference, which has been touring since 2019, Maggie Dent is joined by two of her favourite experts to share their insights into anxiety in childhood and what we can do about it.

Together, they will not only explore why anxiety and associated behaviours occur, they will reveal tangible, simple strategies to improve our children’s ability to regulate themselves. Alli will speak on supporting children (especially neurodivergent kids) to thrive through the experience of music.