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Boosts team cohesion, communication and wellbeing with a memorable celebrity-led offsite that produces a team song and video, plus music tools for stress management and productivity.
We support employee engagement and retention, team cohesion, culture, wellbeing, and communication with the SEL books, keynotes, and the music recording program.
FAQs
Straight answers.
Yes, and it is the strongest team building format we run. A group has to produce a finished piece together under a time limit, which surfaces exactly what an organization wants to look at: who listens, who dominates, how disagreement about the work gets handled, and whether anyone can accept critique. Sessions run 90 minutes to a full day, on site or virtually, and the group leaves with a finished recording. Tell us your group size and what you want the session to reveal.
Keynote presentations, half-day and full-day workshops, and virtual sessions. Group size and objectives determine the format — tell us both when you inquire.
Yes. The advanced edition is written for adult readers and works as a workbook participants keep.
Watch the recording process rather than survey afterward. A team building session is worth what it reveals, and the observable measures are concrete: how long it takes the group to assign roles, whether quieter members contribute audibly to the final piece, how the group resolves a disagreement about a take, and whether they finish inside the time limit. We can debrief those observations with you or with the group directly. What we will not do is hand you a score — a number from a 90-minute session would be invented, and you would be better served by what your own managers saw happen in the room.
No. We send our own staff to run the programming. We do not train your staff to run it. Recording and production is a skill set, not a procedure. Trying to hand it off in a few hours would be like teaching a doctor to perform surgery in an afternoon — you would get a session that technically happened and a result nobody wants to hear. Your L&D team participates as participants. Facilitating a recording session is not something a three-hour handoff produces.
No. We are supplemental. We do not replace your SEL curriculum, your trauma-informed practice, or any program you already have in place. If you run a core SEL program, keep it — ours adds a music-based component alongside it. If you have trauma-informed protocols, training, and referral pathways, those stay in force exactly as they are. Nothing in our material substitutes for them, and our facilitators are not a substitute for your clinical, counseling, or behavioral staff. Your existing L&D catalog, EAP, and any wellness vendor stay in place. This is one session type added to them.
Yes. For a corporate audience the Psychological Effects of Music interactive Training is framed as emotional intelligence and wellness training rather than as a talk — participants do something rather than watch someone present. It works as a conference keynote, an all-hands session, a leadership offsite opener, or a wellness week centerpiece. It also pairs with the one-day music recording program as a team building activity.
Tell us the audience, group size, format, date, and location. We will quote the engagement and any materials separately so your budget lines stay clean.
How this program runs
Same SIWM work. Built for Learning and Development.
Start with the social emotional learning books. Add a keynote. Bring a recording program when you want participants writing and performing — we produce the song and video.
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) competencies; ATD/SHRM professional & communication competencies; team & collaboration skills.
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The Psychological Effects of Music
SEL books & curriculum
SEL books by Ava Johnson plus keynotes for the same rooms.
Ava the Aviator
Keynotes & assemblies
Interactive talks on the science of sound and the psychology of music.
The studio
Recording & music video program
Participants write and perform. We record, produce, and film.