Feb 2, 2021 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, harp, Holidays, Love Stories (Wired for Love), Performance |
NEW CHALLENGE! 30 Days of Love Songs – Leading up to Valentine’s Day. I’m on a mission to learn about emotional vulnerability and one of my challenges is to get on Facebook Live every night for 30 days and sing love songs. One Project, TWO Playlists...
Jan 12, 2021 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy |
The Hip Harp Academy students and I went on a Zoom Field Trip to the Celia Slattery Voice & Performance Studio. “A strong vocals 101 lesson with great warmups and education about where the voice comes from. Even with COPD, I could still sing and enjoy it. It...
Dec 15, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Holidays |
Recently I admitted something to my students in Hip Harp Academy: that I’ve never really liked the tune Silent Night, but that you could learn to love a song by really exploring it, and I started bragging that if I wanted to, I could make a different version of...
Oct 15, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy, Interviews, Video |
Deborah Henson-Conant & Hip Harp Academy Present: “JUNG at HARP” With Kathleen Wiley & Deborah Henson-ConantA YouTube series about music, Jungian Psychoanalysis & the Strings of Passion – Want to join us live? We usually film the...
Oct 8, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Events, Online Courses |
Today was so amazing! Hundreds of harpists are going through my brand new FREE Improv Challenge, and you can totally still get in. You don’t want to miss this! What people are saying… Sophie ~ “I loved going further in my attempts to play...
Oct 5, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy, Online Courses, Uncategorized |
Recently, Marie emailed me that she was interested in joining Hip Harp Academy but she wanted to know what actually happens – like, WHEN are the live class session, WHAT exactly do you learn, HOW MUCH TIME does it take and how does it all WORK? So I shared...
Oct 1, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Hip Harp Academy |
I got so involved with planning the AMAZING Leadsheet Bootcamp, that I didn’t spend ANY time getting the word out that LAST WEEK was the first week of the Fall session at Hip Harp Academy! I do not want you to miss out on joining the Academy this Fall and I can...
Sep 29, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, harp, Hip Harp Academy |
I’m always surprised and moved by emails I get from students in my workshops and classes. What moves me is people willing to share the underbelly of what it takes to set out on the path of bringing more creative freedom into their lives – because no creative...
Apr 2, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Hip Harp Academy |
3 months ago, a harpist named Roselyn contacted me about lessons. Here in the U.S. from South Korea, she’s been studying classical harp at Eastman School of Music, but wants to forge her own path, and she wants to do it with the “DHC Harp.” If you don’t know what the...
Feb 25, 2020 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Interviews |
This is Conversation #9 of the “Jung at Harp” series with Jungian Analyst Kathleen Wiley and me, Deborah Henson-Conant. In this video we are exploring AUTHENTICITY & WHOLENESS. This series explores Jungian analysis through the lens of the principles in...