songwriting and self-trust - creative support for your practice
I offer private songwriting tuition and mentorship, as well as online courses and in-person workshops. Please get in touch if you’d like to know more, or try this for you! My next course is Song Circle, a six-week online course taking place on Tuesdays 10am-12pm BST from May 14th.
Song circle: Spring songwriting course, open to all
This small group of up to eight participants is an intimate, safe setting in which to open up your creative flow and share a love of songwriting and composition.
Explore your songwriting identity and learn to trust your own voice, while getting to know other songwriters from around the world.
Setting your own goals and pace, you will be supported to open up your process by Emmy and your fellow group members. We’ll work on things like making time for your creativity, overcoming blocks, expressing yourself authentically, and having actual fun. Throughout it all, we’ll be a community.
Open to all levels of experience- you don’t have to be a full-time musician, or even play an instrument! There are songwriters at every stage of their journey on this course - some have released albums, some have just begun writing. The meetings are designed around the needs of everyone in the group, with all of our individual dreams and creative identities in mind.
Build songwriting and creativity into your routine in a way that feels sustainable to you!
No tech required (except Zoom!).
Six Week Course - Meeting Tuesdays 10am-12pm BST from May 14th
Meeting dates: May 14th, May 21st, May 28th, June 11th, June 18th (one-on-one tutorials in the w/c June 3rd)
Email emmythegreat at gmail.com to join, request financial support or enquire about future courses
Or book your place directly here
“I can’t thank you enough for the past weeks, it came at the exact right time for me and has given me such a boost that I really needed. I feel so much more confident now to run with ideas instead of second-guessing and judging them before they ever have the chance to grow. I’ve felt a new kind of freedom thanks to this course that I’m going to try very hard to stay connected with!” - Georgia, Walthamstow
“Emmy's workshop is a wonderfully intimate and supportive environment that helped me build confidence in my own songwriting. There were opportunities to share ideas, techniques, hopes, anxieties and fears with a group of like-minded creative songwriters. Each session was built around the needs and wants of the individuals in the group which allowed the focus to flow in the direction of what we found most useful. It's like a support group for songwriters!" - Nathan, East London
“The best thing I have done with my life, creatively.” - James, Helsinki (feedback on private tuition experience)
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Course structure:
Each course takes place over six weeks, in the form of five group meetings on Zoom, one individual creative coaching session with Emmy, and exercises to complete in your own time.
In the meetings, we will share guided discussions, and work on prompts and exercises. There are song assignments, and your level of engagement and time commitment between meetings is up to you.
In our forty-minute individual coaching session, we check in on course progress, and discuss all things related to your creativity, goals and dreams. This takes place at a mutually agreed time during the six weeks.
Group members have access to a shared online space in which we can swap snippets, ideas, thoughts and songs in between sessions. In this space, we will offer non-judgmental feedback on each other’s songs, as well as sharing our responses to assignments.
The community continues beyond the course, with opportunities to meet songwriters from other groups in mingles and workshops.
About Emmy:
I’ve been a singer-songwriter for almost twenty years, after writing my first songs while studying commercial music at University of Westminster.
In my career, I’ve written songs for my own albums and soundtracks, as well as helping other artists from all over the pop spectrum realise their own songs. I’ve also worked with young people and incarcerated women to develop their innate songwriting skills.
I’ve learned that songwriting is a tool for everyone, and everybody has the ability to write songs. It’s a creative practice and art form that can help us communicate, tell stories, even process our own emotional worlds. It’s a friend, and, like exercise, it’s a practice that can be built into our everyday lives.
Lots of people feel blocks in their songwriting journey - I definitely have! Having experienced so much self-criticism, I love helping people get to know their own blocks, and in doing so overcome them. I love hearing songs in the intimate early stages of composition, and watching them grow! I passionately believe in creative agency, and our own power to tap into the magic flow of our ideas and shape in a way that makes us happier, stronger people.
Email emmycontact at gmail.com to join a songwriting course or enquire about future courses
Or book your place directly at www.emmythegreat.com/shop
Credit: Glenn Bollard