Paul John Dear

Founder and Director of Tinto Music and Arts CIC

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Paul was one of the first people in the UK to train with Arthur Hull of Village Music Circles in Hawaii in 2001/2 and has developed his facilitation skills in a wide variety of setting in the years since. He was Program Director for UK Playshop and lead Trainer alongside Dr Jane Bentley until April 2024 when he parted company with VMC to follow his own path and set up Community Rhythm Circles.

 

Dr Jane Bentley

Founder of Art Beat Music

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Jane is a drummer, facilitator, consultant and trainer; specialising in music in communication, health and wellbeing settings. She believes that everyone can make music – piloting musical social innovation projects as diverse as: exploring musical communication skills with corporate trainers through the medium of paper; making music with prisoners and their children to encourage family bonding; sharing the delights of improvisation with orchestral musicians who want to play in hospitals; creating a spontaneous bicycle orchestra for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2018 European Championships; investigating the potential for rhythm in aiding language learning, and articulating the potential of music in the lives of people with dementia.

 

Ray Watters

Founder of Drum With Us

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He first attended a VMC facilitators training in 2008, which was a life changing experience and the rest is history. It brought about a complete change in direction. He has attended trainings every year since, here in the UK, but also in Spain, Malaysia and Germany. Now along with the fabulous Dr. Jane Bentley he will leading the UK Playshop training events.