‘Voice’ is how our inner truth makes its way into the world. Voice is a tool we all have access to, and singing is a technology of community and creativity.
Through the Full Voice Institute, Dianne Baker, Eoghan Carrick, & Conie Borchardt were prepared by Barbara McAfee to lead practices of helping folks unlock the power and beauty of their own voices.
In this multi-session workshop retreat, participants will both explore the depths and heights of their voices, and also reflect on the connections between their voice, body, and spirit.
Join us for an online workshop to expand your voice and set your spirit more fully free–for the sake of your heart and soul, and for the mending of the world.
Details
WHEN: 6.5 contact hours over 5 sessions and three days
For femme-identified voices (with Dianne & Conie):
- Friday, February 5, 7-8:30 p.m. Central
- Saturday, February 6, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. AND 2-3 p.m. Central
- Saturday, February 20, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. AND 2-3 p.m. Central
For masc-identified voices (with Eoghan & Conie):
- Friday, January 29, 7-8:30 p.m. Central
- Saturday, January 30, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. AND 2-3 p.m. Central
- Saturday, February 13, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. AND 2-3 p.m. Central
Please plan to attend all sessions with your voice type.
WHERE: via Zoom
FEE: $40-50 suggested donation to secure registration. Supported and Supporting participants also welcome.
REGISTER: Email emcucc@emcucc.org to register. Maximum 14 participants per series.
Bios
Dianne Baker is a therapist, song circle leader, retreat facilitator and Full Voice Coach in Sechelt, BC, Canada.
Dianne takes joy in supporting people in their healing journeys and in their discovery of their full selves, and creates safe and trustworthy spaces for this to happen. She delights in nature, expressing this joy by eliciting garden beauty, having scuba adventures, taking forest and beach walks, going canoeing and camping, and singing as she goes.
Dianne shares life with Jim Hathery, her husband of nearly 40 years. They have 3 adult daughters.
Conie Borchardt is the Music Director at Edina Morningside Community Church (staff bio here). When not at EMC, they tend practices of listening and expression in sound and movement for personal healing and birthing new collective stories at Points Of Light Music.
Read more about Conie’s vocal journey in this piece they wrote for the UCC Musicians’ Association. They are in the process of rewriting it for a general audience and planning a Greater Minnesota “Freeing Refrains” tour in 2021 (outside and socially distanced, of course). This tour is the first year of “Biracial and Rural,” a multi-year project that will connect, empower, and share the wide variety of experiences folks who identify as “Mixed” with rural roots have.
Eoghan Carrick
At age 13, other musicians told Eoghan he had a ‘bad’ voice. So he stopped his childhood love of singing. Recovering his voice has been a deeply challenging healing process with teachers and collaborators ranging from indigenous Sumatran singers to esteemed choral director Dr. Joy Sherman to the grief ceremonies brought to the West by Sibonfu Somé.
Today Eoghan serves as music director for the storydwelling community in his homeland of Bend, Oregon. Pre-pandemic he served as director for a regional community choir called Open Hub Singing. He has facilitated expansive Full Voice experiences with students, educators, business people, singers, both online and in-person. Eoghan actively engages an ongoing men’s circle and is committed to practicing an embodied, collaborative, gracious form of masculinity. He does not do this perfectly… To honor his ancestors, his joyful child, dear friends and his soul, Eoghan is finally recording his first album of original music for release in 2021.
Learn more at openhubsinging.com