Liz Terry
Background
Liz trained in Community Music in Cardiff in 1996, apprenticed to Frankie Armstrong and is one of the founding members of the Natural Voice Network when it began in 2000. Alongside song/music and movement trainings Liz trained for 3 years in Shiatsu and a year in Movement Shiatsu. She has attended courses in counselling, NVC , ritual theatre, ceremony, group mentoring, Shadow work and Co Liberation. Liz continues to learn more about trauma informed practice and to pass onto others what she has learnt from her teachers and mentors. Liz spent a decade leading Community Choirs, then a decade of working in Education, delivering Sing Up trainings in over 500 schools across three Counties. Liz went on to co found The Music Works, managing, writing and delivering creative based programmes with a focus on inclusivity, mental health and young people in challenging circumstances. She has worked in many adult settings over the last 25 years including refugee and assylym seekers ,MIND, taining with The British Lung Foundation has worked in partnership with the NHS She has trained 1000's of teachers and adults working with children and wrote a Creative Music/ Song Writing and Mental Health programme which is still being run in Secondary Schools. In her younger years Liz travelled the world for two and half years meeting and learning from different cultures including Indigenous people on several continents. This significant and life changing journey made in her early adult life was a very formative time. She is grateful for the opportunity and deep learning this gave her and has since worked with many singers, dancers, artists and shamans from around the world. On returning to the UK in her eary twneties Liz helped to set up an Eco Community in West Wales, moving to Wales to connect with her Welsh roots where she learned, first hand, about sustainable ways of living off grid with 2 young children. It was a big learning curve! She now lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Her two children ( young adults) are a huge inspiration to her and her wisest teachers! |
Sing For Earth Day started out as a seed of an idea about 5 years ago.
Liz Terry founded Sing For Earth to bring together song, embodiment, nature connection, music, movement and environmentalism. A potent mix and, as Covid times have shown us, all essential for our well being. Liz is an experienced Natural Voice Practitoner, singer, song maker, performer, creative activist, group facilitator, trainer and body work therapist. She has worked creatively in a wide variety of settings over the last 25 years. Starting off running Community Choirs and moving into Creative Song/ Embodiment for health and educational work with a focus on working with marginalised groups and children, young people and adults in challenging circumstamces. She s passionate about 'normalising' embodiment, song, dance and creativity as a way of assissting people to acess their full potential and wholeness. Liz works with song, movement and nature connection as creative and healing change agencies. Helping to cultivate and strengthen co liberation, social justice, environmental reparation, and a sense of belonging and community. Liz's work has a focus on women's creative empowerment, health,well being. healing and creative expression. www.lizterry.org.uk/ Liz co founded The Music Worksin 2012 based in Gloucester The Music Works Making creative music making accessible to all children and young people with a partcular focus on those in challenging circumstances. In recent years she has returned to an environmental focus and founded a CiC to support that work. www.pathwaystoventures.org/ Her work with Sing For Earth supports and advocates for the Stop Ecocide Campaign founded by her late friend Polly Higgins, visionary 'Earth Lawyer' Liz works for other not for profits, taking her creative and therapeutic work into collaborations with other organisations whose values and aims chime with her own. She runs an International Programme called Sing For The Trees for Tree Sisters www.treesisters.org coaching and supporting women to set up and lead groups all around the world to raise awareness and funds for this radical reforestation initiative. Liz currentlyworks as part of the core leadership team of an Internationally renowned women's deep dive empowerment initiatory experience called Women In Power. She works on the bi annual immersive experience using ritual, divine feminine archetype, and Shadowwork. More info here: womeninpoweruk.com/ You can find some of Liz's songs here: https://lizterrymusic.bandcamp.com/ And live recordings of her music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10XStqN7jds |
Wider Team
There are a team of people involved in helping this initiative to happen over the last few years and we would like to thank them here as a gesture of huge gratitude to them all.
A big thanks to all the Natural Voice Practitioners who support the seeding out of Sing For Earth in their groups around the UK and for generously contributing orginal songs to our growing Song Garden.
Here are some of the wonderful people who hve been working with us and contrbuting to this initiative:
Judith Silver, Valerie Whitworth, Louise Blackburn, Maggie O'Connor, Valerie Whitworth, Catherine Pestano, Clara Clay, Vivien Ellis, Eleanor Gibson, Dave Camlin, Joanna Harvey, Ruth Cohen Rose, Louise Stanion, Ruthie Ritsch, Laura Roberts, Elizabeth Swift, Frankie Armstrong, Heidi Catch, Fil Campbell, Rozanna Lowe, Natasha Frost, Lucinda Guiness, Louise Firetree, Joanna Campion Watt, Rowena Whitehead, Sylvia Dannrheuter, Irene Kelso, Jilani Cordelia, Jilly Chadwick, Sue Harris, Ella Spiers and Kathryn Davidson.
A huge thanks to the amazing song writers who have contributed to the Song Garden :
Nickomo Clarke, Nick Prater, Mamuse, Spell Songs, Sophia Zoe Efthimiou, Emily Roblyn, Dave Camlin, Catherin Pestano, Kate Thomas and Frankie Armstrong.
We would also like to acknowledge the support of a wider team of people based in Stroud who contributed to leading our 2019 Sing For Earth Day event:
Jeannie Ireland, Katie Harris, Kate Dineen and Jaine Rose.
To the band of musicians who play in the Swift collective:
Daisy Burt, Misha Law, Jacob Morission, Tessa Mc Guinn, Sam Elvyhart, Chris Aylmer, Emma Ordonez, Rory Thomas Lawton, Andreas Steuck.
With Rosie Terry Toogood - movement artist.
And last but by no means least a big THANKYOU to all the people coming to the groups and being a part of this with us!
Ianto Doyle is a carpenter, yurt maker, mentor trainer, and mentor for teen boys with Journeyman UK. Having been involved with founding it as a charity he is now a Trustee and co ordinates the JourneyMan Threshold which 45 men staff on and 25 teenage boys engage in. It is a powerful and transformational 'Rites Of Passage' experience with ongoing mentoring groups held locally in a variety of places around the UK.
Ianto has trained in Counselling, Homeopathy and Journey Man Mentoring and worked for many years at The Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth mid Wales as an Eco builder and carpenter.
He has been involved with staffing the Man Kind Project, is part of a local men's circle running for over a decade which he set up.
Ianto is passionate about men's mental health, young people, sustainable ways of living and how to co create Rites and Intergenerational ways to cultivate community strength and resislience.
Ianto' has a rich and varied experience including living off gried on a 12 volt eco community in West Wales , exploring an 'alternatives to mainstream education' for his children. He worked for Wynstones School, a well established Waldorf School for 11 years. Ianto has a practical and creative orientation to work and life and has spent much of his working life doing and making things with people in teams.
He is a co founder and Director of Pathways To Ventures with Liz who he is married to. They co design and deliver Pathways work together with adults and young people using a variety of creative modalities and practices with nature immersion.
Ianto is actively involved with the 'behind the scenes' work that goes into helping to run Sing For Earth Day, and contributes to the ongoing sessions by offering his expertise and guidance in delivering The Work That Reconnects in groups ( Joanna Macys work) and group processes.
www.journeymanuk.org
www.nu-yurt-tents.com
Ianto has trained in Counselling, Homeopathy and Journey Man Mentoring and worked for many years at The Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth mid Wales as an Eco builder and carpenter.
He has been involved with staffing the Man Kind Project, is part of a local men's circle running for over a decade which he set up.
Ianto is passionate about men's mental health, young people, sustainable ways of living and how to co create Rites and Intergenerational ways to cultivate community strength and resislience.
Ianto' has a rich and varied experience including living off gried on a 12 volt eco community in West Wales , exploring an 'alternatives to mainstream education' for his children. He worked for Wynstones School, a well established Waldorf School for 11 years. Ianto has a practical and creative orientation to work and life and has spent much of his working life doing and making things with people in teams.
He is a co founder and Director of Pathways To Ventures with Liz who he is married to. They co design and deliver Pathways work together with adults and young people using a variety of creative modalities and practices with nature immersion.
Ianto is actively involved with the 'behind the scenes' work that goes into helping to run Sing For Earth Day, and contributes to the ongoing sessions by offering his expertise and guidance in delivering The Work That Reconnects in groups ( Joanna Macys work) and group processes.
www.journeymanuk.org
www.nu-yurt-tents.com