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 in 1999. Alongside song/music and movement trainings Liz trained for 3 years in Shiatsu and then a 1 year training in Movement Shiatsu. She has attended courses in Counselling, NVC , Sensory Ritual Theatre, 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. She spent a decade leading Community Choirs, then several years delivering Sing Up trainings in over 500 schools across three Counties. Liz then went on to co found The Music Works, managing, writing and delivering Health and Educational programmes with a focus on inclusivity, mental health and young people in challenging circumstances. She has worked in a wide variety of adult settings over the last 25 years including refugee and asylum seekers ,MIND, training with The British Lung Foundation. Worked in partnership with the NHS and CCG, has trained 1000's of teachers and adults working with children and young people. She wrote a Creative Music/ Song Writing and Mental Health programme which is still being run in Secondary Schools. Liz has performed with bands, a capella groups and currently has her own music collective. She organises and runs live music events to support environmental initiatives. 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 teachers from around the world. On returning to the UK in her early twenties 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! Liz now lives in the vibrant town of Stroud, in Gloucestershire. Her two children Faith and Dylan ( now young adults) are a huge inspiration to her. |
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, essential for our well being and the well being of the planet. Liz is one of the founding members of the NVN and is a Natural Voice Practitoner,https://naturalvoice.net/ She is a singer, song maker, performer, creative activist, group facilitator, trainer and body work therapist. Liz has trained hundreds of teachers in Inclusive practice and child lead/young leader approaches. She has working creatively in a wide variety of settings over the last 25 years, starting off running Community Choirs and then moving into creative song/ music making and embodiment for health and educational work. All with a focus on taking this work to a 'wider reach' - with marginalised groups and children, young people and adults in challenging circumstances. She 's passionate about the facilitating the power of song to fuel social change and 'normalising' creative group experiences involving song, dance, rhythm, theatre and cross arts opportunities. At the core of her work is co liberation, social justice, and environmental reparation. www.lizterry.org.uk/ Liz co founded The Music Works in 2012 based in Gloucester where she managed wrote and delivered a whole variety of projects in health and education. Making singing, creative music making and cross arts accessible to all children and young people, with a particular focus on those in challenging circumstances. This was a decade of her full time work which she took her work into. themusicworks.org.uk In recent years she has returned to a creative environmental focus and founded a CiC to support that work. Delivering creative based mentoring, trainings , courses, camps and events. Sing for Earth is one of the initiatives. www.pathwaystoventures.org/ Sing For Earth supports and advocates for the Stop Ecocide Campaign founded by Polly Higgins, visionary 'Earth Lawyer' Liz works for other not for profits- delivering 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. Other work: Liz currently works as part of the core leadership team of an Internationally renowned experience called Women In Power. She works on the bi annual immersive experience using ritual, divine feminine archetype and Shadow work. 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 contributing to this initiative:
Judith Silver, Frankie Armstrong, Ali Burns, Helen Chadwick, Valerie Whitworth, Denise Rowe, Jennifer John, 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 'in person' 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!
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 contributing to this initiative:
Judith Silver, Frankie Armstrong, Ali Burns, Helen Chadwick, Valerie Whitworth, Denise Rowe, Jennifer John, 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 'in person' 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 grid 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 grid 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