Music Alive! Presenter Biographies
Mary Knysh
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Marilyn McLaughlin
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Marilyn McLaughlin, MFA, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, Unified Mindfulness L2 Coach, Music Medicine Facilitator is the founder of All Bodies Move!, Playa Mindfulness located in Los Angeles, California. As the creator of Drumming into Stillness and the All Bodies Move! programs, Marilyn provides an interdisciplinary approach to wellness that merges the benefits of fitness, expressive movement, sound, music, and meditation. These skills allow her to engage people of all ages and abilities right where they are. She designs programs to meet the special needs of each individual or group, while empowering them to experience a renewed sense of well-being, connection and inspiration. |
Patricia Hatfield
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Patricia Hatfield is living her passion to bring people together in harmony and full self-expression through music. She is a programs consultant and music facilitator, serving diverse populations including Senior Communities and Facilities for Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing, and Memory Care. She has created a training program for the staff of several Senior facilities to enable them to lead rhythmic activities for their residents. She is a life-long musician and has studied music performance and composition at UC-Berkeley, as well as studying music from Africa, Cuba, and India under master musicians. In her programs, she shares the joy of music that belongs to each of us, bringing forth, together with the participants, the infinite and enlivening layers of human expression.
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Irene Feher
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Irene Feher, founder of Living Your Way, completed Music For People’s four-year Musicianship Leadership Program in October 2017 where she worked closely with master facilitators Mary Knysh, Dr. David Rudge, Lynn Miller and James Oshinsky. She is now a on staff with Music for People running satellite workshops in Montreal. In September 2018, Irene launched Music for People’s first regional Musicianship and Leadership Training Program in Montreal. In September 2019, Irene received a generous donation for “Live Your Music at Concordia – Music Health Breaks”, a community music project to help students overcome isolation and anxiety. In February 2018, Irene participated, along with her mentor Mary Knysh, in an intensive 6-day training with Arthur Hull, founder of Village Music Circles. Irene facilitates recreational drum circles for Concordia University’s Multi-Faith & Spirituality Centre.
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Lulu Leathley
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Lulu Leathley, BA, holds bachelors and advanced certificates in education and performing arts from University of Victoria and University of British Columbia. The founder of LuluJam, she has facilitated music programs for over eighteen years in the Vancouver area, integrating her background as an Orff educator, Music Specialist, Montessori and Baby Music teacher. She incorporates the evidence-based Health Rhythms protocol as well as Village Music Circles approach and is endorsed by Remo, the world's largest drum company. With over 40 years experience, Lulu now trains recreation therapists, music therapists, educators and social work students in her Lulu Jam Facilitator Training, which allows people to facilitate music making for special populations. She is the co-author of 1,2, Let's All Play, with Mary Knysh, which features over 30 music and movement activities to be used across a variety of ages and populations.
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Ricarda Raabe
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Ricarda Raabe is the founder of Lust auf Trommein. She lives in Berlin, Germany, and has been an enthusiastic percussionist for over 25 years. After training as a geriatric nurse and studying social pedagogy/social work, it is her profession and passion to bring the idea of the Drum Circle into elderly care and to connect and empower people through drum activities. Since 2013 she has been a lecturer at national and international academies and universities in the field of music geragogy and has given interactive lectures at numerous congresses and conferences on the topic of "Music and Dementia".
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Shelley Snow
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Shelley Snow, PhD, MTA, is a fully accredited music therapist and licensed psychotherapist located in Montreal, Canada. She has been a pioneer in the research and development of sound-based therapies for mind-body healing and health. She conducted the first major study of sound healing by a music therapist, and her most recent study involved a collaboration with neuroscientists at the prestigious International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS) on a form of singing which uses sounds, called Toning. She is currently completing a book on her clinical work and research in sound healing and sound therapy.
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Dr Jane Bentley
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Dr Jane Bentley is a drummer and music-in-healthcare practitioner, consultant, and trainer, based in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2011 she was awarded the first ever PhD based on drum circles and improvisation. She has brought music to elder care and mental health care settings for over 15 years. Dr Bentley works part-time for the National Health Service in Scotland, focusing on music therapy with older adults. She established "Singing Memories" - a community singing group for people with dementia, and their carers; as well as collaborated with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra working with older adults in hospitals across Scotland. In 2015 Jane was awarded the prestigious Churchill travelling fellowship, to study the role of music in the well-being of older adults in Asia, and visited Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore, and in 2018 she joined the Global Brain Health Institute as an Atlantic Fellow - working on music and brain health at Trinity College, Dublin.
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Mike Deaton
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Mike Deaton has been a performer, teacher, and drum circle facilitator for over 20 years. He began focusing on programs for older adults a decade ago when a loved on was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. This led to a grant that brought together young children and older adults in joyful music-making. He has created programs for the Virginia Alzheimer's Association and The Lifelong Learning Institute at James Madison University, as well as many other organizations that serve other populations. He is an adjunct instructor in world rhythms and music facilitation at St Francis University, a trainer with Jim Donovan's Drum Circle Leadership, and a Global Trainer with Arthur Hull and Village Music Circles. Mike has taught ages birth through 104, and has dedicated his life to using musical tools and expressive arts to empower people and help them create their own positive transformations. He especially enjoys bringing these forms of expression to those who may not consider themselves a musician or artist. www.MichaelDeaton.com
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JoAnne Spies
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JoAnne Spies is a singer, songwriter and visual artist who collaborates with her audience in rhythm and sound explorations. Spies (rhymes with trees) has headed the Art Cart program at Community Access to the Arts since 2001, bringing music, movement and poetry to six Berkshire Healthcare settings, recently launching "Zoom for Two" Art Cart visits due to Covid-19. A Music for People Musicianship and Leadership graduate, JoAnne is also a Remo Drum Health Rhythms facilitator. She has written two community-based performances that were performed at the Norman Rockwell Museum, and an original 9-11 inspired song, Survivor Tree, which was sung at the 9-11 Memorial. Awards include a composer and visual arts fellowship to the Millay Colony, and a grant from the Westfield Watershed and Marmalade Productions to write songs for "Watershed Waltz". Additionally, Massachusetts Cultural Council grants were received for her CD "Me & Melville", and "Sounding Mohican Pathways", a collaborative event with the Trustees of the Reservation. Her CD's include 2x3. Me & Melville, North Avenue Honey, and Ecstatic Dances. www.movingsound.org
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Ping Ho, MA, MPH
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Ping Ho, MA, MPH is Founder/Director of UCLArts & Healing, which offers training in the use of creative expression for self-discovery, connection, and empowerment. This work integrates her graduate education in counseling psychology and public health with her lifelong experience in performing arts. Ping developed Beat the Odds®, an evidence-based drumming program for social-emotional skill building, a Certificate Program in Social Emotional Arts (SEA), and a sustainable SEA on a Shoestring program. She is co-author of the 2019 National Parenting Products Award-winning book, The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art (Ohio University/Swallow Press), and she is associate editor for the creative arts therapy section of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Ping also co-chairs the annual Expressive Therapies Summit: Los Angeles, which features 150+ hands-on, arts-based sessions for facilitating communication, building connection, promoting positive emotions, fostering engagement, enhancing mindfulness, reducing stress, and managing trauma.
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