How Can We Keep From Singing by Joan Oliver Goldsmith

HOW CAN WE KEEP FROM SINGING:
Music and the
Passionate Life

    by Joan Oliver
   Goldsmith
    Pub. by W.W. Norton
    also available through
    Penguin Canada
    Publicity: Elizabeth Garriga
    (212) 790-4295
    egarriga@wwnorton.com

Hire Joan to Speak

Through presentations and workshops, Joan inspires the creative power of audiences ranging from business and community groups to professional associations to school children.

Audiences have included:

The League of Women Voters
The American Choral Directors Association
The Pinnacle Project, sponsored by the American Psychological Foundation
The Berkshire Choral Festival
Unitarian Universalist congregations
School systems in Bloomington, Eden Prairie and Owatonna, MN

For adults she speaks on Followership and Practicing Practice: Create at Your Highest Level, Achieve Greater Appreciation for Your Work, Live a Saner Life. Children are inspired to listen and write in Crash! Boom! Ting-a-Ling! Splat!

Followership
Without followers, the conductor has no instrument, the CEO no company. Yet our society undervalues the powerful contribution of followers, insisting on treating them as empty vessels into which a leader pours motivation and guidance. In fact, leader and follower have equally important but quite different roles in accomplishing great deeds. Joan speaks to both leaders and followers about what constitutes great followership, and how to instill it in their organizations. The benefits can be enormous. Great followers insist on making great music.

Practicing Practice: Create at Your Highest Level, Achieve Greater Appreciation for Your Work, Live a
Saner Life
Musicians practice; so do athletes, doctors and lawyers, as well as those who practice a religion or meditation. But where is the discipline of practice in the business world, in our volunteer organizations, in family life, in academia (once we graduate from the multiplication tables)? Practice enables inspiration to become reality, and the creation of excellence to become reliable. Practice helps us connect with the audience for our work -- bringing value to them and enriching our careers. Practice teaches us how to manage ourselves to achieve greater meaning and joy in all the realms of our lives.

Through lecture, exercises, and suggestions for further reading, we will explore the essential nature of practice and learn simple, practical ways to cultivate an attitude of practice in our professional and personal lives.

Crash! Boom! Ting-a-Ling! Splat!
Whether writing about a sunset or a symphony, one of the writer's toughest challenges is finding the right words that will enable the reader to see, hear, and feel a nonverbal world. This highly participative workshop inspires 5th and 6th graders to listen acutely to a wide variety of sounds. They experiment with different ways to make sound come to life on a blank page -- expressing sounds, describing their qualities, using feelings that sounds evoke. They then participate in story crafting, using what they've learned. Time: approximately 1 hour.

Contact Joan (952) 944-3012 to discuss customizing these presentations for your meeting or conference.