Trauma-Informed Practices in Adult Community Choruses
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Greetings!
I am currently a doctoral candidate working on my DMA with Boston University. For those of you that don’t know me, you can learn more about me here.
I am recruiting four choral directors to join me a study for my doctoral dissertation. I am recruiting from barbershop and GALA networks for this study, and I would like to have representation from several different types of choruses and directors.
About this study:
The fields of social services and education have employed six trauma-informed principles to create spaces to better serve trauma-affected individuals. In this study, I seek to learn if those six principles can be used to create better community chorus experiences. The six tenets of a trauma-informed approach are:
Safety and Security
Trustworthiness and Transparency
Peer Support
Collaboration and Mutuality
Empowerment, Voice, and Choice
Cultural, Historical, and Gender Issues
Learn more about trauma-informed approaches here.
I am conducting this research as part of my Doctor of Musical Arts degree with Boston University. Your participation in this research study is entirely voluntary and you are free to leave the study without affecting any future contact or experiences you might have with Boston University. There is limited risk associated with this study, though we will be talking about perceived and experienced trauma that might be upsetting or triggering. Your information will be kept as anonymous as possible, as each person will choose a pseudonym for yourself and your chorus. It is my hope that this study will contribute to the development of better practices for adult community choruses.
Study Outline
This study will occur in three brief phases:
1) After a brief orientation meeting, you will be asked to give an anonymous survey to your chorus members. They will not be identified, and you will not know specific answers that came from your chorus members. We will use this information to guide our discussions.
2) A personal interview with me (30-60 minutes) to talk about your observations and thoughts on how this topic manifests in your chorus(es)
3) Four professional learning community meetings – we will be co-creating the direction of the conversations and the application and testing of how we might use trauma-informed practices in our own ensembles. These meetings will take place at a mutually selected time over the course of approximately two months (one meeting every two weeks).
Thank you,
Kathleen Hansen
[email protected]
619-889-7866
I am currently a doctoral candidate working on my DMA with Boston University. For those of you that don’t know me, you can learn more about me here.
I am recruiting four choral directors to join me a study for my doctoral dissertation. I am recruiting from barbershop and GALA networks for this study, and I would like to have representation from several different types of choruses and directors.
About this study:
The fields of social services and education have employed six trauma-informed principles to create spaces to better serve trauma-affected individuals. In this study, I seek to learn if those six principles can be used to create better community chorus experiences. The six tenets of a trauma-informed approach are:
Safety and Security
Trustworthiness and Transparency
Peer Support
Collaboration and Mutuality
Empowerment, Voice, and Choice
Cultural, Historical, and Gender Issues
Learn more about trauma-informed approaches here.
I am conducting this research as part of my Doctor of Musical Arts degree with Boston University. Your participation in this research study is entirely voluntary and you are free to leave the study without affecting any future contact or experiences you might have with Boston University. There is limited risk associated with this study, though we will be talking about perceived and experienced trauma that might be upsetting or triggering. Your information will be kept as anonymous as possible, as each person will choose a pseudonym for yourself and your chorus. It is my hope that this study will contribute to the development of better practices for adult community choruses.
Study Outline
This study will occur in three brief phases:
1) After a brief orientation meeting, you will be asked to give an anonymous survey to your chorus members. They will not be identified, and you will not know specific answers that came from your chorus members. We will use this information to guide our discussions.
2) A personal interview with me (30-60 minutes) to talk about your observations and thoughts on how this topic manifests in your chorus(es)
3) Four professional learning community meetings – we will be co-creating the direction of the conversations and the application and testing of how we might use trauma-informed practices in our own ensembles. These meetings will take place at a mutually selected time over the course of approximately two months (one meeting every two weeks).
Thank you,
Kathleen Hansen
[email protected]
619-889-7866