Exploring Emotional Regulation Through Musical Connection
Led by Rebecca Beavis
This training session explores how music can be used as a powerful tool to support emotional awareness and regulation in children. You’ll learn how to musically “meet” a young person where they are emotionally—matching their emotional state through sound—and then gently guide them toward calm, focus, or engagement.
We will explore:
- How sound and music can reflect emotional states
- Using musical elements (tempo, dynamics, rhythm, melody) to attune to and shift emotions
- Practical strategies for musical co-regulation in both one-to-one and group settings
- Creating emotionally responsive musical environments
- Supporting children’s self-awareness and emotional vocabulary through music
This session is particularly relevant for those working in Early Years, KS1, SEND, and therapeutic or nurture-based roles, but all educators are welcome. Expect hands-on exploration, reflective discussion, and tools you can apply immediately in your setting.
About Rebecca Beavis
Rebecca is a qualified primary teacher who has focused her career to date in primary music and creative arts education. She has over twenty five years’ experience of music teaching, training, curriculum/provision development and subject/project leadership in a variety of settings: Early years, primary, secondary and SEN.
After having lead the creative arts provision in a UK multi academy trust of seven schools for over ten years, she recently relocated to the Seychelles to lead on music in an international school. Amongst many awards she was awarded ‘Inspirational music teacher 2023’ at the ‘UK Music and Drama Education Awards’.
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