Motivational Shows

Hey Folks, Profs, Teachers, Colleagues, and Associates!!!

As you may know, I have enjoyed an enthusiastic lucrative career as a Motivational Speaker. My professional life is full of singing, dancing, research, teaching, touring and everything in front of large crowds. At present, I am teaching upwards of 150 individuals. 

I recently launched a new music initiative here in Brantford entitled Notes and Beats -- a Community Music class deeply rooted in teaching and learning about rhythms, Canadian music history, percussion, singing and song-writing. We are overwhelmed with its success and are now expanding to another location to take our concept to Seniors. 

I am delighted to announce that I am bridging my professional life with my academic and research at Wilfrid Laurier University to begin offering my services as a Guest Lecturer/Music Facilitator.  

If you are an educator, music facilitator, event director, function coordinator or professor -- I’d invite you to bring NOTES and BEATS to your organization. Envision YOUR classroom or event with happy and motivated people as participants appreciate being highly engaged and energized. My workshops are fun, interactive & creative. I will get people up and moving, using straightforward techniques to engage in dialogue, movement and social interaction. I deliver insightful yet crucial messages with passion, energy, humour and the added element of music. 

I can guarantee you this: It will be a win/win situation for both participants and myself. Our workshop -- Motivation, Movement and Music, is a complete windfall for audiences.  

Joan Minnery: Community Musician, lecturer, author, professional entertainer, and music educator. I advocate and work with a profound mandate that music should be respectful, accessible, and inclusive to everyone. It should be based primarily on participation to be available to everyone regardless of age, ability or background. 

I have over 30 years of experience as a Musical Educator, Professional Entertainer, and Music Facilitator and running my Community Music practice. While most of my students have been children and teens -- I have had plenty of opportunities to work with marginalized groups such as individuals with intellectual challenges, seniors, individuals with vision and hearing impairments, people with physical challenges and a myriad of ethnic communities.  

My M.A. scholarly Capstone research focused primarily on the “Relationship of Early Music Exposure to Shaping Cultural Identity in Racialized Youth.” 

I work freelance as an advisor, specialist, advisor and consultant as I encourage organizations on inclusiveness in music methodology and pedagogy.

Want To Try Something Uniquely Different For YOUR Workplace - Team Bonding and Seminars?

Our “Notes and Beats” Community Music Workshops focus on the Facilitation of Group Bonding and Therapeutic Synergy through the Art of Music Making and Movement.  They are very interactive and incorporate communication with fun-enhanced alliance activities that encourage collaboration and unified teamwork.  Above all else, they are a unique concept for boosting personal and environmental morale. 

Notes and Beats use simple percussion instruments such as Maracas, Egg Shakers, Triangles, Tambourines, Drumsticks, Rhythm Sticks, Bells and Kazoos in a smile-induced laid-back atmosphere of simply making music.  We choose well-known songs from the Beatles, CCR, Bruno Mars, ABBA, Bryan Adams, Shania Twain, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Elvis etc. Or ANY songs that our teams suggest … we’ve even workshopped Metallica. 

We encourage our teams to make music together.  To sing, hum, beat and create a memorable interactive entertainment scenario and create a greater team purpose = SYNERGY!!!

The benefits of music are infinite.  We know that music benefits individuals and groups in improved memory through its repetitive nature while forming patterns and boosting brain functions and cognitive development.  Overall literacy is enlightened through planning, flexibility, and coordination.  There is also the increased development of large and fine motor skills, socialization, language, friendship, reading skills, and math skills.  Through songwriting, we draw on the science of music to inspire creativity while strengthening connections amidst feelings of accomplishment and self-confidence.  Music helps to manage emotions, boosts enjoyment, reduces anxiety, and can be a welcome antidote for loneliness and self-isolation as it brings people together. 

We believe our workshops can help improve the company structure and enhance respect for each other and ourselves. Our workshops give everyone a chance to practice and create in a situation where the stakes are low.  Notes and Beats strengthen interpersonal relationships, teaches new skills, and organize a group of people into a cooperative friendly framework -- all of which can assuredly strengthen a company’s brand and unites the purpose all around.  Happy team bonding can help articulate a brand.

Our workshops are ideal for small group settings of 5-20 people.  (This can be adapted to larger groups too). They can run anywhere from 30-90 minutes and will focus primarily on music making, learning songs through rhythm, notes, beats, singing, music history, music trivia, and movement.  Our workshops can be also turned into a song-writing seminar to create an anthem, song, jingle, or a fun-filled pick-me-up. 

I am available for Lectures, Seminars, Workshops, Corporate Parties, Seasonal Functions, Team Building Events, Private Groups, Hospitals, Treatment Centres, Homeless Shelters, Retirement Residences, Group Homes, Schools, Colleges, Universities and any environment. 

Joan Minnery
Master of Arts, Community Music
https://joanminnery.com