Sukhema (Larry Butler)

I'm aware we've been going for some time and I would like to, before we end this, I would like to gather as much as possible your insights and your learnings

If you were speaking to a group of people that want to develop Words for Wellbeing as facilitators, whether they're librarians or nurses, people like that, that want to do this work, what would you say to them?

And they want to know, get some advice from you about what, how do I need to get ready to do this work?

How can you maintain that presence?

How do you create that presence for yourself?

Anything else for preparation?

And during a session, is there anything that you need to watch out for or pay attention to when you're leading a session?

What would you do if somebody either explodes with anger or starts bursting into tears?

How do you handle that?

And what is your tips for ending a session?

When you come to the end of a session, how do you like to end sessions that you're doing?

Particularly whether it's at Maggie's or Psychiatric Ward or something?

Great.

And do you evaluate what you've done in a session?

How do you know whether it's worked or hasn't worked?

What's your sort of way of judging that at the end of a session or after a session?

Making yourself available, hanging about a bit at the end.

Is Liam here?

Another person that you worked with, I think, at Art Link was Penny Stone.

And I'd like to maybe, if you could say a little bit about the work with music and how that has helped in your work and how you collaborated with Penny.