Aveen talks with Allison Davies about the importance of music for feeling safe, using musical mantra to enhance our lives and the importance of recognizing and nurturing neurodivergent beings. I loved speaking with Allison!

A little about Allison:

Allison Davies creates online resources for parents, educators and support staff and works with schools to deliver professional development around the topics of childhood brain development and the use of music as a regulatory tool. She is an independent liberatory scholar currently exploring the gatekeeping and classism of the social construct ‘musical vs non musical’. A former Registered Music Therapist of 16 years, Alli left the Allied Health industry in 2021 in order to align her work more deeply with culturally responsive practices and to switch her focus from individual change to socio cultural change.

Alli is an autistic person with attention, sensory processing and executive functioning difficulties. She works within a neurodiversity framework that favours deep acceptance and regulation over assimilation and intervention, and shares her lived experience of autism openly within her seminars, workshops and conferences as part of her ‘emotive storytelling mixed with science’ approach to education.

https://www.allisondavies.com.au

https://www.facebook.com/allisondavies.com.au/

https://www.youtube.com/c/AllisonDaviesMusicandTheBrain/featured