Early Years Music Scotland is delivering a year-long programme of free, high-quality, creative and inspiring continuous professional learning and development for musicians working with children in the early years across Scotland, supported by Creative Scotland's Youth Music Initiative.

This workshop is free-of-charge to musicians who are resident in Scotland and working with children in the early years (0-5yrs). Non-Scottish residents and non-musicians may purchase a ticket.

This workshop will be recorded and available to view for one month following the event. If you are unable to attend live, you can select a 'session recording' ticket. The recording will be sent to all ticket holders within 48 hours of the event. Please book one ticket only.

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This workshop focuses on ways in which we can be aware and mindful of maternal mental health in an early years music setting. In many 'children's music groups', adults are passive experiencers. At the same time, rates of postnatal depression and anxiety are on the rise. In this session, we will explore ways of creating opportunities to support parents within active music sessions, considering how small but significant changes to our practice may benefit parental mental health and wellbeing through arts.

This workshop will be delivered by Yvonne Wyroslawska. Yvonne has worked as a freelance musician for almost 20 years, delivering music education and community music projects across Scotland and internationally. She specialises in early years music education using the Colourstrings approach and Kodály-inspired practice, designing and delivering music projects for very young children and their families and delivering training for musicians, teachers and education professionals. An ardent advocate for the benefits of music education, Yvonne is Vice Chair of the Education Section Committee of the Musicians Union.

Yvonne has an MA (Hons) Music from the University of Glasgow, a Licentiate in Music Teaching (LRSL) with distinction, and an MEd (Learning & Teaching in the Performing Arts) from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her postgraduate studies in Kodály pedagogy have taken her to Hungary, London, New York, and California, where she completed the Organisation of American Kodály Educators Specialist Certificate at Holy Names University. She is currently a doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, looking at the effects of singing on maternal mental health. For more about Yvonne visit www.yvonnewyroslawska.com