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Mastering Chaos:
"The Musician's Way"
Mastering Chaos: A Musician's Guide
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If you think you're human then this is the blog for you.
Andrew discusses how musical development throughout life has such a significant impact on our health, mental well-being and our general happiness. We humans not only benefit from creating it and making it, but we also develop skills which have benefits in other aspects of our life and work.
Mastering Chaos A Musician's Guide To Navigating Complexity introduced by the author
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Andrew Hodges
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It's Not Just A Hobby
For many of us, music isn't just background noise – it's a passion, a refuge, a language with its own grammar and flow. But when we call...
Andrew Hodges
5 min read
Mastering Chaos: A Musician's Guide
There is something about the way music is created and performed which can help us all work and play better together. The Mastering Chaos...
Andrew Hodges
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Sensing Toxicity
Patterns In The Chaos Musicians can sense when something in their music feels off, even if it's subtle. Outside of your musical...
Andrew Hodges
8 min read
Improvisation v. Structure: An Organisational Paradox
Try this thought out for size: “ All human behaviour is in some way or other improvisational in nature.” We often think of Chaos as...
Andrew Hodges
9 min read
The Story Of Human Communication
How did we get here to the point where our ability to communicate is beyond comparison with any other species? Unravelling the roots of...
Andrew Hodges
4 min read
Decision-making, Intuition and Interoception
Have you ever had the sense of intuitively knowing precisely what to do at certain moments in your life? Accompanying this is that...
Andrew Hodges
4 min read
Leadership Styles & The Workplace Culture
Most people believe they have an understanding of leadership styles. Most people have had the experience of being led by someone, and...
Andrew Hodges
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"The Business of Improvisation - Just Firefighting?"
One or two people may know that whilst I can turn my hand to a decent bit of violin improvisation I have spent a considerable amount of...
Andrew Hodges
8 min read
Musicians? What Do WE Know?
There is a view that everyone is musical. This might, in some people's minds, be difficult to accept, however time after time, when you...
Andrew Hodges
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Bowed String Instruments & Cognitive Development
Learning a bowed string instrument can help with cognitive development in a number of ways. Here are some examples: Improves fine motor...
Andrew Hodges
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Flow: In Music And Beyond
Flow is a state of deep concentration and absorption in an activity. It is often characterised by a sense of timelessness, effortless...
Andrew Hodges
4 min read
Being a leader isn't easy at the best of times...
As a leader how much do you inhibit or even block your team's potential by adopting an unhelpful leadership style? And do you even know...
Andrew Hodges
3 min read
The Four States
How do we musicians, at our very best, work so well together? And ... given that it's in our very nature as humans to be musical, how...
Andrew Hodges
8 min read
Music Improvisation - A Peak Experience?
Many people think of a peak experience as requiring unique special circumstances. Descriptions of peak experience often involve being the...
Andrew Hodges
6 min read
Improvisation, Chaos & Organisations
The Mastering Chaos approach employs music improvisation methodology as a very effective lens to examine team building issues and can be...
Andrew Hodges
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And When It's All Going So Badly...
Let’s be clear. This article will be upsetting for some. The scope of this article is very much the far end of the leadership spectrum....
Andrew Hodges
8 min read
How Good Does It Feel When Things Are Working Really Well?
The sublime is a feeling of awe, wonder, and amazement that is often associated with nature or art. There is a view that these extreme...
Andrew Hodges
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Changing Business Culture - A Musician's Guide
We're going to discuss the business of culture change in an organisation from the perspective of music improvisation. In music this is...
Andrew Hodges
7 min read
Entrainment - Bliss, Bubbles & Blindness
Entrainment in the biomusicological sense refers to the synchronization of organisms to an external perceived rhythm such as human...
Andrew Hodges
6 min read
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