The Mindful Musician Project

The Mindful Musician Project is a student-led programme designed to aid students at the Department of Music reflect on mental wellbeing and music performance, and to equip musicians with skills they would need to overcome challenges within music performance. Helpful exercises and group discussions will be central to these sessions, in aiding young musicians to create their own toolkit of resources, activities, and reflections. In addition, each session will be joined by a professional guest for an open discussion, Q&A and experiential advice.

This session will focus on the mental preparation for a musician's performance, and group discussion around performance anxiety will be mediated by our guest, Director of Performance and international pianist, Dr Mary Dullea. 

This programme is designed by undergraduate students, Asia Bonuccelli and Michael Howell, in partnership with the Department of Music and Student Wellbeing Team at Royal Holloway.

How do I join?

Please sign-up to this session by completing this short form (link embedded) Please note that this is an opportunity for Department of Music students, and will be a safe and confidential space to explore these themes. 

Need support?

The Wellbeing: Support & Guidance team are here to support all students with their general wellbeing. They are a friendly, approachable team who triage wellbeing queries and provide non-clinical advice and guidance to students.  Their advisers will help co-ordinate the right support for you or signpost / refer you to others within the department for longer term or more specialised support.  They can also contact us if you are concerned about another student so the right person can reach out to offer support and guidance.  

Please email the team or join their daily virtual drop-in between 11am - 2pm during term time.