The Art of Finding Your Heartsong

Reconnect With Your Voice as a Source of Regulation, Expression, and Life

Details:

A trauma-aware, experiential training exploring sound, voice, and songwriting as pathways to emotional integration and nervous system regulation.

  • Facilitated by Dr. Carolina Herbert

  • 2 × 3 hour workshops over two days (6 teaching hours), August 8-9, 2026 2pm-5pm GMT

  • Online via Zoom / In-person option available on request

  • Accredited CPD Certificate

Why This Training Matters

Many people have lost connection to their voice—not just physically, but emotionally and relationally.

For some, speaking or expressing sound feels unsafe, unfamiliar, or blocked. For others, their voice has been shaped by expectation, silence, or performance.

This can lead to:

  • Disconnection from emotional expression

  • Difficulty regulating stress and emotion

  • Fear or self-consciousness around being heard

  • Limited access to embodied presence and creativity

This training offers a safe, supportive space to reclaim your voice as a tool for regulation, expression, and self-connection—not performance.

Who This Is For

This training is for you if you:

  • Feel disconnected from your voice or self-expression

  • Support others in therapeutic, coaching, or wellbeing spaces

  • Want to use sound or voice in a grounded, ethical way

  • Are curious about nervous system–based creative practices

  • Want to explore expression without performance pressure

What We’ll Explore Together

    • Voice as the first instrument of connection

    • Sound, vibration, and the body

    • Nervous system and vocal expression

    • Why we lose connection to our voice—and how we reclaim it

    • Humming, sighing, and toning for nervous system support

    • Voice as emotional release and integration

    • Sound as a pathway to presence

    • What feels safe, vulnerable, and alive in expression

    • What a “heartsong” is (beyond performance or music)

    • Improvisation and spontaneous sound

    • Voice as felt experience rather than skill

    • Reconnecting to authentic expression

    • Song as story, metaphor, and meaning-making

    • Simple structures: repetition, rhythm, phrase-based song

    • Writing or voicing songs from lived experience

    • Ethical use of songwriting in wellbeing contexts

    • Therapeutic sound vs music therapy

    • When to refer to a specialist music therapist

    • Consent, safety, and trauma-informed voice work

    • Cultural sensitivity and ethical sound practices

    • Simple sound tools for client work

    • Supporting clients to safely explore voice

    • Adapting voice work for different contexts

    • Ethical boundaries in sound-based practices

What You’ll Learn

By the end of this training, you will be able to:

  • Understand voice, sound, and vibration as nervous system regulatory tools

  • Explore therapeutic songwriting as a form of emotional expression and integration

  • Use your voice as a self-regulation and attunement resource

  • Develop simple, ethical sound-based practices for therapeutic or wellbeing contexts

  • Recognise scope of practice and when to refer to specialist music therapy

  • Reflect on cultural, ethical, and personal considerations in voice work

Your voice is not something to perfect. It is something to remember.

This training supports you in reconnecting with sound as a pathway back to presence, regulation, and expression—at your own pace, in your own way.

“Sing yourself to where the singing comes from” Seamus Heaney