Community Music Tutor Training Course

Our Community Music Tutor Training programme has been running since 1992, with trainees receiving accreditation from 1997. CMW has had a huge success rate, with over 500 people going through the course. CMW’s tutors are skilled musicians who through the training programme, have converted their skills to a credible and real work potential, many of which were initially unemployed and seeking work. Tutors range in age and gender but all are committed to using music as a way of engaging people to make a real difference.

In addition to giving individuals the skills to become freelance Community Music Tutors, trainees have also gone on to set up their own community based initiatives using music as a powerful engagement tool.

The Course covers a range of theory and practice in community music, with practical workshops from professional community music trainers. They include Group Work skills, Assertiveness, Devising and Adapting workshop material, Facilitating client learning and growth, Working with Soft Outcomes and Transferable Skills, an awareness of Child Protection, Insurance, Assessing Basic Skills, Health and safety, Equal opportunities and diversity, and Best Practice.

Our courses are Agored Cymru accredited. Training is designed with a structure, method and ethos, which reflects the job of a community music tutor i.e. the course is a valuable rehearsal for the job itself.  Training is based partly on self-assessment - trainees assess their own strengths and weaknesses. Through personal experience of being in a group in a learning environment, each trainee will gain an appreciation and understanding of group dynamics and group processes. 

This is a part time course which includes taught session, placement time and a residential weekend, over a period of one year.

Courses are designed for the following groups, but can benefit a wide range of people:

·      Musicians who want to become self-employed community music tutors

·      Those with music skills who would like to use those skills in a community setting

·      Individual Music teachers/tutors who would like to work with groups

·      Those with music skills, who work with disadvantaged groups or who would like to 

       incorporate music into the work of their organisation

·      Youth Workers

·      Community Organisations

·      Local Authority Officers 

Not only has the course benefitted people in Wales it is also highly regarded internationally, with CMW delivering courses in Latvia, Germany, Cuba, Israel, Canada and Bolivia over the past 10 years.

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