NPA Music for Wellbeing
NPA Music for Wellbeing
Music plays an important role in supporting wellbeing. It can help to improve your mood, bring people together, and make you feel less lonely. Research suggests music stimulates positive chemicals in our body in the same way physical activity does. Some therapists even use music to help with relaxation and healing practices.
Whether you use the power of music to move your heart, your mind or your body, it can be an important tool to help support your wellbeing.
The National Progression Award (NPA) Music for Wellbeing at SCQF level 6 is a programme of study that provides learners with the basic knowledge required for employment in settings where music could be used to promote wellbeing. Music for wellbeing is participatory music-making that has the potential to enhance people's lives. During the course, we would plan to visit different groups within the community and perhaps further afield, engaging them in music making as well as leading groups within the school, all of which, help to promote the positive effects of Music.”
The principal aims of the National Progression Award in Music for Wellbeing (SCQF level 6) are to provide candidates with:
Whether you use the power of music to move your heart, your mind or your body, it can be an important tool to help support your wellbeing.
The National Progression Award (NPA) Music for Wellbeing at SCQF level 6 is a programme of study that provides learners with the basic knowledge required for employment in settings where music could be used to promote wellbeing. Music for wellbeing is participatory music-making that has the potential to enhance people's lives. During the course, we would plan to visit different groups within the community and perhaps further afield, engaging them in music making as well as leading groups within the school, all of which, help to promote the positive effects of Music.”
The principal aims of the National Progression Award in Music for Wellbeing (SCQF level 6) are to provide candidates with:
- Experience of designing, planning, delivering, managing and evaluating musical activities, workshops and events in real or simulated environments.
- Practical skills and underpinning knowledge relating to music for wellbeing.
- Knowledge and skills for employment at an introductory level within the field of music for wellbeing.
- Awareness of how human behaviour and psychology relate to wellbeing.
- Knowledge and skills for progression into further and higher education, training or work in the field of music for wellbeing.
- Awareness of a range of issues affecting professional practice such as safeguarding, health and safety, record keeping, self-reflection and continuing professional development.
- A route to certification and progression.
- The ability to apply existing musical skills to musical activities, workshops and events.