Staff – Page 3 – Taketina Australia

Be Ward

Location: Alice Springs
Website: www.beward.wix.com/taketina
Mobile: 0478 608 641
Email: be_ward77@hotmail.com

Passionate about people’s capacity for growth and learning and about music as a tool for healing and transformation; Be has been studying and performing drumming & singing traditions for the last 40 years, from Mozambique to Cuba, Japan, and Brazil. Having worked as a professional musician since 1992 and lived and worked with Luritja people of the First Nations community of Papunya in the western desert from 2009 to 2013; Be undertook and completed the first Australian TaKeTiNa Basic Training in 2012 and Advanced Training in 2016.

For the last 10 years Be has been professionally facilitating TaKeTiNa in a diversity of contexts; from the Alice Springs women’s prison, holistic healing centres, drug and alcohol / mental health rehabilitation centres, and universities; both in Australia as well as internationally in London, Argentina and Brazil. Over recent years Be was engaged in Senior level TaKeTiNa Training at the TaKeTiNa Institute in Vienna.

Anne Maree Wilshire

Anne Maree Whilshire

Location: Sydney
Website: www.annemareewilshire.com || www.sydneysinginglessons.com.au
Mobile: 0413 788 009

Anne Maree is a multi-disciplinary facilitator, teacher and performer, who is passionate about supporting people finding their own authenticity and confidence.

As a teacher, Anne Maree incorporates techniques from her diverse trainings in music/performance and advanced adult learning techniques. These skills are complimented by insights gained from her personal journey into meditation, yoga and interest in the spiritual philosophies and musical practices from both Eastern and Western traditions.

As a musician and singer/songwriter she has toured Australia in bands, Mo Award-winning shows, from jazz clubs and festivals, to concerts performing her original songs.

As well as leading TaKeTiNa groups in Sydney, she is director of the VibrantVoices Studio where she teachers Singing, Performance and Songwriting.

Anne Maree’s corporate change work includes programmes in Leadership, Influence, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution & Presentation Skills.