Our courses are suitable for practitioners, educators, and organisations seeking reflective professional development rather than clinical training.
The Therapeutic Sound Academy offers listening-led education and reflective professional development for practitioners, educators, and organisations exploring sound within wellbeing contexts. Our courses emphasise awareness, sensitivity, and ethical responsibility, supporting learners to understand how sound is perceived, played, and responded to across different environments and populations. Rather than teaching prescriptive techniques or therapeutic interventions, the Academy focuses on sound as a relational and embodied experience, with training pathways ranging from introductory CPD to Level 3 practitioner diplomas. Learning is delivered through small-group, bespoke, and one-to-one formats, both in person and online, and is grounded in care, consent, and thoughtful integration.
Professional Development and Practitioner Training
CPD Courses and Level 3 Diplomas · In-Person and Online
Bespoke training packages are available for schools, organisations, and businesses seeking reflective professional development in sound awareness and wellbeing.
📩 Enquire with Tessa Ann to discuss a tailored training package for your setting.
This newly launched course builds on Tessa Ann’s ongoing work in sound awareness, inclusion, and wellbeing across education and community settings.
A reflective professional development course exploring how everyday sound and acoustics influence wellbeing, behaviour, and inclusion in shared spaces. Through experiential listening, observation, and practical exploration, participants develop awareness of their sound environments and consider simple, low-cost ways to support calm, focus, and comfort — particularly for those who experience sound more sensitively.
Primarily designed for Early Years and education settings, this course is also suitable for workplace, care, and community environments.
Foundational Playing and Sound Awareness for Wellbeing Contexts
Level 1 is a small-group, experiential course offered as reflective Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and personal development. It explores sound awareness, embodied and responsive playing, and thoughtful integration of sound within wellbeing and personal practice.
The course is open to wellbeing practitioners and individuals seeking personal development who are drawn to sound as a relational, sensory, and embodied experience.
Rather than teaching therapeutic techniques or prescriptive methods, the focus is on how sound is listened to, played, and responded to — personally and in relation to others. Emphasis is placed on sensitivity, pacing, restraint, and awareness, supporting careful and ethical engagement with sound.
Participants work hands-on with sound and instruments through listening, observation, and felt sense, developing responsive playing that prioritises relationship and context rather than performance or outcome.
Including qualified and insured yoga teachers, movement practitioners, and those working in supportive, non-clinical settings who wish to integrate sound gently and ethically within their existing scope of practice.
For practitioners, this course may be used as reflective Continuing Professional Development (CPD), subject to individual insurance terms and organisational policies.
Who are drawn to sound for self-care, embodied listening, and reflective exploration, and who wish to deepen their relationship with sound without intention to offer sound professionally.
Participants attending for personal development are supported to work with sound for personal use and reflective exploration only.
Level 1 supports awareness of felt sense and bodily response to sound as a foundational practice grounded in listening, observation, and embodied experience.
The course does not train participants to deliver therapeutic sound, sound therapy, or sound bath sessions.
Further embodied and facilitated sound practice may be explored through additional study and reflective mentoring, where appropriate.
Each course is limited to three participants, allowing for calm, attentive, and well-supported learning.
This mentoring strand supports experienced practitioners who already work with people in a professional or facilitated capacity and who wish to deepen their relationship with sound beyond foundational awareness.
The focus is on embodied, relational engagement with sound as it arises in real contexts, with attention to listening, response, pacing, and ethical responsibility.
Rather than teaching techniques or prescribing methods, this work supports practitioners to explore how sound is played, held, and responded to in live situations — personally and in relation to others.
Sensitivity and discernment when offering sound within existing roles
Embodied presence and regulation when working with individuals or groups
Confidence in pacing, response, and relational awareness
Responsibility for how sound is received and experienced across contexts
This work is shaped by the practitioner’s lived experience, questions, and professional setting, rather than by a fixed curriculum.
This strand is suited to practitioners who:
Are already working with people in a professional, educational, or wellbeing context
Have completed foundational sound awareness learning, or have equivalent experience
Wish to explore sound as a relational and embodied practice
Are seeking reflective support rather than qualification or certification
Reflective Mentoring in Embodied Sound Practice is offered by enquiry and shaped around the individual and the context in which they work.
Mentoring is typically held across four one-to-one sessions, allowing time for embodied exploration, reflection, and integration between meetings.
Sessions may be offered:
Live online, or
In person where appropriate
In some cases, mentoring may be offered to very small groups where shared context and reflective inquiry support the learning process. Small-group mentoring remains focused on reflection, integration, and ethical awareness rather than training or assessment.
Because this work is mentoring-led and highly individual, structure and investment are discussed by enquiry.
This mentoring strand supports reflective practitioner development and does not, on its own, qualify participants as therapeutic sound practitioners.
Mentoring hours may be recorded by participants as informal CPD for their own professional records, where appropriate and in line with individual requirements.
This course offers a paced, experiential introduction to sound awareness in contexts where children and young people are present.
The focus is on how sound is perceived, how environments and soundscapes influence regulation and wellbeing, and how practitioners can work with greater sensitivity, pacing, and awareness. The emphasis is on observation and discernment rather than on delivering sound techniques or interventions.
Participants are introduced to foundational approaches to working with sound and simple playing, with attention to volume, rhythm, pacing, and response, and to how sound may be experienced differently by each child and within each environment.
This course is suitable for practitioners working with children, including:
Early Years practitioners and professionals
SEN teachers and support practitioners
Wellbeing practitioners working in child-centred settings
A separate version of this course is available by enquiry for those working with young people aged 12 and over.
This course is typically offered across three shorter sessions, allowing time for reflection, integration, and observation between meetings.
The paced format supports nervous system awareness and helps practitioners notice how sound, environment, and rhythm are experienced over time and across different contexts.
Delivery may be offered:
On scheduled dates, or
As bespoke training for organisations and teams
Session structure and timing are shaped to the setting, professional role, and developmental stage of the children being supported.
Enquire with Tessa Ann for upcoming dates or bespoke training options
Responsible sound practice with individuals and groups
This practitioner diploma supports those who wish to work with sound independently and responsibly in one-to-one and group contexts.
The diploma is offered as a selective, mentored pathway, carefully shaped to reflect an embodied, relational, and ethically grounded approach to practitioner development.
Learning is held through mentoring-led study, reflective inquiry, and supported practice, with attention to how sound is listened to, offered, paced, and responded to in real contexts.
Study may take place live online or in person, with entry guided by readiness, prior foundational learning, and suitability rather than automatic progression.
Live online & in person | Entry by readiness and suitability
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An introductory course in listening, sound awareness, and personal exploration
This online beginner course focuses on listening, awareness, and personal experience with sound, rather than therapeutic training or professional application.
Rather than training techniques or therapeutic applications, the course invites you to explore how sound is perceived, how it affects attention and felt sense, and how listening can become a supportive personal practice.
This course is suitable for those who are:
Curious about sound and listening
Exploring whether sound may form part of future wellbeing or creative practice
Seeking a personal, reflective introduction before entering practitioner CPD
Some participants later choose to continue into practitioner CPD, while others find this course complete in itself.
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