Klankduikbaken

Who is it for?

The Klankduikbaken Training is for you if you recognise yourself in the following:

• You know what tonediving is.
• You realise that tonediving can be of enormous positive value to people. You know that tonediving can help you feel your inner strength, get into flow, be in the moment and experience connection (with yourself, with your sound, with the world). A sound dive can comfort, heal, bring joy and make people happy. Musicians start to play with far more soul, ease, expression and joy; the beauty of their sound grows enormously through tonediving. A sound dive can work wonders.
• You would like to deepen your own tonediving skills (a movement inwards). And to learn how to move ever more effortlessly, naturally and joyfully from a sound dive to a longer improvisation (or to an existing composition), while keeping the intensity.
• You would like to help spread tonediving in the world (a movement outwards). You would like to learn how to teach people to tonedive in a joyful, inspiring and simple way, and how to encourage them to do it every day.
• You would love to learn how to tonedive together with a small or larger group. You would like to learn to be a 'klankduikbaken' (a tonediving beacon): a beacon who inspires, keeps the quality high, has tips for possible stumbling blocks, and helps to increase the joy of life in this world.

Structure of the training

• Five group two-day sessions on Friday and Saturday
• Homework assignments

Training books

• Tonediving: Effortless music-making from your heart in just 30 seconds a day. This is the most important book of the Training. We will cover it completely, from A to Z.
• Free Your Music: The Seven Facets of Improvisation This book supports the Training. We will cover large parts of it.
• The Fifth Factor: A practical approach to harmony This is the 'bonus book' of the Training. We will only cover small parts of it in the Training; it is above all a lovely extra book for further study for those who have a special interest in it.

Diploma

Once you have sufficiently mastered all seven subjects mentioned above, you will receive the (accredited) 'Klankduikbaken' diploma. Assessment takes place using 'block cards'. The intention is that for each subject, for each component, two blocks will be fully coloured: one block is coloured by you when you feel you have sufficiently mastered that component; one block is coloured by Improvisation Academy 'De Tonedive' when the academy considers that you have sufficiently mastered that component.

If at the end of the training not all your blocks have been coloured yet, you may continue for as long as you wish to develop your skills in that subject/component, in order to eventually get all blocks coloured and earn your diploma. If desired, support, moral encouragement and help can be provided by Improvisation Academy 'De Tonedive'.

Return days

We think it is important that your knowledge and skills as a Klankduikbaken stay up to date. That is why Improvisation Academy De Tonedive organises a 'return day for Klankduikbakens' every year. If you come to the return day regularly (at least once every two years), your diploma remains valid indefinitely. If you do not come to the return days, your diploma expires after three years.

Musical Intention

When receiving your diploma, you will speak the 'Musical Intention'.

I got the idea for the Musical Intention during the medical exam of our daughter Anna. When receiving their diploma, doctors take the 'physician's oath' (formerly the 'Hippocratic oath'). All doctors in the Netherlands have had to take the physician's oath.

I found it impressive to witness my own daughter's physician's oath. All those young people, who in the presence of an assembly of witnesses, say 'I promise'. They promise, in short, that they will use the knowledge and skills they acquired during their medical studies in an ethical manner, in service of their fellow human beings.

When our daughter also said 'I promise', something went through me. I became very happy. I think it is wonderful that the physician's oath exists.

And I thought: we music teachers / tonediving coaches also have knowledge and skills that can 'make or break' people. As music teachers / tonediving coaches we can make an enormous contribution to the joy of life of many people, by taking them along into the richness and enchantment of making music themselves. Yet who has never met someone who says they were 'broken' by their music teacher? Nobody wants people to become unhappy through music education – and yet it happens.

I think it is important that, when receiving your diploma, you realise that music education is not only about passing on knowledge and skills. It is about more than that.

By speaking the 'Musical Intention' you express that you want to commit yourself to using music to promote joy in life.

Read the text of the Musical Intention here

Registration

Does the Klankduikbaken Training appeal to you and would you like to sign up? Click here.

If you're thinking: 'The Training might be something for me, but I'm not sure, I still have some questions,' please email your questions to robijntilanus@gmail.com. Always include your phone number in your email, as your question may be of such a nature that we would rather answer it by phone.

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