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Finding Your Flow: Teaching for Joy in a Disrupted World
STRETCH: Elastic Learning & Collective Cognition
Paper Presentation: A Place Where Everyone Plays: Orff Schulwerk, Community Musicking, and the Story of Turramurra and Rosewood Folk Music Camps
Ian has over 30 years’ teaching experience as a Primary School and Early Childhood teacher, and has taught in various Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory and in Queensland. A Primary Music Specialist with Queensland Education for over twenty years, Ian’s songs are sung in schools and homes all over Australia and internationally. In the early 2000’s he occasionally took time off teaching to tour a one-man show around schools in the top end of Queensland and the NT.
Ian has released many albums of songs for children and had songs published by the ABC, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, Bushfire Press, and NSW Dept of Education, as well as the Qld Orff-Schulwerk Association and Kodály Qld amongst others.
Now retired from teaching, Ian still loves songwriting, especially for school children, which is what he does best. There is a wide selection of Ian’s songs on his YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/@IanRossWilliamsmusic
Katie is a passionate music educator from Sydney, Australia. She is a recent graduate of The Special Course at the Orff Institute, and has spent the last six months back in her own classroom, putting her learning into action. Katie has a broad range of teaching experience, from early learning through to high school, and more recently in tertiary education. She has taught Orff Levels with the Orff Schulwerk Association of NSW, of which she has been an active member for many years. Previously, she has served on the Australian National Council of Orff Schulwerk (ANCOS), and the Tasmanian Orff Schulwerk Association. Katie is deeply committed to fostering creativity in the classroom, and is passionate about sharing her experience with other educators.
Paul Myatt is a passionate music teacher, author, composer, and workshop presenter. Paul, along with colleague Gillian Erskine, co-founded the Forte Music School Network (1994), which now exports Australian-designed music education to the UK, USA, Canada, Europe and NZ. In 2019, Paul and Gillian began developing Piano Teaching Success, which supports piano teachers in Australia and internationally in developing skills in embodied teaching strategies, such as Whole Body Learning, which is based on the philosophies of Orff-Schulwerk, Dalcroze, and Kodály, and is inspired by neuroscience. Paul has compositions and arrangements in the AMEB and AGMS syllabi, and a range of school textbooks for music theory called FUNdamentals, first published in 1998. Paul is a regular presenter at MTNA, NCKP and other international music education conferences and also teaches primary Creative Arts at Macquarie University. He holds a Master's in Education and one in Research and is working towards his PhD.
Dr Robyn Staveley is a distinguished music educator and researcher whose work sits at the cutting edge of cognitive neuroscience, embodiment, and music pedagogy. With extensive experience teaching across both school and university sectors, Robyn specializes in translating complex neurological research into practical, transformative classroom strategies.
A leading voice in the field, Robyn has delivered workshops and seminars nationally and internationally. Her expertise is highly sought after on the global stage; she recently served as a keynote presenter for the 2024 International Orff-Schulwerk Forum (IOSFS) in Olomouc, Czech Republic, and was also a keynote at the 2025 Australian Pinnacle conference.
Her contributions to the profession have been widely recognized. Robyn is the recipient of the 2018 ANCOS Award of Honour, the 2025 Professional Teachers Council Distinguished Service Award, and two Outstanding Achievement Awards for Teaching and Learning from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
Christa has 30 years of Orff-Schulwerk teaching experience with a focus on movement and dance in elementary and middle schools, and creating dance/music performances in schools, refugee shelters and theatres in her home base of Munich and throughout Germany. Christa taught for 10 years at the Orff Institute in the 1990’s and still teaches there for the Special Course. Former Lecturer in Elemental Music Pedagogy at Munich’s University of Music and Theater. Christa offers seminars and workshops internationally as an OSW movement and dance specialist. Vice president of the International Orff Schulwerk Forum Salzburg (IOSFS); team member of the online International Mentorship Programme in OSW Pedagogy; Levels training: San Francisco/AOSA, Madrid, China, Singapore. BFA degree/Dance, The Juilliard School, NYC; MA/Dance Studies & Musicology, University of Salzburg.
Peta Harper is an experienced Orff-Schulwerk educator from Australia who frequently presents both nationally and internationally, and has taught students from Kindergarten to Tertiary level. A graduate of the ‘Special Course’ at the Orff Institute, Salzburg, Peta has been a presenter of the ANCOS Levels courses and has written education material for a range of professional organisations and institutions. She is currently President of ANCOS and Vice President of the Orff-Schulwerk Association of NSW, and is studying a Masters in Elemental Music and Movement Education through the Mozarteum, Salzburg. Peta’s understanding and passion for the Orff-Schulwerk approach enable her to find creative ways to gain access to and unlock challenging music and movement experiences for students using a minimum of resources.
Werner was born in 1963 and began by studying Music Education with majors in Piano and Elemental Music Pedagogy. After completing his studies at the Orff-Institute in Salzburg, he was offered a teaching position there and taught at the Institute for seven more years. Since 1994, Werner has been a professor for Elemental Music Pedagogy (EMP) at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He is the head of the study program for primary school music teachers and initiated the performance group “BodyLab.” Since 2003 he has been the President of the German Orff Schulwerk Association, and for twenty years was the publisher of the magazine “Musikpraxis” at the Fidula Publishing House (2003-2023). Werner publishes on various questions concerning musical and movement education and is a much sought after lecturer in courses, symposia and conferences in Europe, Australia, Asia and the United States.