For the majority of the participants, improvising music together
in this way was a novel experience, providing opportunities
to explore meaningful ways of connecting to the
creativity at the root of musical expression. At the start of
sessions, this invariably took the form of personal connections
(comments relating to responses to the sounds made by the
range of instruments available). Gradually participants began
to make personal and musical connections to other group
members. This emerging sense of group connectedness and
harmony was a key theme. This unfolding group process
provided opportunities to explore feelings that may have been
lying unexpressed, dormant, or had been difficult to articulate
in a more verbal medium during earlier sessions in the week