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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.