Three Pathways, One Creative Impulse

Intuitive Songmaking (a pathway of spontaneity) Link

Songwriting & ChantMaking (lyrics, melody, music theory, composition) Link

Guitar Artistry (chord families, chord patterns, guitar styles) Link


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Intuitive Songmaking


This course provides a space for honoring your own natural creativity, your voice, your song.  This is an ideal entry point for anyone ready to be kinder to themselves around their expression, and for using their voice and songmaker to tap into their inner wisdom. With this practice at the heart, participants learn to trust their own voice and their empathic connection to others.     

  • All the sessions have been wonderful.

    Elena

  • I wasn't sure if an online event could nourish me with the same beauty and depth as the live workshops- but I am happy and fulfilled that the answer is yes, it can.  

    Sabine May

  • I don't feel like a failure anymore and I try to deal with my fears more lovingly.

    Sigrid

  • Tonight I felt quite peaceful- the stress was really gone. What a relief.  

    Rose

  • The sessions are very supportive and healing.  Your facilitation and care are amazing.  

    Debra

Songwriting & ChantMaking


This course provides tools, tips, and techniques in songwriting and deepening one’s creative possiblity. We work with lyrics, melody, chord structure.  Time for participants to share their songwriting process.  ‘Re-writing the lyrics of our lives’ is a central key to the process, journeying with one’s own story in song.  Playing an accompanying instrument (guitar or keyboard, for example) is helpful but not required.     

  • I already watched the first video and it's perfect for me! I wouldn't have had time for a 'live workshop', so I now can do it whenever I like, at my own speed.

    Tina

  • Really enjoying your course.   Not only great for the music- the lessons also help me connect better with my own true self.

    Sean

  • A surprise and a great gift for me!  Now I'm motivated to go further on, feeling welcomed by you to the craft of songwriting.

    Anja

  • I'm loving your class so much ... you are a marvelous teacher.

    Pam

Guitar Artistry

This course provides a forum for anyone wishing to deepen their skill on the instrument, and especially helpful for songwriters and songleaders.  Learning to play Michael’s chants and songs forms a foundation, along with new chord patterns and picking styles. Participants discover new sounds and musical experiences.   A basic comfortability with the guitar is all that’s required; all levels of interest welcome.


  • You prepared and presented a beautiful and colourful variety of different elements. I also find it very helpful to play along with you.

    Mona

  • I cannot believe how much I learn in only one session.  Your teaching is incredible and very effective - it's a treasure.

    Anja

  • I really must say how good this guitar-course is for me and my soul. It's positive (opposite to many things in the world right now)

    Birgit

  • You create a safe space for us to come out, where people are encouraged to pick a piece and work on it and then play it for others.

    Steve

  • Just feels good to be connected to the atmosphere you create with your work and person.  I experience that as very healing.

    Judith

Michael Stillwater

brings over 40 years of wisdom and experience to help anyone ready to move forward in their musical life. His artistic gift for creating insightful songs in the moment has touched thousands of people around the world, and through SongLife Training he reveals the inner workings of his uniquely inspired approach for anyone interested and ready to learn.

Together with Michael’s gentle, insightful and challenging encouragement, the mutual support and co-creative atmosphere which naturally arises during these courses provides a joyful field of possibility for all participants.


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  • " …..more than I hoped for… music everywhere. To be connected and surrounded by people who dare to share every fiber is a wonderful experience."

    Sabine, Participant in Melle Training, 2019

  • "As a guitar beginner, I felt the pace was great! Kept me on my toes, but wasn't too fast."

    Sabrina, Participant in Melle Training, 2019

  • "You offered a space for so much to emerge, a safe place to make a great passage for re-connecting me to the Great Mother within. My voice opened more and more; this was overwhelming."

    Ulrike, Participant in Melle Training, 2019

  • "An experience beyond words - music expressed out of the silence and the huge heart of the great song."

    Nada, Participant in Melle Training, 2019

  • "Feeling connected with myself and together with others, with the courage to carry my song back into the world to share."

    Michaela, Participant in Melle Training, 2019

  • "A deeply moving & transformational process; a beautiful journey into the core."

    Jochen Bockholt, founder, Heilsames Singen in Hannover

  • "Wonderful retreat! You made the group feel so much at ease. We have become a song family in this week."

    Sibylle, Participant in Melle Training, 2019

  • "I felt I never learned so much in such short time before. I now am so glad and so motivated to go further on my way to ‘the great song’ and to have the courage to share it with other people."

    Anja, Participant in Melle Training, 2019

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