neurodiverse community
Affirming neurodiversity is recognizing that, in a musical space, one person is tuned into the soprano register, even though their voice presents in the bass register; another person hears long melodic phrases when everyone else is creating short rhythmic phrases; and someone else’s brain is turning the patterns of sound into physical shapes, and they … Read more
instruments are tools
Originally posted to the EBCMP blog on September 10, 2018. We’ll post occasionally about why we are committed to making space for community music-making. Children don’t like keys, wallets and phones because there is something inherently interesting about them. They like these objects because they see them being used by the adults around them. Humans … Read more
A note to homeschool families:
My name is Ryk Groetchen, and I’ve been cultivating creative musical spaces for over 20 years. Neurodiverse families have made a point over the years of reminding me how they have felt included in these spaces. I just want to emphasize that now that i have secured space 6 mornings and 2 afternoons per week, … Read more
Fall Class Schedule and Community Update
Hi folks, I hope you’ve been enjoying your Summer, and getting in lots of fun sensory experiences! I’m going to keep this very brief, and encourage you to reach out with your questions. Here are the next steps to join in the transition to imeetswe: There was a time that EBCMP didn’t exist, and then … Read more
mind/body/oxygen
RAG: I work in spaces where people are exploring creative activity in motion, such as singing, dancing, and playing instruments. I notice a subset of people who will experience frequent yawning, muscle contractions in various parts of the body, and the desire to stretch. What am i describing, and how can i contextualize this so … Read more
❤️🔥
To be an autistic person is to be a person with something valuable inside you but to rarely find the right environment where your value is recognized as valuable by people around you.
This is me, speaking from the heart of an autistic person.
i, advocate
If you’ve been following my neurodiversity journey–as I articulate the experience of a person with autism, ADHD, aphantasia, and proprioception hyposensitivity from the inside, along with the other ways i share myself–and you’ve found that the insights I’ve shared connect with your experience, or contextualize something you suspected, realize that sharing these insights is one … Read more
connection/attraction/hyperfocus/community
I’ve been thinking for some time about certain dynamics and patterns in the spaces I move through, and having a difficult time finding the right framing to bring these ideas up in conversations with colleagues. I decided to see what the pattern-recognition community had to say. The result was quite helpful, and gave me some … Read more
resolution
>”I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.”
- Eudora Welty
This person has a nervous system like mine.