MWL coaching is an investment in humane leadership, in your roles and relationships.
Get in touch with coach Gwen for courses, coaching, concerts, or to bring a MWL Workshop and Flute/Piccolo Masterclass to your area. For more about Gwen
MWL is produced by Wellness and Leadership Inc.
Get in touch with coach Gwen for courses, coaching, concerts, or to bring a MWL Workshop and Flute/Piccolo Masterclass to your area. For more about Gwen
MWL is produced by Wellness and Leadership Inc.
What is MWL
the spiral and linear process of aligning our Resonant Sound, with our Resilient Heart, and Radiant Spirit.
the spiral and linear process of aligning our Resonant Sound, with our Resilient Heart, and Radiant Spirit.
How
Educare and Educere - to "train in" and "lead out". We train in mastering our instrument and pay it forward through leadership from the inside out.
Experiment - a willingness to experiment, to fail and try again, and welcome a little creative mess.
Experience - the value of the shared experience of our common humanity.
Exploring - we explore the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of Music, Wellness, and Leadership.
Through Education, Experience, and a willingness to Experiment, we release and allow our creative intuition to guide us to a sense of safety, meaning, belonging, voice and choice.
MWL coaching is an investment in humane leadership, in your roles and relationships.
Experiment - a willingness to experiment, to fail and try again, and welcome a little creative mess.
Experience - the value of the shared experience of our common humanity.
Exploring - we explore the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of Music, Wellness, and Leadership.
Through Education, Experience, and a willingness to Experiment, we release and allow our creative intuition to guide us to a sense of safety, meaning, belonging, voice and choice.
MWL coaching is an investment in humane leadership, in your roles and relationships.
Why
Musician Wellness & Leadership
With an anti-racist, equitable, diverse, and inclusive lens, we explore practices which create a sense of ease within the effort as we continue to unpack our pre-conditioned responses, in service of music, the musician, and the community.
With an anti-racist, equitable, diverse, and inclusive lens, we explore practices which create a sense of ease within the effort as we continue to unpack our pre-conditioned responses, in service of music, the musician, and the community.
Who
Gwen Klassen began her tenure as the Assistant Principal Flute/Piccolo of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra after graduating at age 22, with a Masters of Music degree from Northwestern University, where she won the prestigious award for Performance Excellence.
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In addition to her regular role with the CPO as solo piccolo and Assistant Principal flute, Gwen can be heard frequently as concerto soloist and as Acting Principal Flute. Her most recent review from the Calgary Herald: “The brilliant sections (of Dvorak Eight last movement) ….could hardly have been bettered with …terrific virtuosic licks by flutist Gwen Klassen”. May 2019.
Ms. Klassen is a dedicated member of the Calgary community; as a producer, chamber music performer for various charities and as a Sessional Flute Instructor at the University of Calgary. Gwen is published in major flute periodicals (Flutist Quarterly US |PAN British Flute Society), in OCSM, Prelude, and is a visiting guest lecturer across the country; bringing her enthusiasm, humour, education and experience to her unique “Musician Wellness and Leadership” workshops from coast to coast. |
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Gwen is passionate about integrating who we are, with what we do, and the ability of music to expand one's mind and heart in unexpected ways. This is the foundation of her vision for the annual, Internationally renowned, Pender Island Flute Retreat, (PIFR) with flute giants William Bennett and Lorna McGhee, of which she was Founder and Director for twelve years. www.fluteretreat.com. In august 2023, Gwen presented a workshop about PIFR at the National Flute Convention, with the support of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Ms. Klassen has performed in over 2500 Orchestra | Chamber | Solo concerts, has recorded for CBC and produced/recorded a CD with William Bennett and Lorna McGhee. Gwen has taught over 7000 hours of one-one flute teaching, 250 hours of one-one/group coaching, many workshops, 45 hours of Reiki treatments and is starting out as an End of Life Doula (certified). As Founder and Director of Wellness and Leadership Inc, "The Art of Humane Leadership Listen | Learn | Lead", Gwen brings this same commitment of excellence, creativity, courage, and compassion to fundraising, marketing, promotions, bookkeeping, schedules, creating and editing programmes. As with anything that is sustainable, Gwen has a team of support upon whom she leans; from family and friends, to donors and sponsors. |
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Get in touch for courses, coaching, concerts or to bring MWL Workshops and Flute/Piccolo Masterclass to your area.
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Musician Wellness and Leadership is produced by Wellness and Leadership Incorporated
on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (District 5 & 6), and all people who work, create and play in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.
on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (District 5 & 6), and all people who work, create and play in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.
