Dr. Alison Liew Stewart: attunement in all its forms

Ali is a Registered Music Therapist, an Academic and a Music Tutor. She currently works part-time for Sing&Grow Australia, working to promote secure attachment with vulnerable families with young children 0-5 years old. She also works casually at Both Worlds School of Music teaching clarinet, piano and musicianship, casually as an academic for the Music Therapy Course at Western Sydney University, and casually as a professional development workshop facilitator. 

After completing a Bachelors in Music Education and Masters in Creative Music Therapy, she continued on to further research. In 2014, she completed a PhD in how the experience of mother-infant singing interaction contributes to attachment. In 2017, she completed a Masters in Special Education (deaf and hard of hearing) and since becoming a mother, she has also completed courses to facilitate The Circle of Security Parenting Program and Bringing Up Great Kids program.

She is passionate about empowering others to reach their full potential, whether this is facilitating positive parent-child interactions and building parenting skills, helping students to develop a system for building an essay argument or finally mastering a tricky note on the clarinet.

In the episode, Ali and Joe discuss connection and attunement - between parents and children, clients and therapists and introspectively within oneself.