New Mindful Music Moments for the Work Day

Introducing Mindful Music Moments for Businesses! In partnership with the Columbus Symphony, The Well is excited to announce a new addition to our Mindful Music Moments offerings. The idea’s origin is best said by Stephanie Davis Wallace, VP of Advancement at the Columbus Symphony, “The idea began during the onset of the pandemic, one of our major funders—a local law firm in Columbus–was providing support to the Columbus Symphony’s expanded reach to children through the Symphony’s education programs which included making the Mindful Music Moments program more widely available to schools and pre-schools throughout the region, ensuring remote access during lockdown. As mental health and well-being became jeopardized by the stresses of the pandemic, our corporate partner had a brilliant idea to model the program that was being utilized in schools for businesses. It was a creative way to fill a critical need in the business community through music and art.”

Our new Music Coordinator, Bryce Kessler, took the charge by crafting a 52-week playlist to start in January 2022 from our library of Mindful Music. Selections span from the Baroque era of Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi, to the Romantic era stylings of Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, and Boulanger, to the Modern compositions of living composers like John Luther Adams, Brian Raphael Nabors, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Reena Esmail. Different from Mindful Music in schools, the business playlist offers one mindfulness prompt with a classical music selection each week. These newly recorded mindfulness prompts are catered towards adults in the workplace and can be replayed as many times as desired during the week. 

Interested in bringing Mindful Music Moments to your work environment? Contact Stephanie Davis Wallace (VP of Advancement at the Columbus Symphony, sdaviswallace@columbussymphony.com) or Bryce Kessler (Music Coordinator at The Well, bryce@thewell.world) for inquiries.