What does Noise Solution do

Do you remember as a kid how much it mattered when someone said you were

good at something? How sometimes that changed how you felt about yourself? Imagine how much more impact it would have if you could see yourself being good at that 'thing' and if you could see other people telling you that you were good - especially when the rest of the world is probably telling you you're not doing the right things? That sums up what Noise Solution does.

The evidence base and theory of change behind our work is very detailed, but what we do is actually very simple:

• We pair participants with professional Musicians (of the informal variety - skilled at beat making, production and songwriting) either 1:1 or in groups.

• Together, participant and Musician co-create a musical project in whatever genre the participant is into. We use freely available digital music-making tools to make the music important to the participant, quickly.

• Musician and participant capture the highlights of each session using audio, photos, videos and text and develop an individual digital story or weekly ‘feed’ of their growing success

• Participants also record a weekly reflection of their thoughts and feelings about the process.

• We provide the digital platform and using the skills people already have with social media - everyone captures their own developing story, their reflections

on how it makes them feel and shares it on their own ‘feed’.

• Participants invite into their ‘feed’ people who they have identified as important to them (generally family/carers and professionals such as teachers, care co-ordinators or social workers).

• This ‘community group’ are encouraged to comment and contribute on what they have seen every week. This is vital to our impacts. As those important to our participant reinforce an emerging strengths based story, rather than focus on what’s ‘going wrong’ in the participants life.

• We’re enabling participants to feel ‘seen’ by those they care about which validates them and allows them to internalise their new feelings of success.

Watch the video above to hear and see more about how Noise Solution works.