Bio: Laura Stavinoha is a musician, performer, writer, producer and coach, with the voice at center. She has a master’s degree in musicology and is trained as a classical singer. She has worked as a project manager and business manager in the music industry, while at the same time pursuing a versatile career as a classical singer, singer-songwriter and live looping artist. Through her company use your voice she now offers singers and speakers coaching and counselling about the voice and personal development. Laura is editor-in-chief of the official Dutch website about positive disintegration and affiliated as author with Third Factor magazine. In 2022 she published her book VOICE: A Multifaceted Approach to Self-Growth and Vocal Empowerment.

The Sound of Multilevel Development

Creative expression has major intrinsic value for multilevel development and living a meaningful life, it is an essential tool for expressing inner conflict and regulating emotions. Contrariwise, in this results-oriented world, it is so easy to get caught up in unilevel drives for creative expression. In the latter form, creativity is considered a means to entertain, gain recognition or become famous. I want to argue that when certain artists go through positive disintegration, they can possibly grow beyond their primary role as entertainer and arrive at al place where they put creative expression, values and inner growth first. Through three examples of lived experience, I want to discuss how we can witness multilevel development in the creative output of certain musical artists, and more specifically, their singing voices. I will share with you the journey of my own creative disintegration as a singer, together with two other musical exemplars of multilevel development: Marvin Gaye and Alanis Morissette.