Apart from the sheer life-enhancing thrill of practising a skill outside your nine-to-five life, making music of the visceral strength and quality that we came across can combat stress.
Yet if we stop to think about it, we all know that different cognitive states can cause chemical changes in our brains and bodies (as happens when we get afraid, or excited, or sexually aroused) and that behaviours such as practising a skill can cause permanent changes in the brain.
Further, each day the mentors have their own dedicated session looking at how to practise a particular skill, such as observation or facilitation of a group.
While beginners will be able to practise the skill on a line suspended over a crash mat, the pros can be seen walking above the lake, and attempting to break the highline world record.
Louise was a practical girl; in the Swiss Cottage built for the children at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, she learned to cook, a skill she practised, to the amazement of her staff, for the rest of her life.
The different types of objectives require adequate and tailored methods of instruction, e.g. teaching a skill requires practising rather than lecturing only.
Dr Nick Smith, postgraduate programme coordinator in the subject, says: "Although employment opportunities fluctuate, we have found that about a third of our people do funded research, a third teach either in FE or HE, and a third practise their skills in an applied setting.
During the programme they practise skills (including communication skills) on models, manikins, each other and simulated patients.
Students had an opportunity to practise procedural skills on a fresh frozen human cadaver under the supervision and guidance of a tutor qualified as a Queensland Ambulance Service Intensive Care Paramedic.
Students had an opportunity to practise their skills with, respectively, a different peer or different actor.
