This allows our artists to have a solid demo readily available for their release if they wish to pursue a career in music.

Our main goal for our artists is for them to leave the course with a CD of at least 1-2 songs recorded. Our musicians are given sessions developing their songwriting and lyric writing skillsets - including covering topics such as marketing and management to ensure that our musicians can also remain independent in themselves as artists. Our musicians are invited to learn guitar, piano or drums OR to become a songwriter and write to beats that are created down in the workshop. We are open to accepting learners of ANY talent - from professionals to those who have never even explored music before. These goals are reviewed each month to ensure that our learners are kept on track - and that we can achieve their goals whilst down in the workshop. Each learner starts off their journey by selecting 3 main goals and one milestone. Each learner is guided on their pathways by InHouse Facilitators. Our workshops encourage our learners to explore one of the 3 main pathways: Musician, Producer or Manager. InHouse Records carries out invaluable workshops inside of UK prisons that not only help our learners to gain an understanding of the music industry - but to reduce the reoffending rate AND reduce the rate of violence on the wings. We see relationship, choice, and creativity as critical to genuine rehabilitation. Whilst the bigger picture in our culture has a belief system that views jobs and housing as the solution to the problem, as it’s so much easier to measure money and possession than life skills. We provide the choice for our learners to explore multiple paths and the choice to decide the intensity of their learning. Wanting to know more about songwriting, production or management requires planning, goals, and the fulfilment of tasks. We can role model these skills through creating and maintaining the necessary tasks generated from our men’s curiosity and ambition. We look to nurture these skills by role modelling as opposed to ‘teaching’ them. We focus on our learners Communication, Accountability and Adaptability. Recognising that skills are neutral, and their application can be positive. It’s given me a new passion for life outside of prison and a new passion for music.”- Jordanįocusing on what’s strong, allows us to identify the raw dialogic skills the men naturally have fostered. “I walked into InHouse, pretty much with arms folded, expecting to just turn away, but it was the best thing that ever happened to me. We make sense of the past by focusing on what’s strong, not what’s wrong. Positively engaging learners in their present reality whilst making some sense of their past allows us to build on the future. We know that sensory engagement for those suffering from trauma is vital to exploring healthy ways of communication. Using music to create safe and enabling environments, we work to increase the networks of our learners by modelling dialogic skills that have been missing in their lives, presenting our learners with the opportunity to spiral into healthier networks upon release. We also find that the process of creating is therapeutic in itself - creativity heals. We use the creativity of music to express feelings that are hard to communicate because we understand there is a paucity of dialogic skills.

Supporting over 2500 prisoners and ex-prisoners both inside and outside of UK prisons through 1-2-1 workshops and magazine distribution - InHouse boasts a re-offending rate that is less than 1%. Starting in 2017, InHouse Records is a record label focusing on what’s strong and not what’s wrong. This week we are delighted to share an article by Grace Holbrook, Head Of A&R at InHouse Records. Pieces take the form of videos, interviews, discussions, articles and more. FAC Insights is a forum for us to showcase and share long form pieces looking at various parts of the music industry and the society that shapes it.

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