Booking

Bring The Voice Lab's high-level professional development to your institution or organization. We offer a fresh perspective grounded in lived queer and trans experience as educators, artists, and students ourselves.

We love to bring our inclusive and affirming training programs to academic institutions, professional organizations, theaters, medical and therapy practices, even corporate and office settings.

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“Liz and their team helped my colleagues with really vulnerable questions without judgment, and expertly guided the conversations.”

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You know that feeling when you learn something new and say to yourself,

“How did I not know this before?!” 

We live for that feeling.

We know you strive to live and work within your values, to create an inclusive space for all. We also know this work confronts long-held beliefs and practices within voice education, singing, acting, casting, etc. Curious, compassionate, and courageous discourse is our specialty. We will never bring judgment into your space, but we will also never shy away from difficult topics and hard questions.

Topics we love to discuss include:

Inclusive best practices for private voice studios and academic programs.

Language, terminology, and awkward questions related to gender and voice transition.

Gender and voice as it pertains to perception, interrupting our implicit biases, and techniques for changing gender presentation in voice.

The PIRA Scale, a system to decouple vocal quality and traits from the person making sounds. We can explore tools within this system for speaking voice/acting, singing, or all of the above.

Medical transition related to voice including hormone therapy, body-shaping garments, and more.

Transformational Teaching, an approach to teaching voice that incorporates explicit consent to process resistances and emotions and dig underneath limiting beliefs in educational settings.

History of transgender vocal artists and their unique contributions to the music industry.

Presenter Fees*

*Fees listed are general starting rates. We will create a custom proposal for your project.

Presentation/Workshop up to 2 hours
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Virtual only
Presentation fee covers:
+ Engaging, up to date content
+ Compassionate and competent facilitation
+ Recording permission for internal use within your organization
Customized Training (per day)
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Virtual or in-person
Presentation fee covers:
+ Customized intensive training based desired outcomes
+ Compassionate and competent facilitation
+ Coordination with any collaborators or guests
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Meet your facilitators
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Liz Jackson Hearns (she/they)

Liz has an extensive history as a disruptive educator, researcher, and author. She began developing innovative curricula as a college music student and cross-training as a multi-stylistic singer, sound engineer, cognitive researcher, community facilitator, and entrepreneur. Over twenty years later, Liz is now the owner of The Voice Lab, Inc. where their team specializes in gender-affirming, intersectional, and transformational voice teaching.

Liz and the TVL team create courageous learning spaces where awkward questions are welcome and trans experiences are prioritized and centered. They specialize in facilitating discussions that deconstruct historical gender roles and stereotypes within the singing industry and beyond, focused on each individual’s process and finessing the line between destructive comfort and productive discomfort.

Liz is available for workshops, classes, panel discussions, master classes, press interviews, podcasts, and trainings. Her work is best suited for fellow voice practitioners, program directors, and leaders.

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