From the 1997 conference of the Society for Effective Affective Learning

Extraordinary, delightful! - to be back at SEAL again... It was Lonny Gold who took me to Reading in 1991, and both the main conference and the training conference at Brighton afterwards were such momentous events in my life, showing me - it seemed for the first time - that there were people who had similar values and similar ways of working to mine...

That took me out of the worlds of early music and musicology, and started me on an international round which included giving seminars and conference presentations in Nizhny Novgorod in the East and Seattle in the West, and of being in on the setting up of SEAL Argentina in the South and of Sweden's sister organisation SOHL in the North...