I have never met a child who didn’t love to make sound,’ says Hayes Greenfield. ‘The element of making sound – it is that basic element – that is what kids get so excited about.’
The New York-based jazz composer and saxophonist is the author of a programme designed to harness the innate joy associated with noisy self-expression and turn it into something that helps children learn self-regulation, collaboration and other essential life skills. Called The Greenfield Method, the approach, he says, aims to ‘enhance children’s executive function abilities and help develop eye-hand co-ordination, active listening skills, socialisation and raise self-esteem’.
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