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As one would expect, there is public speaking anxiety. With help from staff members who had been recruited from the pool of speakers previously worked with, the uncertainty of what is to come during the pending consultation was identified as a second source of anxiety. In an effort to help, music was used asan anxiolytic intervention.  \nRationale  \nWhen Writing Centers first evolved, hands on practice eventually informed theory. The same has happened for Communication Centers. In Greensboro we have worked for over fourteen years to create and maintain a safe and judgment-free learning space where students, faculty,  \nstaff, and members of off-campus communities can enter into meaningful dialogue, about oral communication, with a trained communication consultant who is a student. This work largely takes the form of student-speakers sitting down with undergraduate consultants. Most of our work with faculty, staff, and off-campus citizens involves our developing and facilitating interactive oral communication learning models (workshops) . Occasionally our student consultants have worked one-on-one with faculty, staff, or off campus citizens. Initially we functioned largely by practice which was informed by peer educator literature. By year five we were looking to other literature for theory which might inform our practices. As a result, our practice became informed by writing center, counseling, and listening literature. We came to value the process of seeking out literature from disciplines not familiar to us as we looked to create and maintain a safe place for the self-improvement of those we work with. As we began to establish our own scholarship, around years 6 and 7, we approached literature broadly as we sought to participate in the move towards the establishment of communication center theory and literature.  \nThe majors and minors of our student-consultants extend beyond the College of Arts and Sciences, our organizational home, into all of the professional schools. We look to leverage our student-staff’s disciplinary ways of knowing as we enter into our work. It is very common, for example, to hear our consultants connecting what they have learned in their course work outside of the center with something new we are experiencing. It is through what we learn from our new experiences that our communication center way of knowing has developed. To that end, while we cannot identify our next big problem or how it will affect knowledge generation,  \nit is just as hard to predict from which body of literature our next challenge will be solved. We embrace this cross-disciplinary approach as we seek to answer questions.  \nWe took a cross-disciplinary approach when we first considered ways to lower the anxiety experiences those who come to us for support have, when they are with us. The approach led us to music literature. This essay seeks to answer a few basic questions regarding the ability of music to mitigate feelings of anxiety and stress associated with preparing for and practicing public speaking. Focusing specifically on the context of speakers visiting communication centers, we first provide context then address four general issues: the reasons speakers seek support from Communication Centers, the theoretical basis for the anxiolytic or anxiety-reducing effects of music; initial attempts to employ music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Speaking Center; and suggestions for the future use of music as an anxiolytic tool in Communication Centers.  \nWho comes to our Sp","cbCaim7o0Tdma6LZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaim7o0Tdma6LZ","pdf",410637,17,"English","# Abstract\n# Rationale\n# Who comes to our Speaking Center and why?\n## Communication Centers’ goals and consultation models\n## Speaker motivations and support contexts\n# Theoretical basis and implementation of music","[{\"question\":\"Why does the paper use music in Communication Center consultations?\",\"answer\":\"The paper responds to public speaking anxiety and the uncertainty speakers feel about pending consultations by using music as an anxiolytic intervention.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the article say Communication Centers primarily help with?\",\"answer\":\"Communication Centers generally support speakers in becoming more confident and competent oral communicators, sometimes aiming for excellence and related oral communication skills.\"},{\"question\":\"Which topics does the essay plan to cover after giving context?\",\"answer\":\"After context, it addresses four issues: why speakers seek support, the theoretical basis for music’s anxiety-reducing effects, initial attempts at the UNCG Speaking Center, and suggestions for future use of music.\"}]","PRAXIS - Music as an Effective Anxiolytic Intervention in Communication Centers | PDF",1792088529,43]