Previous lectures by William Westney include:

• Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference (Canberra, Australia): "The Perfect Wrong Note" 2007
  
• Sounds Great! Music Education Conference (Melbourne, Australia): "The Perfect Wrong Note" 2007
  
• National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (Chicago, IL): "The Interactive Piano Lesson" 2007
  
• Central Conservatory and Capital Normal University (Beijing, China): "The Perfect Wrong Note" 2006
  
• Chung-Ang University, Ewha University, and 5 others in Korea: "The Perfect Wrong Note" 2006
• European Piano Teachers Association (London, UK): "The Perfect Wrong Note" 2004 - 2006
• World Piano Pedagogy Conf. (Anaheim, CA): "Piano Nirvana: Can Etudes Lead to Enlightenment?" 2005
• Chautauqua Institution (NY): "Juicy Mistakes: How to Invite Breakthroughs in Learning, Life, and Art" 2005
• Luxury Kitchen and Bath Collection (Miami, FL): "Perfectionism, Creativity, and Mastery" 2005
• Ithaca College (NY): "Vitality in Performance" (residency) 2005
• PhotoPlus Expo (Javits Center, NY, NY): "The Musical Impulse in Photography” 2004
• Music Teachers National Association (Kansas City, MO):  “Do Your Students Ever Get Discouraged? Ten Common-Sense Ways to Restore Their Natural Zest and Confidence” 2004
• The Music School (Providence, RI): workshops entitled “Trusting the Musical Self” 2004
• Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park, NY): "Perfectionism and Mastery" 2004
• World Piano Pedagogy Conference (Nashville, TN): “The Illusion of Control” 2003
• Philosophy Symposium, Texas Tech University (panelist): “How Artists Read Philosophy and How Philosophers Think about Art: the Works of S. Langer” 2003
• World Piano Pedagogy Conference (Las Vegas, NV): “Mood Music: Mixing Recital Genres” 2000
• Music Teachers Association of California (San Diego): “The Perils of Perfectionism” 2000
• International Workshops (Glasgow, Scotland):  “The Perils of Perfectionism” 1999
• Arts and Sciences Interactive Forum (Texas Tech):  “Creativity and the Body”  1999
• Workshops of Santa Fe (NM):  "The Musical Impulse in Photography”  1999
• University of St. Thomas (MN):  “Vitality in the Music Studio”  1999
• OK, NM, MT, CO, OR, TN Music Teachers’ Associations:  “Vitality in the Music Studio” 1998-2006
• Piano Teachers Congress of New York: "The Perils of Perfectionism"  1998
• World Piano Pedagogy Conference (Philadelphia): "Movement - language of the soul" 1997
• Music Teachers National Association (Dallas): "The Perils of Perfectionism"  1997
• Texas Music Educators Assoc. (San Antonio): "The Un-Rehearsal - an introduction" 1997
• International Society for Music and Medicine (San Antonio): "Perfectionism as a Direct Cause of Musical Injury" 1996
• National Piano Pedagogy Conference (Chicago): "The Un-Master Class - What is it?" 1996
• European Piano Teachers Assoc. (Manchester, U.K.): "The Perils of  Perfectionism"  1996
• University of Kansas:  lecture/demonstration "How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love my Mistakes"  1995
• National Conference on Piano Pedagogy (Chicago): panelist "Re-thinking the Master-Class"  1994
• Taiwan - various schools throughout the country: "Healthy Mistakes, Healthy Practice"  1994
• Korea - Yon Sei University (Seoul): "Healthy Mistakes, Healthy Practice"  1994
• Yale University: "Music-Making as a Pathway to Understanding"  1993
• National Conf. on Piano Pedagogy (Chicago): panelist "Multiple Career Paths through Music"  1992
• English Honor Society, Texas Tech: "Tacit Knowledge"  1991
• International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, annual conference (Cocoa Beach, FL): "Waking up our learning minds through music"  1991
• Michael Polanyi Centennial (Kent State University): "Tacit Knowing at the Piano Bench"  1991
• International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, annual conference (Indianapolis): "Music and Concrete Learning"  1990
• College Music Society (Washington D.C.):  "Music performance and 'higher thinking'"  1990
• Association for Humanistic Psychology, annual meeting (Stanford, CA):  "The interrelationship between humanistic psychology and the teaching and performing of classical music"  1989
• Philosophy Club, Texas Tech:  "Knowledge and the non-verbal mind"  1989
• College Music Soc. - SW Chapter:  "Musical performance as a prototype of human learning"  1989
• Texas Music Educators Assoc.:  "Musical performance as a prototype of human learning"  1989
• Mortarboard (academic honors society), Texas Tech:  "Keys to problem-solving" 1988
• Medical Program for Performing Artists, Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago): "Realism in the practice-room"  1988
• International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance (London, England): "Tension problems of the gifted student"  1987
• Texas Assoc. for the Gifted and Talented (Dallas):  keynote  "Creativity - our natural birthright"  1987
• International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance (Princeton, NJ):  "Chronic tension problems of the 'good student'"  1986