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EXPLORE! Rhythm™ - For Your Workplace
- Professional Retreat
- Corporate Picnic
- Holiday Party
- Conference
Participants will:
- Improve team working skills
- Experience the diverse contribution of everyone
- Enhance participants potential for productivity and creative thinking
- Appreciate their own role within a group environment
- Discover new ways to interact with co-workers, and
- Have fun creating a rhythm orchestra together!
We provide lots of drums and creative hand percussion. We facilitate a fun and instructional experience, which will aid participants in creating a healthier work group dynamic.
 No prior musical experience is necessary to fully participate.
Programs can be tailored to support your current mission statement or message. Most Explore! Rhythm programs last from 1.5 to 2 hours. This enriching, hands-on, teambuilding rhythm event can take place at your site or at our spacious event room. Our room is 462sqft. and can host about 25 participants in a circle. It also has it's own kitchenette, bathroom and lots of parking. We are located within one mile of RTP. Please complete our Event Registration Form or call us at 919-484-9090 or for details and fee rates.
Here's an statement of how effective a drum circle can be!
Fleet Feet, Inc sponsored Carrboro Athletics Club had this to say about their November 2007 drumming experience:
Here's the stated goal of our client:
I want my runners to feel the powerful, singular heartbeat of a team, then move into their own, individual rhythms through improvisation .... all within the safe confines of the drum circle. - Joan Nesbit Mabe, Track & Field Olympian
After the drum circle a partcipant wrote to Joan:
The drum circle helped me realize that I put so many restrictions and schedules in my life, that I'm often shackled by them, and inhibited to the point where I forget what it's like to just RUN FREE; free from worry, stress, anxiety.
Closing my eyes and surrendering to the beat of my heart last night was a wake up call. Initially, I couldn't even hear my own heart beat; I couldn't BEAR to adapt, change or alter my rhythm of one hand slapping the drum on a 3 count. But after a short time I relaxed and I could feel the rhythm, then break the rhythm. I could hear the entire group's beats, and even improvise my own sound to meet the group's rising tempo. I let my primordial beast out on those drums, and felt the Tuckahoe in me singing out a wild, unrehearsed verse. Somehow I felt a kinship with expressing myself on the drums with expressing myself on the track last night. It was meant to be, although I wouldn't have expected to run free and wild on the track before pounding free and wild on the drums. What synergy! How do you plan things so perfectly?
written by Jason Jabaut
What an amazing statement for true personal enrichment! No lecture on relaxation and letting go could do this for Jason!
Recent EXPLORE! Rhythm events for Teambuilding:
2007 Welcome Back Events for Duke University, Mt.Olive College and UNC student athletes; Club Nova 20th Anniversary Celebration 2007; Visiting International Faculty Program Conference 2007; Camp Meadowood 2005-2007. Carrboro Athletics Club 2007.
Rueters Health -
Drum Sessions Protect Employees from Burnout: "...making music may bring people together better than other group activities, such as group retreats or team sports, because it is more cost-effective and accessible to people of all physical abilities. Furthermore, music may inspire more openness to others by asking people to adopt 'a level of communication (they) weren't accustomed to,'..." SOURCE - Advances in Mind-Body Medicine - Fall/Winter 2003
Why Urban Joes and CEOs Bang the Drum. The drum is easy; the drum is intuitive, and the drum produces a rhythm which is so fundamental to who we are as beings … it's intrinsic in who we are, at some level, or it seems to be because most people will tap on a steering wheel … there's also something mischievous about it … everyone looks around the room to see if anybody's looking, and they tap [the drum]. There's a fascination with that, and there's an attraction. - John Fitzgerald, manager, Recreational Music Activities, REMO percussion company Source: NPR, March 19, 2007.
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