With easy-to-follow instructions for group activities and rhythms, this book provides tools to lead drum circles effectively with people facing a wide variety of life challenges. Sections on outcomes, setting up for success, common challenges and practical adaptations of the drum circle guide you in leading sessions with your own groups. The compendium also offers guidance on pricing, evaluating your sessions, managing challenging behaviours and duty of care. Demonstrating the potential of this empowering creative activity in supporting therapeutic and developmental outcomes, this book equips you to meet the needs of different groups through the healing power of music.

Now you can learn the art of drum circle facilitation from master percussionist, educator, and award winning drum circle facilitator, Kalani. His Drum Circle Music approach makes it easy to effectively create and facilitate programs for music education, health & wellness, personal & professional development, and recreation. Help people from all walks of life reach their full potential, develop valuable life skills, and embrace the joys of music as we all come Together in Rhythm.

An introduction and guide to the concepts of facilitating successful community rhythm-based events.

Combining rhythmic music and movement with cognitive reflection and mindfulness, this comprehensive handbook shows how drumming and other rhythm-based exercises can have a powerful effect in individual, group and family settings. Incorporating the latest research on how rhythmic music impacts the brain, this book features over 100 different exercises spanning five key developmental areas: social and emotional learning; identity and culture; strengths and virtues; health and wellbeing; and families, teams and communities. It offers a safe entry to cognitive reflection through fun, experiential rhythmic exercises and is useful for working in settings such as school, child and adolescent counselling settings, mental health and drug and alcohol interventions, trauma counselling and relational counselling. Important sections on the use of metaphor and analogy show how to reinforce experiential outcomes. The book also contains helpful sections on working with specific populations, key facilitation skills and managing challenging behaviours. Downloadable resources such as evaluation forms, certificates and 52 session cards optimise the process of implementing this approach in practice.

In The Healing Power of the Drum psychotherapist and drum facilitator, Robert Lawrence Friedman weaves an extraordinary tapestry of personal experience, fascinating anecdotes, and compelling research, demonstrating the hand drum's capacity to provide significant health benefits for everyone. This breakthrough book examines the use of hand drums in treating at-risk adolescents, stress-out employees, veterans, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Autism and more. Find joy and self-expression in The Healing Power of the Drum.

Drummer, dancer, and folklorist Sule Greg Wilson introduces the principles behind African and Diaspora music, including breath, posture, and orchestration.

(Book). From the first call for booking a circle, to what things are helpful to know for setting up, this book is for anyone who has the desire to facilitate rhythm-based events. This includes anyone entering the field of facilitated rhythm-based events, practicing facilitators, to trained graduates of Village Music Circles Playshops. This handbook will help you better serve almost any population or constituency ranging from family-friendly rhythm events, to kids in school, special needs populations, the well elderly, and corporate team-building events. The book covers the basic structure of a great facilitated event from drum call to closing. There are questions for reflection and lots of places where you can write things that you find helpful to remember in your own circles. The book also includes many reference materials, concepts of drum facilitation, Arthur's triplicities, ideas for writing your own contract, etc. The back of the book has several pages for you to track your events, and, of course, a place for you to write your ideas, discoveries, and learnings.