Fun, easy, enormously uplifting rhythm-based team building activities guaranteed to Invigorate & Unify YOUR group!
Thousands of enormously successful interactive drumming programs throughout North America and beyond since 1980.
"A truly fun and memorable exercise in team coordination and creativity" - CEO, Air New Zealand
For thousands of years people worldwide have used group drumming to rejuvenate minds and bodies, strengthen community bonds, reinforce common values & goals and celebrate life!
Recent clinical studies have also conclusively documented some of the many physical, mental & emotional benefits of drumming.
Jim Greiner is an internationally acclaimed percussionist, educator, inspirational speaker and community drumming leader. His award-winning programs are rooted in over thirty years of drumming and teaching experiences, including two years in Africa. Jim is renowned for developing fun & easy rhythm-based activities that quickly engage people of all types and groups of all sizes in the universal, time-tested experience of group drumming.
"Jim Greiner is one of the pioneers of community drumming and is perfectly poised to spearhead this movement!" - Drum! Magazine
Jim's uplifting, community-bonding and personal empowerment programs have proven time and time again to effectively help people to harness their own innate ability to create positive and powerful internal and external Life Rhythms and Patterns. These rhythms and patterns empower, focus and inspire the personal, professional and community lives of the participants. Jim's Power of Rhythm Workshops and Keynote Presentations are hands-on experiences that include down-to-earth, real-world Life Skills and Life Lessons that bring dynamic, transforming and enduring results such as:
releasing stress
invigorating mind and body
enhancing focus
breaking mmunication barriers
building a spirit of camaraderie & cooperation
creating unity while celebrating diversity
stimulating creativity, risk taking & a "can do" attitude
celebrating the joy of life!
"You brought the seminar participants together and set a lively tone for the rest of the weekend!" - Institute of Certified Financial Planners
"Your remarkable talent and exceptional leadership ability helped make . . . our event the success that it was!" - The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Jim's Community Rhythm Residency™ programs make it easy for individuals, corporations. schools, service organizations and other groups to bring him to their communities for extended visits of one or more days. While there, Jim will teach workshops, lead drum circles and other rhythm-based activities, do fund-raisers, and mentor sponsoring people in how to lead their own rhythm programs.
"The invigorating and community-building power of a group rhythm is created by the participants playing interlocking, interdependent patterns, just as a community of any kind thrives when its members contribute their individual skills, talents and personalities to shared goals.
"The repetitive, physical nature of drumming, whether vigorous or tranquil, helps release stress and enhance clarity and focus, and has the same physical, mental and emotional benefits as Martial Arts, Yoga, Athletics and Meditation.
"Sharing the experience of making music together raises spirits and creates personal and group power and a spirit of accomplishment, in a fun, uplifiting atmosphere."- Jim Greiner; interviewed on PBS special, "Health Visions"
"Jim Geiner's drum workshops go far beyond drumming to the roots of relationship that are longing to emerge in each of us." - Gary Zukav, internationally best-selling author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters and The Seat of the Soul
Beginning in 2000, Jim has also trained over 500 people, from 11 countries and four continents, in how to conduct their own rhythm-based programs for schools, corporations, therapeutic centers and private groups. Please see our Percussion Education page for more information about developing your own rhythm based activities and drum circles.
Contact us NOW about brochures and our FREE interactive promotional CD-ROM (Mac and PC compatible). This easy-to-use package goes into depth about Jim's renowned corporate, community, school, private and therapeutic programs and includes video clips, narration, photos and more.
Jim Greiner's instructional Video/DVD, "Community Drumming for Health & Happiness", distributed by LP Music and Alfred Publishing, is available through our web sites as well as in music instrument stores worldwide.
Good Day!
Thank you for your interest in Hands-On! Drumming®. Why drumming? Short answer . . . because it works! The physical, mental and emotional benefits of group drumming have been known and enjoyed by people worldwide for thousands of years. Recent clinical studies have conclusively documented these benefits, as well.
I look forward to sharing my work, and my life's passion, wth you. Enjoy your tour of this site then contact us to bring the postive power of rhythm to YOUR group!
All the best to you and to your communities!
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