Using drums, interactive rhythms, percussive colors, voice, and movement, Beverly guides participants in a powerful, collective musical experience that celebrates and explores the power of community and diversity. Blending simple rhythms with words as building blocks, participants create a layered, polyrhythmic tapestry where every individual voice contributes to the whole. This focused, rhythmic becomes a tool to support and explore the specific goals and agenda of your organization.
- Generate productive teamwork.
- Promote workplace co-operation.
- Foster active listening on a different, kinesthetic level.
- Build confidence, trust, and camaraderie.
- Stimulate creativity and appreciation of diversity.
- Expand communication skills and self-expression.
- Relieve stress and engage the mind, body, and spirit.
“The language of rhythm is universal. The goal is empowerment, connection, and inspiration for people in all walks of life.”
~Beverly Botsford
Why Drumming?
Music reflects life. Playing in a percussion ensemble requires teamwork, concentration, discipline, and finely tuned listening skills, as well as self-expression.
The drum is an ancient tool for building unity in the community and focusing collective energy. It has been used as a form of communication for hundreds of years in many different cultures.
Drums teach us the importance of diversity and community where every individual’s part is important to make the whole complete.
They teach us humility, passion, and patience.
They require multi-tasking, engaging both sides of the brain as well as the heart and spirit.
They stimulate us to think and act “outside the box.”
Drums build self-esteem, relieve stress, and sometimes provide a much needed voice for people who learn and express themselves in different ways.
Drums move energy. When we focus that collective energy on achieving specific goals, the effect is truly transformational and expansive.
“Art is the most effective tool for promoting racial and cultural understanding, appreciation of diversity, and self-respect, and for discovering common bonds between all people. It stimulates and inspires creative thinking, learning, and action.”
~Beverly Botsford