Drum Circles, Corporate Drumming Programs & Percussion Education

Corporations Conferences Communites Schools Private Events

Ice-Breaking Team Building Motivating Celebrating
Percussion Education & Instructional DVDs Drum Circle Facilitation Training

Fun, easy, enormously uplifting rhythm-based team building activities
guaranteed to Invigorate & Unify YOUR group!

Thousands of hugely successful interactive drumming programs
throughout North America and beyond since the 1980s.

For thousands of years people worldwide have used group drumming to energize minds and bodies, strengthen community bonds, reinforce common values and goals, and to celebrate life!

Recent clinical studies have also conclusively documented some of the many physical, mental & emotional benefits of purpose-driven drumming.

Jim Greiner is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning percussionist, educator, community drumming leader and inspirational speaker. His programs for corporate, community, school and private groups are rooted in over thirty years of his worldwide drumming and teaching experiences, including two years in Africa where he was profoundly moved by the way rhythm can be a vehicle for invigorating and empowering people, and aligning them with common goals and values.

Jim is renowned for developing powerfully uplifting rhythm-based activities that quickly engage people from all walks of life, and groups of all types and sizes in the universal, time-tested experience of group drumming. His contemporary adaptations of this age-old activity make it fun and easy for everyone, regardless of musical experience, to literally synchronize their individual rhythms and personalities with those of other people, to create powerfully productive community rhythms.

Jim's Greiner's Hands-On! Drumming® and Rhythm Power® Workshops and Keynote Presentations are exciting and uplifting interactive 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 down communication barriers
• building a spirit of camaraderie & cooperation
• creating unity while celebrating diversity
• stimulating creativity, risk taking & a "can do" attitude
• celebrating Life!

Jim's Percussion Education Programs:

• hand drum & hand percussion workshops, clinics and classes
• for schools, music camps, community centers and music stores
• instructional/inspirational DVDs and CDs

Jim's Community Rhythm Residency™:
Bring Jim to your community for a full day of activities, or extended stays of two or more days, to:

• conduct corporate team building, meeting/conference ice-breaking and keynote sessions
• teach percussion workshops in schools and community centers
• lead community-building drum circles for schools and community groups
• do fund raisers and benefits for local organizations
• teach drum circle facilitation workshops
• reinforce community bonds and a spirit of community service
  

"Your remarkable talent and exceptional leadership ability helped make our event the success that it was!"
 - The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois

Drum Circle Facilitation Training: 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, communities, 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.

"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 many of the same physical, mental and emotional benefits as Martial Arts, Yoga, Athletics and Meditation.

"Sharing the experience of making music together raises spirits, creates personal and group power,
and a spirit of accomplishment, in a fun, uplifiting atmosphere."
- Jim Greiner; interviewed for the PBS special, "Healing Quest"

Thank you for your interest in Hands-On! Drumming®.

I've dedicated my life to sharing the many benefits of drumming with people worldwide, and to exploring the way rhythm can be used as a fun, down-to-earth vehicle to uplift, focus and empower individuals and groups, and to celebrate the blessing that is life!

I look forward to sharing my work, and my life's passion, with you and your circles of family, friends and communities.

Enjoy your tour of my site, then CONTACT US to bring the positive power of rhythm to YOUR groups and events!

All the best,

Jim's newest instructional/inspirational DVD,"Play Shekere" is now ON SALE!
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