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Variety of Programs
Drum Cafe programs are customizable in nature. Although we have specific core programs, we customize each program to suite our clients needs
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- Miss World 2009 entertainment came from South African talent was represented by international stage sensation Umoja and Drum Cafe....more
- The US Commerce Association is pleased to announce that The Drum Cafe has been selected for the 2009 Best of San Antonio Award in the Business Services category by the US Commerce Association....more
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The Drum Cafe has several core programs, depending on client’s needs.
We completely customize each and every event specifically to you or your clients needs.
- Team Building events that can be used for Communication, Diversity and Energizers
- Conference events that can be used for Kickoffs, Keynote or Breakout sessions
- Performances and Interactive Entertainment can be used for Product Launches, Awards Banquets
- Symphony of Talent can be used for Leadership Development, Diversity Staff or client appreciation
- Debrief Module is a great way to tie it all together, regardless of the program.
To ensure you find a rhythm that unites your company as one we have various programs for you to choose from:
Performance
A wide array of drum and dance talent to energize and electrify audiences. Nothing raises a person’s heart rate more than a wall of drums!
Perfect for short (5-15 minute) general session walk-in/out music, interludes between speakers and videos, product launches, or anywhere a spike is needed!
Longer non-interactive performances (30 or 45 min) through cultural story-telling, authentic costume, drumming, and dancing.
From Gumboot dancers to Afro- Cuban and West African ensembles, we have a wide variety of energetic, energizing performers to uplift you.
Interactive Entertainment
High-energy rhythm experience which may utilize drums, boomwhackers, drumsticks, shakers, hands, feet, or any other creative expression!
Perfect for a hands-on energizer, ice breaker, or agenda slot that doesn’t require heavy content or learning.
Program duration very scalable from 10 to 60 minutes, but mostly used as a 30-60 minutes ‘power punch’.
More easily scaled to suit any budget constraint.
Boomwhackers
"Boomwhackers" are brightly colored plastic tubes that are tuned by length to musical notes. A great way to expand your musicality, boom-whackers are a wonderful follow-on from drumming as they introduce melody. When hit on the hand, each color boom-whacker produces a different tone, with five different tones in total. We split the participants up into color groups, and then give each group a different rhythm to play. These intertwining rhythms come together to produce a melodious musical composition and the group is taught to make music as one. Before you know it, your group will be making music together, resulting in a strong feeling of unity.
Drumsticks
An experience that approximates the core Drum Cafe experience as much of the technology and structure used with drums are used here. It is still using rhythm as a way to connect people in a universal manner and the Drum Cafe performers are still carrying the drumming ‘load’ from the stage, but there’s an overall drop in power and gut-level response that the drums elicits. Drumsticks are easy to hand out, either before or on your way into the ballroom and are a great branded gift for participants to take home.
Interactive Keynote Experience
- Drum for every Participant.
- Well-suited to be used in lieu of Keynote speaker at General session.
- Highest degree of customization, consultative content, and Facilitator expertise
- Typically 60 minutes or more, depending on size of group and objective to be addressed.
- May be combined with Specialized Debrief.
Debrief.
After The Drum Cafe experience, it is often necessary and always advantageous to allow the delegates the opportunity and space to express themselves in the more conventional manner of group discussion.
This debrief is facilitated by The Drum Cafe’s program facilitator, who specializes in mapping the experience from the very first Drum Call to the last beat of the program back to the work environment. The Drum Cafe experience is an extremely ‘intelligent’ program whose metaphors are rich in context as they relate to the workplace and each particular client’s goals and objectives.
This facilitated debrief is an opportunity for each/any of the delegates to share what they learned from the experience ~ not only about themselves but how they can translate it to practical application in the workplace.
Often described as the ‘cherry on top’, this adjunct module of a Drum Café visit wraps up the experience in an encompassing manner and insures that the energy and dynamic created with the drums is captured and kept at the surface for the duration of the client meeting, providing for richer conversations and more productive dialogue among the team members.
Spirited Economics
In order to succeed in today’s market, leaders need exceptional abilities to mobilize the spirit of their teams to accomplish their business goals and deliver sustainable growth. Yesterday’s leadership skills are no longer enough.
Drum Cafe knows that the level of energy and spirit in your workforce strengthens the competitive edge of your company. For this reason, we have partnered with Dr. Sandy Gluckman to bring you three powerful programs designed to sharpen your leadership skills to meet today’s economic challenges.
The basis of Spirited Economics™ is that employee spirit is a largely untapped quantifiable corporate financial asset. The Spirited Economics™ programs teach leaders, managers, and teams the six specific behavior and communication skills that will maximize this incredible, highly underutilized financial asset that exists in every company.
Leaders and teams with little spirit cannot be productive—they do not have the energy or drive to deliver superior performance.
Whether you have already experienced the power of a Drum Cafe event, or you know that your company’s leadership needs new skills to succeed in these tough times, this is the perfect moment to take the next step with Dr. Gluckman.
Each program is designed to deliver quantifiable results, positively affecting your company’s bottom line via:
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Dr. Sandy Gluckman is an expert in leadership behavior and communications, and author of the groundbreaking book Who’s in the Driver’s Seat: Using Spirit to Lead Successfully.