Sound Circle Journeys, founded in 2006, is dedicated to providing organizations and other groups with a fun, hands-on, dynamic experience of Community Building through music & rhythm. Through employing specialized, non-verbal communication techniques and guided rhythm activities, Sound Circle Journeys is successful at uniting groups of 5-60 persons—inspiring empowerment, well-being, leadership, community, and organizational excellence.

Our Sound Circle Journeys program makes a shared, rhythm experience accessible to all. Choose our program as a keynote retreat activity, as a pre-meeting or break-out energizer, or as a festive addition to any celebration.

Easy to play percussion instruments such as African drums, and other drum and non-drum percussion from around the world are the “tools” for your group experience. From the “heartbeat” bass drum, played with a soft-ended mallet, to the tiny whisperings of the bead shakers, our Journeys embody a diversity of textural sounds, nuances, and flavors. Just bring along a willingness to try something fun and new; be challenged, and be surprised.

Playing rhythms successfully together becomes a metaphor for how to work effectively within your organization’s environment, creating a feeling of “flow” and mutual support. For your event, you choose the level of thematic focus and facilitation. Your organization’s specific theme can be “translated” to fit the hands-on experience of your rhythm event, adding dynamic, experiential power to your message. These theme topics might include (singularly or in combination): the value and importance of authentic power and individuality, of active listening, of enjoying and encouraging the diverse “voices” of others, of creating “space” for self and community, of showing appreciation and creating positive narratives, and of practicing Service-mindedness—valuing the discernments of group members, as each might envision innovative ways of bringing value-added benefit to communities beyond.

In addition, since the Sound Circles environment utilizes a non-verbal based mode of communication: a body-centered experience of sound, of patterned, rhythms and movement--at the deepest level, for those groups which might desire it, this modality has the potential of freeing up, and allowing expression of, emotions not easily expressed in words. If desired, the program can be specifically tailored to invite participants to safely express difficult ideas or emotions arising from work or home environments. Such personal breakthroughs are, in our experience, life-changing to the spirit of an organization, the relational health of it, and, of course, to the individual who’s “jumped the fence” and broken new ground, personally and professionally.

Whether your group comes together for a short energizer, for a festive celebration, for an hour-long workshop, or for a longer period where deeper levels of personal and group transformation may occur, engaging in a Sound Circle Journeys experience will ignite a feeling of joyful enthusiasm, uplift morale, and synergize the group into a more purposeful, focused team.