Human Rhythms
Teamwork and excitement.
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Wow your team with an interactive performance using Drums, musical tubes and percussion instruments. Your group will feel entirely exhilarated after creating a musical masterpiece under the guidance of our Professional Drummer, who doesn’t speak throughout the entire tuition!
When it comes to sheer impact there are few groups to rival Human Rhythms – they combine surprise, fun, emotion and an instant sense of teamwork and camaraderie.
Their performance commences with a strident musical introduction from the Human Rhythms team. Enthusiasm engulfs a surprised audience, who are introduced to drums, their means of expression for the duration of the experience.
Rhythmic contributions start rolling in from the delegates until everyone in the room is drawn into the cacophony of sounds. At this point, the Human Rhythms facilitators guide everyone through a series of simple beats and exercises turning 200 individuals into one orchestrated group. Groups are formed, tempo and volume are changed all under the expert direction of the Human Rhythms team.
The delegates become performers rather than spectators and they learn the importance of a team and its reliance on the individual.
At the conclusion of what is called the drum circle, delegates leave the room smiling and joking with one another, feeling elated, uplifted and ready for success.
It’s a remarkable experience with remarkable effects on team spirit!
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Team Challenge: Create your own rhythm
Delegates enter the conference room to be met by the sounds of drumming from the Human Rhythms team. As the surprised delegates take their seats they discover a drum in front of them and start to play. Over the next 45 minutes the Human Rhythms team take these individual contributions and mould them into one piece of music leading delegates on an unforgettable musical journey, where laughter and elation is achieved in a high energy interactive performance. This is your groups chance to become active performers!
Time frame: 45 to 60 minutes
Best use: After lunch wake-up. Opening or finale!
Equipment: Full size drums, percussion and a musical tube for each delegate
The Team Builder: A team experience to remember
As the surprised delegates take their seats they discover a drum in front of them and start to play. Over the first hour the team work together to create a unified piece of music. The group is then split into teams and each team is given 20 minutes to create a rhythm. All teams then perform their creation for the rest of the group. The finale is Human Rhythms facilitating all the individual team's rhythms into one harmonious sound.
Time frame: 60 to 90 minutes
Best use: After lunch on day two of a three day conference
Equipment: Full size drums, percussion and a musical tube for each delegate
Delegates re-enter the conference room after lunch to be met by the sounds of drumming from the Human Rhythms team.
The Ice Breaker: Impact In quick time
This is the perfect product for a short sharp and effective ice breaker! The Human Rhythms team will set the mood for your conference, welcoming each delegate into the room by handing them an instrument and have them playing before they even sit down. As they sit, the delegates will be engaged from the first second and within a five to 10 minute period they will be making music, laughing and unified ready for the day ahead. Make an impact with an uplifting experience where each delegate contributes to a high energy rhythm. The perfect introduction for a speciality speaker or CEO!
Time frame: 15 to 20 minutes
Best use: Opening of any event! When time is tight!
Equipment: Maracas, tambourines, guiros and small drums
Rhythm Safari
Take your people on a collaborative rhythmic experience. As the perfect team building activity in your business, conference or corporate event, the Rhythm Safari will get your people working together in perfect harmony in a very memorable fashion.
Let your team be guided on a journey to unlock the music and rhythm of your environment. After a short 20 minute session using drums and percussion, the group is shown how to find instruments in their surroundings. This could be in the workplace, the city or the bush depending on your location and goals.
The group is divided into teams and have 20 minutes to identify raw materials needed to create their own unique sounds. In the workplace, this could be items used on a daily basis, raw materials of your product. Outside this could be leaves, sticks, logs, seed pods from trees. In the city this could be mobile phones, chairs, water glasses.
After creating their unique instruments each team will be guided in creating their own team rhythm which they will perform for the rest of the group
Perfect for: Energetic conference opening, an awesome ice-breaker, support for a team workshop, a company off-site or product launch.
The benefits: Team energy, fun and laughter, everyone working together, 100% participation and engagement.
Team Maps
Human Rhythms get to the heart of team issues by helping teams find their rhythm for stronger organisational performance. We believe you can't create team harmony or grow your business if everyone is singing the same note. Team Maps encourages people to explore their differences and see these as a team strength for better business outcomes.
The best way to build a team is to get your people working together on a meaningful project... meaningful for the business in which they operate.
Human Rhythms' workshops will help your team identify and reconnect with the talent, creativity, and passion - the personal keys to innovation of your people. Team Maps will focus on achieving your business objectives by enhancing teamwork, at work - where it matters.
Perfect for: A starting point for change, establishment of new teams, improving the operation of existing teams, uncovering opportunities to improve business outcomes (brainstorming), enhancing creativity and innovation.
The benefits: Team charter and vision, actionable plans, 100% participation, team and individual accountability for agreed plans, and much more.
Squeeze Us In: Keeping everyone on their toes
Human Rhythms will lead delegates into the room for a short ice breaker session of five minutes utilising small, easy to stick under the chair instruments. After each break (morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea) our drummers will lead the group back into the room, and each time present a new fun session which will build in intensity as the day progresses. This will keep the delegates on their toes throughout the entire day!
Time frame: Multiple sessions of five minutes each throughout the conference
Best use: When you've finished the schedule of your conference and realise there is nothing fun in there!
Equipment: Percussion, tubes and drums
The Didgedoo: A bonding cultural musical journey
The Human Rhythms facilitator will take the group on an interactive musical journey of traditional rhythm and dance, utilising Aboriginal instruments. Later as delegates are mesmerised by colourful stories of snakes, lizards, wombats and the illusive Platypus (told by an Aboriginal elder), delegates hand paint their instruments and take them home as gifts! Asian, American and European groups LOVE this one!
Time frame: 60 to 120 minutes (can be split into two sessions)
Best use: During a conference that flows to a dinner. Anytime!
Equipment: Traditional Aboriginal boomerangs, didgeridoos and clave sticks (all hand made in Australia by Aboriginal community groups)
The Big Gift: A great reward for a successful team
Delegates enter the conference room to be met by the sounds of drumming from the Human Rhythms team. As the surprised delegates take their seats they discover a drum in front of them and start to play. Over the next 45 minutes the Human Rhythms team take these individual contributions and mould them into one piece of music leading delegates on an unforgettable musical journey, where laughter and elation is achieved in a high energy interactive performance. This is your group's chance to become active performers!
Time frame: 45 to 60 minutes
Best use: After lunch wake-up. Opening or finale!
Equipment: Full size drums, percussion and a musical tube for each delegate.
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It's hard to imagine that two people can guide three hundred people through a series of simple beats without any verbal communication. The synergy in the room was unbelievable. The feedback from our managers: 'When can we do it again?' Thanks again for assisting us in demonstrating the power of synergy.
We used your services to achieve a supporting objective of providing a short opportunity for the workshop participants (VODAFONE) to engage in a collective and fun activity that was different but engaging. This objective was achieved with great success. Creating music - even for those who immediately declared they were musically challenged - created an extraordinary level of energy and communication. Everyone quickly realised that in unfamiliar situations they could work with their new peers and achieve results they never expected.
It was such an amazing sight to walk into the conference room and see 260 drums placed around the room, three drummers encouraging us to find a space and follow their beat. Soon the entire Management Team of Big W was rhythmically and harmoniously creating awesome music together. This synergistic activity was the significant event with which to officially close the conference. The experience that we all went through with the drumming was very real and experiential and as a result even a month after the conference, people are still making reference to the experience and how awesome a learning experience it was.
A staggering 95% of 350 people evaluated Human Rhythms as Very Good or Excellent. This was based on people rating their benefit from the session and whether it was presented effectively. Human Rhythms was an excellent idea; certainly raised the energy levels and created that sense of solidarity.
This is a session that had everyone involved within minutes of sitting down... and left them energized and connected throughout the conference. A winner all round.
