Recreational Team Building
Through Percussive Dynamics

A Village Music Circle is a group of people having fun creating simple parts on a chorus of tuned drums, percussion and musical instruments to create a dynamic musical experience.

As a keynote motivational presenter, Arthur Hull is a nationally renowned master of group facilitation. He is recognized as the father of the community drum circle movement, and is one of the leading community drum facilitators in the world.

Through his Village Music Circles™, Arthur creates dynamic, fun-filled drum circle experiences which utilize extensive rhythmical and group facilitation techniques. He uses rhythm circles for spirit building among personal growth and religious groups, team building in major corporations throughout the world, to ease tensions between rival street gangs, as a synergizer in large world percussion festivals, and conferences, and to help build community in grass roots organizations.

Within the corporate environment, Arthur has facilitated interactive rhythmical team-building events for groups ranging in size from 20 to 6000. Many companies, including Lucent Technology, Walt Disney, Pac Bell, Cisco Systems, and Sun Microsystems, utilize Arthur's expertise in creating group synergy through the use of rhythm.

The interaction and cooperation that unites a village into a successful social, economic entity can easily be translated into metaphors that apply to the corporate community. The unique group dynamics of the people involved in a Village Music Circle program are used to actively create a team through the process of playing music together. Some of the principles created and demonstrated in the experience are: cooperation vs. competition; individual contribution as part of the larger whole; clear communication; and quality peer relationships. These team-building principles are the exact same principals that make a Village Music Circle function successfully.

As the team begins to work together, they develop a common language which they will carry with them through the rest of the program. This common language allows communication to flow freely among the members of the group. A team dynamic can be created in one to two hours that most trainers see only at the end of a three-day program. After a Village Music session other program facilitators can then use the synergy created as a tool to make the entire program more successful.

While teaching Village Music at the University of California in Santa Cruz for sixteen years, Arthur introduced the universal principals of hand drumming to over seven thousand students. As a performing musician for 30 years he has studied and worked with many renowned percussionists including Babatunde Olatunji, Zakir Hussain, Hamza El Din, and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead.

Arthur has appeared on the covers of the Wall Street Journal and the Yoga Journal, and has facilitated opening drum circle celebrations and rhythmical alchemy playshops at the Association of Humanistic Psychology, Noetic Science, Neural Linguistic Programming, Association for Music Therapists, Yoga Journal, and many other alternative healing conferences. Along with his musical talents and expert facilitation skills, Arthur's humorous, whimsical and spontaneous manner make him a delightful addition to any event.

Unique • Dynamic • Effective • FUN

The principles of Teamwork applied... Cooperation versus Competition Group Dynamics Communication Individual contribution as a part of a larger whole Quality peer relationships