Corporate Team Building
With Soul Drums

Throughout history community music making, especially drumming, has the power to bring people together. With all the distractions we have in today’s society, from the personality conflicts, the diversity in our culture, to the constant changes we all face, it becomes a challenge to offer each other the attention needed to support one another.

Over the last 15 years I have focused my intentions on studying Community Service, and Professional Public Speaking. I combine these energies and intentions with Multi-Cultural Drumming, Oneness and Music Circles, which results in a very powerful experience of metaphors in life and learning.

The platform for this program is always customized for each client, but the main theme of integrating Spirit with Values-Centered Leadership is often presented. By using positive intentions, human rhythmic energy, as well as inspirational and effective communication skills, we will learn that our core values are related and that the whole group cannot exist without each individual’s diverse contribution. I use the values and principles of Lance Secretans’ ( www.secretan.com) ONENESS philosophy, and will demonstrate the principles that are parallel in every successful community and team.

The process naturally evolves in this "hands-on" workshop, with the participants bringing to life the "Keys to the Castle". We achieve this using storytelling, as well as focusing on intentionality and Leadership skills.

Eventually musical and percussive versions of each of the "Key-Values" will be performed by the entire group.

These key values are as follows- C representing courage; A, represents authenticity; S represents serving others; T represents truth telling; L represents love, outward and inward, and E represents effectiveness. Lance and I have had very positive results and comments when using these Techniques, as it establishes a wonderful sense of Oneness.

We take successful steps forward together, slowly integrating Boomwhackers, talking drums, and then many percussion instruments, we develop powerful team energy. As each value is reviewed , discussed, and then performed, the quality of the music excels. We end up with a focused and highly advanced musical drum circle final performance. For the close, I include a very grounding and personally fulfilling short meditation, using one of my unique percussion instruments called an Ocean drum. The meditation is often a customized voice over that establishes a strong bond of commitment between the participants to the team, project, community or theme of the day.

Who is Doug Sole?

Doug Sole, co-owner of Soul Drums Ltd., is an internationally recognized corporate and educational drum circle facilitator, author, and inspirational keynote speaker. Doug helps corporations, schools and communities reach their potential by integrating values-centered leadership with Human Rhythmic Energy™ using world music and percussion.

His innovative publications and training programs have led him to be recognized as a major influencial force in the North American drum circle community. He has developed a notation system that has become the standard form in which world drumming is notated on the world wide web.

He speaks and performs to over ten thousand people per year. Doug's professional speaking engagements and drum circle events have included attendees such as; Senator, and the Hon. Romeo Dallaire; our Auditor General of Canada, the Hon. Sheila Fraser; Ontario's Minister of Education, Kathleen Wynne, who also recognizes and thanks Doug as making a profound difference in the lives of our youth. A very special time in his life was well was spent training and presenting with the Grammy award winning United Nations Ambassador and world-renowned African drummer Mr. Micheal "Bubatunde" Olatunji.

Over the past 8 years, a provincially funded and corporate sponsored program entitled "The Creative Arts Learning Partnership" has included Doug's Human Rhythmic Energy training and mentorship program to all participating boards of education in southern ontario, which include too many to list.

This past year, the Simcoe County Board of Education hired Doug to implement his Transformational Leadership Program throughout their board. His publications are now mandatory curriculum in 69 of their schools, and he has just completed training 120 arts and music teachers, influencing over 28,000 youths.

His philanthropy work with Mr. Kevin Wallace of Gears Racing, has helped raise over 5 million dollars benefitting the Trillium Foundation for Breast Cancer Research, and the Mississauga General Hospital.

To see how our events have become internationally recognized view video and additional information here.

Come realize your community or teams' potential under the guidance of a masterful teacher, leader and perfomer, Doug Sole.

A selection of the clients Doug and his team have worked with over the last 10 years:

AMERICAN EXPRESS
ALCOHOL AND DRUG CONCERNS INC.
ALTANA PHARMA
ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
B.P. AMOCO, SCOTLAND
BELL CANADA
BERLEX PHARMACUTICALS
CAMPBELLS SOUP CANADA
CANADIAN ALTZEIMERS ASSOCIATION
CANADIAN CENTRE  FOR MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
CENTRAL CARE CORPORATION
C.I.B.C
CLARICA
CREDIT VALLEY HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION
CUMIS GROUP
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF CANADA SENIOR LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE - KEYNOTE
GEORGIAN COLLEGE
GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION
H2O INTERACTIVE WORLDWIDE SUMMIT 2000  ( OPENING KEYNOTE)
HEALTH CANADA
IBM
INTERNATIONAL FACILITATORS CONFERENCE 2000 (CLOSING KEYNOTE)
K.P.M.G.
LINDA LUNDSTROM LTD.
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
MEDTRONICS
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE  FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT
MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND LONG TERM CARE
MOEN FAUCETS
OMEA CONFERENCE 96, 98, 99, 05, (ONTARIO MUSIC EDUCATORS CONFERENCE)
ONTARIO ELEMENTARY TEACHERS FEDERATION
ONTARIO POWER GENERATION
ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE
PENGUIN BOOKS
PFIZER
PRICE, WATERHOUSE, COOPERS
PROCTOR AND GAMBLE
RED CROSS
ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS
SHRED-IT
SCHULICH EXECUTIVE EDUCATION CENTRE – YORK UNIVERSITY
SUN LIFE ASSURANCE CO. OF CANADA
TIM HORTONS - THE TDL GROUP
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
TORONTO TRANSIT COMMISSION
TORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD TEACHERS UNION
T.D. SECURITIES
THE SECRETAN CENTRE
THE NATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER ASSOCIATION
THE UNITED WAY
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
WRIGLEYS U.S.A.
WYETH PHARMACEUTICALS
XEROX, CANADA