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Corporate Team Building w/ Soul Drums
Doug Sole
Drum Circle Facilitator, Educator, Professional Speaker, Author, and Co-owner of Soul Drums Ltd, DOUG SOLE has facilitated drum circles ranging from 10 to 1,100 players in size.
He 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.
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.
His events give tremendous results for groups wishing to combine Team Building, Stress Management, Multi-Culturalism, Relationship Building, Entertainment and solidifying "Core Values" statements.
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.
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.
Recently, 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.
These exciting musical experiences have been a common activity throughout history. Virtually all cultures have used drumming to maintain community spirit, wellness as well as celebrations of social importance, stress management, and co-operative team building. Doug has designed curriculum for, and trains teachers in the Art of Multi-Cultural Integration for many of the Boards of Education in Ontario. Doug continues to enjoy success with his publication "THE SOUL OF HAND DRUMMING" with over 20,000 copies sold in North America. It is used as a main resource for meeting the new requirements in the curriculum and is available worldwide from Mel Bay Productions.
Doug also serves the non-musical community with engagements in the professional public speaking and management consulting fields. His Community Building and Values Integration theme has been delivered to companies and conferences inclucing American Express, XEROX, CIBC, IBM, Canadian Cancer Society, Health Canada, The Ministry of Health, Sun Life Assurance, Bell Canada, Ontario Hydro One, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Canada Post Corporation, The Red Cross, KPMG, The Ontario Science Center, Pfizer, Proctor and Gamble, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and The Federal Government of Canada.
In 2002, Doug was the Closing Keynote Speaker at the International Public Speakers and Facilitators Conference held in Toronto Ontario.
Doug Soul's 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.
As a faculty member at the Secretan Centre, Doug seamlessly integrates his work with the Values Centred Leadership message that is the hallmark of Lance Secretans publications, INSPIRE! and the highly anticipated release of ONE! Lance and Doug have presented Keynotes together, in a session that truly inspires all.
Come actualize your teams potential through the guidance of a masterful teacher, speaker and performer.
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.
Highlighted clients and events include:
· 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 speaker
· Georgian College
· George Brown College Administration
· H2O Interactive Worldwide Summit 2000 - opening keynote speaker
· Health Canada
· I.B.M.
· International Facilitators Conference 2000 - closing keynote speaker
· 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
Doug also serves the non-musical community with engagements in the professional public speaking and management consulting fields. His Community Building and Values Integration theme has been delivered to companies and conferences inclucing American Express, XEROX, CIBC, IBM, Canadian Cancer Society, Health Canada, The Ministry of Health, Sun Life Assurance, Bell Canada, Ontario Hydro One, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Canada Post Corporation, The Red Cross, KPMG, The Ontario Science Center, Pfizer, Proctor and Gamble, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and The Federal Government of Canada.
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.
