Interactive Conference Keynote and Breakout Presentations with Jim Donovan M.Ed.
MUSIC AND MINDFULNESS for Mental Health: Self Care Strategies for Everyone
This is an interactive keynote presentation filled with practical strategies your audience can use everyday to elicit calm, focus and mindfulness -especially during the most challenging of times.
The active use of music is scientifically proven to improve your mood, relieve stress, increase mental focus and to support social connections. Musical experience is not required. Beginners are warmly welcomed and instruments are provided.
During the program you will:
● Discover how to use music making to energize your body, clear your mind and become deeply relaxed.
● Learn effective ways to use rhythm to slow your brainwaves and enter into a meditative mind.
● Learn how to use rhythm to raise your energy and lift your mood.
● Find out how to use natural rhythm and sound techniques to help you easily relieve anxiety and get better sleep.
● Connect with others through rhythmic social games
Musical experience is not required. Beginners are warmly welcomed and instruments are provided.
DRUMMING AND DISABILITIES: Keynote or Full Staff Training
ASD professionals face many challenges when working with those whom they serve. Fortunately, rhythm can be an effective strategy that these professionals can use to meet some of these challenges. This session will explore how to use rhythm to meet goals such as: (1) increased attention to task, (2) socialization and (3) stress reduction for individuals on the Autism spectrum and other disabilities. Musical experience is not required. Beginners are warmly welcomed, and percussion instruments are provided for all participants to use during the program.
MUSIC, MINDFULNESS AND DRUMMING: Programs for Addiction & Recovery
Music, Mindfulness and drumming training programs for recovery professionals
Addiction professionals face many stresses that can lead to burnout. Fortunately, self-care is one of the most powerful tools these professionals can use to overcome burnout. This training will explore how rhythm and sound can be used to promote self-care by eliciting calm, mental focus and mindfulness – especially during the most challenging times.
The active use of rhythm and sound is scientifically proven to improve mood, relieve stress, increase mental focus and to support social connections. Musical experience is not required. Beginners are warmly welcomed, and percussion instruments are provided for all participants to use during the program. Enterprise training solution are also available.
Music Based Team Building and Trust Building
RhythmTeam: Transformative Team Building
Lasting bonds can emerge within your team IF you connect them using something meaningful and energizing.
Social psychology research points to synchronous music making as a highly potent way to develop “pro group” qualities within your group –including improved rapport, compassion, trust, increasing willingness to be helpful, and deeper feeling of affiliation.
During RHYTHM TEAM they’ll get all of that by engaging in an urgency-filled program using beginner friendly rhythmic music making.
After a short period of trust building and preparation, your team members will be tasked with on-the-spot creative thinking, designing, and executing their own music - all within minutes!
As we go through the process together, they will see, hear, and feel how the quality of their creation is determined –in large part –by each person’s willingness to be “ALL-IN” during the process.
You might be surprised how a seemingly disconnected room of individuals staring at their smartphones become a highly engaged, creative and self-facilitating team.
The RHYTHM TEAM process does push the edge of some people’s comfort zones. But don’t worry, presenter Jim Donovan will expertly engineer an atmosphere of safety so that even your most introverted members get involved.
Donovan has presented nearly 3000 events since 1999 throughout the US and Europe –including with companies including Highmark, Del Monte, Johnson & Johnson, EQT, Comcast, Celgene, Bayer, University of Florida, University of Pittsburgh, University Of Maryland, Carnegie Mellon University, Penn State University.
By the end of the experience, your team members will have the opportunity to:
1. Recognize how their personal attitude and willingness affects everything they create.
2. Identify how “mistakes” can equal new learning –and a better overall creation.
3. Describe how shifting attitude in your organization’s culture could improve effectiveness.
4. Engage with their team-mates in a way that humanizes everyone.
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