Special Needs Empowerment Circles
African Music Circles provides drum circles for marginalised populations.
The focus is on empowering individuals and for them to feel connected to society.
Drumming is accessible, its beautiful and creative. It allows the participant to have a non-verbal voice, it is physical and powerful and it requires full attention thus clearing the mind of stress and worry.
'Sound' is within the very definition of health.
Micky Hart from the Grateful Dead gives talk to the US senete on the theraputic benefits of drumming.
Special needs
It is every persons right and responsibility to contribute to the wellbeing of their community playing music together is one way this is possible.
Drum Circles gives people access to a different way to express things they have not been able to express without being threatened.
Being treated with dignity and respect fosters personal growth and empowerment.
Well elderly
People who have had their mobility and control over there lives taken from them sometimes feel disempowered and isolated from our society. drumming is a way they can connect with there grandchildren and achive real results musically. According to Micky Hart 'forming drum circles with the elderly would bring an immediate reduction in feelings of isolation and loneliness.'
