Drum Cafe is a global leader in fun team building activities, interactive training and diversity and inclusion events. Drum Cafe USA offers Team building, Leadership Development and Entertainment through Interactive drumming experiences.
Developed originally as a diversity and inclusion program to unite the multicultural workforce in the new South Africa, Drum Cafe has been committed to diversity training since 1998 and a major contributor to the shift towards a culture of collaboration in corporate communities, worldwide. Our fun team-building activities enlighten employers and employees in a direct experience of inclusion and diversity, breaking barriers, unlocking potential and effecting change. People become strengthened, not threatened, by their differences.
Group drumming is the original form of team building. For centuries, communities have used the drum as a tool for communication, celebration, conflict resolution and preparation for battle.
Rhythm is within all of us as a basic universal language that everyone understands, and is a fundamental aspect of our human experience. It is our heartbeat, in our walk, our eating and sleeping patterns; the inhale/exhale of our breathing, the changing of the seasons, the day and the night. One of the most manifest places that rhythm presents itself in our lives is in our relationships.
In the organizations we serve, the foundation of success is based on relationships: with customers, bosses, peers, subordinates, and with self! Improve on these – and the bottom line improves. The understanding of human diversity and inclusion is instilled in individuals through interactive and fun team building activities. The effect of being a part of a synchronized drumming orchestra, is empowerment and inspiration. Everybody gets back more energy than they put in. Each person feels focused, receptive and connected.
The spirit of ‘Ubuntu’ – the social, economical Bantu philosophy that translates into ‘…I am because you are…’ is