Hand Drumming Workshop

Hand Drum Engagement workshop focused on building relationships and communication. Provided in drum circle format. We also do DRUMTALK virtually. This is encouraged as a two-part presentation!

What is DRUMTALK?

Communication of emotion has focused primarily on the neural mechanisms of communicating via speech, even though emotion is also communicated through nonverbal modalities ranging from music to body language. As these modalities are often used instead of or in addition to speech, we hypothesize that they offer something unique or supplemental that merits investigation and may have unique clinical application. Generally, emotion research has focused on the unidirectional process of perception or induction (i.e. the brain’s reactivity to emotional stimuli), in large part due to the limitation of conventional neuroimaging modalities to single subjects. This is communication of emotion as an explanation of drumming.