Welcome! This forum is designed to create information exchange and dialog amongst graduates of the Village Music Circles Facilitators Playshops and myself.
 
This is an open public forum and anyone is welcome to participate, but be forewarned that a lot of our discussion will be based upon the information available in the book, Drum Circle Spirit: Facilitating Human Potential Through Rhythm. Because of this, we will be using Arthurian terminology and semantics that communicate pages of information in just a few short words. (The book is available on this web site.)
 
Through our process together, I will be giving writing assignments, and creating dialog subjects. Anyone who wants to be involved is invited to respond. I also invite you to start new discussion threads on subjects that you would like to explore with the rest of the facilitator community.
 
I’m in the process of writing a drum circle facilitators’ manual and will be using this forum as a way to generate an eclectic input of methods and techniques in regards to many different facilitation subjects. In lieu of that, if I see something that you have submitted to this forum that I deem noteworthy, and book worthy, I will contact you for reprint rights.
 
I assume that the dialog that goes on here will be responsible and respectable in accordance to common courtesy and some adherence to the subject matter. I reserve the right not to publish or to remove any information that is placed here that I feel is off color or off topic. The subject matter for the Drum Circle Facilitators’ Forum includes any and all aspects of facilitating rhythm-based events. By my definition, that includes all types of: drums, drumming, drumming techniques, facilitation techniques, drum culture, and rhythmaculture.
 
Welcome again as we dialog and empower each other to create unity and community through rhythm. My ultimate dream is a fully rhythmically enabled population. Share your spirit.
 

—Arthurian (Arthur Hull)  
 

Technical Introduction

DCF Forum is a full-featured web-based bulletin board. The only way to post a message is from this web site; it’s not possible to post a message via email. However, you can subscribe to this forum and receive all new messages via email as they are posted (there is no digest option). And if you’re not subscribed, whenever you post a message you have the option of receiving the responses to your post via email.
 
Recent messages are listed in the message index. To read a message, click its (blue) subject. Discussion proceeds in “threads” as people reply to specific messages about specific topics. Numerous threads may be active at any given time. This forum is not moderated but we have the ability to edit or delete messages, or to take further steps, to prevent this forum from being used inappropriately.
 
The preferences allow you to customize the message index to your own liking. Browser “cookies” allow the forum to recognize you as a return visitor, keep track of messages posted since your previous visit and mark new messages, maintain your personal message index display preferences, and automatically insert your name and email address into the message posting forms. If you choose not to accept cookies from this site, the forum will work just fine, but your preference settings won’t be remembered and new messages won’t be marked.
 
User profiles are a great way for us to share with each other about who we are. Why not create a profile?
 
The forum is available in frames and no-frames versions, and has good search capabilities. You can access each of the features listed above (and others) by clicking links in the green navigation bar on the Message Index page.
 
More important than all of this fun techno-gadgetry are your contributions. Your thoughtful writings are what will make this forum great and truly meaningful.
 
My own role here is to keep the forum functioning. If you encounter a technical problem, please send me the details at ForumAdmin@drumcircle.com. If you have questions or comments about the way the forum works or how to use its features, you might as well post your message so that everyone can benefit from the discussion.
 
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—Larry Israel