Ahhhhh! The Hawaii Playshop!
This is truly an international event
with participants from 11 countries. We North Americans were out numbered by our
international community. Participants came from Japan, Korea, Taipei, Hong Kong,
Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brazil, UK, Norway, Canada, and the US. This
diversity of culture reflects the result of all of the international facilitator
trainings that I have been offering these past years.
My biggest Hawaii learning this year, is to trust my councilors and the
processes and "If I do THIS, I get THAT".
The Hawaii Facilitators Playshop Training is always an experiment in how I can
best input my 35 years of drum circle facilitator experience into the
participants in 6 days with out killing them.
As some of you know, the experiments have some times not gone all that well and
I have killed a few students, or at least given them a good case of "over
whelm". NOT THIS TIME
As the DC-Facilitator community evolves and matures so does the Village Music
Circles curriculum.
Every year we make changes and improvements in the program. This year has made
major strides in meeting my teaching goal "Creating maximum learning with
minimum stress".
I give thanks to my brilliant curriculum team and Meta Mentor Staff of Jim
Boneau, Mary Tolena, Steve Hill and Kerry Shakerman, for helping create a
relaxed an fun learning environment. In fact this time I think the participants
were even able to notice that they were "IN" Hawaii during the program. There
was a lot more turtle swims and beach walks and a lot less sleep deprived burn
outs.
Below are some of the reasons why.
#1, The 10 day Mentor program has matured to the extent that by the time the
level one people show up, the mentors are all on the same page in regard to
group processing feedback as well as as being aware of how to work with all the
interpersonal work that goes on in the program. A big thanks goes to Augie Dog
Peltonen, Neysa, Mikiael Khei, and Stu Needle for being our Mentors this year.
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Augie Dog Peltonen |
Neysa |
Mikiael Khei |
Stu Needle |
#2, We shaved off 1 to 1&1/2 hours of curriculum time a day and translated that
to "Hang out" time for the participants.
#3. We eliminated most of the Arthurian after dinner lectures by incorporating
the facilitation techniques and concepts info into the Jump Time feed back
sessions.
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 #4, We used advance copies of the "new book" at the playshop.
(Drum Circle
Facilitation, Building Communities through Rhythm).
Everyone received an advanced copy. They were given progressive reading
assignments as well as time to actually read the book.
In the past programs I had to impart to the students, many of the facilitation
techniques and concepts using the lecture form. That was because they were not
in the old Drum Circle Spirit book. They were in my head. Now EVERYTHING is in
the NEW BOOK.
Every one has asked for the past three years, "when will the new book be
published". My answer has always been "In the Spring, but I am not telling which
Spring". Well "IT IS SPRING".
#5, We moved Jump Time to right after dinner, and added a new Musicality piece
right before Late Night. Doing the Musicality piece improved The Late Night jams
considerably. On most nights, Late Night started at 9 PM. instead of 10:30 or 11
PM. That early start gave everyone opportunities to get in some good
non-facilitated magic grooves and still get plenty of sleep.
All the other things that has made every Hawaii Playshop so special are still in
place. We just made the program easer to enjoy with out eliminating any of the
learning.
Normally after the Hawaii training Diana would put me in a hotel and let me
sleep and recuperate for 2 days while she plays on the Island by herself. This
year I finished the playshop in as good a shape as the rest of the participants
and even got to go with Diana on the annual after the playshop boat ride with
the usual after Hawaii party graduates.
Ahhhh the late night moonlit rainbow over the Pacific. It only happens at the
playshop ....
I give thanks to my brilliant curriculum team and Meta Mentor Staff of Jim
Boneau, Mary Tolena, Steve Hill and Kerry Shakerman, for helping create a
relaxed an fun learning environment. In fact this time I think the participants
were even able to notice that they were "IN" Hawaii during the program. There
was a lot more turtle swims and beach walks and a lot less sleep deprived burn
outs
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Jim Boneau |
Mary Tolena |
Steve Hill |
Kerry Shakerman |
Now on to the rest of the tour.... Share your Spirit ...... Arthur ...... [";-)
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