Body Percussion
The team makes music with hands, feet and voice.
What it looks like
A video says in thirty seconds what a page explains in a thousand words: how loud it gets, how much laughing there is, what the hands are doing.
What it is
No instrument is needed: the music is made with the body, by stamping, slapping your thighs, clapping, clicking your fingers. People learn beat, rhythm and metre, and each in turn takes the role of the one leading. It runs in any room at all.
Body Percussion is the musical team building format that uses music, rhythm and the body itself as a way of pulling a group together. It’s a fresh and absorbing way of doing team building and of working on leadership.
A new practice has been making its way into corporate training: Body Percussion. The format lets us practise a lot of key abilities using only our bodies, our creativity and our appetite for music and rhythm. Forget expensive equipment and the latest technology, exotic venues and complicated preparation. Think instead of stamping on the floor, slapping your thighs with your hands, clapping or clicking your fingers. All we need are our arms, our legs and a bit of creativity.
The people taking part end up practising the basic musical elements, the beat, the rhythm and the metre. And they can do it anywhere at all, from a meeting room to a larger indoor space.
Learning and training… with some entertainment in it
It’s an accessible format, because each of us carries our own instrument, and it gives such direct experience of the main musical elements that it works as a training tool in its own right. It exercises attention, memory and concentration, and it encourages a cheerful, cooperative attitude. We invite the participants to take the role of the conductor in turn, so as to test their adaptability, their ability to pick up new skills quickly and their sense of belonging to one team. The conductor watches the group, organises it and keeps it going, in settings that change all the time. It’s a thoroughly entertaining way of practising leadership and collective decisions.
With groups of hundreds of people the activity pays twice over. The group comes together inside a remarkable musical setting, in which each person genuinely feels part of a single organism. And the experience itself stays, full of musical shading and currents of feeling, with no limit on the moments that motivate. The day after, each person knows exactly what their own part was worth inside the sound everybody made.
Body Percussion: simple and effective
When what surfaces deserves an afterwards
An activity surfaces a great deal about how a team communicates, decides and works together, and sometimes what surfaces deserves more time, more depth and a method. That is where a Team Coaching path can begin: a different road, to be taken only if it is needed, to turn what the day made visible into a new way of working together.
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Let’s talk about your next team building
You don’t need to have picked a format yet. Tell us what you want your team to take home, how many of you there are and where you’ll be, and we’ll do the rest: within 24 hours you get a considered proposal for your case, with the formats that hold up against your numbers, and what each one leaves the team the day after.
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