When you are a part of a team or work with a team, there is almost always pressure under which you are working. There are deadlines that are scarily close, resources to reach the target seem like they are not enough and yet success is only measured in performance, output and efficiency.

Now, to be fair, let’s try to put this team into a group activity that’s not their usual one. One, where they can connect with each other on a deeper level, where they can learn and express themselves easily. This takes away all preexisting ability-bias. This makes it easy for them to experience, identify and work on some of their impending issues and apply them at their workplace without too much effort.

This new team building activity (whether it is Drum Circle, Dance Movement Therapy, Creative Writing or Theatre Games), will help them bond together on a totally new forum and start working more cohesively. They’ll be much more intrinsically motivated and more empathetic about each other. These are two very crucial characteristics needed when dealing with a pressuring situation. How will all this magic happen you ask? Well to start off with, it is human nature to synchronise. Take the pendulum principle as evidence thereof. In fact, when ever we feel out of sync, there is conflict or dis-ease. Group drumming helps us identify and reconnect with our very innate and natural tendency of working in a team, collaborating, synchronising with our fellow team members. Secondly, this ‘fun’ activity helps us look at ourselves with less judgement and take ourselves less seriously. Hence, when you least expect it, you will have an epiphany, like the answer was with you all along.