Hi Chinta and Cheze,

Thank you so much for being part of our conference and for your patience in waiting to 'surprise. The feedback has been fantastic and people who were tired after a long day certainly came alive again through the power of the drums.

I have no hesitation in recommending you to others and will do - if you would like to give my number to anyone who wants to talk about the experience, please do so.

Many thanks once again
Cheers ... Marion

Marion Barron
Learning & Development Manager
(Sales & Marketing)
Fisher & Paykel Australia Pty Ltd

Dear Chinta, Cheze and Eka,

Thank you so much for your excellent contribution to the recent Sustainable Tourism CRC PhD Workshop held at the Byron Bay Beach Resort.

The program for this workshop worked really well and a number of students have said it has been the best so far so your contribution is greatly appreciated.

We all awoke on Monday morning feeling a bit low due to the extremely cold night on Sunday however the team building drumming workshop was the best way to get the program off to a great start!  Being a total surprise to the participants, they thought they were going to be scaling rocks or something, the drumming, and your facilitation of the workshop, lifted everybody’s spirits, warmed us up and got us all connecting with one another.  What started out as a bad day, became a great day and this carried through the remainder of our program.

We had an excellent group of students at this workshop and they are usually a very friendly group but at this workshop they were more open with everyone else in the group than previously and the experience of participating in the drumming workshop at the start of the program contributed to this as they has that opportunity to just be themselves, have fun and get into the rhythm.

Many thanks again, Chinta, Cheze and Eka for contributing to this workshop and sharing this experience with our student cohort, we are sure they enjoyed participating in the Rhythm Konnections workshop and hope to be able to include a Rhythm Konnections workshop in future programs.

 
Warm regards,

Professor Beverley Sparks – Director STCRC Education Program

I thought this was one of the best motivational team building sessions I have ever had (and I used to be in the business of organising them).  I think that it is particularly important not to create situations where one or two people are picked out of the crowd and this did not do that.  It also worked well where we all worked together - I did another drumming exercise in the past where people worked in small groups and then came together to create the 'big' noise but that did not work so well as this one.