das.imtakte.team©
das.imtakte.team© – Drumming Workshop is an analog rhythmic intervention for teams and groups. Nothing can underscore the success of an event more sustainably than an unforgettable shared experience. Where people work together, team spirit is required. Good orchestras are characterized not only by the virtuosity of individual performers, but also by the ability of everyone to engage with each other and create a synchronized work of art. Surprise your team! Let it enter a room full of exciting drums and leave the rest to us.
Offers for every group size
the leading team 2-3 participants
If they work, teams of two or three are optimal management teams and produce the best ideas. Perfect complementary duos and trios are proven in music and are abundant in the history books.
More informationthe working team 4-10 participants
The typical size of functional work teams consist of four to ten people. The numbers correspond to the capability of the human brain, which can store seven +/- three units in short- term memory. Although teams of this size are often lead by one of its members, under favorable conditions they work democratically and self-organized.
More informationthe collaborating team 10-20 participants
In contrast to large groups, people know and trust each other in teams of this size and can develop family structures. Interdisciplinary project groups and training for team building are still possible. For effective work the team can be divided into groups of three to four people.
More informationthe networking team 20-60 participants
Starting with this scale one speaks generally of groups. Compared to smaller teams groups potentially have a higher productivity, but due to process losses through coordination and communication problems the effect per group member can be reduced. The magic word for the bundling of interests, competences and knowledge is network. This fragile structure must be regularly maintained. Its value lies not only in the direct contact with individual members, but also in their contact with other participants. Optimal orchestra size for a das.imtakte.team©.
More informationthe dunbar team 60-150 participants
Named after the anthropologist Robin Dunbar, the Dunbar number describes the theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom an individual can maintain social relationships. He discovered that businesses with up to 150 employees can manage with few hierarchical structures, as people know each other and can communicate directly. This number of people no longer make an efficient team, of course – but a company with a common identity.
More informationthe big thing 150+ participants
The individual anonymity is an essential feature of this group size. Members hardly know each other, so the common denominator is usually a pre-defined top-down strategic aim. The power of a das.imtakte.team© is on one hand the integration of creative elements for activation of innovative potentials and on the other hand the huge cohesive force produced by a rhythmically synchronized mass.
More informationUpon request, we conduct an ongoing evaluation of the process. Using a standardized questionnaire, participants anonymously reflect on the team drumming event immediately following the workshop by answering closed-ended questions. Based on the statistical analysis, we create a report that highlights the key impacts on social skills development that emerged during the workshop.
Bring rhythm to your team!
We bring rhythm to your team.
When Gerhard Kero and Ulli Sanou discovered a shared passion many years ago and subsequently traveled to West Africa for years for study purposes, they did not yet know what a universal and ingenious tool they had stumbled upon in the complex West African rhythm culture. At first, they worked with it primarily in an artistic context, during international concert tours, several album productions, and numerous stage projects. Later, they founded beatfactory, the first drum school focusing on West African djembe culture in the German-speaking world, and since then they have been busy every day transforming groups of individuals into communities through rhythm. In 2008, they established dj.e.m.be©, the first comprehensive diploma program for djembe culture, and in 2020, they developed the innovative video learning program beat2go. With das.imtakte.team©, they launched an artistically high-quality concept for analog rhythmic interventions in 2005, which has since been successfully implemented with countless teams.
Gerhard Kero
loves to decorate the time. Whether as a musician, rhythm researcher or music teacher: Rhythm is his thing. As a founder of the European djembe scene, since 1989 research trips have taken him to those countries to those peoples who live rhythmic complexity far beyond the understanding of western listening habits. His grooves fill numerous albums, Hollitzer published Team in Rhythm (provides empirical evidence for the power of rhythm in team building processes) and Sprechen Sie Rhythmus? (about the learning-promoting effect of onomatopoeic rhythm – coding). Gerhard also studied knowledge management (MSc) and education management (MA). As a trained MSC teacher (Mindful Self-Compassion / Mindful Self-Compassion) he teaches MSC in rhythm.
Ulli Sanou
Before Ulli Sanou devoted herself to the sophisticated and virtuosic percussion of West African Maninka, she worked after completing studies of art at the University of Applied Arts as a graphic designer. Her numerous studies in the core countries of djembe music influence not only her professional and well-established didactic drum courses and workshops, but also her work as a teacher of African dance. Her students benefit from her education as a Feldenkrais trainer and the resulting deep understanding of organic and economic movements. With her recent Mali novel Aus dem Rhythmus she proves her writing in addition to her musical skills.
Much more than an adventure
A das.imtakte.team© expands to the social level!
Modern teamwork is characterized by networked, self-organizing cooperation and therefore leads to increased demands on social behavior. A key criterion for assessing social competence is the ability to cope with a social situation. A team drumming event is such a social situation: what is the force that makes people dance for hours on end when they join others in a drumming rhythm? Is it the same force that gives us a strong sense of community when thousands applaud thunderously, or that allows us to row more efficiently as a team? The social function of rhythm is to create and confirm community. For thousands of years, people have used drums to induce a strong sense of community on special occasions, whether in archaic tribal societies or in modern corporate contexts. Behind this lies a true human universal: the ability to synchronize – a coordinative skill that is indispensable for music, dance, and numerous sporting disciplines. It is a fundamental characteristic with the primary sociobiological function of strengthening social cohesion within a team or group. Its special potential lies in its ability to trim adaptation and thus promote the success of joint action and social cohesion.
The power of rhythm in team-building processes
In a study published in 2016 by Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, Gerhard Kero examines the influence of analog rhythmic interventions on team-relevant social skills, flow, and group cohesion, providing empirical evidence for the power of rhythm in team-building processes for the first time.
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Rhythm and rank dynamics in teams
The study examines the change in a team’s ranking dynamics during an analog rhythmic intervention. The research question deals with the community – building effects of rhythmic group- and team activities on the team structure in terms of its ranking dynamics.
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