Beat the Odds - Remo Drums

Beat the Odds: Social and Emotional Skill Building Delivered in a Framework of Drumming -

A Training Program for Working with Children.

Beat the Odds integrates activities from contemporary drum circles and group counseling to teach skills such as focusing and listening, team building, leadership, expressing feelings, managing anger/stress, empathy and gratitude.  It is inclusive, culturally relevant, and does not bear the stigma of therapy.

Held at Remo Recreational Music Center in North Hollywood - an amazing refurbished warehouse stocked full of drums and percussion instruments, 7308 Coldwater Canyon, North Hollywood, CA 91605; (818) 982-0461.

$60 for training, with an additional $25 for 6 CEUs for MFTs/LCSWs.  Curriculum materials can be purchased separately at the event for $60.    Sponsored by UCLArts and Healing.