Updated: Jan. 11, 2012
Our drum circle facilitation business is in full swing, facilitating health and team-building events throughout Orange County, and organizing drummers for a variety of health fairs and events. We now have three (3) Orange County Drum Circle groups, plus a new logo, and host a monthly drum circle at the Temple of Light in Lake Forest on the 2nd Friday of each month. Cost is $10.00 per person. Open/PRINT temple event flyer.
Stephen Dolle shares his extraordinary story and drumming discoveries in this keynote and Power Point, "Engage the Rhythms of your Brain," presented at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, on October 5, 2011, as part of their STEAM3 music education series:
http://www.cosm.wright.edu/music/events/special/steam3.html
We're putting on some fantastic drum circles at area senior centers with Julie Freelove-Charton and Travel Fit Club. Julie is a gerontology professor with San Diego State University. Below, is local news coverage of a recent drum circle at the H. Louis Lake Senior Center in Garden Grove, California.
August 2011 Drum Circle & Local News Coverage: H. Louis Lake Senior Center, Garden Grove, CA
Add us on Facebook to follow our calendar of drum performances, drum circles, and speaking engagements. Join our Orange County Drum Circle group on Facebook and MeetUp.com to connect with other Orange County drummers.
Last year, we acquired the domain www.ProfessorMac.net and Stephen can be found on Twitter under the user name "Professor Mac." He has been working on two books covering his experiences in drumming and the brain, and his pursuits in the neurosciences, hydrocephalus, and patient advocacy possible title of the DiaCeph Story. Listen to Stephen speak on YouTube in a recent local interview on group drumming and the rhythms of your brain.
Come and enjoy our in depth Power Point Slide Show on group drumming. Please "be patient" as the Slide Shows take 10 to 20 seconds to load.
We hold drum circle workshops and keynotes for corporate, sports, teamwork, and personal development applications with a focus on team-building and non-verbal communications. In addition, Stephen delivers keynotes on his research with the rhythms of the brain and speaks to how group drumming can be an excellent music outreach tool for at risk teens via his philanthropy proposal and "Play Rhythm be Smart" program. We partner locally in Southern California with Love2Drum and La Vida Laguna, and keep a calendar of public performance dates and community drum circles on our My Space music site.
We continue to update our web section on the neurological disorder, hydrocephalus. Stephen now offer shunt monitoring and hydrocephalus consults to individuals and families affected by hydrocephalus. An extensive DiaCeph report from one of his patients is now featured. We continue to seek a partner to develop the DiaCeph Test, which today could run on a mobile phone platform.
Come and view Stephen's amazing hydrocephalus paper, "Shunt Selection Model," with brain scan images, analysis, and discussion of outcomes using his own DiaCeph monitoring. This paper describes a single ICP tap along with his DiaCeph Test protocol for monitoring of shunted and ETV-treated hydrocephalus.
We have now added a search page to our web site that we identify as "Professor Mac's Search Tool."
Listen/download Stephen's healing music song, "Evening Solstice," plus listen to him on stage and live on radio at the Mark and Brian Radio Show with his son Nicholas for KLOS Christmas Show's the "Dropping of the Ule Log." He hopes to re-record "Evening Solstice" in 2010 with saxophone and lead guitar.
We are supporting a new bill before Congress, HR 1084 (Anna Eshoo, D, CA), that if passed, this 2008 House bill would end the practice of raising your TV's volume during television commercials, known to trigger neurological sequela and behavioral problems in persons with neurological and sensory integration disorders. In 2002, we undertook and published a very telling and related 2002 study on sound and sensory integration, that incorporated a "metronome" to evaluate the brain's response to various types of audio rhythmic patterns.
We are working on an initiative with mobile phones & AI to improve standardization and adoption of smart phone "assistive technology" applications to aid seniors, persons with neurological disorders, and the technically challenged. We also hope this will further the availability of health applications software on mobile phones, including, our own DiaCeph Test.
In March 2007, we submitted the DiaCeph Test to the American Electronics Association (AeA) 2007 High Tech Awards Contest.
A new music download is available for the healing instrumental song, "Evening Solstice."
We are hosting a free file download of the 2003 book, "William Lodge: The 19th Century Entrepreneur," written by the late W. L Dolle, Jr., the long time CEO of the Lodge & Shipley Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio.