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Kansas City Business Journal: July 15, 1996 OFF THE BEAT By Brian Kaberline
However you phrase it, music and rhythm have a way of bringing people together. That is the basic premise of Lenexa-based Healthy Sounds. Barry Bernstein, owner of the business and a registered musical therapist, does motivational presentations with a beat. His Unity With A Beat programs may include putting people in a drum circle or having them pass maraca-type instruments in rhythm. "A lot of this hits between the lines," he said. "You don't have to beat someone over the head with words. You learn by experience that you have to work together." Besides physically working together, Bernstein said that working in a tight rhythm actually puts participants' body rhythms in sync and putting messages to music makes them more memorable. Bernstein has been doing the Unity With A Beat sessions for the past five years, usually for groups of doctors and other health care professionals. Now he is trying to break into the general business market. This week he was going to lead a drum circle to open the Center for Management Assistance's national conference in Kansas City before heading off to Germany to teach a seminar on the topic. As you might expect, Bernstein usually has to get past resistance from the people who would hire him and from participants. But, once people understand what he is up to, the rhythm gets 'em. "Music draws us in," he explained. "So what invariably happens is, we'll get a group of people who say, `Oh, this is a load of crap.' And then, by the end, they're having a ball." Reprinted with permission © 1996 The Kansas City Business Journal |
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