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Joan K Bell Joan has been teaching hand drumming and facilitating drum circles for 14 years. She has been leading private, community and corporate workshops for over 20 years. Why? I have an eclectic background to say the least. From 1981 to 1996 I worked as a Social Worker and completed formal education in Clinical Behavioural Sciences, Addiction Studies and many other courses and workshops. I worked exclusively with Adolescents in Out-Patient Counselling, Functional Family Therapy, Drug and Alcohol Assessments, Substance Abuse Counselling and Public Education and Training. During this time I was a Lay Minister with the Anglican Church and co-farmed 115 acres of Apples. I left Social Work in 1996 and I grew herbs and flowers, built furniture, opened a walkabout garden and launched a line of all natural body care products. I studied the work of Rudolph Steiner and a number of other teachers appeared. I began to drum and discovered the world of percussion. I continued to facilitate workshops upon request and began to speak about herbs and alternative healing strategies. Percussion and the use of the drum became an enormous focus in the workshops and I quickly became involved in drumming full time in 1998. My career as a drummer continued to expand and I experienced how it changed lives. I have had many teachers and mentors on my journey. There have been Anglican Priests, Medicine Men, Shamans, Crystal Healers, a Sorcerer, Clairvoyants, men and women of Wisdom and many children have brought wonderful teachings to my life. I have had the privilege to drum with over 100,000 children. I have had the privilege of being a full time drum maker and artisan. I have learned many valuable things from my time on this wonderful planet and I do my best to take this knowledge and turn it into wisdom. I know that at each moment we all do the best we can with what we have and when we know better we do better. I see the building of community as the most important component of my human experience. A true community is the place where we are loved and accepted as who we are at the core of our being and allows us to fully express our authentic self, our soul. Through drumming, play and laughter I help to facilitate the creation of an accepting community and know that this experience is transferred to people’s lives when they leave. We can communicate without words, without judgements and we can achieve understanding without having to think or process. My heart overflows when I see how the freedom of expression elevates people and sets a part of them free. My eyes love to watch faces relax and smiles emerge from people’s core. The expression of the Soul is essential to life, it is as important as breathing. Experiencing the expression of another soul, feeling and seeing the beauty they are and the beauty they create is the breath in. The breath out is when my soul expresses the beauty I am and the beauty I create. Contact: 519-718-1899 Email:
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