In a diverse but connected world, communication and cooperation across cultural and racial lines is vital to organizational health and productivity. Sound Encounters offers concrete experience in the ways in which cultures mix and mingle, giving their clientele the tools to work at higher levels within the organization, and with clients and partners outside the organization.
 Sound Encounters Programs
Kenneth Hawkins and Keith Terry bring a world of music and movement experience to each session. Through pointed activities, clients sharpen their radar and fine-tune their senses. Participants embody lessons on how to communicate efficiently and effectively with anyone.
- Sound Encounters is ideal for organizations that are restructuring, engaging in diversity training, orienting new employees, or nurturing stronger leadership.
- Sound Encounters reveals individual and cultural expectations, and enables participants to move beyond them, enhancing group interaction and productivity.
- Sound Encounters is designed for managers, team leaders, facilitators, teachers, employees, coaches and students who seek to improve their performance in culturally diverse team or group settings.
We offer a 1-day basic session, a 3-day standard program, or a 5-day comprehensive program. However, we always customize programs to fit the needs, interests and budgets of our clients.
Ideal for retreats, orientations, and seminars; integration of systems, leadership training.
Sound Encounters Activities
- Hear training / Ear training: Develop the ability to listen 7 levels deep using the world of music and the music of the world; dissect the concepts of harmony / dissonance or tension / release in intercultural settings.
- Sharpening Your Radar: Recognize more of what there is to be aware of interpersonal; and intercultural situations; expand and focus the lenses through which you see others and make assessments.
- Rhythmic Exercises in Body Music: Use that music/dance created by clapping, slapping, stepping and vocalizing to identify rhythm, pace and timing, and their impact on cultural, group, and interpersonal encounters.
- The Duke Ellington Method: Implement the band leader analogy to explore effective leadership and facilitation techniques.
- Dancing in their Shoes: Experience Culture through dance, effectively communicating beyond words as a leader and a follower.
- Video Observation: Analyze various interpersonal, team and intercultural encounters.
Sound Encounters Facilitators
 Kenneth Hawkins is a consultant whose work focuses on organization development, conflict management, multicultural workforce development, and team building. For 25 years he has worked with municipalities, businesses and agencies to help them achieve maximum effectiveness. Kenneth established more than three hundred conflict resolution programs throughout the US, Canada and Europe. He has conducted studies that examine cultural assumptions underlying various dispute resolution processes. His articles and training materials on intercultural conflict intervention have been included in various multicultural and meditation publications. Additionally, Kenneth is a musician and has toured the East Coast with numerous Jazz and R&B bands. He currently performs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Kenneth has been a music teacher and Latin Dancer for more than 25 years. His training programs are known for the innovative approaches to learning that routinely include music, rhythm and movement exercises.
 Keith Terry is a percussions / rhythm dancer / educator who has toured extensively in the Americas, Asia and Europe. In addition to his solo work, he has collaborated with numerous artists including Turtle Island String Quartet, The Jazz Tap Ensemble, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, San Jose Taiko, and Bobby McFerrin. He is the Artistic Director of the percussion quintet, Crosspulse, and the Ringmaster for Professor Terry's Circus Band Extraordináire. His large scale works include the Body Tjak Projects, a series of multidisciplinary performances involving artists from Indonesia and the Americas, co-directed with Balinese composer / choreographer I Wayan Dibia. Keith is a member of the faculty at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures, where he designs and teaches courses on the relationship of music and dance; deep listening; synchronicity, time and timing; and intercultural communication in the arts. Through the rehearsal and performance process in intercultural / interracial collaborations over more than three decades, Keith has fine-tuned his ability to use music and dance ideas as tools for intercultural communication. His unique approach to Body Music is a jumping off point for incorporating the varied concepts of time and space embedded within culture.
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