Corporate Drumming, Flow and Team Efficacy: The Use of Drum Circles and Shared Flow Experiences to Promote Team Efficacy

Drum circles are popular examples of team building activities and there are aspects of the drumming activity that mark them as being somewhat different to other offerings in this space. Particularly, the activity is often completed without speech or interaction of a hierarchical nature. Also, this apparently simple activity appears to produce strong positive emotions in participants. Of interest in this research is that the drumming activity appears to include many of the attributes and conditions that support the presence of the psychological concept of flow. Also, the activity is group based so there may be the presence of a group based version of flow known as social flow (Walker, 2010). At the individual level, flow is known to be associated with self efficacy but there is little research to demonstrate this relationship at the group or team level.