01/12/2025
«DrumPower» Training 2026/27
Violence prevention, social integration and empowerment through music – additional qualification
For qualified music therapists with recognized professional education
This advanced qualification for music therapists will present fundamentals of the DrumPower project – a scientifically developed method for projects with children and youth to prevent violence and promote social inclusion and selfesteem by musical and scenic improvisation. The semi-structured program, called »DrumPower«, has been evaluated in several scientific studies since 2009 and been revised and differentiated according to the studies’ results. It is fully elaborated for application in schools at different levels, and modified forms for the work with refugees and in clinical contexts are under development.
The different elements of the concept will be explained theoretically and taught practically in exercises. In particular, musical and music therapeutical techniques to promote self-esteem, empathy, social inclusion and constructive conflict solving skills are the core themes of the program. On this foundation, the projects facilitate to deal – in a creative, musical and improvisatory way – with the issues of aggression and violence, and to develop own concepts of how to manage conflicts and violent situations. The projects end in a »workshop« performance, giving the participating students an opportunity to present some results of their project work.
This advanced qualification will provide the structure and working methods of the DrumPower project for the application in different types of schools. By means of self experience you will be shown how to guide and instruct a project as well as how to present different models of constructive and social-related conflict resolution. Furthermore, you will gain insights into how to deal with lack of motivation and resistance. Finally, we will focus on the transfer and effective implementation of such models in the daily lives of children.
This international training course is a pilot training program,
which combines one intensive basic seminar and self-organized regional study groups for advanced training and supervision via skype to keep the costs of the training low. Therefore, only groups of music therapists (3-6 participants) who commit themselves to organizing the regional meetings can participate.
The course includes one intensive basic seminar block (36 units, one unit is 45 minutes) and four meetings in the regional study group (16 units) under supervision via skype (4 units) and a final project presentation organized in the regional study group (8 units) under supervision via skype (4 units). Additional practical work (minimum 20 units) under supervision in the study group is required after the first seminar. Having successfully accomplished all parts of the qualification, the participants will be certified as »Trainer For Violence Prevention and Social Integration Through Music«. The language of instruction is English.
In recent years, we have successfully used the DrumPower method in various schools and institutions in Germany and we want to make the method available to colleagues from other countries so that they can use DrumPower in their work with young people.
That's why we have designed a special training program for groups from different countries / regions that combines contact hours with self-organized learning groups and Internet supervision. This will allow us to keep face-to-face time and costs for the first training to a minimum. We hope that we can attract enough interested people from different countries to participate. Please organize yourself for registration as a regional study group.
For additional information please order our training curriculum.
Basic seminar
Thu – Sun · 28.– 31. May 2026 · Thu, Fri, Sat: 9 am – 6 pm · Sun: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Venue Freies Musikzentrum, Ismaninger Str. 29, Munich
Advanced seminar – online
Sat/Sun · 12.– 13. September 2026 · 23.– 24. January 2027
Sat: 9 am–6 pm · Sun: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Lecturers Dr. Andreas Wölfl, Yoshihisa Kinosh*ta and guest lectures
Seminar Number 2026FF503
Fee 1.170,– €
Booking
via e-mail [email protected] by indicating seminar number or online
https://www.freies-musikzentrum.de/programm/institut-fuer-musiktherapie.html/kurs/500-C-2026FF503/t/drumpower-international-2026
