NOTE: If — in spite of David’s success in working with hospice groups, industries undergoing deregulation, and post Y2K dotcoms — you think that this sounds like too much fun to have any serious value, Please check out the FAQs...

“David was great — a big help during a difficult time."
Marriott Hotel

“People who I never expected to participate were doing it!”
Catholic Charities of CT

“For anyone who wants to inject a little fun into their business function and still get a serious point across, this is the way to go!”
Dept. of Management Quality, New York State Dept. of Labor

What's so different about David?
Well, there are lots of great corporate speakers.
Some of them will help your organization to use cognitive psychology skills.

But only David Harp will do it
while teaching the entire group to play
blues, rock, folk, classical, or country harmonica,
with the first song guaranteed...in three minutes.

This is neither a joke nor a novelty act. As the client quotes above attest.

Imagine This... Every single person at YOUR EVENT — whether it’s an All-CEO Leadership Weekend or a Customer Service Rep Training, a group of three dozen or three thousand —  participating in a wildly entertaining harmonica jamm session!
A Jamm Session with a purpose.

A Purpose Chosen by YOU, to Fit the Needs of YOUR Group.

Here’s How it Begins...
David gives each participant a brand new harmonica in a sturdy hardshell case, customized to provide your people with an unforgettable, useable, remembrance of the event!

Then... he offers some brief and entertaining instruction on the powers of attention and teamwork, then the entire group plays. Within three minutes. Blues, rock, or Beethoven. Country, rap, or folk — the choice is yours.
And no matter what style you choose — the group sounds great!
Of course the
Harmonica is
customized
for your event.
But so is
everything else.

David's Unique and Powerful Delivery...
...is so uniquely effective, because within seconds, the synchronized in and out breathing pattern that is required to play harmonica in a group begins to forge an amazingly strong bond between the players! This powerful group effect, known to psychologists as “entrainment...”

...Bonds the Group Almost Instantly, and "Preps" Them ...
After just three minutes, everyone can actually play, believe it or not! A wonderful lesson on breaking personal limits has been learned at the most visceral level possible.

...By teaching two incredibly important lessons...
because all during the learning process, David has been emphasizing (using animated PowerPoint™ slides) two things:

1) How sometime a very small amount of new information can make a radical difference (just as his super-effective "harmonica hand signals'" instantly convert the group's cacophany into harmony), and...

2) How subconscious "neural paths" in the brain often sabotage our efforts in every aspect of life. Until, that is, we bring them to light, and learn how to control them. For more information on David's groundbreaking work in cognitive psychology, please visit this page...

Each person wonders:
“If I can learn to play harmonica in three minutes (which a moment ago seemed impossible), who knows what else I could accomplish today — or what other self-limiting beliefs I might have, and be able to overcome...Today?”
With the group bonded, open-minded, gaining trust in David and eager for more, they're ready...

...for the REAL CONTENT of the Event!
David isn’t satisfied “just” to create unbelievably high-energy events that bond the participants and motivate them to transcend self-limiting beliefs. Instead, his unique experiential method provides tremendously and immediately useful benefits to your group, with workshops on topics that go to the heart of today's corporate challenges. He is also happy to create a customized presentation that delivers the content of your choice, as he has done for hundreds of clients.

Looking at some of the harmonica case labels, and the description of the events for which they were created, will help to provide a sense of the range of David's work...
This label was created for a very serious event on helping those who have to work with the death of a colleague -- which includes having to deliver the devastating news to the colleague's spouse or family. The emphasis was on strengthening the mind though the process which I call building "Mental Muscle™" and my long-time pro bono work with hospice helped give me the strength to tackle such a difficult subject as I created the presentation...
This was for a full day workshop for all top employees (30 participants) of a high tech market research firm. It emphasized, as the title indicates, enhancing the accuracy of predictive behavior by identifying and overcoming personal mental constructs such as stereotyping, transferences, denial, avoidance, bias, etc. It also included modules on "The Creative Manager and the Creative Team™" and on increasing creativity with my new "Brainstorming, Squared!™" program.
This event in Belfast, Northern Ireland, had two main elements, mandated by the client. The first was to promote team-building amongst the European Union attendees, who came from 38 different countries. The second was to help "Supported Employment" job co-ordinators who work in the field of mainstreaming people with disabilities into the workplace (by teaching them to control anger and/or fear reactions when addressing potential employers for their clients).
This was for a group of almost 1000 operating room (OR) surgeons, OR nurses, and OR managers, and aimed at promoting the ability ("Usable Smarts™") to instantly access what one knows how to do, even under challenging circumstances. This is done by identifying the mental obstacles that get in the way of such access, and practicing, under simulated conditions, overcoming them...
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