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We rehearse the workshop before the conference in a Drumming Into Story circle session in St Paul on 2/17. The workshop at the Drum Circle Facilitators Guild conference gives attendees the experience of entrainment and stress release. The workshop gives attendees the experience of increased community in the circle. The workshop leads attendees into comfort expressing themselves with drums. The workshop gives attendees the experience of discovering and telling a personal story to one other person. I connect with new drum facilitator friends at the conference. I get at least 3 gig leads from this conference. Our workshop includes 20 minutes of group debriefing and Question/Answer after the circle for participant feedback and reflection. We administer conference's workshop surveys at the end of our workshop. My co-facilitator Linda and I debrief after the workshop re: all our workshop goals. I keep notes in my Drum Facilitation Log about my observations of entrainment, community, drumming/verbal self-expression, and story sharing. We videotape our workshop, reviewing it after the conference in for evidence of entrainment, stress release, connection between participants, individual self-expression with drums, and individual verbal storytelling engagement among participants. We network informally with participants later during the conference for individual feedback. Conference presenters let us know feedback they hear after the conference.