Keynotes by Stephen Dolle
Hydrocephalus Survivor, Neuroscientist, and Drum Circle Facilitator
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Keynote Topics:
1) Engage the Rhythms of your Brain (same as above Power Point)
2) Adventures in the Neurosciences: Innovation, Hydrocephalus & Neurological Disorders, Sensory Integration, and Neuro Diagnostics (DiaCeph, Assistive Mobile Apps)
3) The DiaCeph Test & Shunt Selection Model
Stephen Dolle Speaks on Drumming and the Brain at the Temple of Light in Oct 2011:
Stephen Dolle is founder and CEO of Dolle Communications and provides keynote speaking and workshops on drumming & the brain, health & wellness, how he overcame adversity after a 1992 brain injury, and the DiaCeph story of his invention of the DiaCeph Test for hydrocephalus.
As a drum circle facilitator and neuroscientist, Stephen delves into the various rhythms of the brain and how they interact with language, movement, and cognition. Stephen shares his extraordinary story and drumming discoveries in this keynote, "Engage the Rhythms of your Brain," presented at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, on October 5, 2011. In his drum circle workshops, he employs drum and rhythm instruments to boost team building, non-verbal communication skills, mental focus, readiness, physical coordination, and mobility. This Applications of Drums and Rhythm flier illustrates how widely drums and rhythm are used today.
Sometimes referred to as "MacGyver" or "Professor Mac," Stephen has a distinguished career in health care, entertainment, and the neurosciences. He achieved the distinction of neuroscientist because of extraordinary efforts he undertook after a 1992 auto accident and brain injury (and hydrocephalus). In fact, he directed 3 of his last 4 brain surgeries. Because of this, Stephen remains involved in furthering advances in the care and treatment of neurological disorders.
Stephen gives audiences a glimpse of the extraordinary efforts he undertook after his brain injury, from the neurosciences, CNS shunt devices, and FDA policy, from 3x2 foot decision trees to artificial intelligence programs, and from music therapy research to Afro-Cuban percussion and drum circle facilitation. Stephen has a knack for making complex things easy to understand, and allowing his brain to work in the background on solving complex problems (the work of an intuitive).
But, solving complex problems isn't his only skill. Prior to his brain injury in 1992, he worked as an actor and sports & entertainment promoter. After his injury, he wrote this healing song, "Evening Solstice," that has been shared and used around the U.S. for those suffering from hydrocephalus, cancer, and chronic illness. He'd like to re-record "Evening Solstice" with saxophone and lead guitar.
Stephen often writes under the name "Professor Mac," and
purchased the domain www.ProfessorMac.net. He is
qualified to speak on group drumming, hydrocephalus and neurological care,
mobile smart phones and AI, and matters of family and personal survival.
In 2008 (15 years after his injury), Stephen was able to get the swelling relieved from his brain, albeit surgery no. 7 with a shunt device he selected from France. He regards changes in his hydrocephalus condition, changes in diet and exercise, and his work with drumming, as the fountain of youth.
Stephen often writes under the name "Professor Mac." He is qualified to speak on group drumming, hydrocephalus and neurological care, mobile smart phones and AI, and matters of family and personal survival. It wasn't until 2008 (15 years after his injury) that he was able to get the swelling relieved from his brain, albeit surgery no. 7 with a shunt device he selected from France.
As a drum circle facilitator and neuroscientist, Stephen delves into the various rhythms of the brain and how they interact with language, movement, and cognition. In his drum circle workshops, he employs drum and rhythm instruments to boost team building, non-verbal communication skills, mental focus, readiness, physical coordination, and mobility. This Applications of Drums and Rhythm flier illustrates how widely drums and rhythm are used today.
Keynote Topic: Engage the
Rhythms of your Brain
Keynote Topic: Stephen's Adventures in the Neurosciences:
Survival, Innovation, Public Policy & Law, Hydrocephalus
& Neurological Disorders, Sensory Integration, Technology (DiaCeph, Assistive
Mobile Apps), and Drumming.
To Create the DiaCeph Test, Stephen had to become the
Terminator
Understanding Cognition & Sensory Integration
Creating Computer Code to Address Cognition & Shunt Function
Stephen after Shunt Revision/During Design of DiaCeph Test
In Washington, D.C. for the 1999 FDA STAMP Conference
Assistive Technology: DiaCeph could be App for Mobile Phones
Keynote Topic:
Hydrocephalus, the DiaCeph Test, paper on Shunt Selection
Model.
MRI of Initial onset of Hydrocephalus, 1992
CT Scan Finally Normal 2008
Some past Drum Circle Facilitation Clients:
Chabad Temple, Mission Viejo
Costa Mesa Senior Center
Travel Fit Club
H Louis Lake Garden Grove Senior Center
New Directions for Women, Costa Mesa
High Hopes
Head Injury Center of Orange County
Spinal Cord Injury Association of Orange County/OC Goodwill Center
UCI
Susan Samueli Integrative Medicine Center, Women's Wellness Day 2010
Friendship Shelter, Laguna Beach
YMCA of Orange County
Girls Inc. of Orange County, 2010 Summer Drumming Program
Surf 24
Event, Huntington Beach, CA (Phat Rhythm Band)
Green Valentine Festival, Laguna Beach
Earth Hour Laguna Beach
Green Go Enterprises
Eco-Festival
Drumming with Horses/Melba & Roy Slavin Ranch
Drumming for Snow, Stefan Kaelin Ski Store (It did snow!)
Sheila Peterson
&
Family (photos on family blog)
Jack Bicer Family
Stephen is Interviewed at 2010 Laguna Art Walk
Introduction:
Stephen
Dolle is CEO of Dolle Communications, a communications and neurosciences
consulting company based in Newport Beach, California. He is an experiential neuroscientist, drum circle facilitator, and
communications consultant where he provides the latest rhythm and brain
techniques in drum circle facilitation, speaks on drumming and the brain, and
consults on the disorder, hydrocephalus. Stephen’s involvement in the neurosciences, and drumming and the brain,
is not an everyday story. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1976
with a degree in nuclear medicine, and worked in the field as a technologist. In
1982, he founded Certified Nuclear imaging (CNI), and operated this until 1992.
He is a medical intuitive, a skill first documented with his medical
imaging work in 1981. During the 1980s, he applied his intuitive interests to a
wide range of pursuits, including, film, local theatre, and fundraising. But in 1992, he suffered a life-changing brain injury that required a
“hydrocephalus” shunt placed in his brain. Having studied piano and vocals in
his youth, he called upon his music training as music therapy, while delving
into the neurosciences of CNS shunt devices, and conceiving a new shunt test,
the DiaCeph Test, which he worked to develop from 1997 to 2003. In 2004, he became interested in
drum circles with the purchase of an African djembe drum, and began taking
workshops, and eventually drum circle facilitation with Arthur Hull. Seeing how
drumming was aiding his recovery, he began to apply his music therapy and
neuroscience research to drumming, and intuitively discovered applications which
he shared in his drum circle facilitation work – with extraordinary results. As a youth, Stephen had performed on stage at the Dayton Opera House.
Today, he performs as a percussionist in drums circles, with bands, and with his
all drummer band, Phat Rhythm Section. He is a father and has coached on
more than twenty little league baseball and AYSO soccer teams. Known
as “MacGyver” for his problem solving prowess, “The Professor” for his
drum rhythms, and “Coach” for his years in youth baseball and soccer, he is a drum circle facilitator and percussionist and performs at a wide
variety of venues in the Greater Los Angeles area. Let us give a warm
welcome to Stephen Dolle. Keynotes & Workshops
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This
Group Drumming 4x6 Post Card describes Stephen's workshop that uses
drums & rhythm improve everyday walking and movement.
Group
Drumming: Team
Building & Communications, Engaging the Rhythms of your Brain (Keynote Slide
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Contact Stephen during normal business hours at (949) 642-4592, or through
mail here, or via
his
home office.
New
Power Point on Drumming and the Brain Presented at Wright State
University
Drum Circle Facilitation
The
DiaCeph Story: Innovation and Perseverance in the Neurosciences
Overcoming
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Smart Phones
as Assistive Technology
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