Beat the Odds®with Hands & Hearts Drumming!
Offered as a School Program for K-8
Fall 2025 (8) week Sessions
Spring 2026 (8) week sessions
All Hands & Hearts Instructors are Beat the Odds® certified facilitators.
Beat the Odds®
Social & Emotional Skill Building Delivered in a Framework of Drumming. Beat the Odds is an evidence-based and trauma informed program that integrates activities from group drumming and group counseling to build core social-emotional strengths such as focusing and listening, team building, positive risk taking, self-esteem, awareness of others, leadership, expressing feelings, managing anger/stress, empathy and gratitude.
Online Classes
with Hands & Hearts Drumming
Hands & Hearts Mission:
To create positive social and emotional learning skill set opportunities to students through drumming and the arts that will help them navigate their way through life.
UCLA researchers have shown
that Beat the Odds® can significantly reduce a spectrum of behavior problems in children, such as those associated with inattention, withdrawn/depression, post-traumatic stress, anxiety, attention deficit/hyperactivity, oppositional defiance, and sluggish cognitive tempo. In addition, the curriculum is inclusive, culturally relevant, and does not bear the stigma of therapy.
Drumming Hours
Mon-Friday 8am-9pm
Sat & Sun 9am-9pm