Patron of the Mist is a non for profit project founded by Lee Jwa. To fund the up-keep of facilitating "free", therapeutic African drumming group sessions, with services that work with some of the most vulnerable members in our communities.

The organisation services Lee freely facilitates therapeutic drumming with are AOD - drug and alcohol programs, at both residential detox units and residential rehabilitation programs; women’s indigenous residential recovery programs, coHealth and mental health services, in and around Melbourne, Australia, since August, 2018. Partnering both government and private organizations since August 2018.

Lets be honest here, State and Federal annual funding currently for addiction and mental health services, fund services for programs to treat addiction and mental health as a “medical problem”. They back their science based statistics from the results of lab rat trials! Hey!! It is a human problem. Neuroscience is now teaching us that addiction is not a disease or a medical problem. Its we have done damage to the brain and we have to reprogram and retrain it to respond in a different way other than comfort, escape or relief. We have to teach the brain to do what our heart wants it to do. Not to do what the brain wants to do. And with drumming we are giving a chance for our brain, a little piece of experience without “fear”.

Neuroscience research now proves that regular therapeutic drumming sessions helps accelerate new neural pathway growth, accelerates the re-balancing of our endocrine system (chemical factory), grounds emotional regulation and alleviates the anxieties of living in survival mode (freeze, fight or flight).

Your contribution through Patron of the Mist extends to the organizations and services who cannot fund to add and regularly offer alternative therapeutic modalities into their programs, for their client base to benefit from; because they cannot afford too. Up until now, Lee has volunteered his own time and money. This includes the purchase of West African instruments (8 student djembes, dun duns, shakers and bells), their maintenance and repairs, also the costs of transport, administration, being on the phone and all the other matters that keeps his mission, available and running.

Your contribution to the songs by Patron of the Mist, partners the above. The songs are inspired from and reflect Lee’s personal journal entries, and emotion is represented musically. Thank you for hearing me, and for your unconditional support and partnering to help others.