What is an “Untensive” Retreat?

relax, connect, play, learn, create

At an “Untensive” retreat, you get to relax, connect, play, laugh, be moved and you get to learn helpful ideas and tools that can create more ease, fullness, purpose and satisfaction in your life.

New to InterPlay? An Untensive is a great place to get an overview of InterPlay practices and ideas. Experienced InterPlayers are also welcome. At any particular Untensive there will be an interesting mix of people with different levels of experience. Everyone will be included and everyone will have opportunities to be gently challenged.

At an Untensive, you will learn several of the InterPlay “forms,”—simple and incremental ways of playing around with words, movement, sound and stillness. As you play, you will find out more about yourself and others. Wonderful community connections develop that often are maintained after the Untensive is over.

InterPlay gently unlocks the wisdom of your body.

• What do you know?
• How can you get more of what you want?
• What gives you satisfaction?
• What creates ease?
• What about your life do you want to change?

Untensives (usually three or four days long) are held frequently across the country and in other parts of the world. They are led by the most experienced InterPlay leaders, including InterPlay co-founders Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter. Sometimes they are residential events at a retreat center or hotel.

Find out more about “Untensive” Retreats

Welcome to the New InterPlay Website!

We have just launched the newly-designed InterPlay website.

These pop-up windows are only one of the new features on the the site. Search around and see what shows up if you click in the right place! (Hint: look for these red and yellow boxes and some of the red links.)

We hope you will enjoy the new look and new features. The site was rebuilt pretty much from the ground up, including most of the structural programming. You will find most of the information that was on the old site, reorganized a bit. We hope you will find your way around the site easily.

We assume there will be some glitches early on, so bear with us. Also watch for new content and features as the site settles into place.

Visit us often!

Special thanks to Phil Porter, co-founder of InterPlay and the primary designer for this site, Minnesota InterPlayer and web-expert Rosemary Senjem, and programmers John Coleman and AJ Michels.

InterPlay Leaders Gather to Play

Almost 50 InterPlay leaders from around the country gathered at Seabeck Conference Center near Seattle in June. They came from as far away as Washington, D.C. and New Hampshire and all parts in between. InterPlay co-founders Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter lead the group but drew on the resources of many of those present to create all sorts of possibilities for connecting, laughing, creating, eating(!) and general frivolity. The national Board of Directors also spent two days together before the Untensive began, dreaming about the future of InterPlay under the leadership of Board President Nika Quirk.

Seabeck is right near the water on Puget Sound and InterPlayers spent some of their time watching and photographing large groups of bald eagles who were having their own gathering to feast on the local oysters. A whole group of folks also got out on the water in kayaks.

A special gathering for InterPlay leaders is held almost every summer, open to those who have graduated from the Life Practice Program or played other key roles in the organization.

These are just a few of the photos taken by InterPlayer Susanne Mulcahy (who is also Vice President of the Board!) You can see more of her photos at Smugmug.

Regional InterPlay Websites

This site lists events in many different regions in the world. Some regions also have their own websites.

• Australia
• North Carolina
• Seattle
• Twin Cities