Life Practice Program Grads Only
Learn the Focus Session Form
For use in Coaching, Art, Supervision, Mentoring, Spiritual Direction and Peer Support
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Oakland, CA
Saturday, May 11, 2019 • 9:30 am-4:30 pm
Are you curious about offering a focus session to peers or in your line of work? Would you like to witness or receive a focus session but don't want to lead any?
Many say that the InterPlay focus session is the most transformative part of their InterPlay journey. Focus sessions offer a unique way to play with something with the undivided attention of a facilitator. Just 30 minutes in length, they may or may not include the power of being witnessed by an affirming community.
Cynthia will position this approach that offers the understanding that we are creating, not healing. Release expectation of working on our hard stuff. Trust the person to bring what they want. The time can be spent inviting light-heartedness, building a skill, sharing pride in being good at something, gently nurturing oneself, resting, etc, or asking our body wisdom for guidance.
Saturday, May 11, 2019, 9:30-1, bag lunch 1-2, 2-4:30
Cynthia will introduce the elegant, down to earth focus session process that includes movement, storytelling forms, and noticing. Trusting the wisdom of the body, we will practice being an affirming witness and how to suggest forms.
You will have an opportunity to guide a participant, notice the different needs and styles of focus sessions, and consider ways your body wisdom can be useful in affirming others.
Bring Lunch to share.
Many say that the InterPlay focus session is the most transformative part of their InterPlay journey. Focus sessions offer a unique way to play with something with the undivided attention of a facilitator. Just 30 minutes in length, they may or may not include the power of being witnessed by an affirming community.
Cynthia will position this approach that offers the understanding that we are creating, not healing. Release expectation of working on our hard stuff. Trust the person to bring what they want. The time can be spent inviting light-heartedness, building a skill, sharing pride in being good at something, gently nurturing oneself, resting, etc, or asking our body wisdom for guidance.
Saturday, May 11, 2019, 9:30-1, bag lunch 1-2, 2-4:30
Cynthia will introduce the elegant, down to earth focus session process that includes movement, storytelling forms, and noticing. Trusting the wisdom of the body, we will practice being an affirming witness and how to suggest forms.
You will have an opportunity to guide a participant, notice the different needs and styles of focus sessions, and consider ways your body wisdom can be useful in affirming others.
Bring Lunch to share.
Cost: 95.00 or ask for a scholarship
Registration/Information: Body Wisdom, 510-465-2797 or info@interplay.org
Venue
InterPlayce
2273 Telegraph Avenue (at 23rd St.)
Oakland, CA 94612
InterPlayce is the center of the InterPlay universe. The offices for Body Wisdom, Inc. are also located here. The building is at the corner of 23rd and Telegraph, one block north of West Grand. It is just a few blocks from the 19th Street Downtown Oakland BART station, and on several convenient bus lines. On-street parking is always available at night and metered during the day. It is also easily accessible by several of the major freeways.
Click here for a map.
Leaders
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Cynthia Winton-Henry, co-founder of InterPlay with Phil Porter, has researched "what the body wants" in the arts, in jails, shelters, slums, hospitals, churches, businesses, classrooms, doctoral programs in theology and the arts, and in multicultural education. She develops somatic curriculums to address racism, leadership for the Earth, and spiritual intelligence with an eye to supporting millennials. A featured speaker on the Body Intelligence Summit and a keynoter at conferences, Cynthia is the author of What the Body Wants, Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last; Dance - A Sacred Art: Discovering the Joy of Movement as Spiritual Practice, Chasing the Dance of Life: A Faith Journey, and The Art of Ensoulment: A Playbook on How to Create From Body and Soul.. Check out her writing, The Dancing Center, on Substack, her Hidden Monastery Online Dance Chapels and courses for those seeking spiritual intelligence for our time at cynthiawinton-henry.com.