Enjoyable body wisdom strategies to use in supervision, peer support, one on one and group work, and self care, InterPlay tools reincorporate the resources of movement, voice, words, stories, and stillness. Through brief practices “players” tap health, personal wisdom and gain insight into ways to reorganize habits, transform patterns and heal trauma. InterPlay’s gentle, clear invitations shift from fixing problems to being active creators in life.

The Tool Kit explores
• Non-invasive therapeutic investigations using movement, storytelling, and stillness.
• What body wisdom means for professional development and healing.
• How to help clients move more quickly from stress to ease.
• Ways to increase a client’s confidence in the ability to heal.
• The possibility of “playing with” professional issues using InterPlay forms.
• Integration of body and spirit.

In this survey learn about the
• Five recommendations for health: breathe, move, tell, affirm, and rest.
• A healthy interaction checklist.
• “Myers Briggs” of movement: greater range of expression and honor for energy style.
• Non-judgmental methods to notice body wisdom and apply it to healing.
• Transformational tools: exformation, practice, and incrementality.
• Story telling forms that re-establish a ground of health.
• Joyful ways to witness and affirm others and change how we live in our bodies.
• Finding our body’s “third thing” to help move beyond duality, create ease, foster healing and break through isolation.

This course meets the qualifications for 5.5 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Provider number 2583