The InterPlay Group Development Toolkit
Beyond Teamwork in Nashville
Phil Porter
Nashville, TN
One day only! Friday March 12 • 9:30 am-3 pm
Draw on the full range of human capability—
integrating mind, body, heart and spirit—to
increase the effectiveness of your group.
In Beyond Teamwork, you will acquire a set
of tools and ideas based on the InterPlay philosophy
that has been honed in 20 years of practice and
research. Learn how to:
• shift from “organization as machine” to “organization as body.”
• create the web of connections that makes a group effective.
• learn and use the five elements of healthy interaction.
• use affirmation as a tool for individual and group growth.
• get the best out of the “right-” and the “left-brainers.”
• learn how to create change in your organization
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
• shift from “organization as machine” to “organization as body.”
• create the web of connections that makes a group effective.
• learn and use the five elements of healthy interaction.
• use affirmation as a tool for individual and group growth.
• get the best out of the “right-” and the “left-brainers.”
• learn how to create change in your organization
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
Cost: $49/$79 for two
Registration/Information: InterPlay office: 510/465-2797, info@interplay.org
Local contact: Caroline Blackwell 615/491-0470 or caroline@interplaynashville.org
Venue
University School of Nashville
2000 Edgehill Avenue
Nashville, TN 37212
USN is a vibrant, progressive, K-12 learning community, home to 1,000 students and approximately 150 faculty members and staff. The school is located in a bustling part of the city, literally a few minutes walk from Vanderbilt and Belmont Universities, and a few miles from Fisk and Tennessee State, two of region's Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Scarritt Bennett Center--a lovely retreat facility run by the United Methodist Church, lies just across the street from USN. Scarritt offers very nice and very affordable hospitality; guest can take meals there or walk to literally dozens of eateries. Free parking in the 19th Avenue lot. Enter building through the Gordon Wing.
Leaders
Phil Porter
Phil is one of the founders of InterPlay. He is a teacher, performer, writer, and organizer. With Cynthia Winton-Henry he is the co-founder of WING IT! Performance Ensemble, and has written several books, some in collaboration with Cynthia, including Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last and The Slightly Mad Rantings of a Body Intellectual Part One. Phil is particularly interested in the use of InterPlay in organizational life, and believes that InterPlay can be a powerful tool to create communities of diversity and peace.