Providing care for others, especially in long-term or transitional care, is a deep, rich, challenging, complicated and sometimes mysterious process. It can be overwhelming! What if we had the best ways to take good care of ourselves? How do we release the stress, process the challenges, honor the depth? And don’t we come to the care-giving task with our own issues and concerns?

InterPlay can provide valuable tools for health and wellness. We learn to take care of ourselves and this extends to those we care for. Learn to have the fullness of your experience, release stress, find balance, share grace, stay in touch with amusement and play. Learn InterPlay tools like “exformation,” easy focus, affirmation, the physicality of grace. Learn more about having your body, mind, heart and spirit all working together. Learn how we affect and are affected by others’ experience as part of the “group body.”

This workshop will involve presentation, reflection, stories and physical activity (with your choice about how much you get involved—“witnessing” is also honored.) Dress comfortably. Expect to laugh.

InterPlay is a global social movement dedicated to ease, connection, human sustainability and play. It unlocks the wisdom of your body. InterPlay is practiced in communities all over the world. Phil Porter is a co-founder, along with Cynthia Winton-Henry, of InterPlay. He is a leader, author and performer. He is also a commissioned minister in the United Church of Christ.