A special weekend in Pittsburgh for those whose work involves taking care of others

The InterPlay Way for Helping Professionals (Pittsburgh)

Providing transformational and self care tools for therapists, social workers, spiritual directors, hospice workers, health and human service professionals

CathyAnn Beaty and Sheila K Collins,PhD

Pittsburgh, PA

Friday May 11th, 2012, 7 - 9:30 pm, Saturday May 12th, 9 - 9 pm, Sun May 13, 9:30 - 1 pm

Helping others can be demanding and draining.

Learn how body wisdom tools address both professional demands and personal challenges, how creativity can be the path to insight and health, and build connections as you gain support from colleagues and share your body wisdom.

The InterPlay Way starts with a weekend retreat followed by six half-day sessions spread over three months.You'll learn fundamentals of the InterPlay system, whether new to InterPlay or not. Followup sessions are limited to 8 people.

Cost: $350 for weekend, Series of six half-fay follow up sessions - $400

Registration/Information: contact Sheila Collins 817/706-4967 for information or call Body Wisdom office to register 510/465-2797register

Venue

First United Methodist Church Pittsburgh PA

5401 Center St.

Pittsburgh, PA 15232

on corner of Aiken, Baum and Center in Shadyside area of Pittsburgh Best door to enter is on Aiken side - press buzzer if locked - parking on church grounds or on street

Leaders

CathyAnn Beaty

CathyAnn Beaty, MDiv, is a master InterPlay leader, dancer and visual artist. She has been working with ongoing groups of therapists, clergy and other helping professionals for the past 12 years through her business SoulPlay, www.soulplay.org and has developed new approaches to healing based both on her professional and personal experience. CathyAnn is an ordained minister and began her InterPlay journey in 1989 when serving as pastor at Spirit of the Lakes UCC. She got her Masters of Divinity at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in 1984 and did her Clinical Pastoral Education at Hennipen County Medical Center in Minneapolis. She served three parishes over 15 years. CathyAnn leads the InterPlay Life Practice Program, The InterPlay Way, performance workshops, couples classes, mentors leaders in training and directs SoulPlay Performance Ensemble. She has taught InterPlay in India, Australia and around the United States.

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Sheila K Collins,PhD

Sheila K. Collins is the director of InterPlay Pittsburgh and the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players, an InterPlay-based performance troupe she founded in 2006 to assist human service agencies and art organizations in accomplishing their noble purposes. A former professional dancer, Sheila has described herself as a “dancing social worker” for over 40 years, throughout her careers as a therapist, social work professor, and writer.

She is the author of Stillpoint: A Playbook for Caregivers to Find Ease, Time to Breathe, and Reclaim Joy, which since its second edition, co-authored by Christine Gautreaux, has become a popular weekly online class, and Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and the Rituals That Heal.

She’s been known to travel the country enlisting InterPlayers to help her Perform her Books, demonstrating how InterPlay tools help us get through life’s ordinary and extraordinary, “tough challenges”

Her latest book, The Art of Grieving: How Art and Artmaking Help Us Grieve, and Live Our Best Lives explores how the arts of storytelling, dance, music, and visual arts help mourners navigate episodes of grief, process loss, and extract meaning and wisdom for their future lives.

sheilakcollins@gmail.com 817 706-4967 120 Chapel Harbor Dr Pittsburgh Pa 15238

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