Discover Your Playful Lightness of Being

Introducing InterPlay: An Artful Creative Process For Our Times

Sheila K Collins,PhD

Joshua Tree, CA

Tuesday April 17, 2012, 6 - 9 pm

InterPlay is a movement, story-telling, community building practice with a focus on ease, connection, reflection and play. This workshop will introduce the basics of InterPlay with gentle guided activities, lots of relaxation and laughter.

Join a community of people from around the world who use InterPlay to tap into their creative resources and bring together body, mind, heart and spirit. A national InterPlay Leader, Sheila K. Collins is a dancing social worker who directs an InterPlay-based improvisational troupe, Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players. Her leadership supports people of all ages and skill levels to connect with their lightness, joy, and body wisdom.

Cost: $30 suggested donation

Registration/Information: contact Sheila Collins 817/706-4967 to register

Venue

Joshua Tree Retreat Center

59700 29 Palms Highway

Joshua Tree, CA 92252

http://joshuatreeretreatcenter.squarespace.com/friendship-hall/

Friendship Hall - Enter the retreat center property, turn right and look for the long, stone building on left (the Caravansary of Joy); Friendship Hall is located in the center. Park on the East side of the building.

Leaders

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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