CEU credits for LCSW’s and MFT’s
The InterPlay Way
for Helping Professionals
CathyAnn Beaty,
CC King,
Lisa Laing, and
Dirkje Legerstee
Branford, CT
Thursday May 23, 6-9 PM, Friday May 24 and Saturday May 25, 9:30 AM-4:30 PM
The InterPlay Way is designed to provide tools, ideas and practices from the InterPlay system that can support the professional work of therapists, social workers, clergy, chaplains and others in closely related fields. Build strong connections with other professionals and discover how to use InterPlay forms to address both personal and professional concerns.
Cost: $750. for entire program including 6 follow-up sessions, $325. for opening weekend event only
Registration/Information: contact Body Wisdom at 510/465-2797 or info@interplay.org
Venue
Mollie’s House
60 Averill Place
Branford, CT 06405
Please enter by the side studio entrance and park as far into the driveway as you can and only park on the street DIRECTLY in front of #60 on that side of the 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.
CC King
CC is a Certified InterPlay Leader Boston-area coordinator and grateful mentor to InterPlay Leaders in Training and Harvard Divinity School Students. She has been practicing the joyous unfolding of InterPlay for over 20 years and currently serves on the Body Wisdom Board and the Integrity & Innovation Council. CC is an expressive therapist, visual artist, teacher and community activist. Dedicated to inviting respectful & celebratory relations with Earth and her beings, CC designs workshops, organic sculpture and public performance. She values play with elders, Memory Cafes, cancer support and inclusive healing & transformation. Her background includes nonprofit management, art and family therapy, trauma-informed InterPlay and a life-long commitment to finding sustenance, creative activism, and joyful reverence in the natural world.
Lisa Laing
Lisa Laing is a Certified InterPlay Master Leader, fitness professional and Certified Cancer Wellness Specialist. She incorporates the practices and forms of InterPlay in each of these aspects of her life, including leading an ongoing weekly group of InterPlayers in CT and beyond for over 20 years.
Lisa has brought InterPlay to incarcerated women at York Correctional Facility in CT, interdenominational clergy groups, as well as students at The Juilliard School, Yale Divinity School and Southern CT State U. Lisa co-developed a cancer wellness group, Hope Is Power, very much informed by InterPlay.
Lisa co-leads the InterPlay Life Practice Program and Secrets of InterPlay in the Northeast US with both Katrina Browne and CC King and is an InterPlay Leader Training Mentor. Lisa and CC hold admin responsibilities for the Northeast US Region. She has served on the InterPlay Body Wisdom Board.
"I am blessed to be a part of this diverse world-wide community of creators, instigators, healers, nurturers, adventurers, connectors, huggers, grace-operatives, activists, artists; InterPlayers All!"
Dirkje Legerstee
Rev. Dr. Dirkje Legerstee has served local churches in the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ for 27 years. She is currently an Intentional Interim Minister and a Resident Ministerial Practitioner at Andover Newton Theological School, working with student ministers. She is a retreat leader, a workshop facilitator, and recently served as Ritualist and Environmentalist for Cultivating Compassion by Spiritual Directors International. Dirkje has been an active InterPlayer for over a decade engaging with play as a spiritual practice. She lives in Westford, MA with her husband Steve.