Do you sometimes feel like you're living from the neck up or like you can't find the words you want?
Do you want to more fully feel and express your stories when sharing with others?
Join us for this one-month, five-session class, where we'll use the very accessible tools and forms of InterPlay to have fun together and free ourselves to be who we are and say what we want. Beginners welcome. You don't need any storytelling or InterPlay expertise to enjoy this class (and if you have some experience, that works well, too).
We'll have a little performance at the end for family and friends. You can choose whether to participate or just witness.
Why just men? Interesting things happen when men get together. Sometimes it's just easier for men to be themselves around other men in a supportive environment, and almost always the support and connection feel especially rewarding in a circle of men.
We ask that you sign up for the whole series of classes. But you can come to the first session to give it a try before you commit. You may use a 4-class ($48) or 10-class card ($90) toward the cost of this workshop if you have one or want to purchase one.
Venue
InterPlayce
2273 Telegraph Avenue (at 23rd St.)
Oakland, CA 94612
InterPlayce is the center of the InterPlay universe. The offices for Body Wisdom, Inc. are also located here. The building is at the corner of 23rd and Telegraph, one block north of West Grand. It is just a few blocks from the 19th Street Downtown Oakland BART station, and on several convenient bus lines. On-street parking is always available at night and metered during the day. It is also easily accessible by several of the major freeways.
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Leaders
John Diller
John Diller, MA in Education, is a certified InterPlay leader and has been leading InterPlay workshops and retreats for more than 10 years. He found his way to InterPlay via a winding road that includes poetry, improv, Permaculture, storytelling, the great outdoors, Buddhist philosophy, bicycling, and eight years of teaching high school theater. He has co-led the Thursday evening men’s InterPlay class in Oakland for years and works by day at a management consulting company. John thanks InterPlay for an increasingly embodied and nourishing life and for the opportunity to help others use InterPlay to have more fun, connect, dive deep, and so much more.
Connors John McConville
MDiv, MA, LMFT, Certified InterPlay Leader, Connors is a long time Interplayer and WING IT! member and co-teaches with John Diller the Interplay Men's Class that meets every Thursday evening at Interplayce. He has worked as a dance teacher, dance-maker and performer internationally and taught at the International School Bangkok and at Chulalongkorn University. He is a somatic psychotherapist (MFC 47398), and a spiritual director and is currently in a PhD program in East West Psychology at CIIS. As a young Jesuit missionary in Thailand 1974 – 1978 he formally studied Buddhism and Vipassana (meditation) at Wat Suan Dok in Chiangmai and Wat Bowonniwet Vihara in Bangkok and was certified in Thai Massage Therapy (Nuat Boran) with over 500 hours of training.
