Explore Whiteness and White Privilege in a Ongoing Supportive Group
Waking Up White: An InterPlay Research Group
Seeking Body Wisdom To Heal from Racism
Katie Hymans and
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Oakland, CA
Saturdays, January-April, 10am-1pm (first meeting 10am-3pm -- see below for exact schedule)
Do you want to contribute to your communities with more clarity and love as we address and heal from racism?
Do you feel a need for more embodied practices and support to take care of yourself and be an ally to people of color?
Join Co-Founder Cynthia Winton-Henry and Katie Hymans, InterPlay Leader and Racial Justice Educator, in a closed group that offers space to deepen our understanding of white conditioning at both the personal and collective level.
Following questions from Debbie Irving’s book Waking Up White, we will engage the forms and tools of InterPlay to find the body wisdom needed to be real allies in the movement for racial healing.
Do you feel a need for more embodied practices and support to take care of yourself and be an ally to people of color?
Join Co-Founder Cynthia Winton-Henry and Katie Hymans, InterPlay Leader and Racial Justice Educator, in a closed group that offers space to deepen our understanding of white conditioning at both the personal and collective level.
Following questions from Debbie Irving’s book Waking Up White, we will engage the forms and tools of InterPlay to find the body wisdom needed to be real allies in the movement for racial healing.
We’ll research our ability to play AND build our 'grace with race’ muscles, by noticing our discomfort as we use creative and affirming forms like hand dance, telling small and large body stories, dance on behalf of, and sighing, singing, and exforming, on the way to more hopeful ways to dance with challenges of racism and privilege. Anyone with practice/awareness in expressive arts is welcome.
We'll meet monthly on Saturdays, 10am-1pm, except the first meeting.
January 9 (10am-3pm)
February 13
March 12
April 9
April 30
Cost: $390/ $300 for InterPlay leaders/ or contact InterPlay office for tuition reduction.
Registration/Information: 510.465.2797 or info@interplay.org
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
Katie Hymans
Katie Hymans is a passionate racial justice educator who incorporates movement into her work toward collective liberation for all. With a focus on exploring white privilege/whiteness, she blends creative expression with social justice in ways that are all at once healing, fun, insightful, and approachable. Katie brings an easy-going and welcoming attitude that puts people at ease and allows for us all to laugh at ourselves at the same time as pushing our edges. With additional education in Theatre of the Oppressed, a Masters degree in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation, a Certificate in Sound, Voice, and Healing, and extensive exploration of her own whiteness, Katie offers a unique approach to racial justice that focuses on our connections with each other.
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Cynthia Winton-Henry, co-founder of InterPlay with Phil Porter, has researched "what the body wants" in the arts, in jails, shelters, slums, hospitals, churches, businesses, classrooms, doctoral programs in theology and the arts, and in multicultural education. She develops somatic curriculums to address racism, leadership for the Earth, and spiritual intelligence with an eye to supporting millennials. A featured speaker on the Body Intelligence Summit and a keynoter at conferences, Cynthia is the author of What the Body Wants, Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last; Dance - A Sacred Art: Discovering the Joy of Movement as Spiritual Practice, Chasing the Dance of Life: A Faith Journey, and The Art of Ensoulment: A Playbook on How to Create From Body and Soul.. Check out her writing, The Dancing Center, on Substack, her Hidden Monastery Online Dance Chapels and courses for those seeking spiritual intelligence for our time at cynthiawinton-henry.com.