CANCELLED [Playing with the Unknown]
Allowing the Awe and the Ahhh...
John Diller and
Coke Tani
Oakland, CA
Saturday, December 5, 10 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
WE HOPE TO OFFER THIS SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE, BUT FOR THIS DATE IT IS CANCELLED.
How do you feel about the unknown? Do you try to build fortifications of knowing? Do you get down on yourself for not knowing enough? Do you find yourself preparing too much, or wishing you'd prepared more? Would you like to be able to enjoy life's surprises? To find yourself in joy and wonder at the unexpected? To brace less and embrace more? Would you like to feel spontaneous and playful in all sorts of circumstances?
Coke Tani and John Diller will lead a day of playing with the unknown. They will use the improvisational wisdom and tools of InterPlay to help participants tap into embodied responsiveness beyond knowing -- a playful, deep, and easy source for greeting whatever comes. Get an introduction in learning how to release what's inside you, telling stories without planning, and moving freely without self-consciousness. No special expertise is needed for this workshop -- the unknown is vast, with lots of room for everyone!
(photo credit: http://blog.eagle-bluff.org/blog/winter-stargazing)
How do you feel about the unknown? Do you try to build fortifications of knowing? Do you get down on yourself for not knowing enough? Do you find yourself preparing too much, or wishing you'd prepared more? Would you like to be able to enjoy life's surprises? To find yourself in joy and wonder at the unexpected? To brace less and embrace more? Would you like to feel spontaneous and playful in all sorts of circumstances?
Coke Tani and John Diller will lead a day of playing with the unknown. They will use the improvisational wisdom and tools of InterPlay to help participants tap into embodied responsiveness beyond knowing -- a playful, deep, and easy source for greeting whatever comes. Get an introduction in learning how to release what's inside you, telling stories without planning, and moving freely without self-consciousness. No special expertise is needed for this workshop -- the unknown is vast, with lots of room for everyone!
(photo credit: http://blog.eagle-bluff.org/blog/winter-stargazing)
Cost: Sliding scale $25 - $75
Registration/Information: Contact John or Coke (email links below) or the InterPlay office at 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.
Click here for a map.
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.
Coke Tani
Coke is a body memoirist, dancer, soul care provider, and teacher/facilitator. Coke has co-led InterPlay's Life Practice and Leader Training Programs, and served as InterPlay's Liaison to Leaders of Color. Currently, she leads InterPlay in a variety of in-person and online settings, and mentors leaders-in-training. She also offers private 1:1 focus sessions (aka embodied spiritual direction), valuing all the ways this practice decolonizes the ways we know and live. She serves InterPlay's Racial Equity & Transformation efforts through its Culture & Curriculum Pod and its Advisory Council. In former years, Coke was a community-based therapist, solo performer, and Wing It! ensemble member.