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Secrets of InterPlay - PA & OH 2017

Pittsburgh, PA, Cleveland, OH, Youngstown OH and beyond
Sheila K Collins,PhD, Phil Porter, and Lois Toni McClendon

Villa Maria, PA

Fri noon – Sun 1 pm • Mar 31 – Apr 2, 2017

Learn ways to use in your daily life, the tools and ideas of the 25 year-old system known across the world as InterPlay! This event will be led by InterPlay Co-founder Phil Porter. Rediscover your own creativity as it is sparked in an affirming community.

This multi-day event will give you direct experience of many aspects of the InterPlay system, especially ways to unlock and trust the wisdom of your body.

Schedule

Fri Mar 31, noon – 9 pm
Sat Apr 1, 9 am – 9 pm
Sun Apr 2, 9:30 am – 1 pm

This workshop/playshop is an important element of the InterPlay Life Practice Program being offered beginning in Spring 2017 in Western PA and Eastern OH.


Continuing Education Credits

15 CE credits for RNs, MSWs, LPCs, MFTs are pending approval. No partial credits will be given. CE preregistration deadline is no later than March 16, 2017. Notify Body Wisdom staff at time of registration that you want CEs. A CE fee of $25 will be due at time of preregistration.

Please check the Commonwealth website for specific information regarding disciplines covered.

Cost: $350 tuition + room & board ($115 double/$165 single)

Registration/Information: Sheila K Collins 817/706/4967

Venue

Villa Maria Education and Conference Center

2067 Evergreen St
Villa Maria, PA 16155
www.interplaypittsburgh.com
between New Castle, Pennsylvania and Youngstown, Ohio on the picturesque grounds of Villa Maria Community Center, home of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary. Contains woodlands, meadows, pond, outdoor shrines, nature walkways, herb garden,and a working farm
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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Phil Porter
Phil is one of the founders of InterPlay. He is a teacher, performer, writer, and organizer. With Cynthia Winton-Henry he is the co-founder of WING IT! Performance Ensemble, and has written several books, some in collaboration with Cynthia, including Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last and The Slightly Mad Rantings of a Body Intellectual Part One. Phil is particularly interested in the use of InterPlay in organizational life, and believes that InterPlay can be a powerful tool to create communities of diversity and peace.
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Lois Toni McClendon
Lois "Toni" McClendon (she/her) is a Storyteller in the African American Oral Tradition, as well as a peace & social justice activist. Toni serves on the Board of Body Wisdom as Secretary. She is a Life Practice Program Leader and a Certified InterPlay leader from Pittsburgh PA USA. Always walking the Beauty Way, Toni believes in building Bridges to Unterstanding between people of all ages from around the world. She is totally committed to Racial Equity and Transformation and strives to emodying the principles and practices of InterPlay in her life's work.Toni is also a member of ABAFASI, a women's West African-style drumming and performance group.
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