Lead an Embodied Life

Pittsburgh and Cleveland Life Practice Program

Sheila K Collins,PhD and Lois Toni McClendon

Pittsburgh, PA

Fridays 7 pm – Sundays noon • May 5–7, July 7–9, Sept 8–10, Nov 10–12, 2017

Assisted by Ruth Garwood and Donna Mazzola

Learn the techniques and body wisdom principles of InterPlay. This four-weekend program is designed for anyone from eastern Ohio to western Pennsylvania and will take place in three locations (see below).

Learn to lead your life in a more embodied, playful way. Reclaim voice, movement, stillness, and stories as primary ways of knowing. Ground yourself in a communal ethic of play to replace stress with health, creativity, joy, and purpose. Learn from InterPlay Master Teacher, Sheila K. Collins, and Toni McClendon.

Deepen the practice of honoring body wisdom in yourself and in your community. This workshop is open to anyone desiring an in-depth experience of InterPlay (there is no prerequisite). This Life Practice Program begins with the Secrets of InterPlay being offered at Villa Maria in March.

The Life Practice is the prerequisite to becoming a certified leader through the InterPlay Leader Training Program.

Locations
May 5–7 River Dance Studio, 130 Chapel Harbor Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15238
July 7–9 Villa Maria Conference Center, 2067 Evergreen Street, Villa Maria, PA 16155 (near Youngstown, OH)
Sept 8–10 Sacred Arts Holistic Center, 3148 West Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44111
Nov 10–12 Villa Maria

Cost: $2150 tuition; room and board estimate $665; work-study options available

Registration/Information: Body Wisdom Office 510/465-2797 or info@interplay.org and Sheila K Collins 817/706-4967

Venue

River Dance Studio

130 Chapel Harbor Dr.
Pittsburgh, PA 15238
Building is in a new complex on the Allegeheny River. Parking is on the street.
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

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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