Given the wild success of this intro series in January, Kelsey and Annie Rose have decided to offer it again! Whether this would be your first time InterPlaying with them or your fifth, each class is a unique experience centered on
improv practices that nourish creativity and support the authentic self to emerge. This series will be a time for deepening in the InterPlay tools, exploring how to bring them into daily life, prioritizing playfulness and calling forth silliness.
Join us as we practice tools for cultivating more ease, flow and joy in our lives and beyond. In addition to supporting personal wellbeing, the InterPlay system offers playful practices that support interpersonal relationships, healthy group dynamics and embodied leadership. Take these tools into your work, life, activism and facilitation.
This series will support participants to:
• Connect more deeply with the wisdom of the body
• Drop out of the head and into the present moment
• Discover hidden resources for navigating uncertainty and doubt
• Learn a joyful form of creative improvisation
• Make wiser, more grounded decisions
• Practice synchronizing mind and body
• Name and claim more joy, freedom and expression
This class is open to anyone who wants to develop and deepen practices for more embodied living. In particular, we’re creating space for artists, activists, teachers, social workers, therapists, LGBTQ+ folks, PoC, healers and spiritual leaders.
To Sign Up:
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Accessibility info:
This workshop is at InterPlayce, the home of InterPlay. Yay! The space is wheelchair accessible, with all activities happening at ground floor.
To support the space, please don’t use any fragrances or scented products.
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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
Kelsey Blackwell
Kelsey Blackwell (she/her) is the author of , Decolonizing the Body: Healing, Body-Centered Practices for Women of Color to Reclaim Confidence, Dignity & Self Worth (New Harbinger 2023). As a somatic practitioner, ritualist and numerologist her work weaves spiritual and embodied practices for anchoring in our inherent “enoughness” and healing intergenerational wounds. In addition to being transformative, Kelsey believes walking towards liberation must also bring joy. She lives in San Francisco, CA, the land of the Ohlone Ramaytush.
Annie-Rose London
Annie-Rose London (they/she) is a social artist who seeks to create raucous experiences of joy and pleasure to counteract systems of oppressive mind control. They draws together the fields of ecological design, community arts, and social justice through facilitation and performance. Their earnest irreverence is inherited from a lineage of Jewish and Queer healers. They have called themself a performance artist, a clown, a ritualist, an educator, an activist – today they call themself happy to meet you! They are currently a Leadership Facilitator at LifeLabs Learning, supporting organizational change through stronger people-leadership skills. It's been a joy to bring InterPlay to large and small organizational settings! She has served as the executive director of Berrett-Koehler Foundation and a facilitator with InterPlay, The Arts and Social Change Jam, and Earth Activist Training Social Permaculture Trainings.
Kira Allen
This Certified InterPlay leader is an author, collage artist, activist, advocate, and facilitator who specializes in working with Black, Indigenous, People of Color and Queer communities. She holds an M.A. in Transformative Arts from John F. Kennedy University, and a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from Mills College. Bearing witness to her own traumas and triumphs through a wide variety of modalities inspires her work with participants of all ages in: classrooms, homeless shelters, churches, non-profits and intimate circles inside people’s homes. Ms. Kira cultivates sacred creative spaces invoking all her experiences to empower marginalized communities. Her poetic memoir, Write This Second, was republished in April of 2019 and can be ordered through any local independent bookstore.
