InterPlay Leading Training Program

Secrets of Leading InterPlay April 29-May 2, 2021 Online

Ginny Going, Coke Tani, Agnotti Cowie, Masankho Banda, Phil Porter, and Foluke Beveridge

Online, ONLINE

Thursday April 29 at 2:45 pm ET thru Sunday May 2, 2021 at 1:30 pm ET

The Secrets of Leading InterPlay is a multi-day workshop and a core component of the InterPlay Leader Training Program that leads to becoming a certified InterPlay leader. It is open to those who (1) have completed, or are in the process of completing, the InterPlay Life Practice Program, and (2) have enrolled in the InterPlay Leader Training Program.


The Secrets of Leading provides an overview of the InterPlay system and covers the underlying structure and philosophy of InterPlay:


~How are the forms taught? How do they work together?
~What is the ultimate outcome or effect of using InterPlay forms?
~How do you decide which forms to use at what times?
~How do you deal with people you find challenging?


The workshop includes presentation, interaction, and play.


Schedule
Session #1: Thursday 2:45 - 5:30 pm ET
Session #2: Friday 11:00 am – 2:00 pm ET
Session #3: Friday 3:00 - 5:00 pm ET
Session #4: Saturday 11:00 am - 2:00 pm ET
Session #5 Saturday 3:00 - 5:00 pm ET
Session #6 Sunday 11:00 am - 1:30 pm ET (8:00 - 10:30 am PT)


Continuing Education Credit
Up to 15 CE credits for various healthcare and allied healthcare professions are available for those practicing throughout the U.S. and for educators only practicing in Illinois. CE pre-registration is required before the start of your event. Email Ginny Going at colleagues.interplay@gmail.com to APPLY for CEUs. There is a charge of $25 per program. CEUs are offered through Continuing Education Institute of Illinois.

Enrollment/Tuition:
SPECIAL $200 DISCOUNT Tuition for the InterPlay Leader Training Program is currently $1400 (a $200 discount). A $100 deposit is required to enroll in the Program, in addition to the $300 for the Secrets of Leading. Another $300 payment will be due when you register for a Teaching Practicum, at which time a payment plan for the remaining $700 balance will need to be set up with the Body Wisdom office. (Automatic monthly payments can be set up by credit card through the Body Wisdom office or you can arrange that automatic checks be sent by your bank.)


Financial Assistance
Diversity is a great gift in the InterPlay experience. Based on our commitment to Racial Equity and Transformation (read our statement here). and our understanding of other structural and personal inequalities that exist; Body Wisdom is committed to making our programs financially accessible. Financial considerations need not be a barrier to your participation. Financial support and flexible payment plans are available. Please email Stephanie@interplay.org (or call 510/465-2797), or feel free to speak to one of the leaders of this program.


Repeating the Program
Previously certified leaders (regardless of the version of the program you went through) receive a special reduced tuition rate. The current program has new information and resources that will enhance your teaching. If you have not taught much InterPlay or have not taught recently, you may appreciate this way of bringing your skills up to date.


Tuition for previously certified leaders is $800 for the full program, which includes the Secrets of Leading, the Teaching Practicum, the Mentored Teaching component and a copy of the InterPlay Core Element Self-Study. Tuition for either the Secrets of Leading InterPlay or the Teaching Practicum is $300. Cost of doing the Mentored Teaching component is $300.


Registration Options

Cost: $300 plus a $100 deposit to enroll in the Leader Training Program.
Previously certified leaders $300

Registration/Information: Registration Questions: email Lucia@interplay.org. For financial assistance: email Stephanie@interplay.org.

Venue

Online

Online, ONLINE
Zoom link will be provided after you schedule an appointment.
Leaders
Ginny Going
As a recovering serious person, I consider InterPlay my 12-step program and my life practice for having more ease and grace. I've been InterPlaying for 27 years and have watched the blooming and spread of InterPlay all over the world with gratefulness and delight.

For the past 13 years I've been immersed in the development and growth of the Leader Training Program and currently serve as the program coordinator. I love offering people the "big body" tools of InterPlay for telling their stories, especially people on the margins of our communities. I am also passionate about embodied spirituality, engaging people in prayer and worship forms that include and honor the body. It has been an amazing experience to participate in and teach InterPlay in many places around the world.

Currently the Leader Training Program is being reshaped to integrate Racial Equity and Transformation into all aspects of InterPlay leader training. This is truly an exciting and exhilerating time to be part of the world-wide community of InterPlay!
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.
Agnotti Cowie
Agnotti Cowie (they/she) attended the first ever “Art & Social Change: InterPlay for Millennial Leaders” in 2010. Since, she joined InterPlay’s national board as well as becoming a certified InterPlay leader. Agnotti facilitates workshops worldwide employing a variety of pedagogical techniques such as InterPlay, Theatre of the Oppressed, Devising, puppetry and clown. Currently they are based in Chicago where they lead workshops in schools, organizations and with social movements including as Co-Artistic Director of Opera-Matic, bringing participatory arts to public spaces. Recently, they have taken their work around the globe teaching InterPlay workshops in India, Germany, Australia, Bali and Chile.
Masankho Banda

Masankho is a multi - disciplinary Performing Artist, Certified InterPlay Leader, Educator and PeaceBuilder. He brings many unique perspectives to his work around the world. He learned the fine arts of storytelling and dance from his Malawian culture spending many long days and nights listening to stories and dancing to music that captivated his mind, shaped his being, nourished his soul and strengthened his spirit. Using performing arts Masankho motivates and inspires people of all ages to work together to bring about peace, social justice and cultural understanding. In 1997, he started UCanDanc—African Healing Arts to bring his passion for dance and storytelling to communities around the world. Masankho has been a Certified InterPlay Leader since 1999.

Masankho can also be reached at these phone numbers: +265 99 255 5338 or 88 113 8655 (available on Whatsapp / FaceTime)

Also: Skype : kamsisi
Facebook / Twitter: storytelling4u

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.
Foluke Beveridge
Foluke Beveridge (she/her) is an educator, facilitator, and embodiment practitioner. Her practice of embodiment (through dance and mindfulness) coupled with her passion for justice-centered education inspire questions about the role of embodiment in liberatory K-12 classrooms, particularly in relationship to educator well-being. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on critical pedagogies and urban teacher education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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