Side-by-Side International Gathering 2021
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Thu–Sun, Aug 12–15, 2021 • See time below
Please join us for the second Side-by-Side International Gathering to be be held two weeks after the 2021 Leaders Gathering. We are sprinkling the magic of InterPlay around the world, as this Gathering will be open to anyone and will be at times convenient to those of us living in Asia, Africa, Australia, India, New Zealand, Europe and other Eastern hemisphere countries. This event is open to all InterPlayers (not just certified leaders).
Our theme is ”Sharing Our Common Ground.” We’ll come together and plant stories, songs, dances, and stillness in an InterPlay garden. We’ll be watering not just the soil of our own souls. Quantum waves will spread our seeds into a world thirsty for the nourishment of play. We have experienced that play is an intervention in the drought/flood/drought cycles of the personal as well as world nature.
In this gathering, we wish to explore the various threads of being interconnected to each other, feeling the connections with the soil that births us and that nurtures us. We wish to play together, find laughter and joy in the connections across borders, share our grief and support each other through our dreams and visions.
We will have whole group sessions, opportunities to move together in large and small groups, a whole range of informative and playful workshops, and wonderful opportunities to see old friends and make new ones.
Thursday to Sunday 12–15 August, 2021
GMT(UK)
8:00 am to 12:00 pm
India
12.30 pm-4.30 pm
Malawi/Germany
9:00 am-1:00 pm
Australia
5:00 pm- 9:00 pm
Tuition
Our tuition is on a sliding-scale; according to your unique financial situation you can contribute:
$75 to $250 for all 4 days or
$25-$75 for just one day
We do not want lack of funds to limit your participation so please contact sukhmani.kohli@gmail.com so we can find a solution.
If you can contribute in the upper range, wonderful! That will go towards our scholarship pool, helping us have an inclusive group of participants plus be financially sustainable.
Want to offer a workshop?
If you are a certified or emerging InterPlay leader we’d love you to offer a workshop and you can then subtract $50 off your tuition fee. Your workshop theme could be around "Connecting with the soil" or anything that you have been working on or would like to explore. And springing from the 'Soil' theme, where quadrillions of organisms collaborate in every square inch of living soil, we want to encourage workshop leaders to reach out to someone to collaborate with them in some way for your workshop. You could reach out to any of the organizers to connect you with InterPlayers across continents or you can take a leap of faith and just ask.
You can submit your workshop here (copy and paste this link in a browser window) latest by 24th July, 2021: https://forms.gle/kx5k45Snz43Tz1Bh7 Reach out to Pemra at kahramanpemra@gmail.com for any queries.
Calculate your registration amount and use the button below to pay and register.
If you have difficulty paying through the payment button below, use this link: You can also Register HereCost: Sliding scale: $75 to $250 for all 4 days or $25-$75 for just one day
Registration/Information: Use the payment button above or contact Sukhmani at sukhmani.kohli@gmail.com to make other arrangements.
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
Ade is a Certified InterPlay Leader, Mindset Coach. Intuitive Healer and Podcaster. For over 25 years, Ade has devoted his life to being both a student and teacher of ancient wisdom. He is known for his optimism and ability to put people at ease while tapping into the inner wisdom of the soul. His unique approach opens the minds of his clients so they can more easily and effectively approach life head-on and find the help and answers they seek.
Ade is a lover of humanity who is passionate about creating outstanding new and unique gifts of healing for the world. Grounded in universal principles and healing arts, he uses his podcast, interactive playshops, storytelling, the arts, sacred drumming, and social media, to supports people in shifting their consciousness. Ade has a deep passion for helping people to connect with their unique sense of self and is dedicated to inspiring people to live from the confidence of their truest self.
Meg MacLeod has been leading InterPlay classes and workshops since 1998: in the USA, the Netherlands, Scotland, Germany and Switzerland – in on-going classes, school teachers trainings, camp counselors, university dance and drama students, and at birthdays community celebrations and conferences. She has directed and performed in numerous choreographed and InterPlay (improvisational) concerts.
Some of her main influencers are the Work of Byron Kate, her 12-step recovery and Arnold Mindell's ideas on quantum physics, the Tao and the Dreaming body.
Earlier years.
As school teacher, she regularly directed performances starring the children or brought her musician friends to her school to perform for the kids. In the mid- late-80s as an artist-in-residence, she developed and solo-performed five interactive concerts using music, stories and dance/movement to teach social studies and ecology in 24 US states, Germany and the UK.
As a community activist for Walkable Communities in the 90s she produced several highly successful conferences and two organizations until becoming physically and emotionally 'burned-out'. She credits recovery of her senses and health to InterPlay and other systems and loves to share the playfulness and trust in her intuition and in life she has recovered.
Current passions are music and song-writing, InterPlaying and becoming more fluent in the Dutch language.