Secrets of InterPlay for Helping Professionals
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Friday Sept 15th - 17th
Join us for a weekend "Secrets of InterPlay" live online retreat. Immerse yourself in the InterPlay philosophy and practice the tools of artfully unlocking the wisdom of your body in the company of a supportive and creative community.
As a Helping Professional could you use:
Practical tools to assist clients in accessing their own creative resources?
Trauma-informed techniques that enable clients, students, and ourselves to lessen anxiety, strengthen self-confidence, and learn to trust the wisdom of our bodies?
Body wisdom practices that encourage deeper, non-verbal connections?
A more playful approach to addressing tough issues in your workplace setting?
Art-based activities to release stress, create joy and elicit fun and healing laughter while the work is getting done?
More encouragement and support as you carry out the demanding assignments of your helping profession?
Somatic skills to help navigate the work of racial equity & transformation?
Community accountability for self-care while you practice community care?
Learn how you can use the tools and ideas of InterPlay to enhance your work and collaborations with clients, patients, students, interns and other staff. Get your body, mind, heart, and spirit together. Learn more about yourself through connection and community, and how this learning can enhance your effectiveness in your helping profession. Create more ease and fun in your life and in your life’s work.
This multiple-day event will give you direct experience in many aspects of the InterPlay system. It is also an essential element of the InterPlay Life Practice Program for Helping Professionals that will follow, should you choose to participate. This program will be a way to deepen your practice. You are welcome to attend this Secrets of InterPlay retreat, whether or not you are planning to do the Life Practice Program. You can attend the retreat to help you decide if you want to do the whole Life Practice Program.
Secrets will be taught through Zoom.
* A free, easy to access and use virtual platform.
* Your facilitators have extensive experience with providing online, interactive offerings.
* We have found ways to make the virtual classroom accessible, connective and restorative.
Sampler Class
Sheila and Christine teach every Tuesday morning at 11:30am -12:30 pm ET and you are welcome to come sample their class. For information, click here Radical Self-care SeriesCost
$400 tuition ($300 for repeaters) A $100 deposit secures your place in the program. Tuition for Secrets is included in full Life Practice Program tuition of $1,950 (a $300 savings while we are online).
Repeating the Program
Anyone who has previously completed the Secrets of InterPlay is eligible for the $300 repeaters rate.
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 Angela at info@interplay.org (or call 510/465-2797), or feel free to speak to one of the leaders of this program.
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 Jane at interplaychicago@sbcglobal.net to APPLY for CEUs. There is a charge of $25-$40 per program. CEUs are offered through Continuing Education Institute of Illinois or R. Cassidy Seminars.
Life Practice Program Attendance
Community building is an integral part of the InterPlay system. To experience the most out of a Secrets of InterPlay weekend or the Life Practice Program, we recommend that you attend all of the sessions. This immersion program into the forms and tools of InterPlay is most effective when the group can stay together over time. If you are considering becoming an InterPlay leader, participation and attendance for the full program, including attending a Secrets of InterPlay weekend, will be necessary to complete the Life Practice Program, which is the first step in becoming a certified InterPlay leader. If you have questions about this please visit: InterPlay Leader Training Program.
Cost: $400 tuition ($300 for repeaters); $100 minimum deposit (Tuition for Secrets is included in full Life Practice Program)
Registration/Information: Registration Questions, email: office@interplay.org. For financial assistance, email: info@interplay.org
She currently uses performance art, movement, poetry, storytelling and InterPlay to address issues of oppression with women who are incarcerated, people living with severe and persistent mental illness and homelessness. She also works with activists and artists to maintain balance and self-care during these intense times we find ourselves living.
Pivoting with the times Christine has been called an expert on Zoom and utilizes this online platform to facilitate connection and ease in an online, interactive learning environment.
Christine Gautreaux holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Social Work. She has professional experience with successful grant writing, community organizing and social media marketing. Christine is a life coach for caregivers who are burnt out and ready to take back their own life and make it delightful again. She is the co-author of Stillpoint: A Caregivers Playbook to find ease and to take a deep breath and reclaim joy and Women Connected in Wisdom: Stories and Resources Rooted in the 8 Dimensions of Wellnes V. I and V. II