Side-by-Side International InterPlay Gathering
ONLINE
Thursday–Sunday, 19-22 May, 2022 • See times below
Inspired by Thich Nhat Hahn’s life and teaching, this year we’ll explore the realms of "Interbeing" which he says is “our deep interconnection with everything else.”
We will gather online in whole group sessions and a wide variety of workshops. We will have lots of opportunities to connect with each other. The schedule is designed to accommodate time zones in the Eastern Hemisphere from Australia to Europe. The event will take place over four days, with 3 1/2 hours of play each day.
As we play with the theme of “Interbeing” we will weave our diverse intentions with InterPlay’s potent tools—voice, movement, storytelling, stillness, and connection. And in this vast space of possibilities, we grow in allowing the sanctity of the living world in its wholeness to merge with us in all our human intricacies.
Especially in today’s uncertainties and challenges, our open curiosity and goodwill are our lanterns in the dark. Each of us has a unique bit to play! Join us and bring along your cooperative and collaborative spirit. Together we can shake up whatever is getting in the way and harness the regenerative qualities of our true nature as we branch out and carry forward.
Side by side, equipped with the inherent wisdom of our bodies, we explore new grounds as we interlace our threads of narratives, meanings, and creative expressions to illuminate our world of Interbeing. Through InterPlay, we can remember and reclaim our rootedness in each other and get in the groove of our soulful solidarity!
Workshops
There are going to be many exciting workshops in the gathering, offered by amazing InterPlay leaders Read more about these workshops at the end of the page!
InterPlay leaders or LPP graduates! To offer a workshop send this form by April 26 Leaders who offer a workshop will receive and additional $40 off tuition
We encourage workshop leaders to reach out to someone to collaborate with them in some way for your workshop. If this speaks to you, and you’d like support, feel free to ask any of the organizers to connect you with other InterPlay leaders or LPP grads.
Who knows what you will create together!
Please note:
• You may offer to lead a workshop if you are a certified InterPlay leader or are enrolled in the InterPlay Leader Training Program.
• You may co-lead a workshop with a certified InterPlay leader if you have completed the Life Practice Program.
• It is vital to keep your workshop at least 80% InterPlay!
Schedule
Thursday–Sunday 19-22 MayLondon, United Kingdom BST • 8.30 am – 12 pm
Amsterdam, & Lilongwe, Malawi • 9.30 am – 1 pm
New Delhi, India IST • 1–4.30 pm
Singapore • 3.30–7 pm
Sydney, Australia AEST • 5.30–9 pm
You can attend the whole gathering or just one or two days and pay what you can.
Registration
Registration 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 individual days
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 pay in the upper range, wonderful! That will go towards our scholarship pool, helping us have an inclusive group of participants, plus be financially sustainable.
NOTE: If you have trouble with the payment buttons below, you can also register through this link: Register here using credit/debit card.
For partial attendance, use this payment button:
Workshops on offer during the gathering
Stories of love in our lives by Janet Haartman and Kate Barnett
Come and play with stories of love in your life. Where do you have love? What do you love? Where do you find love? We invite you to come and tell your stories of love - and then witness these in the movement of others.
Stories & Songs from the Sacred Edge by Karen Austen, Hazel Lobo & Trish Watts
On the boundaries of our comfort zone live tremendous seeds of creativity. Let’s explore our shared growing edges of Inter-Being and harness their wisdom together. An opportunity to share, listen, witness, be heard and seen- using the IP forms!
Moving with Poetry, weaving our hearts together by Susanna Pain & friends
We are creation, weaving our hearts together with poetry and movement.
Unpacking Boundaries by Sophie Spiral and ErMina Bailon
In our complex world where we continuously deal with our sense of safety, security and wellbeing, how can we unpack concepts of boundaries and consent in a way that supports Interbeing? What is the value of having these boundaries and when are they hindering connection? In this workshop, we turn to our curiosity and creative interactions in cultivating cultures of relationality and honoring our inner authority as keys to Interbeing.
Let Our Hearts Sing by Vibhuti Aggarwal and Carina Dengler
Inspired by the theme of this year’s gathering “Interbeing – Weaving our hearts together” we invite you to play with words, sounds and our body spirits and see how those elements flow together, intertwine and transform into a song. Feel free to bring instruments along.
Weaving the Threads of Our Voices by Fiona Ross & Carmelle Moore
In this workshop, we'll weave the threads of connection with each other and within ourselves, as we give voice to and play with the sounds that live within us.
DON'T PANIC - there's an alien in the kitchen by Simon Cox and Carolyn Handley
Viewing life, the universe and everything through the eyes of an intergalactic traveler.
A field of beating hearts and creative bodies by Tony Hole, Zee Emanuele, Allegra Stocks, Robert Stocks
InterBeing says our hearts are already woven together… we simply have to remember all the ways to experience this. Using InterPlay to navigate the complexities and humour of InterBeing- the Body Co-Lab will guide us, as a collective to deeply playful experiences.
Juicy complexity: Beyond ideas of right and wrong by Sukhmani Kohli and Meg MacLeod
Physics shows that a system becomes quite chaotic right before it shifts to something even more beautiful. Amidst the seemingly growing complexity of our daily lives and worlds, is it possible to not shut others out, even when we don’t understand or agree? To consider different viewpoints, even if they seem to be opposite our view? To allow our sovereignty and also that of others to flourish? In this workshop we’ll use simple InterPlay forms to play together, bringing our experiences and body wisdom to these questions or any others that are alive for you these days.
Making The Invisible Visible by Ade Anifowose and Wishall Sing
To be seen as who we truly are is the ultimate affirmation. Come play with Ade Anifowose and Wishall and discover what wants to be seen, especially in our everyday interaction as a global family.
Listening is love by Samata Vasisht Rudra
Listening is love. Is about listening to the outside, inside and in between. Listening at deeper levels. Listening with the whole body.
Draw-dancing from the heart by Bart Durand
Make a drawing while you move, use the movement patterns with a crayon in our hand. Make a dance on behalf of whatever is hiding in your heart and put it on a piece of paper. Let’s see and share what our heart tells us by moving our hand when we hold a pencil, pen or charcoal.
Cost: See above. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Registration/Information: Use the payment buttons above to register and pay. Questions: sukhmani.kohli@gmail.com
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
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.