Restoring the Well • May 22-24, 2026 | Mount Pleasant, PA
Mt Pleasant, PA
📅 Dates: May 22–24, 2026 | 📍Location: Laurelville Retreat Center
Friday dinner to Sunday noon
Friday dinner to Sunday noon
Designed to strengthen sustainability, resilience, and leadership through trauma-informed, somatic InterPlay practices, this retreat invites participants to arrive fully, deepen connection, and leave feeling resourced and re-activated.
A space to rest, reconnect, and lead forward.
Body Wisdom, Inc. stewards InterPlay, a somatic arts-based practice, to support people and communities worldwide by engaging dynamic movement, storytelling, and creative expression that reconnect individuals to the inner wisdom of their bodies, strengthening resilience, connection, and capacity for personal and social transformation.
- Active in more than 60 cities across six continents.
- Facilitated by over 400 trained and certified leaders.
- Fosters creativity, connection, healing, and social transformation for people of diverse ages, cultures, and abilities through workshops, performances, and training in InterPlay.
- Impacting schools, healthcare settings, prisons, peace-building initiatives, multicultural communities, and community development projects.
What is an InterPlay BIPOC Retreat + Benefits?
A biennial weekend gathering for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color beloved community.
Builds leadership capacity among BIPOC participants by equipping them with practical, embodied tools that can be applied within their professional, creative, and community-based work.
Benefits
- Unlock and uplift the wisdom of the body as a vital resource for living more fully, creatively, and in connection with others.
- Support radical inclusion, sustainability, and resilience among BIPOC artists, cultural workers, and community leaders, particularly those engaged in long-term justice, anti-racism, healing, and community-building efforts.
- Strengthen participant sustainability and resilience by providing trauma-informed, somatic practices grounded in InterPlay that support stress regulation, restoration, and embodied leadership.
Come as you are — your energy is the water to the well and the thread of mycelium, nourishing the networks that sustain our community.
How We Practice Together
- Trauma-informed, somatic practices grounded in InterPlay that support stress regulation, restoration, and embodied leadership
- InterPlay System and embodied practices
- Movement, voice, stillness, Play, storytelling, and creative expression
- Rest, reflection, and time in nature
- Shared meals and informal connection
- Featured workshop: InterPlay for Racial Healing and Collective Liberation with LaVerne Baker Hotep, an InterPlay Leader from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Program Coordinator and National Faculty Trainer at the Trauma Stress Institute of Klingberg Family Centers, deepening the retreat’s focus on trauma-informed practices through an InterPlay lens.
Logistics
📍 Location: Laurelville Retreat Center
📅 Dates: May 22–24, 2026
For more logistics details:
Cost: Friday dinner to Sunday noon - $350, includes tuition, housing and meals
Register using the Pay Now button below and pay in full by May 10th.
Payment plans are available. To set up a payment plan, make your first payment using the Pay Now registration button below, then contact Lucia at the InterPlay office at 510/465-2797 or office@interplay.org to set up the remaining payments.
May we leave renewed, our energy flowing like water in the well and threading through the mycelium, weaving the bonds of our shared beloved community.
Contact
Carolyn Renée
bipoc@interplay.org
www.interplay.org
@InterPlay.Worldwide
Cost: $350 Full Cost or $300 Equity Rate
Registration/Information: Email BIPOC@interplay.org using the link above.
Laurelville Retreat Center
For nearly thirty years, Sacil (Suh-SEEL) Armstrong has combined facts, self-care, respect, and embodied practices to guide people through tough discussions on topics like racism and oppression, so InterPlay was a natural fit. Her focus on mental/emotional wellness first helps clients get out of their heads and into their bodies so they can actively listen, accept facts they might otherwise avoid, and embrace personal change to support human rights.
Her roles in marketing for a regional science museum, public relations and adult programming for a library system, and leading a grassroots movement to reduce violent crime in a low-income, high crime “neighborhood” of 30,000 people prepared her for her current deep community and one-on-one engagements. As an award-winning facilitator, community program creator, Certified InterPlay Leader, and InterPlay’s Racial Equity and Transformation Director, she supports clients as they learn to connect with themselves, one another, and information in ways that reshape their thinking, beliefs, and behavior.
Sacil loves music, art, and laughter to set the mood for learning and transformation. She is a Certified Zentangle Teacher, and often combines abstract art as meditation with her social justice work.
Sacil is the founder of the Everyday Activism Habit, a membership community designed to heal with self-care, build confidence with knowledge, and stretch your comfort zone to stand against oppression. Learning and growing in community reminds us we’re not alone.
IG, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook: @TheRealSacilMasankho 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