Lead an embodied life!
Secrets of InterPlay One-New England
Cynthia Winton-Henry and
Phil Porter
Plainfield, MA
4-day retreat Wednesday dinner-Sunday lunch · August 24-28, 2005
This four-day retreat covers the techniques and body wisdom principles of InterPlay. Learn to lead your life in a more embodied, playful way. Reclaim voice, movement, stillness, and stories as primary ways of knowing. Ground yourself in a community-based ethic of play. Replace stress with health, creativity, joy, and purpose. Learn from InterPlay co-founders Phil Porter and Cynthia Winton-Henry about practical tools to access the body wisdom in you and your community. Secrets One is part of the core curriculum for those enrolled in Level One of the InterPlay Leadership Program (»Leading Your Own Life«). This workshop is also open to anyone desiring an in-depth introduction to InterPlay. Complete information about the InterPlay Leadership Program at interplay.org.
Cost: $650 includes tuition, room and board. For those who enroll in the Leadership Program, the tuition portion of this week will be applied to the total cost of the Leadership Program.
Registration/Information: Lisa Laing at 860/964-0481 or lisa.laing@comcast.net
Leaders
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Cynthia Winton-Henry, co-founder of InterPlay with Phil Porter, has researched "what the body wants" in the arts, in jails, shelters, slums, hospitals, churches, businesses, classrooms, doctoral programs in theology and the arts, and in multicultural education. She develops somatic curriculums to address racism, leadership for the Earth, and spiritual intelligence with an eye to supporting millennials. A featured speaker on the Body Intelligence Summit and a keynoter at conferences, Cynthia is the author of What the Body Wants, Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last; Dance - A Sacred Art: Discovering the Joy of Movement as Spiritual Practice, Chasing the Dance of Life: A Faith Journey, and The Art of Ensoulment: A Playbook on How to Create From Body and Soul.. Check out her writing, The Dancing Center, on Substack, her Hidden Monastery Online Dance Chapels and courses for those seeking spiritual intelligence for our time at cynthiawinton-henry.com.
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.