Tools for When It's »Too Much!«
Your Gifted and Sensitive Body
Amy Smith, BCC and
Connors John McConville
Oakland, CA
5-week class Tuesdays · 6:45-9 pm · Jan 17, 24, 31, Feb 7, 14
Overwhelmed? Anxious? Experiencing energy »deals?« InterPlay's body wisdom tools help you play with energy challenges and develop your gifts of sensitivity. Get help to become lighter, more energized, and have more of what you need for yourself and with others! Amy and Connors are gifted, compassionate, and sensitive bodies with training in InterPlay, massage, and somatic therapy.
Cost: $120/$100 Leadership grads
Registration/Information: 510/465-2797
Venue
InterPlayce
2273 Telegraph Avenue (at 23rd St.)
Oakland, CA 94612
InterPlayce is the center of the InterPlay universe. The offices for Body Wisdom, Inc. are also located here. The building is at the corner of 23rd and Telegraph, one block north of West Grand. It is just a few blocks from the 19th Street Downtown Oakland BART station, and on several convenient bus lines. On-street parking is always available at night and metered during the day. It is also easily accessible by several of the major freeways.
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Leaders
Amy Smith, BCC
Amy Smith is a hospice chaplain with Four Seasons Hospice in Flat Rock, N.C. A
Board Certified Chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains since
1999, she has over 30 years experience in healthcare, the last 22 years working
in a community hospice setting. Amy is a certified InterPlay leader, grief support
group facilitator, and community educator, specializing in end-of-life issues, grief
and bereavement, compassion fatigue and resilience. She lives in Western North
Carolina near National and State Forests and is an avid hiker, photographer, and
Native American flute player. Amy blends her arts background and deep
compassion as she accompanies individuals and groups in facing the Big
Questions and Annoying Limitations that are part of being human in this world.
Connors John McConville
MDiv, MA, LMFT, Certified InterPlay Leader, Connors is a long time Interplayer and WING IT! member and co-teaches with John Diller the Interplay Men's Class that meets every Thursday evening at Interplayce. He has worked as a dance teacher, dance-maker and performer internationally and taught at the International School Bangkok and at Chulalongkorn University. He is a somatic psychotherapist (MFC 47398), and a spiritual director and is currently in a PhD program in East West Psychology at CIIS. As a young Jesuit missionary in Thailand 1974 – 1978 he formally studied Buddhism and Vipassana (meditation) at Wat Suan Dok in Chiangmai and Wat Bowonniwet Vihara in Bangkok and was certified in Thai Massage Therapy (Nuat Boran) with over 500 hours of training.