Reconnect! Share InterPlay Wisdom!
Leadership Play Day/Playing with Work
Nika Quirk and
Phil Porter
Oakland, CA
ONE DAY WORKSHOP Saturday · 9:30 am-3:30 pm · Mar 11
This is a special day just for InterPlay Leadership Graduates and those currently in the program. Play in the morning, catch up with InterPlayers, see what's up at InterPlayce, and just have fun! In the afternoon, Phil and Nika Quirk, coach and organizational consultant, will help us see how work can be more like play. We spend so much time »on the job«-shouldn't it be more satisfying, easier, more fun? Members of the Leaders Circle get in free!
Cost: $40/free for members of the Leaders Circle
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
Nika Quirk
Nika Quirk, PhD (aka Quirky Auntie) facilitates connection to self, others, spirit and the natural world we live with. Leading and living an evolutionary life is challenging, and more fun and satisfying when we do it in rich relationships!
Nika has been practicing InterPlay for more than 30 years and is a Certified Leader of InterPlay. She also is a Certified FEBI Consultant through Focus Leadership (www.focusleadership.com). The Focus Energy Balance Indicator (FEBI) is an instrument developed by Ginny Whitelaw, Ph.D. that builds off the Coordination Pattern work of movement researcher, Betsy Wetzig, which has long been incorporated in InterPlay.
As a facilitator, coach, consultant and educator, Nika is known as an articulate and innovative communicator, a skilled facilitator of learning experiences, and a proven catalyst for insightful change and forward momentum for individuals and in organizational settings. In addition to receiving an MBA from the University of Phoenix and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Human Resource Management from Holy Names College in Oakland, CA, Nika has earned her PhD in Transformative Studies at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Her research project explores the emergence of collaboration in a leadership team using an improvisation-based performance development model she designed.
Nika has been practicing InterPlay for more than 30 years and is a Certified Leader of InterPlay. She also is a Certified FEBI Consultant through Focus Leadership (www.focusleadership.com). The Focus Energy Balance Indicator (FEBI) is an instrument developed by Ginny Whitelaw, Ph.D. that builds off the Coordination Pattern work of movement researcher, Betsy Wetzig, which has long been incorporated in InterPlay.
As a facilitator, coach, consultant and educator, Nika is known as an articulate and innovative communicator, a skilled facilitator of learning experiences, and a proven catalyst for insightful change and forward momentum for individuals and in organizational settings. In addition to receiving an MBA from the University of Phoenix and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Human Resource Management from Holy Names College in Oakland, CA, Nika has earned her PhD in Transformative Studies at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Her research project explores the emergence of collaboration in a leadership team using an improvisation-based performance development model she designed.
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.