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Social workers play with movement, voice, stillness and the most ancient of soul-making processes - storytelling.

InterPlay: Enhancing Creativity & TruthTelling for Individual and Social Transformation

Sheila K Collins,PhD

King of Prussia, PA

Saturday 3 hours March 4, 2006, 9:45 am - 12:45 pm

Part of the PA State NASW conference - 1) participants learn what Interplay principles and techniques enable social work clients to access individual and collective creativity. 2) Experience how simple communal agreements and activities encourge perceptions of safety and ease, leading to the development of community. 3) Understand how InterPlay story-telling techniques help various social work cleint populations to transform difficult past and present circumstances.

Cost: NASW member - up to 11 hrs - $ 215, includes breakfast, lunch, reception

Registration/Information: call 412/223-2536 or register on line exec@nasw-pa.org

Venue

Vally Forge Convention Plaza

1160 First Ave.
King of Prussia, PA 19406
www.nasw-pa.org
Radisson Hotel Vally Forge, King of Prussia, PA.
Leaders
Sheila K Collins,PhD
Sheila K. Collins is the director of InterPlay Pittsburgh and the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players, an InterPlay-based performance troupe she founded in 2006 to assist human service agencies and art organizations in accomplishing their noble purposes. A former professional dancer, Sheila has described herself as a “dancing social worker” for over 40 years, throughout her careers as a therapist, social work professor, and writer.

She is the author of Stillpoint: A Playbook for Caregivers to Find Ease, Time to Breathe, and Reclaim Joy, which since its second edition, co-authored by Christine Gautreaux, has become a popular weekly online class, and Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and the Rituals That Heal.

She’s been known to travel the country enlisting InterPlayers to help her Perform her Books, demonstrating how InterPlay tools help us get through life’s ordinary and extraordinary, “tough challenges”

Her latest book, The Art of Grieving: How Art and Artmaking Help Us Grieve, and Live Our Best Lives explores how the arts of storytelling, dance, music, and visual arts help mourners navigate episodes of grief, process loss, and extract meaning and wisdom for their future lives.

sheilakcollins@gmail.com 817 706-4967 120 Chapel Harbor Dr Pittsburgh Pa 15238

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