Sharie Bowman, MA, LMHC is a Mental Health Counselor and also InterPlay's Regional Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest.  In 2006, Sharie completed her training as an InterPlay leader and also received her degree in mental health counseling, so InterPlay and counseling have been woven together in her bodyspirit from the start.  She finds InterPlay to be foundational in building and maintaining her personal resilience, as well supporting her work with clients.  In her private practice she regularly weaves InterPlay’s life-enhancing forms and philosophies with counseling wisdom to help individuals and families thrive.

Prior to 2006, Sharie worked as a high school math teacher and found InterPlay to be the best Teacher Training she ever received.  The improvisational skills that she developed immediately brought more play, creativity, and expression to her teaching as well as to classroom management.

Now Sharie finds great joy in bringing her organizational and instructional skills to the InterPlay classroom, and she often leads the foundational InterPlay Life Practice Program and mentors new leaders. She relishes sharing the joy of InterPlay far and wide, and supporting each participant in integrating InterPlay into their own lives!

After decades in higher education and technology, Steve rediscovered life-below-the-neck through movement and the embodied voice practices of Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms® and Chloe Goodchild’s The Naked Voice. His explorations have also included taking Aikido with his son and studying embodied leadership with Richard Strozzi-Heckler. But all this was just a prelude to InterPlay. Steve says “for me, discovering InterPlay was like coming home. InterPlay combines my major life interests, movement, voice, storytelling, and stillness and has opened new, easier paths for my personal and spiritual growth, all in the context of play. It has provided balance to my intellectual and serious approach to life and restored my joy and creativity.” Steve has co-facilitated Secrets of InterPlay and the Life Practice so that others may rediscover the joy of play and learn that transformation does not have to involve struggle.

Rev. Harriet Platts, MS, MDiv, MA is committed to nurturing relationships and spaces for curiosity, play, and reflection! She trained as an IP leader in Seattle with Krista Gemmell Harris and Rev. Laurie Rudel, in 2003 – 2004. She has co-led cohorts of the Seattle Life Practice program in 2013-2014, 2015-2016, and taught/led multiple InterPlay Class Playshops. Harriet brings a depth of life experience as a chaplain (Protestant), group facilitator, artist, and teacher. By applying the InterPlay forms in diverse settings like team meetings and faith-based retreats, she continues to witness unfolding gifts of connection to the natural landscape of body, voice and spirit. She is a QUEST-ioning soul, always venturing aloud with her ‘wonderings,’ and generously offers an attentive, steadied, vivid presence with whomever she’s connected.