Secrets of InterPlay for Helping Professionals Apr 2021 Online
ONLINE
April 8-11, 2021
Thursday - Sunday PT
Thursday - Sunday PT
Practical tools to assist clients in accessing their own creative resources?
Trauma-informed techniques that enable clients, students, and ourselves to lessen anxiety, strengthen self-confidence, and learn to trust the wisdom of our bodies?
Body wisdom practices that encourage deeper, non-verbal connections?
A more playful approach to addressing tough issues in your workplace setting?
Art-based activities to release stress, create joy and elicit fun and healing laughter while the work is getting done?
More encouragement and support as you carry out the demanding assignments of your helping profession?
Somatic skills to help navigate the work of racial equity & transformation?
Community accountability for self-care while you practice community care?
The Secrets of InterPlay for Helping Professionals is a time for self-care, self-reflection and skill-building. As Audre Lorde reminds us - “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
Join us for a 4-day "Secrets of InterPlay" live online retreat April 8-11, 2021. Immerse yourself in the InterPlay philosophy and practice the tools of artfully unlocking the wisdom of your body in the company of a supportive and creative community.
Learn how you can use the tools and ideas of InterPlay to enhance your work and collaborations with clients, patients, students, interns and other staff. Get your body, mind, heart, and spirit together. Learn more about yourself through connection and community, and how this learning can enhance your effectiveness in your helping profession. Create more ease and fun in your life and in your life’s work.
This multiple-day event will give you direct experience in many aspects of the InterPlay system. It is also an essential element of the InterPlay Life Practice Program for Helping Professionals that will follow, should you choose to participate. This program will be a way to deepen your practice over Friday & Saturday 5-7 pm PT sessions from April 16-June 19, 2021.
Download a brochure about the full Life Practice Program here...
You are welcome to attend this Secrets of InterPlay retreat, whether or not you are planning to do the Life Practice Program. You can attend the retreat to help you decide if you want to do the whole Life Practice Program.
Secrets will be taught through Zoom.
* A free, easy to access and use virtual platform.
*Your facilitators have extensive experience with providing online, interactive offerings.
*We have found ways to make the virtual classroom accessible, connective and restorative.
Schedule
Thursday, April 8th 5:00-8:00 pm PTFriday, April 9th 1:00-3:30 pm & 5:00-8:00 pm PT
Saturday, April 10th 1:00-3:30 pm & 5:00-8:00 pm PT
Sunday, April 11th 5:00-7:30 pm PT
Cost
$400 tuition ($300 for repeaters) or $100 deposit when registering. Tuition for Secrets is included in full Life Practice Program tuition of $1,950 (a $300 savings while we are online).
Repeating the Program
Anyone who has previously completed the Secrets of InterPlay is eligible for the $300 repeaters rate.
Financial Assistance
Diversity is a great gift in the InterPlay experience. Based on our commitment to Racial Equity and Transformation (read our statement here) and our understanding of other structural and personal inequalities that exist, Body Wisdom is committed to making our programs financially accessible.
Financial considerations need not be a barrier to your participation. Financial support and flexible payment plans are available. Please email Stephanie@interplay.org (or call 510/465-2797), or feel free to speak to one of the leaders of this program.
Continuing Education Credit
Up to 15 CE credits for various healthcare and allied healthcare professions are available for those practicing throughout the U.S. and for educators only practicing in Illinois. CE pre-registration is required before the start of your event. Email Jane Siarny at interplaychicago@sbcglobal.net to APPLY for CEUs. There is a charge of $25-$40 per program. CEUs are offered through Continuing Education Institute of Illinois or R. Cassidy Seminars.
Cost: $400 tuition ($300 for repeaters) Secrets tuition is included in the full Life Practice Program tuition.
Registration/Information: Registration Questions: email Lucia@interplay.org. For financial assistance: email Stephanie@interplay.org.
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!