Life Practice Program
for Helping Professionals 2020-2021
ONLINE
SATURDAYS
December 5, 2020
January 23, February 27, March 27
April 24, and May 22, 2021
December 5, 2020
January 23, February 27, March 27
April 24, and May 22, 2021
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 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 InterPlay Life Practice Program for Helping Professionals is an active, creative way to change your life, your work, and your world.
$300 off the tuition for the Life Practice Program if you enroll in this virtual program!
Immerse yourself in the system of InterPlay—ideas and practices that can move you, and your clients, from where you are to where you would like to be.
Find freedom through movement, story, sound, and stillness, and discover creative ways to change what you want to change in your life. Learn somatic skills to use for yourself and your clients.
The Elements of the Life Practice Program
This program begins with The Secrets of InterPlay where you will be immersed in the InterPlay philosophy and practice.(If you cannot attend this retreat, you may attend another Secrets of InterPlay)
Meet one Saturday a month online from December 2020-April 2021 with a group of interplaying caring professionals for a series of gatherings with your Life Practice Program group for play, presentation, discernment, and interaction, where you will have a chance to explore new creative possibilities in a supportive community.
Receive three focus sessions during which you receive personal support from the program leaders to learn how to access your body wisdom, learn a new tool/skill, and apply it to whatever situation you desire.
Be nurtured by an accessible, connective, trauma-informed virtual setting which is restorative vs. draining.
Participate in a Body-Spirit Celebration during the final weekend, to play with the InterPlay forms and tools and share them with each other in a celebratory and honoring way.
Receive a Core Element Self Study and Elective Reading and writing assignments which will help you apply InterPlay insights to your own life and work.
SATURDAYS 11:30 am-2:30 pm and 7:00-9:30 pm EST
December 5, 2020
January 23, 2021
February 27, 2021
March 27, 2021
April 24, 2021
May 22, 2021
You may use this supportive, affirming community to help you shape your life in ways that are best for you and your work. You will get individual attention from the program leaders, and help to identify your personal and professional desires and intentions.
Although some previous experience with InterPlay is encouraged, there are no prerequisites for taking part in the InterPlay Life Practice Program.
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 40 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.
Repeating the Program
Anyone who has previously completed the Life Practice Program is eligible for the $1,000 repeaters rate.
Free Sample: Join your three facilitators for a free class and question and answer session on Saturday, November 7th from 11:30-12:30 EDT-
email christinegautreauxmsw@gmail.com for the zoom link.
Cost: Special $300 discount: $1,950 (includes tuition for Secrets of InterPlay) / $1,000 for repeaters
Registration/Information: Registration questions: email Lucia@interplay.org. For financial assistance: email Stephanie@interplay.org.
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
She currently uses performance art, movement, poetry, storytelling and InterPlay to address issues of oppression with women who are incarcerated, people living with severe and persistent mental illness and homelessness. She also works with activists and artists to maintain balance and self-care during these intense times we find ourselves living.
Pivoting with the times Christine has been called an expert on Zoom and utilizes this online platform to facilitate connection and ease in an online, interactive learning environment.
Christine Gautreaux holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Social Work. She has professional experience with successful grant writing, community organizing and social media marketing. Christine is a life coach for caregivers who are burnt out and ready to take back their own life and make it delightful again. She is the co-author of Stillpoint: A Caregivers Playbook to find ease and to take a deep breath and reclaim joy and Women Connected in Wisdom: Stories and Resources Rooted in the 8 Dimensions of Wellnes V. I and V. II