As a Helping Professional could you use:

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 InterPlay Life Practice Program for Helping Professionals is an active, creative way to change your life, your work, and your world.

Learn to lead your life in a more embodied, playful way and receive self-care techniques rooted in the birthrights of movement, voice, story, connection and stillness.

Experience simple creative techniques for building bonds of attachment.

Develop improvisational skills to increase confidence in working with clients and speaking in front of groups.

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.

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.

The Life Practice Program 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.

The Elements of the Life Practice Program for Helping Professionals

This program begins with The Secrets of InterPlay for Helping Professionals April 8-11, 2021 where you will be immersed in the InterPlay philosophy and practice. (If you cannot attend this retreat, you may attend another Secrets of InterPlay Retreat.)

Meets Friday & Saturday 5-7 pm PT from April – June 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.

Receive individual focus sessions during which you receive personal support from the program leaders to empower you 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.

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.

Although some previous experience with InterPlay is encouraged, there are no prerequisites for taking part in the InterPlay Life Practice Program.

Weekend Life Practice Program Sessions
Fridays & Saturdays: 5:00-7:00 pm PT (6-8 MT, 7-9 CT, 8-10 ET)
April 16, 17
April 23, 24
April 30, May 1
May 7, 8
May 14, 15
May 21, 22
May 28, 29
June 4, 5
June 11, 12
June 18, 19

Cost
**Special $300 discount while online: $1,950 (includes tuition for Secrets of InterPlay) / $1,000 for repeaters

Repeating the Program
Anyone who has previously completed the Life Practice Program is eligible for the $1,000 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 55 CE credits (15 for Secrets weekend & 40 for LP follow up sessions) 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 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.