INTERPLAY Sustaining International Sisters
SISter's Room Playshop #1: Empowerment
Guest playshop leader is Christine Ristaino!
Ruth Schowalter
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On Friday, September 24th, 4:00 to 5:30 PM EST
On Friday, September 24th, 4:00 to 5:30 PM, join SIS for a special playshop, “Empowerment,” for enriching women’s sense of power in their daily lives.
Guest playshop leader is Christine Ristaino (see her info below), co-facilititating with InterPlay Leader and SIS co-founder Ruth Schowalter. The first of three playshops explores our own sense of efficacy in expressing our needs, leading others, and expanding our influence in the different arenas of our lives, both personally and professionally.
Christine Ristaino is an author, human rights advocate, and educator. A Senior Lecturer at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, she teaches Italian classes to undergraduates. Christine first attended InterPlay in 2015 and now attends Sustaining International Sisters (SIS) when her busy schedule permits. As a child of Italian descent, Christine spent a lot of time sitting on her grandmother’s lap surrounded by women who were sharing stories, recipes, and deep and powerful truths. As a result, Christine feels particularly at home amongst the courageous, empowered women of SIS as they confide stories and experiences around their shared humanity as women. Particularly important to Christine, SIS allows this survivor of violence to practice the connectedness of body, heart, and mind.
This playshop is the first of three empowerment workshops for SIS in collaboration with Certified InterPlay Leader Ruth Schowalter. To read more about Christine go to the SIS website: https://www.sislife.org/co-facilitators
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4045802392
Guest playshop leader is Christine Ristaino (see her info below), co-facilititating with InterPlay Leader and SIS co-founder Ruth Schowalter. The first of three playshops explores our own sense of efficacy in expressing our needs, leading others, and expanding our influence in the different arenas of our lives, both personally and professionally.
Christine Ristaino is an author, human rights advocate, and educator. A Senior Lecturer at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, she teaches Italian classes to undergraduates. Christine first attended InterPlay in 2015 and now attends Sustaining International Sisters (SIS) when her busy schedule permits. As a child of Italian descent, Christine spent a lot of time sitting on her grandmother’s lap surrounded by women who were sharing stories, recipes, and deep and powerful truths. As a result, Christine feels particularly at home amongst the courageous, empowered women of SIS as they confide stories and experiences around their shared humanity as women. Particularly important to Christine, SIS allows this survivor of violence to practice the connectedness of body, heart, and mind.
This playshop is the first of three empowerment workshops for SIS in collaboration with Certified InterPlay Leader Ruth Schowalter. To read more about Christine go to the SIS website: https://www.sislife.org/co-facilitators
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4045802392
Cost: FREE! (Donations accepted $5 - $15) PayPal at interplaysis@gmail.com Funds provided from Give InterPlay Day, Spring 2021.
Registration/Information: Canan 404-966-2014, arikancnn@gmail.com, or Ruth 404-580-2392, ruthtruth@mindspring.com
Leaders
Ruth Schowalter
Ruth Schowalter, visionary folk artist, certified InterPlay Leader and Life Practice Program Leader, co-founded InterPlay Sustaining International Sisters (SIS). Ruth is dedicated to bringing together women from diverse backgrounds (geographical, cultural, spiritual, racial, educational, and generational) through play. Through InterPlay SIS, she found the structure to connect women in ways that support them and allows them to share, learn, and inspire one another. Ruth has an M.S. in Applied Linguistics and ESL and taught international students English communication at the university level for 30 plus years, applying InterPlay to her instruction for more than a decade. In addition to InterPlay SIS, she leads a Deep Play group twice monthly. Ruth is a certified Art of Ensoulment coach and has been a dance chaplain for six years, leading CPR for the Soul every Monday through Cynthia Winton-Henry's Hidden Monastery, where she leads participants to blend dance, prayer, and making marks. In 2022, Ruth co-led a monthly Ensoulment Creativity Studio with Cynthia Winton-Henry and is currently co-leading with Cynthia the Art of Ensoulment Wisdom Circle. She is in the process of creating art work to accompany Cynthia's intergenerational book, The Great Dance, to be published in 2026. Ruth's colorful figurative paintings and drawings express her inner world of dreams and psychological meanderings. She lives in Decatur, Georgia, with her author husband, Anthony J. Martin and four cats, Tao, Sapelo, Ossabaw, and Durga.