4 DAYS OF DEEP PLAY AND LEADERSHIP WISDOM

Online Leaders Gathering March 2024 - Weaving the Threads of Connection

Open to all Life Practice and Leader Training participants and grads
Christine Gautreaux, MSW, Sacil Armstrong, Marla Durden, Olaf Elander, CC King, and Carolyn Renée

ONLINE

Thursday–Sunday • March 7-10, 2024 • Schedule below

Join us for this year’s online leader’s gathering as we are Weaving the Threads of Connection together.

We’ll be having four days of deep play InterPlaying with each other and sharing..

How do we feel called to share InterPlay?

Who are we as a global community?

How can InterPlay change the world?

This year we are offering two Leaders Gatherings and the first will be held online March 7-10, 2024! This Gathering will be cheaper, easier to get to, and will allow a wider range of folks to attend and we get to play with folks from all over the world! You can pick and choose the time slots that work best for you and match your “Zoom attention span.”

We will have whole group sessions, opportunities to move together in large and small groups, a whole range of informative, interesting, and playful workshops, and wonderful opportunities to see old friends and make new ones.

This event is open to all Life Practice Program and Leader Training Program grads as well as those currently taking part in either program (or who took part in earlier versions of either program). Art & Social Change grads are also welcome to attend.


More about the in-person Leaders Gathering in July in Seattle here...

Schedule

Sessions are scheduled in a way to accommodate most North American times zones and also provide a bit of overlap with time zones that work for participants in other locations. We will be adding some early morning time slots in so we can play with our friends across the pond too. The times listed below will also include breaks between sessions.

Thursday–Sunday, March 7-10, 2024
Thu • 4:30–6 pm Pacific Time / 7:30–9 pm Eastern Time
Fri–Sat • 9 am – 6 pm PT / noon–9 pm ET
Sun • 9 am – 1 pm PT / noon–4 pm ET


Registration

Tuition is $250. Reduced tuition is available as well as payment plans. Contact Angela at info@interplay.org for financial assistance and/or to set up a payment plan.

Leaders who offer a workshop will receive an additional $50 off registration if you submit a workshop by February 26. Use the payment button below to both pay and register.

You can submit a workshop here...

Register yourself and, if you can, help someone else with a full or partial scholarship!


Registration deadline is March 6. (If you're registering on March 7th or later, register with the payment button below, then email info@interplay.org for the information you need to join the Gathering.)


Registration Options
Note for office?

Cost: $250

Registration/Information: Use the payment button above to register and pay. Questions? Email Lucia at office@interplay.org

Venue

Online Untensives

ONLINE
Leaders
Christine Gautreaux, MSW
Christine (she/her) is dedicated to the pursuit of play, joy, art & social justice. Christine’s superpowers include connecting people, helping folks manifest their dreams, standing up against injustice and using art to make a difference in the world.

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
Sacil Armstrong

For nearly thirty years, Sacil (Suh-SEEL) Armstrong has combined facts, self-care, respect, and embodied practices to guide people through tough discussions on topics like racism and oppression, so InterPlay was a natural fit. Her focus on mental/emotional wellness first helps clients get out of their heads and into their bodies so they can actively listen, accept facts they might otherwise avoid, and embrace personal change to support human rights.

Her roles in marketing for a regional science museum, public relations and adult programming for a library system, and leading a grassroots movement to reduce violent crime in a low-income, high crime “neighborhood” of 30,000 people prepared her for her current deep community and one-on-one engagements. As an award-winning facilitator, community program creator, and Certified InterPlay Leader, she supports clients as they learn to connect with themselves, one another, and information in ways that reshape their thinking, beliefs, and behavior.

Sacil loves music, art, and laughter to set the mood for learning and transformation. She is a Certified Zentangle Teacher, and often combines abstract art as meditation with her social justice work.

Sacil is the founder of the Everyday Activism Habit, a membership community designed to heal with self-care, build confidence with knowledge, and stretch your comfort zone to stand against oppression. Learning and growing in community reminds us we’re not alone.

IG, LinkedIn, Facebook: @TheRealSacil
Marla Durden
Marla came to InterPlay at the end of 2016 and has never stopped playing. She immediately began performing and was certified as a leader in May 2021. Marla is an alchemist, artist, energy shaman and coach who uses her gifts to create experiences that support personal empowerment, healing and transformation.
Olaf Elander
Olaf tasted an early increment of InterPlay at the Graduate Theological Union in the late 1980's. He returned to InterPlay in 2008 as one of the weekly Oakland men's group initiators. Olaf became a certified InterPlay Leader in 2017 and has led groups in Missoula Montana, and now in Naples, Florida. He has an interest in men's work and has led Men's InterPlay sessions himself and with other male leaders. Olaf facilitated work-life balance classes in the corporate world bringing parts of InterPlay to the information technology culture. He believes that InterPlay is to 21st Century spirituality what 12 Step has been to 20th Century spirituality. Whee!!
CC King
CC is a certified InterPlay Master Leader and trainer, Boston-area coordinator and grateful mentor to Leaders in Training and divinity school students. She has been practicing the joyous unfolding of InterPlay for over 20 years and currently serves on the Body Wisdom Board and the Integrity & Innovation Council. CC is an expressive therapist, visual artist, teacher and community activist. Dedicated to inviting respectful & celebratory relations with Earth and her beings, CC designs workshops, organic sculpture and public performance. She values play with elders, Memory Cafes, cancer support and racial healing & transformation. Her background includes nonprofit management, art and family therapy, trauma-informed InterPlay and a life-long commitment to finding sustenance, creative activism, and joyful reverence in the natural world.
Carolyn Renée
Carolyn Renée Morris (she/her) is a teaching and healing artist with more than a decade of service/experience in the creative and healing arts. She’s the former executive director of the ArtsXchange, a 37-year-old art and social change organization, and Alternate ROOTS, a 44-year-old social justice organization lifting up art as activism in the Southeast USA. Carolyn Renée is committed to the pursuit of art and social justice, health, and well-being for BIPOC on the frontlines of advancing justice. She is a certified InterPlay Leader and in 2008 became a health and wellness practitioner to heal herself from an illness which led to combining the healing and creative arts. With InterPlay, she creates Sacred Space for BIPOC and partners with USA/Ghana-based A Life of Peace Wellness Education Institute to ensure every home has an engaged artist/healer. She goes by “Carolyn Renée.”

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