Join us for a dynamic and dare we say fun workshop...

Turning Grief into Gift

A special guest in DC!
Sheila K Collins,PhD

Washington, DC

October 5th - 10 am Opening Gathering

This workshop based on Dr. Collin's recently released book, The Art of Grieving: How Art and Art Making Help Us Grieve and Live Our Best Lives, offers opportunities to explore loss and the gains that always accompany them. Participants will learn how the new field of neuroaesthetics scientifically confirms what most long-time practitioners of InterPlay already know - that the arts, whether done on our behalf or for ourselves, transform us and our sense of health and well-being. Using interPlay's intermodal art tools for storytelling, music, dance, and visual imagery, we'll experience grief and the catharsis and connection it brings.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

Open Gathering

Sheila K. Colllins 10am-12:30pm; Bill Jenkins World of Music 2-3:30pm

05 Oct 2024, 10am - 3:30pm

Seekers Church, 276 Carroll St NW, Washington DC 20012

Afterwards Join us for Bill Jenkins and his amazing collection of musical instruments from around the world. Bill will demonstrate all the ways we make sound and music, using examples from every continent. Participants will be invited to play the instruments.

Enter through back door, limited parking in the back, free parking at metro across the street.

Love offerings accepted: $25 for the day cash, check or paypal.me/InterPlayDC

Cost: Love offerings accepted: $25 for the day cash, check or paypal.me/InterPlayDC

Registration/Information: No need to register for Open Gatherings - To sign up for InterPlay DC announcements for Open Gatherings, Workshops, and Events contact Liz Lescault at

Venue

Seekers Church

276 Carroll St. NW
Washington, DC 20012
Leaders
Sheila K Collins,PhD
Sheila K. Collins is the director of InterPlay Pittsburgh and the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players, an InterPlay-based performance troupe she founded in 2006 to assist human service agencies and art organizations in accomplishing their noble purposes. A former professional dancer, Sheila has described herself as a “dancing social worker” for over 40 years, throughout her careers as a therapist, social work professor, and writer.

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

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