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Online Leaders Gathering March 2025 - Rooted, Rising & Reconnecting

A time for Leaders and Leaders-in-Training to come together for a deep dive
Sacil Armstrong, Litha Rodriguez, Christine Gautreaux, MSW, CC King, Carolyn Renée, and Jori Martinez

Online, ONLINE

Thursday - Sunday, March 20-23, 2025

Join Us Online for 4 Days of Deep Play and Leadership Wisdom!

Gather with a vibrant community of InterPlay Leaders, Life Practice participants, and graduates from around the world for four days of connection, creativity, and renewal. Whether you're a longtime leader or just beginning your journey, this event offers a space to deepen your practice, share your wisdom, and build meaningful relationships.


What to Expect

  • A fully online gathering, making it easier than ever to join
  • A tailored experience of selecting time slots that match your "Zoom attention span"
  • Whole-group sessions for inspiration and connection
  • Movement opportunities in large and small groups
  • A variety of engaging, playful workshops led by skilled InterPlay leaders
  • News from the National Office and what's happening with InterPlay across the globe
  • Time to reconnect with old friends and make new ones

Whether you’re in the Life Practice or Leader Training Program or are an Art & Social Change grad, this gathering is for you.


Schedule

Sessions will accommodate most U.S. time zones and offer times for international participants.


Thursday: 4:30 - 6:00 PM PT | 7:30 - 9:00 PM ET

Friday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM PT | Noon – 9:00 PM ET

Saturday 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM PT | 9 am - 9:00 PM ET

Sunday: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT | Noon – 4:00 PM ET


Step into a joyful, dynamic, and supportive space to play, lead, and grow. We can’t wait to see you there! Save Your Spot Today!


Registration:

This event is a $300 value, but register for only $150. Plus, we're extending the Flash Sale until Saturday, March 15th!

Come for all or just a part of the event and pay what you can! We value your presence!


Workshop proposals are still being accepted through March 7. You can propose your workshop here!


Let’s Make it Accessible for everyone!

Register yourself and consider helping someone else attend with a scholarship donation. Your generosity can make a huge difference.

Contact Lucia at office@interplay.org if you need more options or want to do a short payment plan to contribute more to the event.



“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” -T.S. Eliot


Special Registration (Choose option from drop-down menu)
Note for office?

Cost: $300 value - $150 now thru March 9 (Or pay what you can!)

Registration/Information: For registration or financial assistance questions, email Office@interplay.org; Program questions, email Programs@interplay.org

Venue

Online

Online, ONLINE
Leaders
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, Certified InterPlay Leader, and InterPlay’s Racial Equity and Transformation Director, 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, Twitter, Facebook: @TheRealSacil
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Litha Rodriguez
|she/they| Communications Coordinator for InterPlay since 2023, oversees several aspects of InterPlay's communications, including newsletters, some aspects of the InterPlay website, and the general promotion of InterPlay events and activities. Oakland resident (Occupied Huichin Ohlone Territory), entrepreneur, intersectional feminist, Artivist, Witch, dusk dancer, Tarologist, Reiki II practitioner, astrology apprentice, Non Violent Communication student, writer, editor, and marketing magic maker. Native of Nicaragua, specifically Bilwi on the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast. Joy, play, pleasure, rest and connection are her tools of resistance. Lover of sunsets, rituals, playlists, coffee, herbs, vibes, mental health, therapeutic tarot, and the multiple and infinite ways of existing in an image, a collage, or the words conjured in a poem.
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
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CC King
CC is a Certified InterPlay Leader Boston-area coordinator and grateful mentor to InterPlay Leaders in Training and Harvard 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 inclusive 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), since 1995, spanning three decades, "Carolyn Renée" has been a pivotal cultural organizer. She blends her roles of teaching artist, activist, and healer into collaborations for social change. She was raised in a community of matriarchal healers, including priestesses, seers, and herbalists and learned from these interactions how to help others. Carolyn Renée seamlessly integrates these influences into her InterPlay practice and daily life. She draws inspiration and transformative tools from *Jegnas and applies her own expertise in art and social change gained from years of firsthand experiences and professional development aimed specifically at dismantling racism. Her extensive work includes 15+ years of teaching girls to write and perform their stories through Playmaking for Girls, a community program of Synchronicity Performance Group and her own we.Pod initiative. In 2022, she co-led the InterPlay Life Practice for Spiritual Leaders. She’s a devoted Nichiren Buddhist for 38 years. Carolyn Renée is currently part of the fifth cohort of Tami Simon's Sounds True Inner MBA program, learning from esteemed spiritual teachers how to integrate her wealth of experiences and to grow into the best version of herself.
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Jori Martinez
In 2006, Jori Martinez-Woods found her InterPlay Community! Jori recently joined the InterPlay Staff as Leader Education Coordinator. She has shared InterPlay in educational settings and weekly body-spirit celebrations and has led playgroups ever since. She has been a Certified InterPlay Leader since 2007! She served on the National Board of Body Wisdom in the early board days, as Vice President alongside Sheila Collins and as a member of the Friendraising Committee. Jori received her Master of Education in '88 from Harvard Graduate School of Education in Teaching, Curriculum and Learning Environments. She recently moved to Oakland and currently is the Montessori Trainer & Coach for Oakland Montessori Training Institute at Urban Montessori. She has been a Montessorian for over 30 years and a Certified Montessori Guide for ages 6-12. Jori has a passion for Introducing InterPlay to educators and is committed to building and crafting this work with other inspired InterPlayers. She has lived and studied in Japan, England, Spain and has accompanied Masankho Banda to his home in Malawi. Jori has been an avid supporter of our Race Dance work and has lead many workshops on the subject. She is a Forest Therapy Guide and specialized in activities that bring us to our deepest knowing of ourselves. She loves to dance, bead and build community!!

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