Creativity, Community, Change
The Beauty of Being Human 2025
A DC Gathering for InterPlayers
Billy Amoss,
Kate Amoss,
Douglass Farnum,
Liz Lescault, and
Monisha Mittal
Germantown, MD
May 2 -4, 2025
Friday: 6:30pm - 9:00 pm(includes dinner)
Saturday: 9am- 9pm (includes three meals, and downtime)
Sunday: 9am-1pm (includes two meals)
"Our experience is like a tapestry. We can pick it apart and examine separate threads, but it makes the most sense and is the most beautiful when we see it as a whole." Phil Porter
Whether you are new to InterPlay, or you've been around a long time, join us for the magical medicine that is InterPlay. We will eat healthy delicious food and weave community, all in the beautiful natural surroundings of Wellspring Retreat Center. Come and explore the beauty of being human. Surprise and delight yourself and others with your movement, your vocal play, and your stories.
COVID POLICY: Testing immediately prior to the event is required. Masks optional.
Cost: $380 for a single room with meals; $330 for a double room with meals. Some scholarship money is available.
Venue
Wellspring: The Conference Center at Dayspring
11411 Neelsville Church Rd.
Germantown, MD 20876
16 bedrooms, three cabins that have 3 beds. Shared bathrooms, and showers, in each cabin.
Leaders
Billy Amoss
Billy has been a certified InterPlay leader in the Washington, D.C. area for over 20 years. He delights in the power of InterPlay to bring us fully alive. Billy is the Executive Director of RVF, a DC-based non-profit development organization that finances and manages international children's health programs.
Kate Amoss
Kate Amoss, MA, LCPC, is an InterPlay Teacher and Professional Counselor in private practice. Trained in archetypal depth psychology, she has an abiding curiosity in all things hidden below surfaces -- deep roots, bedrock truths, neuro-biological processes, and ancestral antecedents. For her, InterPlay has offered the best toolbox of forms and practices with which to excavate the mysteries of ourselves and our world. She has decades of experience leading workshops, performances, and mentoring other InterPlayers. She co-founded The Big Yes Performance Group and co-led the InterPlay Life Practice Program in Washington DC.
Douglass Farnum
Since retiring, play deprived Douglass works hard at doing nothing. He finds that InterPlay complements his meditation and Non Violent Communication (NVC) practices. Doug co-leads life practice and men's retreat weekends in Washington DC. With more practice he hopes to have fun playing.
Liz Lescault
Liz Lescault, a visual artist and sculptor, has exhibited widely and taught art for over 40 years. She founded the DC Open Gathering and continues to coordinate the Open Gathering for the DC InterPlay community which serves the metropolitan region. Liz leads a number of the Open Gathering days and co-leads DC InterPlay retreats. She is also a member of the DC InterPlay Organizing Body.
Liz recently worked as a volunteer with Smith Center and the Healing Arts. She also was a hotline crisis counselor, for various suicide prevention lifelines and The Trevor Project providing help for LGBTQ youth in crisis and the Prince Georges County Homeless Hotline. Liz also led InterPlay for elders with chronic illness and cognitive disabilities at Iona Senior Center in Washington DC.
Monisha Mittal
Monisha Mittal is
Certfied Leader (CL) and
Life Practice Program Leader (LPL) in the Washington DC region. A poetry addict, writer and InterPlay Leader, she is grateful to InterPlay for awakening her authentic expression, and the exponential connection, laughter and support its given her in her daily recovery as an overachiever. As a Somatic Arts Practitioner and Play Architect, she holds sacred space for others to tune into their Body Wisdom in one-on-one sessions, classes, and courses through her
Center for Somatic Leadership and Communication.
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