Welcome to a transformative dreamshop series, where we will come together to dream, learn, and create a space for everyone. This isn’t just a play series —it’s an opportunity to intentionally continue building a community rooted in respect, inclusivity, as well as personal and community growth. Each dreamshop is designed to give every voice the opportunity to be heard, value every experience, and empower every individual to show up fully with an awareness to reduce unintentional harm.
This campaign will highlight each of InterPlay’s community practices that guide our time together. These principles aren’t just agreements—they’re the foundation for meaningful connection, deeper learning, and intentional community creation. From making space for each other to embracing discomfort for growth, we’ll explore how these agreements create a supportive learning and development environment where everyone can thrive.
Join us on this journey of shared stories, open hearts, and collective development. Let’s co-create a space where all voices are celebrated, and together, we’ll build stronger, more interconnected communities.
Are you ready to make space, take space, and show up as your true self? Let’s begin!
We make space, take space
Tuesday, April 22: 11am ET | 8am PT
We speak from our own experience
Thursday, May 8: 6pm ET | 3pm PT
We practice embracing uncertainty and discomfort
Tuesday, June 10: 11am ET | 8am PT
We value interconnectedness
Thursday, July 10: 11am ET | 8am PT
We look for the good
Tuesday, August 5: 6pm ET | 3pm PT
We Care for Each Body & All Bodies
Thursday, September 18: 6pm ET | 3pm PT
We all get to show up as we are
Tuesday, October 14: 11am ET | 8am PT
We welcome and respect all stories, dances, and songs equally
Thursday, November 13: 6pm ET | 3pm PT
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
Foluke Beveridge
Foluke Beveridge (she/her) is an educator, facilitator, and embodiment practitioner. Her practice of embodiment (through dance and mindfulness) coupled with her passion for justice-centered education inspire questions about the role of embodiment in liberatory K-12 classrooms, particularly in relationship to educator well-being. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on critical pedagogies and urban teacher education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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!!
Janice Eng
As a massage therapist for over 30 years, Janice became aware of the stories, emotions, unexpressed truths, and trauma that people can store in their bodies. When she was introduced to Interplay, she found it to be a unique, fun and empowering way for people to unravel and access these stories the body's wisdom. We are bodies in motion, bodies in relationship, and bodies in community. We have a spatial and kinesthetic intelligence that informs our inner knowing. Interplay is a creative, un-intrusive, and affirming way to process and explore what is true for oneself and for what is possible.
Janice has taught Nonviolent Communication in the community for over 20 years, 10 of which she also taught in Washington State prisons, through an organization she helped found, the Freedom Project. She facilitates restorative circles in organizations through A Center for Restorative Solutions. Janice has a passion for racial equity and transformation and served as part of the Interplay Racial Equity Team for two years and the Conflict Resolution team for one year.
For the last two years Janice has been working with substance use disorders and uses Interplay practices in all of her workshops.
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
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.
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!!
Leroy Petunia
Leroy Petunia (gay/gem/ger) has been following the breadcrumb trail of ger wildest birthrights since gay were wee. Leroy found InterPlay when ger roots began cracking through the plastic pot of external authority, and gay realized that joy was both the path and the compass of ger life's purpose. Gay believe play is the key to staying on that purpose-full path, as well as an offering in the Divine courtship of collective liberation.
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.
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.
