Designed to strengthen sustainability, resilience, and leadership through trauma-informed, somatic InterPlay practices, this retreat invites participants to arrive fully, deepen connection, and leave feeling resourced and re-activated.
A space to rest, reconnect, and lead forward.

Introduction

Body Wisdom, Inc. stewards InterPlay, a somatic arts-based practice, to support people and communities worldwide by engaging dynamic movement, storytelling, and creative expression that reconnect individuals to the inner wisdom of their bodies, strengthening resilience, connection, and capacity for personal and social transformation.

• Active in more than 60 cities across six continents.
• Facilitated by over 400 trained and certified leaders.
• Fosters creativity, connection, healing, and social transformation for people of diverse ages, cultures, and abilities through workshops, performances, and training in InterPlay.
• Impacting schools, healthcare settings, prisons, peace-building initiatives, multicultural communities, and community development projects.

What is an InterPlay BIPOC Retreat + Benefits?

A biennial weekend gathering for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color beloved community.

Builds leadership capacity among BIPOC participants by equipping them with practical, embodied tools that can be applied within their professional, creative, and community-based work.

Benefits

• Unlock and uplift the wisdom of the body as a vital resource for living more fully, creatively, and in connection with others.
• Support radical inclusion, sustainability, and resilience among BIPOC artists, cultural workers, and community leaders, particularly those engaged in long-term justice, anti-racism, healing, and community-building efforts.
• Strengthen participant sustainability and resilience by providing trauma-informed, somatic practices grounded in InterPlay that support stress regulation, restoration, and embodied leadership.

Come as you are — your energy is the water to the well and the thread of mycelium, nourishing the networks that sustain our community.

How We Practice Together

• Trauma-informed, somatic practices grounded in InterPlay that support stress regulation, restoration, and embodied leadership
• InterPlay System and embodied practices
• Movement, voice, stillness, Play, storytelling, and creative expression
• Rest, reflection, and time in nature
• Shared meals and informal connection
• Featured workshop: InterPlay for Racial Healing and Collective Liberation with LaVerne Baker Hotep, a certified InterPlay Leader from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Program Coordinator and National Faculty Trainer at the Trauma Stress Institute of Klingberg Family Centers, deepening the retreat’s focus on trauma-informed practices through an InterPlay lens.

Logistics

📍 Location: Laurelville Retreat Center

📅 Dates: May 22–24, 2026

Thank You

May we leave renewed, our energy flowing like water in the well and threading through the mycelium, weaving the bonds of our shared beloved community.

Contact

Carolyn Renée
bipoc@interplay.org
www.interplay.org
@InterPlay.Worldwide