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InterPlay Class Series At Artspirit

Want to live more gracefully in a stress-filled world? 

Want more grace and ease as you take care of work and family responsibilities?

Want to explore your creativity in the company of supportive friends?


Come to ArtSpirit to play with Rebecca Estes and Lila Morisee, graduates of the InterPlay Leadership Program. Interplay is an improvised playful practice where we “make stuff up” in the moment using movement, stillness, voice and storytelling. Developed by two dancing ministers, Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter, over a period of 25 years, InterPlay is a fun, incremental practice for creative and spiritual development that reintegrates the body into all aspects of life.

Discover the secrets of a movement that is practiced in 50 cities on 4 continents, in school rooms and board rooms, clinics and churches, prisons and hospitals, - changing the world – one play at a time.

        Monday evenings    7 - 8:30 pm
 
        Series of six sessions - $60

        Single session drop in - $15 each

ArtSpirit Spirituality Center

408 W. 8th St. #102

Dallas, TX. 75208

Directions to ArtSpirit - 

From North - 

Go south on 1-35 past downtown and exit right on  Colorado  Go left in front of Methodist Hospital . Make little turn right at first stopsign which is  Davis  Take left at second light whichy is Bishop. At the second cross st at the corner where "Hunky" is turn right. Artspirit is in the Bishop Arts Building on your left suite 102.

Questions? Call Rebecca at 817 797-8381 or Lila at 214 824-8363
To learn more about Artspirit go to www.artspiritdallas.org 

InterPlay Fort Worth Gathering and Playgroup

Park Place Dance Center

1622 Park Place

Fort Worth, TX.

Sunday June 11, 2006

4 pm – 6:30 pm

Lead by:

Sheila K. Collins, National Interplay Leader, now in Pittsburgh

Rebecca Estes, Certified Interplay leader, Fort Worth

Come join a community of players using simple incremental InterPlay forms to move, sing, tell stories, and experience stillness. Interplay is about play – a creative process for community and social transformation. Taught in 50 cities on four continents, Interplay was developed by Cynthia Winton Henry and Phil Porter, artists and dancing ministers, now of Oakland CA.

Open to newcomers as well as veterans, expect this 2 ½ hr experience to encourage your creativity and spontaneity, to increase your confidence, and bring what play always does – lots of fun!

Fee: $15 or sliding scale contribution toward space rental  

Directions:

Park Place runs between 8th Ave and Forest Park south of 1 - 30. The studio is across the street from the Neighborhood Grill which is fairly close to 8th Ave.

From 1-30 going west - take Summit Ave exit and go away from downtown. Take 8th Ave past the All Saints Baylor Hospital. Just after Allen St. Turn right on Park Place. The studio is on your right.

From the west - take Forest Park off of 30 and pass Magnolia. Take a left on Park Place (away from the stone gates) go past the school and the railroad track. The studio will be on your left.  

For additional information call Rebecca 817 797-8381 or Sheila’s cell  817- 706-4967

Offerings in the Dallas/Fort Worth area include ways to try out the waters of InterPlay, explore what’s involved in a community formed around an ethic of play, and learn skills to have more ease, energy and fun in your life. 

Opportunities include a Monday night series at ArtSpirit's home in downtown Dallas (in the old Sears Building) and a monthly Saturday morning session at Horizon Unitarian Church in Carrolton.

Click here for schedule and registration information.

InterPlay:
     Exploring Play As A Spiritual Discipline

Horizon Unitarian Church,
1641 Hebron Pkwy.
Carrolton, TX. 75010

 “Lighten up,”

“Be in the present moment,”

“See the beauty in simple, everyday realities,”

“Participate in acts of creation and reverence for life!”

We often live with the cultural messages that “you can’t play till all your work is done”, (and when would that ever happen?). Or self-talk about “acting your age,” or “not having talent, or rhythm, or a good voice.”  How about replacing these messages with the above messages from various spiritual traditions that see play as a spiritual discipline?

InterPlay is an experiential playful practice involving movement and stillness, sound and silence. With these items, and the affirmation and support of one another we “make stuff up in the moment”, creating individual and group stories. Developed by two dancing ministers, Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter, the incremental forms and simple agreements of InterPlay enable people to connect with and express their creativity and celebrate their connection to “all that is”.

In this 2 ½ hour playshop, we will review messages from various spiritual traditions that encourage playfulness, humor, and the return, for adults, to the light-heartedness of children. Taking small, incremental steps, we will practice fun InterPlay forms that assist people to find grace and ease and to handle the stress of a busy life.

Leaders:
            Lila Morisee and Rebecca Estes

Directions to Horizon Church:

From Fort Worth

Take 121 north past the airport,

cross over I 35E (the Dallas branch)

Turn left on Hebron Parkway

Drive short way – church is on your left

From Dallas

Take I-35E north to 121 exit

Turn right on 121, then two streets to Hebron Pkwy

Turn left on Hebron Pkwy

Short drive – church is on your left.

The following list of events includes dates,fees, and information about registration. Click on the Register Now line next to the event of your choice and you will be given several options to register now. Advance registration is rewarded by a special lower fee, as is bringing a friend along to join in the fun! 

Fort Worth/Dallas Leaders

Sheila K. Collins is the director of InterPlay Texas, an organization established to organize, coordinate, produce, and direct InterPlay activities in the State of Texas. Sheila has recently moved to Pittsburgh but she returns to Texas every other month to teach the Texas Leadership program and to assist in the organizing of Interplay activities in the state. 

Sheila describes herself as a “dancing social worker”. A former professional dancer, she has taught social work at three universities and co-founded and directed a behavioral health care clinic in Fort Worth Texas. She is the author of numerous articles and the book, "Stillpoint: The Dance of Selfcaring, Selfhealing".

Sheila has played, studied, and worked with Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter, the founders of InterPlay, since 1993. She directs Wing & A Prayer Players, an InterPlay performing group. A 'recovering serious person', she finds the tools and spiritual discipline of InterPlay most helpful in getting through life's ordinary, and extraordinary, "tough stuff."

Rebecca Estes is a talented visual artist, poet, dancer, costumer, and mother of two daughters. Since receiving her BFA from UTA, Rebecca ‘s artwork has been seen in Fort Worth galleries over the past 25 years, a popular restaurant and fitness center, and her masks have been prominent in local theatre and dance productions. She became involved with InterPlay nearly 10 years ago through participation in a women’s retreat circle. Rebecca is a founding member of Wing & A Prayer Players, an InterPlay-based performance ensemble, performing in churches, retreat centers, and prisons. Rebecca is a certufued InterPlay leader.

Lila Morisee is a certified Interplay leader with 20 years experience as a play therapist. She found the InterPlay philosophy and practices to fit well with her values and useful in her goal of helping people "lighten up" in a creative and relational  manner.  Lila directs a Playback company, "Play It Like It Is" in Dallas, TX. , where she assists individuals and groups in discovering and affirming their own wellspring of creative resources. A member of Wing & A Prayer Players, she is a graduate of the InterPlay Leadership Program. Visit her website www.playscapes.cc to learn more about her.

QUESTIONS?

Contact Fort Worth convener Rebecca Estes 817 338-4705 or
Dallas convener Lila Morisee 214 912-5952

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