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Leadership Training Program

InterPlay is a new way of life that allows us to have all of our passion and all of our purpose. We can shift from a work ethic to an ethic of play, and maybe even get more done.

What if change were fun? InterPlay can make that possible. It will lead you to deep places in your life-the places that feed, nourish, and energize. It creates powerful connections with other in a community that is open and accepting.

InterPlay is incremental. Through years of exploration we have made the practices of InterPlay easy and doable, but also challenging and rewarding. These practices are rooted in our stories, movements, voice, and stillness. In the InterPlay leadership program, we are committed to creating an atmosphere of affirmation and support.

InterPlay is taught in over 30 cities around the world. Regional leadership programs are available in many of these cities. Over 300 people have already been involved in the Leaderhship Program.

The InterPlay Leadership Program has two parts. Level One – Leading Your Own Life and Level Two: Leading InterPlay

Level One

Leading Your Own Life

How can you have more of what you want?

How can you be more fully who you are?

How can InterPlay help you get where you want to go?

You will learn to create ease, grace, energy, connection, and joy for yourself and your communities and to ground your life in an ethic of play.

In Level One you will learn the “how” and “why” of InterPlay. Then you will receive direct support to apply this wisdom to your next steps in personal growth and development.

You will learn how to increase grace and decrease stress in your life, to honor your own wisdom, to heal “splits” and to integrate body, mind, heart, and spirit.

You will get InterPlay “in your body,” making your life easier, fuller, and more in line with your desires.

Level One includes:

• “The Secrets of InterPlay”, a multiple-day retreat presented in several locations each year where you will be immersed in the InterPlay philosophy and practice.
• Monthly leadership group meetings for play, presentation, discernment, and interaction, where you will have a chance to explore new options in a supportive community.
• Three focus sessions during which you receive personal suppoet from the program leaders to get more of what you want.
• Reading and writing assignments which will help you apply InterPlay insights to your own life.

In addition, you will be asked to accumulate 50 hours of InterPlay experience, including at least one “untensive” ( a multiple-day retreat) in your region. These hours are not included in the program tuition. Although some previous experience with InterPlay is encouraged, there are no prerequisites for taking part in Level One.

Level One creates many opportunities for personal and professional growth. Those who complete Level One may share the forms and practices of InterPlay on an occasional or informal basis.

Level Two

Leading InterPlay

Level Two will provide you with additional skills to effectively lead InterPlay forms and practices in a variety of settings. It includes presentation, interaction, play, and practice teaching.

You will learn how to create a welcoming and affirming atmosphere, present InterPlay forms and principles clearly, take incremental steps, attend to the energy and pacing of the group, elicit noticings of body date, knowledge, and wisdom, lead focus sessions, deal with resistance, and take care of yourself emotionally nad physically.

You will learn about organizing InterPlay events: finding space, setting fees, promoting your activities, creating mailing lists, and following up with participants.

Level Two includes:

• a multiple-day retreat called “The Secrets of InterPlay Two”
• a class series providing practice teaching opportunities and direct reflection on teaching skills
• apprentice teaching where participants can co-lead with a mentor.

It is also recommended that you take part in an “untensive” outside of your region to give you a chance to connect with InterPlayers from other parts of the world.

Level One is a prerequisite for taking Level Two. To become a certified InterPlay leader one completes Levels One and Two, participates in the InterPlay Leadership Circle, and covenants to return a percentage of InterPlay income to Body Wisdom, Inc.

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“Wildly empowering!”

Texas InterPlay Leadership Program

In fall 2003, the leadership program will be offered for the first time in Texas. The program includes the Secrets of InterPlay seminar with founders Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter followed by eight monthly  meetings For details of dates, location and cost, contact Sheila Collins at sheila@interplaytexas.com or call 817 706-4967.

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"InterPlay showed us that even if every other aspect of our life seems controlled by external forces, we do have control over the most important part of ourselves."

- Dance Instructor
at the prison