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Class schedule for ongoing classes at InterPlayce.

InterPlay Leadership Level 2

There are several upcoming opportunities to fullfill Level 2 requirements. Secrets of InterPlay 2 will happen at InterPlayce in Oakland Feb 22-24 and in Conneticut Jul 17-20. This multi-day workshop covers the underlying structure and philosophy behind the InterPlay system. How do you figure out which forms to do at what times? What is the nature of the relationship between participant and leader? Along with so much more!

Teaching Practicums will happen Feb 1-3 in Raleigh, NC and May 9-11 in Oakland, CA. Practice teaching InterPlay and receive information on designing and leading InterPlay events, as well as teaching resources.

Gifted and Sensitive Bodies

Easily overwhelmed? Anxious? Stressed? Depressed? This is both a gift and a curse. Amy Smith knows first hand the challenge and joy of working with high-end empathy and sensitivity. Gifted and Sensitive Bodies happens Feb 8–9, 2008 at InterPlayce in Oakland.

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Malawi Wowee!

Chikondi is the word for love!

This will be a global Valentine’s Party celebrating Sights, Sounds, and Spirit from InterPlay’s trip to the Warm Heart of Africa. Over a dozen Bay Area InterPlayers went along. Come hear what they noticed and learned on Saturday, Feb 16, 7:30 pm at InterPlayce in Oakland. Join Phil, Cynthia, Masankho, and more as they share film, stories, dances and songs from Tukumbo, Malawi, Masankho’s family home.

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Leap Year House Concert Party

On Leap Year Day 2004, we dedicated InterPlayce as a center for art, community, and change. That makes this Feb 29, 2008 our first anniversary! Join us at 7:30 pm at InterPlayce for performances and chocolate and a celebration of this exciting bricks–and–mortar endeavor in the lively center of Oakland!

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Play with Cynthia Winton-Henry in Pittsburgh, PA

March 6-10th, 2008.

Cynthia Winton-Henry and Sheila Collins will lead workshops for

• Spiritual Care workers
• Embodied Worship
• Leadership seminar
• Performance jam

Cynthia will also team up with Betsy Wetzig to explore the four Coordination Patterns (Swing, Thrust, Shape and Hang) and the release of Betsy's new book Move to Greatness.

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2nd International InterPlay Conference

August 26-30, 2008

Join a world-wide gathering of InterPlayers in Berkeley, California. Come for fun, connection, new ideas, reunions, San Francisco Bay Area sights and sounds, workshops, plenaries, performances, dancing, storytelling, singing, and even some silence.

Registration is limited so reserve your spot soon!

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InterPlay Goes to India

Cynthia Winton-Henry, Gretchen Wegner, Katherine Kunz, and Cathy Chang from InterPlay California and Gary Field from InterPlay Australia are bringing InterPlay to the village of Vasai, North of Mumbai in January 2008. InterPlay Leadership graduate Prashant Olalekar extended the invitation for this global exchange. In this cross-cultural education oppotunity, these InterPlayers will lead two weekends of the philosophy and the forms of InterPlay.

December and January are wedding months in India. Before leading and doing InterPlay, Gretchen and Katherine are heading to two traditional Indian weddings. Gretchen and Katharine are keeping a blog of their travel experience for Gretchen’s 6th Grade students in Moraga, CA. Read about Indian culture and customs and how Gretchen involves her students in the inquiry of learning about another place. Gretchen & Katherine Go to India Blog

Also read Gary’s reflections from teaching introduction InterPlay workshops with Prashant in Spring 2007. Reflections on India

Cynthia and Phil Go To Australia

InterPlay co-founders Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter have traveled to Australia to teach InterPlay every January for the past 15 years. This year they are teaching in Sydney Jan 16-19 and in Adelaide Jan 23-26 offering The Secrets of InterPlay as well as an Untensive.

InterPlay Australia has been around almost as long as InterPlay’s existence due to the amazing leadership of Rod Pattenden and Trish Watts. Check out the new InterPlay Australia website.

New Year's Celebration at InterPlayce

Thank you to Don Moseman for capturing these images of the playful party at InterPlayce!

Photos from the Oakland Art Murmur

InterPlay artist Mary Sobrina Kuder and InterPlay Intern Amy Shoemaker organized an amazing evening at InterPlayce. Urban Altered or Praying Upside Down was an evening of art, music, costumes, and fun.

Photos from the Malawi Trip

InterPlay founders Cynthia Winton-Henry & Phil Porter teamed up with WING IT! member and International InterPlay leader, Masankho Banda, to take a group of InterPlayers to Masankho’s homeland in Africa. 43 InterPlayers from the United States and Australia went to visit the village of Tukombo in Malawi as peace ambassadors. They played, connected, learned, and experienced a world that changed their global point of view.

Read their reflections in the Malawi blog.

Here are photos taken by Ron Ault and Baina Masquelier on the trip.

A Great InterPlay Resource

Valuable information, stories and simple practices you can do at home to discover the wisdom of your body.

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Other books and resources.

The Founders of InterPlay

Find out more about InterPlay Founders Cynthia Winton-Henry & Phil Porter.