Plan an InterPlay experience for your group!

InterPlay has been used in a variety of settings including family reunions, birthday and other celebrations, staff development with non-profit, health, and education and arts groups. There have even been InterPlay sessions done in a women's prison and with mental health groups. The InterPlay forms are wonderful for quickly building a sense of community.

Let's explore together how InterPlay can bring more ease and fullness into the life of your group!

Spring, 2002

*Feb. 1- InterPlay Movie Night: Come over to my house for popcorn, play and conversation. We’ll watch some of the famous InterPlay videos including “The UnBelievable Beauty of Being Human” and talk together about the InterPlay “story”. Free. Call me at 884-8074 for directions.

*Feb. 10- InterPlay Sunday Gathering – 1:00-3:30pm Come for a dose of community, laughter, and discovery through movement, voice and story activities. Gentle forms lead us to have body, mind and spirit together with ease and grace! St. Ann’s Episcopal Church -419 Woodland Street, $15

*Mar 1-3, Retreat to the River House! Come to play and rest at one of the most beautiful places on the Tennessee River.. Starting Friday evening we will have a potluck here in Nashville and then carpool the 2 hr drive to N. Alabama for a Play Day on Sat , return on Sun mid-day. We’ll do some boating, weather permitting, and have some fun with InterPlay forms, including some story-telling, movement and singing, have some good food and also quiet time. Co-facilitated by Diane Saliba Ault and Crystal Moon, MA. Limited to 12 people, we ask that you bring lunch and breakfast foods you like, your favorite pillow, journaling materials, comfortable clothes, and a playful spirit! ($150 includes Sat.dinner, transportation, materials)

*PlayGroup at MTSU: Monthly session open to all.Over the course of the semester we will experiment with simple play forms that bring out the creativity, artfulness, connection and joy in all of us. MTSU Student Union Building- Weds. evenings, 6-8:30pm, Jan 30, Feb. 20, Mar. 20, Apr. 24, ($15 pr. session)

*May 2- "LOVE AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT"- with Leah Mann- 4:30-8:30pm-Global Education Center-

PlayShop- A meditative and play-filled exploration of energy, effort and emotional states in the body (micro to macro - your body, your community, the earth and the celestial bodies!). Through movement meditations, partnering, witnessing, being witnessed, journaling, drawing and symbolic action, participants will explore the efforts of swing, shape, hang and thrust and their relationship to the emotional states of love, fear, pain and anger. Participants will explore how these efforts and emotions relate to the basic forces of energy present in the universe - electromagnetic, gravitational, weak force and nuclear- and thus our connection to all things. This workshop is influenced by the work of kinesiologist Betsy Wetzig and energy worker, Julie Motz as well as the improvisational form, InterPlay. ($38)

Leah Mann and her partner Ela Lamblin are artistic directors of LELA Performance Company in Seattle and Leah was co-founder of 'Moving in the Spirit Dance Company' in Atlanta. She teaches and performs internationally. Write for her beautiful reflections on a recent trip through Thailand and other Asian countries. Contact her at:
(206) 329-3724 701 34th Ave., Seattle WA 98122 www.lelavision.com

*May 3- BodySpirit Celebration with Leah & friends- "ART-FULL ACTION" 12-1:15pm, St.Ann's Episcopal Church- Led by Leah Mann and Diane Saliba Ault, this is an offering honoring many spiritual paths. We will explore the relationships between community art-making and social/spiritual change. This celebration is open to ALL. It is reflection, stories, songs, laughter and artistry woven together with the embodied Interplay ideas and forms. Come during your lunch time, even if you are stressed or tired, to rest and receive the gifts of community, spontaneity and sanctuary. Welcome!

(Love Offering)

*May 17-19- Retreat to the River House- "SPRING RENEWAL" - Come to play and rest at one of the most beautiful places on the Tennessee River. Starting Friday evening we will have a potluck here in Nashville and then carpool the 2 hr drive to N. Alabama for a Play Day on Sat , return on Sun mid-day. We’ll do some boating, weather permitting, and have some fun with InterPlay forms, including some story-telling, movement and singing, have some good food and also quiet time. Limited to 12 people, we ask that you bring lunch and breakfast foods you like, your favorite pillow, journaling materials, comfortable clothes, and a playful spirit! ($150 including dinner Sat.)

*June 25 - 5:30-8:30pm- WordPlay & InterPlay! - with THANDIWE SHIPRAH, co-host- Hobson United Methodist Church ---------BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

Join us for an evening of creative expression and self-empowerment featuring two totally fun and interactive processes that "play off each other" using silence, music, authentic movement, dance, writing, reflection, and storytelling. Bring a friend for a time to remember!

WORDPLAY is a unique combination of practices that use the written and spoken word to enhance creativity, strengthen the intuition, promote self-acceptance, and foster an overall sense of well being. Exercises and activities include Inner Dictation (developing inwardness), Creative Positivity (affirming your truth) and Direct Expression (guided journaling and poem-making). Wordplay presents an excellent opportunity to gather with others to revel in your love of language and to harness its creative potential. Wordplay will be facilitated by poet, performer, and "artist of encouragement" Thandiwe Shiphrah. Thandiwe has spent the past 12 years teaching people how to use language to achieve greater levels of fulfillment in their personal and professional lives.

InterPlay! is a philosophy and set of simple, body-centered activities that creates art from life in solo, partner, and group play. It invites us to make stuff up in the moment, to have fun, laugh with others, discover ourselves, and claim body wisdom as a path to having grace, ease, and fullness in our lives. InterPlay emphasizes the power of affirmation and re-teaches adults the ability to be spontaneous - that profound process of using one's inner resources to interact with and enjoy the world. It is accessible to people of all ages and abilities and has been used with folks from 5 to 85. InterPlay will be facilitated by Diane Saliba Ault, a long-time community organizer, activist, and artist who loves the simplicity and elegance of the InterPlay forms and delights in sharing them with others.

Workshop participants are encouraged to share the artistry that results from WORDPLAY and InterPlay! with each other at the conclusion of the day's activities by telling a story, singing a song, or making a dance. At our last gathering in May, we created some wonderful word/movement/reflections. For some of the poetry/reflections that came out of our workshop write to celebrate@onemain.com and I'll email them to you!