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National InterPlay Founders

Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter
are philosophers, speakers, teachers, and performers. They have collaborated as colleagues, teaching and performing for 22 years. They began developing the InterPlay practice and philosophy in 1989 and have been sharing it around the world ever since. They are co-directors of the non-profit organization Body Wisdom, Inc., based in Oakland, California, which also encompasses InterPlay in Organizations and WING IT! Performance Ensemble.

Cynthia and Phil have written and published several books: Body & Soul: Excursions in the Realm of Physicality and Spirituality; Poems and Prayer & Exhortations; and The Wisdom of the Body. They have performed countless concerts including God, Sex & Power; and Fear and Abandon. They have produced their community-based concert The Unbelievable Beauty of Being Human in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Raleigh, and Sydney, Australia. Their books and videotapes are available from WING IT! Press.

They have lectured, taught, and performed throughout the United States and in other parts of the world, including Bangkok and Sydney. InterPlayers are all over, including a large group of people who have been trained in the InterPlay Leadership Program. With their support we started an InterPlay Leadership Program in TN in 2003!
see www.interplay.org for more information

Other National InterPlay Leaders who have come to do support our growing InterPlay community in Nashville!

Masankho Banda,
a native of Malawi is a master storyteller, drummer, and cultural artist who has made 5 trips to the South from Oakland to support our development of multicultural InterPlay. He is a very gifted leader who weaves together story, dance, drumming, song and work with the ancestors in his way of performing and facilitating. Come and bring your friends to experience his unique talents at this upcoming Sept. UNtensive & performance. See more about him at his www.ucandanc.org website.
See more about the Cultures of Peace Initiative below.




Ginny Going and Tom Henderson
are community artists, performers and organization development consultants. Ginny is an Episcopal deacon with 30 years of non-profit management experience. Tom is a retired PhD organic chemist with 25 years in pharmaceuticals. They combine InterPlay with team building, visioning, planning and conflict management to effect change with ease. They are mentors to Diane Saliba Ault in developing IP in Tennessee and have made 5 trips here from their home in Raleigh, NC. See their website at www.interplaync.org !

Leah Mann
is Director Emeritus and Co-founder of the award-winning
company, Moving in the Spirit - a dance and urban outreach program in Atlanta; Co-founder of Lelavision with partner, Ela Lamblin - melding dance with kinetic musical sculpture in Seattle. A former competitive gymnast with a passion for aerial dance (bungee cords and trapeze), Leah has been awarded numerous grants and commissions from entities such as the NEA Alternate Visions Grant, the Criminal Defense and Justice Project , Nexus Art Gallery (Atl), Seattle Arts Commission Artist’s Grant, Change Inc, Bossak Heilbron Foundation, King Co Special Projects and The Puffin Foundation. She has toured 5 countries performing and teaching Lelavision's whimsical and hybrid form, "physical music". She is a certified instructor of InterPlay. Leah and her partner Ela Lamblin are artistic directors of LELA Performance Company in Seattle. She teaches and performs internationally. Write for her beautiful reflections and get a schedule of performances. Contact her at: www.lelavision.com (206) 329-3724 701 34th Ave., Seattle WA 98122

Nika Quirk, MBA
As a personal and business coach, consultant, writer and speaker, Nika is known as an articulate and innovative communicator, a skilled facilitator of learning experiences, and a proven catalyst for insightful change and forward momentum for individuals and in organizational settings. She contributed a chapter, “Embracing the Fool: Leading with Courage, Playfulness, and Compassion” to A Guide To Getting It: Powerful Leadership Skills, published in February 2004 by Clarity of Vision Publishing (see the Products page). Nika is a co-creator and co-leader of TelePlay®, an innovative group coaching seminar utilizing the principles and tools of InterPlay®, a philosophy and practice focused on creativity, community, and change.

Nika’s career has included nine years as a paralegal, eight years as Director of an Employee Assistance Non-Clinical Counseling Service, and most recently, four years as Director of Program Management at PeopleSoft, Inc. where she played an active role in strategic planning and software manufacturing management. She is a Certified Small Business Advisor with The One Page Business Plan Company®, a Certified Leader of InterPlay®, and holds both an MBA from the University of Phoenix and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Human Resource Management from Holy Names College in Oakland, CA. Nika was born on the East Coast but has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since she moved to the Haight-Ashbury in 1971. Her son Brendan has been raised as an InterPlay-er and now attends San Francisco State University. She has three beloved animals who keep her playing - Ellejay, an Australian Shepherd/Husky, Kona, a blue eyed Siamese and baby Ebony - a Tuxedo cat. 2515 Santa Clara Ave. Suite 205, Alameda, CA 94501 nika@thegreaterpossibility.com, 510/ 381-5350,
www.thegreaterpossibility.com

Deep Play
with Meg MacCleod, Duke Ramuten Asheville, NC

Meg MacLeod, Asheville IP founder is a certified InterPlay instructor and energy healer. Her current passions are African and tap dance, low-flying trapeze, Continuum Movement, Byron Katie Inquiry and Arnold Mindell Process Work.
Duke Ramuten, an InterPlay leader from another planet, creates magic, spontaneous combustion, and merrily infects people with laughter, bites of love and insights. He also enjoys the pleasures of rehabbing old houses into works of art.
Download & print flyer - PDF

WorldPlay: Cultures of Peace
Masanko Banda has been doing workshops and tours playing with diversity. These large public gatherings bring together people from all parts of the world… concluding with performance celebrations! We are inviting people from from every continent to bring together the stories, songs, dances and peace practices from many places to share with our community in order to build global understanding.

How do we play with diversity and explore common ground in order to move beyond tolerance toward multicultural health? Creativity can play an essential and life-giving role in this kind of peace-making. To restore playfulness and authentic curiosity is to encourage mutual commitment and understanding. Masankho, Phil, and Cynthia offer the philosophy and practice of InterPlay, based in twenty-five years of research and development, to stimulate social transformation through creativity, spirit, and affirmation.

"Cultures of Peace"
"a way of knowing the world one person at a time"

Masankho & Cynthia,
Cultures of Peace, Multicultural Ensemble-
Holy Names College, Oakland, CA - June 2003

Masankho, Diane & Cynthia,
at PSR for Cultures of Peace Week

Masankho Banda
WorldPlay:
Cultures of Peace
www.ucandanc.org

The First International InterPlay® Conference
June 24-28, 2004
Nashville, Tennessee
was the largest gathering of InterPlayers ever!

Body Wisdom, Inc.,
2273 Telegraph Avenue,
Oakland, CA 94612.
Phone them at 510/465-2797

Our newest sculpture in Nashville- MUSICA, on Music Row!