May 25-27, 2007
LIFE IS TOO MUCH!! Don’t you agree? But what if you could take the stuff of your life and make it sing? Wouldn’t you like more ease, more connection, more joy? What if you could do more than just get by — what if you could thrive? What if you could change your life and have fun doing it?
Phil Porter and his colleague Cynthia Winton-Henry have developed a set of simple ideas and practices called InterPlay that does all those things. And InterPlay isn’t just chopped liver — it is a seriously playful way of being that’s been tested by time and experience. In the last 17 years it has spread around the world and over 500 people of all shapes and sizes have graduated from the InterPlay Leadership Program. InterPlay is devoted to fun and teaches the language and ethic of play in a deep and powerful way. It is firmly based in affirmation and looking for the good, making it the perfect antidote to criticism, stress, and cynicism. We need to spend more time in the warm bath of acceptance.
Drop into this new and playful way of being in community. Find yourself in your connections with others. Learn more about the ways your body, mind, heart, and spirit can all work together. Expect to be actively involved, but with the absolute minimum of embarrassment.
How can you expect to change your life without some new tools and new experiences? Expect to be both moved and amused, because InterPlay is fun and truthful. You get to have your own story and your own experiences and you get to witness those of others. You will also learn how you can take the experiences of the weekend back into your everyday life.
Phil Porter is a teacher, performer, artist, minister, improviser, author, storyteller, comedian, and organizer. He co-directs Body Wisdom, Inc.,the non-profit organization that grounds InterPlay. He also co-directs WING IT! Performance Ensemble, an InterPlay-based group of over twenty performers who create entire concerts of improvised stories, dances, and songs. Phil is the author of Having It All: Mind, Body, Heart and Spirit Together Again at Last, and The Slightly Mad Rantings of a Body Intellectual. He is a textile artist, graphic designer, jewelry maker, and Minister of Art and Communication at First Congregational Church of Berkeley. Although he’s lived in California over 30 years, at his very core, he’s still a Hoosier.