tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18707136265940722062024-03-05T02:22:46.622-05:00Atlanta InterPlayRuth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870713626594072206.post-57096490556195351362018-11-06T13:17:00.001-05:002018-11-06T13:17:58.825-05:00InterPlay Atlanta November Newsletter<br />
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InterPlay Atlanta November News</div>
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CREATE, REST, CONNECT & PLAY!</div>
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<strong>Join us for all or part of this three day event towards embodied racial healing and justice!</strong></div>
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<strong>Friday, November 9th</strong></div>
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<em><strong>Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North</strong></em></div>
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A Documentary film screening and Community Dialogue with filmmaker and InterPlay leader, Katrina Browne.The film is abo<span style="font-size: 10pt;">ut her family, and New England's complicity in the slave trade/slavery, and about present-day reckoning. (Traces of the Trade received recognition from Sundance, 2008, PBS/POV, 2008, Emmy Award nomination, 2009)</span></div>
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6:30 P.M.-dessert reception </div>
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7:00 P.M.- program begins</div>
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<strong>Saturday, November 10th</strong></div>
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<em><strong>Moving Through </strong></em></div>
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An interactive InterPlay workshop towards embodied racial healing and justice facilitated by Katrina Browne, Jennifer Denning, Karimah Dillard, and Carolyn Renée with neighborhood Black history exhibit researched by the BiRacial History Project.There will be sacred affinity group time for people of color and white people to help deepen the work and build resilience.</div>
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<strong>Sunday, November 11th</strong></div>
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<em><strong>Sankofa Communities Soulprint Players Performance</strong></em></div>
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A performance that combines the power of InterPlay, historical facts, and ancient healing ritual to educate, uplift and inspire the community to make positive change.</div>
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1 P.M.- light pre-show reception sponsored by the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta</a></div>
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2. P.M.- performance followed by community dialogue</div>
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<strong>Sliding Scale for weekend $0-50</strong></div>
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Funding for this project is made possible by InterPlay/Body Wisdom</div>
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Last Saturday we celebrated International Day of InterPlay along with cities all over the world Australia, </div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">India, Scotland, Chicago, Oakland, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Twin Cities, Seattle, and the North Carolina Triangle. </span></div>
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In Atlanta we celebrated Woody Bartlett as our "Spirit of InterPlay" awardee (in center of picture above). A retired chaplain and minister, for several years Woody worked at the Corporation for Supportive Housing which served the unhoused and those with chronic mental illness. In retirement, he co-founded Georgia Interfaith Power & Light, working with congregations on sustainability, and is singing, writing a memoir and poetry, and doing InterPlay.<br /></div>
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We are inviting people into long-term support of InterPlay and all it offers the world. As a community we see the value in coming together in story, song, and movement in order to bring more compassion and understanding to the world.</div>
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While in the world stories are being co-opted and skewed, we are maintaining communities through an active and creative way to unlock the wisdom of the body and the group body. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Play, make friends, share stories and food. Sustaining International Sisters (SIS) & InterPlay Atlanta will be celebrating gratitude and the abundance we have in our lives during this time of Thanksgiving in the United States.</span></div>
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<br />Are you a woman who is new to the United States or were you born here? Are you a temporary visitor or are you making the U.S. your new home away from home? Looking for support, nurturance, and building relationships? Join your sisters from around the world to second SIS gathering co-hosted and facilitated by InterPlay Atlanta Leader Ruth Schowalter and InterPlayer Canan Arikan.<br /><br />90-minutes of InterPlay then meal sharing and networking. Bring a dish, suggested donation $5 (both optional). <strong>Save the Date -December 1st for 3rd SIS gathering. 1083 Austin Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30307</strong>.<br /><br />Questions? Contact Canan 404-966-2014, arikancnn@gmail.com, or Ruth 404-580-2392, ruthtruth@mindspring.com</div>
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<em><strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.3333px;">StillPoint: A Self-Care Playbook for Caregivers to Find Ease, </span></strong></em></div>
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<b>THE SECRETS OF INTERPLAY COMING SOON! </b></div>
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<strong>The Secrets of InterPlay</strong></div>
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This multiple-day event will give you direct experience in many aspects of the InterPlay system developed by Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter over the last 28 years. <a alt="http://interplay.org/index.cfm/go/events:event/happening_id/2599/" href="http://interplay.org/index.cfm/go/events:event/happening_id/2599/" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">The Secrets of InterPlay</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> is the first part of </span><a alt="http://interplay.org/index.cfm/go/events:event/happening_id/2609/" href="http://interplay.org/index.cfm/go/events:event/happening_id/2609/" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">The InterPlay Life Practice Program</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> which will begin in Atlanta in October 2018. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">On Wednesday, June 27th, InterPlay Atlanta's Soulprint Players partnered with the Early Edgewood-Candler Park Biracial History Project to lead the community in a ritual honoring and remembrance of the thriving black community that once lived in Candler Park. Soulprint Players shared the timeline illuminating the systematic edging out of the black community.</span> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="imgCaptionTable OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="margin-right: 5px; text-align: center; width: 225px;"><tbody>
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<strong>InterPlay Atlanta partners with "Set Them Free"</strong></div>
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Recovery is an act of courage. InterPlay Atlanta has been visiting Trinity Ministries since March 2017 offering InterPlay sessions to the men of Trinity Ministries. "The Art of Recovery" is an InterPlay improvisational performance based on InterPlay forms, by the men of Trinity Ministries to share with the community a creative approach to recovering a sense of themselves through InterPlay. <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Come out and support their journey of recovery!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">All women and teenage girls are invited to a 3-hour InterPlay workshop to collaborate with </span><span style="color: blue;">"</span><a alt="http://sethemfree.com/" href="http://sethemfree.com/" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">Set Them Free: No Moms and Babies Behind Bars in Turkey</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">" an initiative to increase worldwide awareness of the 10, 000 women and 650 children (from newborn to age six) held in Turkish prisons as political prisoners after the failed coup attempt in Turkey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">After the InterPlay session, we will share food and learn about "Set Them Free" and the Gulen (Hizmet) Movement from women who used to call Turkey home. We hope to create friendships and together find ways to bring attention to the human rights violations against Turkish women and children in their own country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Everyone is welcome to come to solely play and learn. Your presence is welcome. And to those of you who are feeling compelled to make a difference with human rights issues, we hope this InterPlay workshop will be the beginning of a sustained effort to heighten the awareness of the world to the plight of these Turkish women and their children.</span></div>
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Join InterPlay Atlanta and the Soulprint Players for Intergenerational InterPlay and a performance on "Earth Wisdom" at Sevananda's Earth Day Celebration. Check out the whole weekend's activities <a alt="http://www.sevananda.coop/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Earth-Day-11-x-17.jpg" href="http://www.sevananda.coop/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Earth-Day-11-x-17.jpg" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here.</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">Have you ever thought about how you might embody the difference between weather and climate change? Do you know the difference? Well, we had tremendous fun playing around with those concepts at the InterPlay - Atlanta Science Festival 2018 workshop, “Communicating the Facts: More than a Feeling" <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<i>see the workshop description below</i>).</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">Thanks to Neil deGrasse Tyson’s demonstration of “Weather versus Climate Change” on “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” (see this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBdxDFpDp_k" style="color: #954f72;">video</a>), we invited pairs of people to play with this concept, with one person as climate change and the other as weather. The climate change partner was asked to choose a destination in the room and to walk to it in a fairly steady line, while the weather partner was given the task of moving (dancing?) erratically in front of or behind or around their climate change partner (<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Yes, we played music</span></i>). Then we had the partners reverse their roles. In this way, each got to experience either the steadfastness of the climate trend, but also the variability of weather. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">The workshop participants were jubilant! Not only had the movement enlivened them and exploded the community room into happy chaos, but also something had clicked in the way each understood this hard-to-understand difference between daily weather patterns and long-term climate change. This is the “magic” of the connections made through kinesthetic activities while explored together with others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">On this March Friday evening, the doors to the <a href="http://www.l5pcc.org/" style="color: #954f72;">Little Five Points Community Center for Arts & Community</a> were open, allowing spring breezes to come in along with the close to 40 participants for our workshop. At the other end of the Community Center facility, the play “Freaky Friday” was playing to a sold-out audience at the Horizon Theatre. Some of theatre goers wandered down to see what we were doing. A strong sense of community was established – Science, InterPlay, and Theatre!<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">During our two hours together, my collaborators, two scientists, and I were overly ambitious for what we wanted to offer. Among some of the activities we InterPlayed with were the following how-to’s:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana";">Play around with the scientific method</span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana";"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana";"><br /></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana";">Express the difference between beliefs-opinions-feelings, and facts</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana";"><br /></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana";">Release or vent frustration around communicating scientific concepts at a time when science under attack in the United States is called “fake news”</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana";"><br /></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana";">“Change” someone’s mind about his/her stance on scientific issues</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">“Change” someone’s stance on science? Really? How? A lot of us think that people who “don’t believe in science” are merely suffering from a “deficit of the facts.” To solve this lack of knowledge and resulting lack of concern about climate change, pollution, and endangered species – to name a few concerns – all one need do is provide a bouquet of scientific facts. Then the person we are addressing will change his/her mind. Right? Wrong! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">Facts may impact someone’s thinking in the short term (or not), but that change is not long lasting. People’s thinking is influenced by their communities (family, political groups, friends, etc.). However, there is hope for science communicators impacting the education of nonexperts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">This hope is in the form of narratives – telling stories! That is, when you tell a story from your life enfolding scientific facts, there is a greater chance of another person listening and being influenced by that story (See this <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/Supplement_4/13614.full" style="color: #954f72;">article</a> and this <a href="https://blog.bufferapp.com/science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains" style="color: #954f72;">article</a> as just a beginning). Knowing the powerfulness of stories in communicating science, at the conclusion of our workshop, we offered one of several InterPlay storytelling forms to our workshop participants. (<i>I hope to explain about this in more detail in another blogpost, so stay tuned!</i>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">Before participants left, they were asked to fill out an evaluation of our workshop, and we got high ratings of “excellent” along with some “very goods.” As our first time to offer a workshop on this topic, I know we have more to learn about playing around with communicating scientific facts. But this first effort was tremendously fun and seemingly successful!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: </span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">Thanks to my collaborators, Tony Martin (science author, Emory educator </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">and paleontologist) and Dottie Stearns (dancer, B.S. Environmental Sciences, and a Master’s of Public Health and pre-med student), who without their knowledge and commitment to science outreach this workshop would not have been possible. Thanks also go to the organizers of the <a href="https://atlantasciencefestival.org/" style="color: #954f72;">Atlanta Science Festival</a>, Jordan Rose, Meisa Sailaita, and Kellie Vinal, who shape this event in powerful and elegant ways. And as always, thanks to Phil Porter and Cynthia Winton-Henry for co-creating <a href="http://interplay.org/" style="color: #954f72;">InterPlay</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp61XRAoVF8o-GX1WGNNmsELj0YTdeEXrfrvXKf9WrDs4Ylr3fdaPs1geFRJz0lE5qhpPV0NiDrpNbZMepzdJ-L6nbvohC23DvD6t_U8ntRlpLzfEC7ihbrA1s13uu7iD9xhpJ4IVd5W8G/s1600/partner-button-pink_evergreen.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp61XRAoVF8o-GX1WGNNmsELj0YTdeEXrfrvXKf9WrDs4Ylr3fdaPs1geFRJz0lE5qhpPV0NiDrpNbZMepzdJ-L6nbvohC23DvD6t_U8ntRlpLzfEC7ihbrA1s13uu7iD9xhpJ4IVd5W8G/s1600/partner-button-pink_evergreen.png" /></a><b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">Workshop Description: </span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">This 2-hour improvisational workshop is a chance for participants (teens and adults) to engage their kinesthetic imaginations and affirm just how successfully they can communicate scientific facts, while also providing the means for addressing false or misleading information. The main goal is to help participants develop proactive skills for communicating environmental science on a range of topics such as global climate change, pollution, natural resources, and extinctions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhODEIOpcjWjU2jxLGsl6w3pjq72-Y-g7AM9MKJ5r2lBxr77TxeLIAaB6CoUsGlMZQD27g0l5sbwLrE5X088LKVewzYoluBUtEKBv8UCK1D5VUq7E2fGSfgBS5VUv4fpe5Bhm7EwfpWv4N/s1600/%2523ASF+2018+InterPlay+Atlanta+Ruth+Schowalter6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt;">Science is based on facts, so how can we as science advocates communicate our knowledge when others don’t “feel” the same? Participants will have fun exploring new ways to express factual science through the improvisational activities of InterPlay. Using movement, story-telling and their voices, participants will be led incrementally into enlivening and personalizing the way they speak up for science.</span><br />
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Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870713626594072206.post-62475112030627119222017-12-15T11:52:00.000-05:002017-12-15T11:55:07.840-05:00The Importance of Play for Men<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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society that creates space for men to play, a society
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from moment to moment.” -Ade</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is a universal myth that men do not express emotions. I say "myth" because it is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><b>not</b></i> true. Have you been
around men watching sports, playing with their children or having an argument? Men
express emotions, but not always in the same ways as women do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The irony of this myth is when men do express emotions of gentleness,
compassion, or kindness, <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">their</span> masculinity
is questioned. Men are generally placed (by society) in a damned-if-you-do or damned-if-you-don’t
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Collectively, we all need to shift our mindset about what it means to
be a man and develop a better understanding of men’s emotions. Let’s support
men and boys in being with their emotions without a rush to judging those
emotions being good or bad. Without support, emotions of rage, frustration, <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">and</span> anger intensify. We humans are emotional
beings. Our emotions play a major role in how we show up in the <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">world</span> both in our communities <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">and</span> relationships. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.lifecoachade.com/">Ade Anifowose</a>, InterPlay Leader-in-Training<br />Atlanta, Georgia</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have found that <a href="http://www.interplay.org/">InterPlay </a>tools empower individuals to “have” their
experience. I remember attending an “InterPlay Retreat for Men” last February,
in Germantown, Maryland. It was <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">mind-blowing</span>.
Watching men, play, create, share their stories, dance, and be in stillness<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">,</span> softened the edges of restrictions that I had
placed on myself, based on what I was taught by society. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As an InterPlay Leader-in-Training, on a weekly basis I co-lead
InterPlay at </span><a href="http://www.tcmatlanta.org/programs/trinity-house-big-bethel/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Trinity House</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> in Atlanta.
There, I get the opportunity to watch and experience men in recovery connect
with innocence and their stories of belonging. I watch them share their
gratitude for being able to connect with their inner child in a safe
environment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through their stories, I am
reminded that everyone wants to be acknowledged and heard. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is an invisible thread that connects us all. When we play, we
strengthen the connection and we are all the better for it. I stand for a
society that creates space for men to play, a <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">society
that allows men to</span> re-create <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">themselves</span>
from moment to moment. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">InterPlay</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> is a rebellious act of self-care in a
world where we are taught to not care about our own needs. It allows men to
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Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870713626594072206.post-32946325424598387412017-12-10T10:49:00.000-05:002017-12-10T10:58:39.389-05:00InterPlay, Art & Social ChangeDear Friends,<br />
<br />
As 2017 comes to a close I am reflecting on an incredible year. It's been a year filled with many changes and calls to action for activists and people concerned with social justice.<br />
<br />
In July, thanks to a leadership development grant from Alternate Roots (made possible by funds from the Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The Surdna Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), I was able to travel out to Oakland, CA to InterPlayce the headquarters of Interplay.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Door To Interplayce - Enter Here for Fun!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view into the InterPlayce Studio</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The back of the InterPlayce building</td></tr>
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<br />
Here I participated in the second week of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1543616578999827/">Art & Social Change for Millennial Leaders</a> as a sacred lurker in order to learn about the program with the idea of bringing it to the East Coast.<br />
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The program is led by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/agnotti">Agnotti </a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/natty.abs">Natty</a>, two amazing millennial InterPlay Leaders with the support of the entire InterPlayce staff for two weeks.<br />
<br />
During this program Interplayers learn practical ways to use art to bring awareness to social justice issues.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heading out for InterPlay on the streets of Oakland with an art response</td></tr>
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They listened to their inner authority,<br />
had guest speakers,<br />
took InterPlay to the streets/subways,<br />
went in depth with InterPlay forms to access body wisdom,<br />
did an art response at the peacekeepers park,<br />
finished the week with a performance<br />
and so much more!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art & Social Change 2017 participants after the performance</td></tr>
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It was a wonderful chance to see the leaders of our organization in their natural habitats!<br />
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The Art & Social Change program has made such a difference in so many lives & in the world!<br />
I was so inspired by the leadership, participants and intersection of InterPlay and Social Justice work....Agnotti, Natty, Foluke & I are in the beginning stages of planning an additional Art & Social Change program, open to millennials plus other activists, for the last week of June 2018 - so save the date and stay tuned for more info!<br />
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In Peace and play,<br />
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Christine<br />
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Christine Gautreaux, MSW, CIL<br />
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Pro-tip:<br />
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Thanks to my friend & InterPlay leader Soyinka I had the best tacos ever at International & 22nd street!<br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Written by Foluke Nkenge </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>InterPlay Leader-in-Training</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Rumor has it that I’m a millennial, but I don’t
really see myself as a millennial. I chafe a bit at the label, which I’m pretty
sure is a trait of millennials. A label that I claim is “InterPlayer.” I came
to InterPlay (or perhaps it came to me) during a time of spiritual revival in
my life and knew that it was something I needed to be doing, despite the
discomfort I felt.</span><br />
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<!--EndFragment--><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One thing I do know about my generation is that
authentic connection in this smartphone-dependent, instant gratification
culture is difficult to come by, but we crave it. InterPlay gives me the space
to find connection without judgment, especially in a world where judgment is so
prevalent. I’m free to be weird and to need some space and to need a hug and
those are such unifying experiences because we all feel them. And I have a
community of caring people that give me the support I need and that invites me
to do the same: I like to call them my “InterPlay family.”</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Within InterPlay, we’re equal. I, as a 27-year-old,
am not assumed to be spoiled, lazy, and self-centered or any other stereotype
of my generation. My voice has value, as do the other voices in the room, young
or old, white, black, and in between, short or tall, big or small, InterPlay
invites everyone into the space to play. Not only that, but it gives us a place
to shine in our strengths and operate outside of our comfort zones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Written by Jennifer Denning</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana"; font-style: italic;">photos by Ruth Schowalter and Joe Gautreaux</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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not celebrate and make an "unnecessary fuss"? Ade Anifowose and
Foluke Beveridge (pictured in the center of the hula hoop above) have completed
the InterPlay Life Practice Program and are on their way to becoming Certified
InterPlay Leaders. Hoopla!</span><br />
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decorated hoop and walk down the aisle while we showered feathers and blessings
upon them. It was joyful, a little bit silly and so much fun.</span><br />
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the nights grow long and the holidays approach we can be drawn into the desire
to do too much, consume too much, spend too much. Perhaps we can remember this
wisdom of the hoopla and create a little spontaneous giving- with some
feathers, some words of affirmation, or maybe even a song or two? What gifts
could an unnecessary celebration of the ordinary or a necessary celebration of
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Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870713626594072206.post-20202092249580466072017-09-18T09:02:00.002-04:002017-09-18T09:02:23.420-04:00Soulprint Players Prepare for "Allies for Racial Equity" Conference<br />
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How does a bi-racial performance company prepare for an
improvised performance at a Unitarian Universalist conference sponsored by the
UU’s <a href="http://alliesforracialequity.wildapricot.org/conference"><span style="color: blue;">“Allies for Racial Equity?”<o:p></o:p></span></a></div>
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As the white director of this company, I find myself in an
interesting position. I’m aware of the need to decentralize whiteness, and I’m
also holding the responsibility of creating the structure for a performance
that will be meaningful and effective for performer and audience alike.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My own journey of understanding systemic racism, the oppression of people of color and white
privilege has come though self-education as well as honest communication across
color lines. I have been sending articles to our white company members to
deepen awareness, as well as inviting our POC company members to communicate
what they need during this performance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And so we move into new territory together with as much
bumbling grace as we can, and I notice a new presence of realness emerging as
we openly acknowledge difference and inequity and grapple together on how to
create real change.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Personal story and connection,
artistic expression of that which is “beyond words”, “exformation”- InterPlay’s
tool for moving information out of the body, and embodied awareness are just
some of the tools InterPlay offers in the movement towards racial justice.
InterPlay creates a space where we can find our connection to possibility, flow
and grace and then move wisely forward in our work for equity. InterPlay roots
us in the present, where creative possibility dwells.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Come join us at the conference
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://alliesforracialequity.wildapricot.org/conference"><span style="color: blue;">October 20-22</span></a>.</span></span> Let’s deepen awareness, explore creative possibilities and move
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15778114332353952251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870713626594072206.post-17946229161937370422017-06-02T13:58:00.001-04:002017-06-02T19:03:39.503-04:002017 InterPlay People of Color RetreatBy Carolyn Renée<br />
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In 2016 at InterPlay's Leader's Gathering, Leader's of Color (LOC) met each morning for a breakfast check-in. It was the Racine LOC group who unilaterally decided we wanted a retreat to spend more time together, to express and share more with each other and other InterPlayers of color who were not there. We decided we wanted to use the retreat to get to learn more about other InterPlayers of color; to discuss issues of racism and isolation within and beyond the InterPlay context. A committee was formed, for which I was honored to serve as the lead organizer, and months were spent planning for a 2017 Memorial Day Weekend InterPlay People of Color Retreat. <br />
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<br />The months of planning by the committee paid off. The POC Retreat was POWERFUL! From the beginning until the end, love, laughter, tears of joy and delicious food. We began the opening night with dinner, then invited key POC/LOC unable to attend in person to join the opening ceremony via technology. We opened with drumming, singing and building a sacred altar; then moved into a powerful "Where I Come From" InterPlay Form Walk-about. The foundation for the retreat was laid with these activities.<br />
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On Friday we began with breakfast, then transitioned to play in nature. This was powerful too. In the afternoon we explored Physicality of Grace. Instead of looking at stress in the body, we looked at racism and oppression in the body; and how the opposite feels in the body. In the evening we had Play Performances using InterPlay Forms.<br />
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<br />The remainder of the weekend brought so many gifts. We played in nature on Saturday, and later on in the morning leading into afternoon, InterPlay Leader, Soyinka Rahim led the group in sharing how POC experience InterPlay in our communities and in the larger InterPlay organization. Later on Saturday, Leah Mann, Seattle InterPlayer led the group in a rich combination of forms (Blind Babbling, Blind Physical Contact, and Dance of Behalf of). This is where we explored Internalized Racial Oppression by pairing up, and one partner opened their eyes while the other closed theirs. We ended Saturday with an unstructured Group Play. Fun!<br />
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The power of what we'd created was evident when one InterPlayer left a day early due do a work commitment. The evening of his departure, the committee decided we'd have participants do a walk and share what they leave with. Just prior to the InterPlayer's departure we circled up to do an "In Circle Walk About" based on the phrase "I Leave With". The departing InterPlayer walked inside a POC Circle of pure love with tears streaming down his face, deeply staring into the soul of each InterPlayer in the circle. Finally, on Sunday we did a big group evaluation and wrap up. We closed with a grand celebration of our anchors, Soyinka Rahim and Coke Tani; literally picking Coke up and holding her in suspended air for 10 minutes sharing affirmations of love and appreciation.<br />
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InterPlay's first ever People of Color Retreat was transformative and filled with love.<br />
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Thank you to the <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Atlanta InterPlay community and beyond for supporting InterPlay projects in Atlanta on Give InterPlay Day! This once a year online giving event is a great boost to local InterPlay communities. In Atlanta we are grateful to have support for our programming at The Atlanta Pretrial Detention Center and Trinity House (see more info about that program below.)</span></div>
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Week after week InterPlayers and participants find connection, joy, stress-relief, and pathways of meaningful self-expression in these programs. We know that positive ways forward can be found more clearly when the body and mind are at ease. Thank you for your financial support as well as your gifts of encouragement and affirmation on this path. It makes a difference.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 9pt;"> homelessness.</span> We are proud to offer InterPl</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491259739308_8149" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 10pt;">ay as a resource to help these men return to their families, their communities, and ultimately, to a better life. Our hope is that through this partnership, InterPlay Atlanta will become an essential component of Trinity Community Ministries' mission to promote the sustainable independence of those faced with homelessness, which typically stems from addiction or other disabilities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">How can we play around
TIME? Thank goodness for InterPlay, for it offers a way to embody both time and
timelessness. “Dancing can dramatically shift our experience of time and
space,” <a href="http://cynthiawinton-henry.com/cynthia-mystic-tech/">Cynthia Winton-Henry</a> writes in her book, <a href="http://www.interplay.org/index.cfm/go/store:home/">Dance-the Sacred Art. </a>In her
chapter, “Dancing into Wholeness,” she offers ways of playing around with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“chronos” and “kairos” time so that we can
experience it in our bodies.</span></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">STORIES ABOUT TIME. We find that our story teller has a lot to say about time, time restraints, running out of time, lack of leisure time and more!</span></span></span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">So it was on a Thursday
night in February, that I offered a micro-play session on “fixed time” and
“flying time” to my Atlanta community at the Congregation Bet Haverim in a
monthly InterPlay session, “Alchemy of the Soul.” Our gathering was small and
intimate and we rejoiced in the opportunity to move, tell our stories, use our
voices, and find some stillness in the middle of a Georgia winter.</span></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: small;">SPEAKING ABOUT TIME IN A MADE UP LANGUAGE. In InterPlay we say that we can have a feeling without articulating it. Speaking in a made up language about time in the form of a big body story allowed everyone a chance to express the verbally inexpressible!</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">In order to understand
“time,” it helps to have body wisdom or to be a “body intellectual.” Body
intellectual is an InterPlay term that means “one who pays attention to all
forms of physical experience, seeks to be articulate about that information,
and uses it as an important basis for understanding the world. <a href="http://www.woodlakebooks.com/search/results/inventory/All-Products/Spiritual-Practices/Move">(Move: What theBody Wants)</a>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">By moving in a conscious
way, it is possible for us to acknowledge how are bodies feel differently when
experiencing chronos time—limited by clocks and calendars, and kairos
time—expanded by boundless time.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> Even more powerfully, it
is possible that by moving our bodies (dancing) we can alter or transform our physical
experience of time from being ordinary (time restraints) to being extraordinary
(all the time in the world)! </span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">What would happen in your
life, your family’s life, and the life our communities, if we all started
playing around with transforming time? Cynthia Winton-Henry says that most of
us spend our time in the middle zone between ordinary (chronos) and
extraordinary (kairos) time. Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could choose which
state of reality to experience and use play and body wisdom to be and live that
reality?</span></div>
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Bet Haverim that offers such a warm an inviting space for us to InterPlay in!
Thanks to Joyce Kinnard and Audrey Gaylex, both CBH members and who support my
InterPlay leadership offerings to the Atlanta community. I acknowledge my
husband for his continued support and playfulness while attending the InterPlay
sessions I conduct, even when he is busy planning to leave town for a student
field trip on the Georgia Coast. I am grateful to Callahan Pope McDonough for
her photography and commitment to living an artful life. As always, I am so
appreciative of the work that InterPlay co-founders Phil Port and Cynthia
Winton-Henry do for the entire wide world! They are amazing!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #4b4f56;">We are exploring and researching our ability to play and stretch through discomfort by using InterPlay forms to tell our stories. We are uncovering ways to dance with the challenges of racism and privilege. We entered into the practice AND looked at how we use InterPlay to deal with our own socialized systemic racism. This class is based on the book, Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debbie Irving. </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Written by Ruth
Schowalter, M.S. Applied Linguistics & ESL, </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Certified InterPlay Leader</span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">What does a 90-minute
InterPlay science communication “sample” workshop with professors look like?
Journey with me to Georgia Tech, an urban campus located in Midtown Atlanta to
find out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">First of all, the February
afternoon right before the 3:00 PM start of the workshop was overcast, with the
gray skies releasing tiny shards of cold rain. Fortunately for me, I escaped
the unfriendly weather by taking a bright yellow trolley to the Marcus
Nanotechnology Building, where the Director of Science Communications, Maureen
Rouhi, was administering the final touches to name badges, refreshments, and
room arrangements. Tables were removed and chairs lined up around the room’s
edges, leaving space for improvisational movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">One-by-one professors
arrived as if in a Harry Potter movie, being teleported from their busy labs
and offices through the inclement weather. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hailing from
different disciplines such as biomedical engineering, biochemistry, physics,
mathematics, and atmospheric sciences, these professors had responded to the following
invitation written by Maureen Rouhi:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f79646; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6;">The College of Sciences is hosting a workshop aimed at
honing the communication skills of scientists when addressing general
audiences. The short interactive workshop will be designed and facilitated by
Ruth Schowalter. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f79646; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6;">An master English teacher and long-time English instructor
at Georgia Tech, Ruth applies movement and improvisational techniques to public
speaking, similar to the approach of the </span><span style="color: #f79646; font-family: Verdana; mso-themecolor: accent6;"><a href="http://www.centerforcommunicatingscience.org/"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6;">Alan Alda Center for
Communicating Science</span></a></span><span style="color: #f79646; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6;">,
at Stony Brook University. She has been conducting workshops to help students
and professionals improve their effectiveness in addressing various audiences. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f79646; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6;">Last October, Ruth conducted a highly successful
program<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1870713626594072206#editor/target=post;postID=375057503335634675;onPublishedMenu=template;onClosedMenu=template;postNum=10;src=postname"><span style="color: #f79646; mso-themecolor: accent6;">—“Using Improvisation To Increase
Your Skills in Academic and Professional Speaking”</span></a>—for graduate
students in the Schools of Materials Science and Engineering and of Mechanical
Engineering.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f79646; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6;">Ruth has designed “At Ease: Using Improvisation To
Speak About Your Research To Anyone” for the College of Sciences. The workshop
is ideal for academic faculty who are keen to explore new ways to communicate
by expanding physicality and vocal range, especially when speaking to
non-scientists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Once the eight curious
participants had all arrived, we warmed up with breathing exercises, sharing
our names, and movement. The energy was high as they willingly experimented
with ways of expressing themselves. What a joy it was to see the earnestness of
these researchers as they stretched past their comfort zones to learn new
skills!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In the short time we had
together, my primary goal was to offer them playful ways to expand physicality
and vocal range when explaining their research to people, especially
non-scientists. Therefore, after the warm up, I engaged pairs in taking turns
to do “short tellings” while experimenting with modulating their voices, i.e.,
paying attention to volume, speed, and pitch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In small incremental
steps, I asked the participants to increase the use of their “nonverbal”
communications or body language. Through a series of “following and leading”
exercises, everyone had ample opportunity to play around with exaggerated
facial expressions, shoulder movements, hand gestures, and moving while
explaining or describing something. The desired outcome of these activities was
to broaden participants’ overall awareness of how they could increase their
physical presence, enhancing meaning and connection with listeners while
decreasing words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">During our short time
together, I introduced the InterPlay concepts <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">easy focus</i> (a willingness to relax and trust yourself) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">noticing</i> (reflecting on what you are
experiencing in body, mind, and emotions). We also did the physical InterPlay
activity, “Walk, Stop, Run” as a way to increase physical presence or energy. It
also served as a transition between “short telling” exercises, in which
participants reduced 250-written-word descriptions of their research to oral
summaries, then three sentences, and finally three words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Before the participants
left, they were kind enough to fill out a feedback form. Here is what they reported as beneficial:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Great activities
that opened my body and mind.</span>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Learned to
control my voice.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Distilling
research from 250 words to 3 sentences to 3 words.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Speech
modulations (volume, speed, pitch).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Repeated
efforts at explaining the same work.</span></li>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS WITH RUTH SCHOWALTER. Relaxed, motivated, excited, and energized were some of the one-word responses that the science researchers reported at the conclusion of the 90-minute science communication workshop. -Photo by Maureen Rouhi</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">When asked, “What one word
best describes an experience you are having right now?”, these are some of the
responses: relaxed, motivation, excitement, fun, and energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Just as they had appeared
miraculously, these scientists vanished, leaving me with a sense of wonder at
what a little bit of improvisation can do! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Acknowledgments: Thanks to Maureen Rouhi for collaborating with me in crafting this workshop. I
appreciate her experience with improvisation as a communication tool, sense of
fun, and readiness to participate. As always, I am grateful to <a href="http://www.interplay.org/index.cfm/go/about:cynthia-winton-henry-and-phil-porter/">Phil
Porter and Cynthia Winton-Henry co-founders of InterPlay</a> for this deeply
rewarding improvisational system. And thanks to my husband, <a href="http://envs.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/martin_anthony.html">Tony
Martin</a>, the scientist in my life, who has supported my integration of
InterPlay with science communication by inviting me into his Emory classroom
and co-creating workshops together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://atlantainterplay.blogspot.com/2016/11/interplay-science-communication-at.html">InterPlay & Science Communication at the College Level: Becoming the Animal through Use of Creative Forms </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://atlantainterplay.blogspot.com/2016/10/interplay-way-to-embody-and-express.html">InterPlay—A
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Trilobite Eyes: InterPlaying with Evolutionary Concepts at the Atlanta Science
Festival</a></span></span></div>
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Evaporates: College Science Students Use InterPlay Storytelling Methods to
Convey Their Nature Observations</a></span></span></div>
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<br />Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870713626594072206.post-27784902813522381972017-01-28T17:14:00.000-05:002017-01-28T17:14:07.181-05:00Spirit Play and Balance<h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Friday I was privileged to co-lead InterPlay Atlanta's Spirit Play Class with Deb Heirs at the Shambhala Center in Decatur. (Jennifer Denning who usually co-leads this class was traveling)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">On this day we started by centering ourselves with singing bowls leading into silent sitting. We then played with introductions and what we could talk about...</span></div>
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Deb brought the poem "Balance" by Alice B. Fogel for us to read and respond to.</span></div>
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and turning, or expecting</div>
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to return. This earth</div>
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And I have been too soft,</div>
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like sandstone, but there is a point</div>
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where I stand without a story,</div>
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immutable and moved, solid</div>
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as a breath in winter air.</div>
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I have seen my death and I know</div>
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it is my neighbor, my brother,</div>
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my keeper. In my life</div>
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I am going to keep trying</div>
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for the balance,</div>
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remembering the risks and the value</div>
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of extremes, and that experience</div>
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teaches the length of allowable lean;</div>
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that it is easier — and wiser —</div>
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to balance a stone as if on one toe</div>
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though it weigh a hundred pounds</div>
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than to push it back against the curve</div>
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We finished our time together with a contact dance since several of our poems responded to the line in the poem, "...and that experience teaches the length of allowable lean."<br />
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It was an hour and half that was so soul soothing for me and according to the noticings of the other 7 group members (who I forgot to take pictures of) they concurred.<br />
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…And so the expressions leapt out of the mouths of the 10
international students circled around me. We are on the Georgia Tech campus at
the Language Institute, where I’m teaching in an advanced elective class “Talk
More 2” using the improvisational system of InterPlay. I had asked each to give
a word or phrase along with an action that expressed what they were feeling at
the conclusion of our 65-minute class. Then our whole group repeated the words
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“Noticing” what we are feeling is something we do in
InterPlay. Frequently, between our activities, we stop and “notice”; that is,
we reflect on what we are thinking and feeling both emotionally and physically
and express these “noticings” to a partner or the entire group. I might add
that students have options in articulating these reflections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can remain silent; offer any words in
English describing their experience of themselves; their partner or entire
class; or speak in their native language or a made-up one. Making choices how
to participate is part of the InterPlay system—respecting the individual
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Since the “noticings” or reflected expressions listed above
were done at the end of the class and students linger as they are wont to do
after connecting with each other during InterPlay activities, I was able to
catch a moment with the Korean student who had said, “I’m sad.” His response to
my question, “Are you okay?” resulted in an InterPlay gesture I taught in our very
first class. He took his hand to his forehead in the place between his eyebrows
and then flung it out in the air and said, “Wheee…”! </div>
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This “wheee…” gesture accompanied with his smile indicated
to me that he was okay. In fact, he was more than okay! He had succeeded in
contributing something to the group when it was his turn even when no
particular thought was in his mind. I teach the students that whatever they say
is “enough.” </div>
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InterPlay gives us permission to have a feeling or thought
without the need to “articulate” it. However, that is not to say that he may
have been experiencing some sadness, but he felt comfortable enough to say that
to our group and leave it at that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Words, ideas, feelings, and movements occur
when we are doing InterPlay activities and we don’t attach too much to them.</div>
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I also caught a moment with the Japanese student who had
stated that she was confused and asked her if she had more to say about that.
She did. Laughingly she asked, “The brain is different from the heart, right?
My thinking is fine. But what I feel is confused.” I nodded. We go over in each
class that as human beings we have a lot to check in with—our bodies, minds,
hearts, and spirits. I understood from what she said is that she now wanted to
process the feelings she experienced in class with her “brain.” In Japanese or
English? Both? Or Wheee...!</div>
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Wow! InterPlay has transformed the way I interact with my
students. I am now relating on two dimensions. I am still the educator guiding
the “student” through the class agenda with its conversational content and
activities. At the same time, I am creating a space for the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“person” to be present to himself or herself,
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Stay tuned for future discoveries in the ESL college classroom
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<span style="color: #660000;">In this newly minted English-as-a-Second Language class, “Talk
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-</style>InterPlay provides a classroom platform for international
students to play around with using English to connect with themselves and their
classmates. These advanced ESL students elected to take this InterPlay class,
making them (in my mind) special adventurous individuals. They willingly agreed
to step into a class that was advertised as getting them out of their comfort
zone! </div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Talk More: Speaking English with
Confidence</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tuesdays and Thursdays (6 weeks)
1:25-2:30</span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do you want to feel more comfortable
speaking in English? In this class, you will have fun expressing yourself
orally while working in pairs, small and large groups, or alone. Using the
improvisational system of InterPlay, you are invited to speak without preparation
and to make things up. In addition to expanding your story telling abilities,
you will learn other ways to communicate with others using movement, voice, and
stillness. Whether you are shy or outgoing, you can learn how to succeed at
getting your message across more effectively and enjoy the process!</span></i></div>
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your abilities, connect with others, find new ways of expressing yourself,
relax, and be re-energized. You will more than likely find yourself challenged
to stretch a little out of your comfort zone. It will be well worth it!</span></i><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
fgdfgRuth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870713626594072206.post-84698610810870915372017-01-25T11:29:00.000-05:002017-01-25T11:29:19.381-05:00Easy Focus in Focused Times: Finding BalanceBy Jennifer Denning<br />
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I've never been more engaged in the world then I have been in the last few years. I've signed more petitions than I can count; called my Senators; marched; donated; spoke out. My call to action comes from two veins- my increased understanding of ungoing racial injustice and the rise of Donald Trump. Cornel West's words, "Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public," have been a beacon for me these days and as I take those words into my heart and being I am fortified.<br />
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The more we risk the vulnerability to truly love our fellow humans, the more we are compelled to act. On my path vulnerability is key. Today after my movement and meditation practice I feel inside myself a deep vulnerability a bit hard to describe. There is a sense of saddness and also a sense of surrendering to the fact I have no control over the actions Donald Trump is taking. Letting those feelings be there instead of pushing them away has filled me with a deep sense of compassion and love. I relate this feeling to the InterPlay tool of "Easy Focus."<br />
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In InterPlay we refer to hard focus is that part of us that really needs to figure things out. Physically we might feel that as the place between our eyes that can squinch up when we are focusing really hard. We need hard focus- especially in these times. We need to focus on detail and action and understanding what steps to take in a new political climate AND if we only engage our hard focus we will burn out. Easy focus acknowledges there are some things to big for us to know only on a thinking level and sometimes we just have to do something without knowing exactly how to do it. Easy focus allows a softness into our lives. It reminds us it's ok not to know. Easy focus knows that sometimes the answers reveal themselves to us in their own time.<br />
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I'm grateful that this year brings a new InterPlay Life Practice Program to Atlanta. We will explore on a body level the tool of "Easy Focus" and the other Body Wisdom tools of the InterPlay movement. We will support each other in bringing joy and power to our lives and the work we are most meant to do in this world.<br />
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Click here for info about our next <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/182667328869356/">free intro session</a>:<br />
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And find more details about The Life Practice Program <a href="http://www.interplay.org/index.cfm/go/events:event/happening_id/2251/"> here.</a><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15778114332353952251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870713626594072206.post-86670696615976190902017-01-17T21:34:00.000-05:002017-01-18T12:44:12.949-05:00The Power of InterPlay and Connection - Even as it relates to politics<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight I was scheduled to put up a blog about our upcoming <a href="http://www.interplay.org/index.cfm/go/events:event/happening_id/2251/">Life Practice Program</a> and the two free <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/182667328869356/">information sessions</a> we have coming up but as I sat down to type I wanted to share with you an amazing moment that happened today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today, Jennifer Denning and I went into the pre-trial detention center to do <a href="http://interplay.org/">InterPlay</a> with the women incarcerated there, as we have been doing every Tuesday for the past two years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were playing with the form - babbling and the word prompt given was "protest." My partner (a self proclaimed Trump supporter) excitedly told me about her protesting for Second Amendment rights and against Hillary Clinton because if she would have gotten elected she would have taken the guns away. I held the container and just listened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When it was my turn the word was "march." I talked about how excited I was to go to Washington this weekend and march and stand up for women's rights and join my voice with over 150,000 other women doing the same thing. My partner she listened.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLXmkNAog1OFPHPyq0DlGxa3Dr9k4UaeitBEhAhdaqVmATEIoUBioFCFYTLvCHCEWk9wU6S6Gmq0GBV2qCrdAnSGYp46lwhbRMApWWXGjpmLFRZu32b9dwv6hJjATtv_fvxvHDVM5a7k/s1600/Grace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLXmkNAog1OFPHPyq0DlGxa3Dr9k4UaeitBEhAhdaqVmATEIoUBioFCFYTLvCHCEWk9wU6S6Gmq0GBV2qCrdAnSGYp46lwhbRMApWWXGjpmLFRZu32b9dwv6hJjATtv_fvxvHDVM5a7k/s320/Grace.jpg" width="310" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Then it was time for noticings. My partner shared how excited she felt that I was going to Washington and how she wished she could too, because she believes in women's rights. I shared I felt a "unk" in my body as I listened - She said, "Not a 2nd amendment fan?" I replied, "of course I am (I AM fromTX) the "unk" was about the myth that the Democrats/Hillary want to take your guns. She replied, "Huh, maybe I'm wrong." We both to a deep breath, smiled and thanked each other for being our partner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a beautiful moment.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDJOPoQwfvlPY3n8fv6PwuBEU2GAmcAx7PjmSwUhtlNd9ZnKD01Qyo8ErEtYFcXyLtW0OlC9WhZMMs6KEmB0AgfF4kYeI5wf-IRwxnsuGaqchB4ncLtXiXH2Pk2Xjep_b4gc4vf8Y_zs/s1600/gacapitoldome.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDJOPoQwfvlPY3n8fv6PwuBEU2GAmcAx7PjmSwUhtlNd9ZnKD01Qyo8ErEtYFcXyLtW0OlC9WhZMMs6KEmB0AgfF4kYeI5wf-IRwxnsuGaqchB4ncLtXiXH2Pk2Xjep_b4gc4vf8Y_zs/s320/gacapitoldome.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">As I noticed with Jennifer later about the magic I felt in that moment I realized that InterPlay was the container that made it possible. We had built relationship as we played together over the past 5 weeks, only for 1 hour a week, and that was the bridge for us to have this exchange. We need to take this magic to congress!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">InterPlay for the win!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wrapping you all around with infinite love and wisdom,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Christine</span><br />
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<b>January InterPlay Atlanta Newsletter: Many Opportunities to Play Deep in the New Year!</b></div>
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The outer message we often get about a New Year is that it's time for a fresh start, action and "to do's." I know that for many people this is enlivening and true, but I often experience winter as a germinating time. Quiet and dark, I turn within. Sometimes a clear action arises; sometimes, it doesn't. I breathe and practice embracing the waiting. <table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv6570031650imgCaptionTable yiv6570031650OneColumnMobile" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483563549186_46771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 300px; word-break: break-word;"><tbody id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483563549186_46770" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; width: 315px;">
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Joyful planning: InterPlay Atlanta envisioning meeting 2016</div>
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Stillness is one of our InterPlay practices that feels meaningful to me at this time. In the InterPlay form of "walk, stop and run," visiting InterPlay leader, Masankho Banda recently spoke of stopping as a way of letting our bodies catch up with us. I like this image. When I get going in my world (or my mind) too fast I can pause and let my essential self be felt again. I return to my body- this breathing, moving, creating miracle that I call me. I'm grateful for InterPlay practice that supports me in my doing as well as my undoing. </div>
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Wishing you creative stillness and embodied action in 2017!</div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 10pt;">Jennifer</span></div>
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<em style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;">Atlanta Shambhala Center's Community Relations Presents:</span></em></div>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Poetry readings, musical performances and contemplative discussions in honor of<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.</div>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483563549186_47888" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;">January 15th, 2017</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483563549186_47890" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;">1 PM - 4 PM</span></div>
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Suggested Donation of $15<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Atlanta Shambhala Meditation Center <br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />1447 Church St, Decatur, GA 30030</div>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we invite the<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />community to share their creative poetry and artistic musings<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />that highlight reflections of social justice, race relations and<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />peace efforts in today's society.</div>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Feature Poets/Artists:<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Felton Eaddy, Debra Hiers, Waqas Khwaja, BMichelle Tilman,, A'nji Sarumi,<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Atlanta InterPlay's Soulprint Performers, Luis Stefanal</div>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />This event will include an open mic and reflective conversation segment Atlanta Shambhala facilitates conversations about issues that are important to people of our city and our world. These might include income disparity, a sustainable relationship with our environment and improving our many broken systems (ie. criminal justice,healthcare, education, etc.)<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />For more information contact A'nji at aunjisings@gmail.com</div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">The Secrets of InterPlay & InterPlay Life Practice Program </b></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483563549186_47912" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;"><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Unlock the wisdom of your body! Immerse yourself in the joy and wisdom of the InterPlay philosophy and practice. <em id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483563549186_47914" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">CEs available for both Secrets and The Life Practice Program.</em><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=00141crDo56Bjkxdq2KHrEr2UjqQzbERTLWKqNtR6BveX4Ft0AoIVutdBYN3Ws_kOFZQh9Q02UtVEGJ8RXRkXymrPTovGn229zs1s3BMa4KiXNHy_Vibs2WU4mZLgANSmc9VsJfoHsK0LtCd7cbTp93JHOaAex8Ax-TmqXXvKnJrH_CMUXx1vUuDN2lu-LYkM1RTx3pt2UxphlkyjlIXSbBeEQYXTtxAAjTuJMVWD73WD_x5qeGl3vNzQ==&c=7S0sShL8Em74n4p9bWIHyDSLIr7s31hOWCj8LYfKj47frsRnm5V9dg==&ch=JcFBQdv4MsDwuCM6iIgzApalrg57ePzAV-to8J_qVqcEXudrxe9YlQ==" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483563549186_47916" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: transparent; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">The Secrets of InterPlay</a> (March 24th-26th) is a comprehensive weekend where we will playfully deepen understanding of the tools and ideas of InterPlay. Get your body, mind, heart, and spirit all on the same page with joy and ease.<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Starting in April, <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=00141crDo56Bjkxdq2KHrEr2UjqQzbERTLWKqNtR6BveX4Ft0AoIVutdBjSXKS7Taepg2EBOxTrzwtO0WgHlTF99PwEfFqYBTxT2XYmnuN1xUzz9_tVdzeDb4RBCfUgHdQqA99K3GF_3-LXAbDABvhHs_8UXdCuk1v-rZEHK8ye7bUX1eiHwmeGbtkpl2suG0eUkYh1_SB9Dat10Dq_9SNS3twJDRUPoB0PK7d18OGhXgIG08OIsxHVSw==&c=7S0sShL8Em74n4p9bWIHyDSLIr7s31hOWCj8LYfKj47frsRnm5V9dg==&ch=JcFBQdv4MsDwuCM6iIgzApalrg57ePzAV-to8J_qVqcEXudrxe9YlQ==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: transparent; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">The InterPlay Life Practice Program</a> provides deep community support for unearthing and honoring the wisdom of your body. Give yourself the gift of play, community, rest and whole bodied knowing in 2017!<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />Find out more at one of the following Life Practice Program intro sessions:<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483563549186_47919" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">
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Go Vinda's Cafe, 1146 Euclid Ave., 30307</div>
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The Mask Center, L5P Community Center</div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">six class series begins February 14th</b></span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /></div>
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<br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483563549186_47956" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;">Do you want to contribute to community with more clarity and love as we address and heal from racism?</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /></div>
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If so, you are invited to join InterPlay leaders, Jennifer Denning and Christine Gautreaux, LMSW for <em style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Waking Up White.</em> We will explore and research our ability to play and stretch through discomfort by using InterPlay forms to tell our stories as we uncover ways to dance with the challenges of racism and privilege. <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483563549186_47964" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 10pt;">You will be able to both enter into the practice AND see how we use InterPlay to deal with our own socialized systemic racism. This class is based on the book, </span><em style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 10pt;">Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race</em><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483563549186_47966" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 10pt;"> by Debbie Irving. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700;">Sliding Scale $50-100 </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483563549186_47976" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700;">proceeds to benefit InterPlay Atlanta POC scholarship fund</span></div>
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Class held at private Decatur residence</div>
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<em style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;">An Online exploration with Ruth Schowalter</span></em></div>
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Put creativity on your calendar for 2017 with one measurable creative action of 15 minutes each day. In this amazing 12-week course, creativity coach Ruth Schowalter guides you through an "artist's way" type of experience based around the popular InterPlay book Move: What the Body Wants by Cynthia Winton-Henry with Phil Porter.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;">nterPlay + Science Communication='s </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;">FUN</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--I'm</span></span> repeating</span> this mantra <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">re<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">gularly, espec<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ially when <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have t<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he opportunity to teach <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">college students in a sci<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ence class how to express their data!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">T</span>his O<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">c<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">tober 2016</span></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">signals the th<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ird<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> time that I have <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">conducted</span></span></span></span> a <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">two-part storytel<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ling work<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">shop for my husband's first year seminar, "How<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> to Interpret Be<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">havior You Did <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not See<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">," using <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">activities from the improvisational system of InterPlay. Each time, I have <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">had the opportunity to refine my facilitation to <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">provide clearer incremental steps to sup<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">port the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">students' easeful ste<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">pping into the role of a<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">n embodied storyteller.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
envision every student finding storytelling "tools" in this workshop
that they can adapt to their own personal communication style. My job is
to offer ways <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for them to </span>play around with expanding vocal and physical r<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ange as they express scientific information to an audience of one or many.</span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In
this blog post, I am offering my InterPlay facilitation experience in
the form of photos and photo captions. At the end of this post are links
to other <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">blog posts I have written<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> about this <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">freshman seminar, as well as other science com<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">munication workshops. Enjoy! I appreciate any feedback in the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">form of comments<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">here or on Facebook.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>WHAT IS IMPROVISATION? WHAT IS INTERPLAY?</b>
Desks have already been rearranged from rows to a circle around the
perimeter of the classroom when students arrive. After being introduced
as a certified InterPlay leader, I invite students to define
improvisation and how it could relate to science communication.
InterPlay, I exp<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lain, is an improvisational system that <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">fosters and supports authenticity. I invite <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the students to always make choices to participate in <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">InterPlay improvisational activities in a way that <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">feels good to them. </span></span></span></span></span></span>Soon
they will be asked to use the available space to "create" or
"improvise" ideas related to their seminar, "How to Interpret Behavior
You Did Not Know." <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Tony Martin) </i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>OUT OF THEIR DESKS AND INTO THEIR BODIES.</b>
What does the "whole" communicator look like when fully
engaged--physically, mentally, and emotionally? A simple invitation to
stand up, warm up their bodies and then partner with another classmate
for leading and following at first brings nervous laughter and then.... <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Ruth Schowalter, aka Hallelujah Truth) </i></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">THE </span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>CLASSROOM TRANSFORMED.</b>
Within moments the classroom is electrified as students step into the
invitation to "play" with one another. Creative move after creative move
appears as leadership alternates back-and-forth between the paired
students. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Ruth Schowalter, aka Hallelujah Truth) </i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">THE ROLE OF THE PROFESSOR SHIFTS</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>.</b> When the professor participates in these InterPlay activities as Tony Martin <i>(far right)</i>
does here, the classroom dynamic shifts with the students. Students
have an opportunity to interact creatively one-to-one with their
professor in a give-and-take relationship. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Ruth Schowalter, aka Hallelujah Truth) </i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">EXPANDING THEIR METHOD OF EXPLANATION</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>.</b>
After warming up physically and vocally "playing" around with telling
short nonlinear descriptions, students return to their desks to take
turns describing the nature observations they have recorded in their "<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s</span>it spot <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">j</span>ournals,"
a class requirement. During the semester, they must make a minimum of
thirty entries from the same "sit spot" on the Emory campus that they
have chosen to observe. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Ruth Schowalter, aka Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></span></span></span> </td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>BECOMING THE TREE.</b>
Following the activity of describing their "sit spot," students change
partners and are asked to stand up in front of their listening partner
(or witness). Choosing an animate or inanimate object from their "sit
spot," they then "become" it and speak from its perspective. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Ruth Schowalter, aka Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></span></span></span> </td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>DAY 2 OF THE STORYTELLING WORKSHOP--DEVELOPING RAPPORT.</b>
What is rapport and how is it created with the listener? We know that
our audience is like a mirror reflecting back to us what we ourselves as
speakers are creating. This group exercise of leading and following is
an excellent way to "embody" that connect between what we "enact" and
its impact on others. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Ruth Schowalter, aka Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>EXPERIENCING NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION.</b>
Team "Red Sloth" prepares to move together for this nonverbal exercise.
Teammates are asked to assume leadership as the group moves and shifts
about the space like a flock of starlings in a murmuration. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Tony Martin) </i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>BODY TO BODY COMMUNICATION. </b>Students
experience first hand that communicating effectively without words is
possible as each one creates unique movements and other group members
follow. The leadership shifts effortlessly as long as a teammate is
willing to accept his/her turn when the opportunity accuates. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Tony Martin) </i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>OBSERVATION IS PART OF LEARNING.</b>
Team "Red Sloth" observes team "Blue Whale." The process of "embodying"
concepts occurs over time and through different practices. Observing
others perform activities helps students to integrate their own
experiences with the "new" ideas presented. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Tony Martin) </i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>PRESENTING RESEARCH? YES! </b>Does
this look like students are having fun? Is any learning going on here?
Are both presenter and audience engaged? Is the transference of
information occurring? Do you think students are having the opportunity
to teach something they know with enthusiasm? The answer to all of these
questions is a resounding YES! <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Tony Martin) </i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>WHAT ANIMAL AM I?</b>
At the conclusion of our two-part storytelling InterPlay workshops, we
gathered in a circle for a guessing game. Each student had researched a
different animal indigenous to the Emory campus and had kept their
animal "top secret." In this activity, students took turns presenting a
behavior and one informational sentence (or hint) about their animal.
Everyone repeated the animal behavior and tried to guess the animal.
Often several other hints had to be provided before the animal could be
identified. The students' enthusiasm, lack of self consciousness, and
engaged presence was very rewarding to the professor (Tony Martin) and
me, the facilitator. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Tony Martin) </i></span></span></span></span></div>
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Here is the Math and Science Building, the site of our storytelling
InterPlay workshops on this sunny fall week in October 2016 on the
lovely Emory campus. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Ruth Schowalter, aka Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">TELLING A STORY FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE</span></span></span></b><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>!</b>
I'm so grateful to these trusting students who allowed themselves to be
engaged in improvisational exercises. Here we are embodying a
squirrel. Students chose a living animal or inanimate object from their
"sit spot" on the Emory University campus to embody in this freshman
seminar, "How to Interpret Behavior You Did Not See." In the first
workshop, I introduced
InterPlay babbling and big body stories. I loved seeing the students'
confidence grow as they had fun moving from partner to partner. At the
end of the class, each student shared what he/she had chosen to embody
from his/her sit spot and create a movement for us to repeat. Lots of
deer appeared, a fish, two dead trees, a blade of grass, a clam, etc.
The movements were inventive and fun to follow!<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Tony Martin) </i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">ACKNOWLEDGMEN</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">TS: Thanks to InterPlay co-founders, Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter for thi<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sneaky deep improvisational system that fosters and supports authentic communication. Deep gratitude to my life par<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">tner<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, </span>Tony Martin, who is an excellent science communicat<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or. He <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">has<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> helped me grow in my communication skills and capacity as an instructor. Thank you for making education <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and s<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">cienc<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">e outreach fun! You inspire me!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870713626594072206.post-13244845984332194632016-10-29T11:39:00.000-04:002016-10-29T16:02:26.402-04:00October 1st An International Day of InterPlay <h2>
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Dear Friends,</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">As October winds down I'm thinking about how rich this month was with InterPlay. It all started on October 1st with the International Day of InterPlay- a FUNdraiser.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">We gathered at the <a href="http://www.alternateroots.org/">Alternate Roots</a> Office to celebrate InterPlay in Atlanta and across the world!</span></h2>
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Jennifer, Christine & Ruth doing a side-by-side story to embody what Atlanta InterPlay has been working & playing with in our community! </h2>
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The SoulPrint Players, under the direction of Jennifer Denning, performed. Here Vivian was the lead for a Foundation Decoration Song about doves/peace.</h2>
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We had a "Hoopla!" to celebrate the recent Life Practice Graduates. Karimah is dancing through the hoop!</h2>
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We celebrated Al Lingo, 2016 Spirit of InterPlay Awardee!</h2>
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Al telling us a big-body story about his Civil Rights work.</h2>
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We connected via the internet with InterPlayers around the globe. Here is Ruth excited to connect with Cynthia Winton-Henry, co-founder of InterPlay in Oakland, CA.</h2>
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At the end of our celebration we went outside and participated in a social action project coordinated by Ruth, Carolyn Renee and Callahan with the Red Sand Project to remember those who have fallen through the cracks with human trafficking, homelessness, etc. </h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">On Friday, October 21, metro-Atlanta
folks were invited to spend two hours with international performer and
InterPlayer </span><a href="http://www.movinginthespirit.org/our-people/leah-mann/"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Leah Mann</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;">
to explore the “cracks” in their lives—inside and out—and to examine “pathways
of light” coming through to heal those fissures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hosted by </span><a href="http://atlantainterplay.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">InterPlay
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Atlanta</span></a><span class="4n-j"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> at the Mask Center in the Little Five
Points Community Center, Leah used the container of </span></span><a href="http://www.interplay.org/"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">InterPlay</span></a><span class="4n-j"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> as a way to launch a group of a dozen
participants into investigations about their lives and the wider world in the
workshop, “Light Gets In.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="4n-j"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
the first hour, Leah led us gently and incrementally in warming up our bodies
and voices. Along with </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">using
the “primary colors” of movement—thrust<span class="4n-j">, swing, hang, and
shape—we were offered the opportunity to reflect on our emotions and situations
in our lives associated with these movements. Leah explains, “I combined some
of the ideas of </span></span><a href="http://juliemotz.com/Philosophy.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Julie Motz</span></a><span class="4n-j"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, reiki master and author, about where
emotions flow or are held in the body.” </span></span></div>
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this deep investigation into our bodies and spirits through movement, we then
found ourselves making a community sound standing around in a circle, with some
participants creating new sounds while others became historians repeating
rhythms or words offered by others. </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span class="4n-j"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
the second hour of our workshop, with thoroughly warmed up bodies and voices
and after connecting with one another, Leah guided us into making inquiries and
collecting data about ourselves, our communities, and the world on the
complicated theme of “systemic shatterings.” In word, sound, and movement, we
explored our “groan zones” and “shatter zones.” We created a “scar inventory”
and played around with “sitting in my discomfort.” </span></span></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">SHATTERINGS & THE CONCEPT OF "KITSUGI".</span></b><span style="font-size: small;"> In pairs, we told organic stories about things in our lives that remained broken or had been repaired </span><i>(photo by Ruth Schowalter)</i>.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>SITTING IN MY DISCOMFORT. </b>Leah invited us to "sit in our discomfort," explaining that it is important to be patient and to be awake for the next right step as we awaken to systems in the world that are breaking down and need to be dismantled </span></span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(photo by Ruth Schowalter)</span>.</i></span></span></div>
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our “babbling” or “short telling” sequence, many of us gratefully received
Leah’s offering of the concept of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Japanese
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to our personal experiences and current events. I wonder what other discoveries
I would have made had we been able to spend a third hour together! What stories
might I have heard from other participants or would I have shared of my own.
Leah expressed her thoughts on this: “It was just two hours. I think a minimum
for this sort of exploration could be three hours or longer. A ‘walk about’ on
a theme like this could have taken more than an hour.”</span></span></div>
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is mystery in movement, voice, story, and shape and stillness. Leah Mann is a
magician, a genius, and a gentle guiding force—one who can create the container
for play, insight, and healing to occur. Thank you Leah for this offering to
the InterPlay Atlanta community and metro-Atlanta area. I hope you will return
and spend more time with us on this theme, “Light Gets In.” It is important
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<span style="color: #741b47;">“InterPlay has been a huge part of my personal development work as an activist,
artist and human being. The system is a powerful platform for deep inquiry.”
–Leah Mann</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">About Leah Mann:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Leah lives
in Vashon, Washington, but has strong ties to Atlanta, having moved here after
her father retired from the Army. She returns regularly to visit her mother,
who lives in College Park and to continue her work as the co-founder and
artistic director emeritus of the urban outreach program, Moving in the Spirit.
Leah now co-directs Lelavision Physical Music. With her partner Ela Lamblin,
she tours internationally, performing a hybrid genre combining kinetic music
inventions animated through music and dance in simultaneity. She teaches
movement, rhythm and instrument making from ordinary objects with a wide
variety of populations from a base of improvisation informed primarily by the
InterPlay technique. Check out her website: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.lelavision\.com\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><u><span style="color: blue;">www.lelavision.com</span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870713626594072206.post-3750575033356346752016-10-21T06:56:00.000-04:002016-10-21T07:02:15.050-04:00INTERPLAY--A Way to Embody and Express Engineering Research Effectively and Easefully<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>"INCREASING YOUR ACADEMIC &<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>PROFESSIONAL SPEAKING SKILLS USING IMPROVISATION," OCTOBER 15th, 2016 WO<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">RKSHOP</span>.</b> Ta d<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ah! <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are some of the 28 participants at the</span> conclusion of a <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5</span>-hour workshop on a Ge<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">orgia Tech game day </span>Saturday<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. An exciting odyssey of expression was traveled in th<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is short intense gat<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hering of grad<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">uate engin<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">eering students!</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="color: #660000;"><b><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Written by Ruth Schowalter, MS Applied Linguistics, Certified InterPlay Leader, and InterPlay Art and Soul Creativity Coach</span></b></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Whether
you are a scientist or artist, lawyer or educator, performer or poet,
administrator or physician, you can benefit from a more fully embodied
engagement to your life. </span></b><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i>-Celeste Snowber</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How might engineers begin to enjoy communicating their ideas to colleagues<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, professional aud<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">iences, and th<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">e world at large? <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">T</span>he typical stereotype of the engineer is of a person far more <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">engaged in <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">head, mining the </span></span>mechanics of <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">algor<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ithms</span></span> and linear thinking<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> slumped over a computer than that of one who inhabits a "body<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">," revel<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ing</span> in spatial creative thinking <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and </span>want<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ing</span> to <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">physically interact </span>with <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a curious</span> public</span>. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">End result? <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These engineers are not only miserab<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">le when they have to <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">present th<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">eir research, but they a<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">re also </span></span></span></span>judged as POOR communicators.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What are the possibilities <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for these enginee<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">rs<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>to communicate more successfully and with <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">p<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">assion </span></span>once they are given some <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">improvisational tools?</span> </span></span>What if engineers were to <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"open" to <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">their ow<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">n <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">life</span> stories, gestures, and "bodily" understandings? What might they create or co-create? <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How differently might they expre<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ss themselves personally and professionally?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>GREETED BY BUZZ, THE GT MASCOT</b>.
Our 5-hour workshop convened on a football game day in the Mechanical
Engineering building. The campus was abuzz with football fans barbecuing
under trees around academic buildings and in parking lots filled with
recreation vehicles. <i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(photo by Ruth Schowalter, aka Hallelujah Truth)</span></i></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What do I mean by "bodily" understandings? <a href="http://celestesnowber.com/" target="_blank">Celeste Snowber</a> in her book, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://celestesnowber.com/?page_id=10" target="_blank">Embodied Inquiry</a>, expresses <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the conc<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ept this way: "<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A return to cele<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">bration of our physicality awakens the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">juices of a creative life. Life in and of i<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">tself is an art form and living art<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">fully and a<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">esthetically is central to being responsive to a life. The body in all of its fullness i<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s a gift that allows us to walk, run, flop and fall al<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ong the journey that is set before us.<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Le<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">t me restate this concept in my own words based on my experien<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ce
of teaching international graduate students at Georgia Tech for two
decades, being a visual artist, and certified leader in the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">imp<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">rovisational system of InterP<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lay</span></span></span>. The parameters of communicating effectively does not begin and end w<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hen it is time to present <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">research results</span> to <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">colleag<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ues<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, potent<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ial employers, or </span></span>lay people. Effective<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>communicat<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ion is an outc<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ome of a life fully engaged in physically, mentally, and emot<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ionally<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. That is, what you <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>are</i>, you<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <i>communicate</i>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If we want our engineers, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">biologists, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">physicists, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">etc., to <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">inform <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">us about their deeply complex ideas and outcomes, we educators must <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">assist them in becoming more fully human<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We can invite them <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to integrate their "head" with their "bodies" and "hearts." <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This in<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">tegration can be <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">chieved in playful incremental steps!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An ex<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ample of what </span>these incremental steps might look like can <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">be s<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">een in</span></span> t</span>he <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Saturday<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, October 15th <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wor<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">kshop I facilitated on the Georgia Tech campus <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for gra<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">duate students in </span>Materials Science Engineer<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ing</span> and Mechanical Enginee<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">r<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ing. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Conven<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ing</span> from 9:30 to 2:30 with breakfast and lunch included<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, we did the following:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">1. Warmed up by doing InterPlay physical exercises to Jami Sieber music</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">2. Played around with saying our names using vocal variation (speed, rhythm and pitch) and physical actions</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">2. Developed rapport by leading and following intervals </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">3. Told nonlinear stories in 30-second and 1-minute intervals, implementing physicality and emotions (enthusiasm)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">4.
Embodied some of the six skills of English rhythm and intonation
(pausing, linking, stress, reduction, focus, and rising/falling
intonation.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">5. Walked out the rhythm of a poem (student led)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">6. Practiced embodied intonation in the improvisational activity, "Yes, and..."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">7. Integrated physicality, English rhythm and intonation, and emotions in a big body story explaining research to a lay person </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">8. Practiced summarizing ideas and increasing physicality</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">9. Played kazoos to experience the heft of breath of intonation using the GT Fight Song and have conversations </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>DEVELOPING RAPPORT. </b>Through
a series of leading and following exercises, participants had the
opportunity to connect with different participants while embodying
creative choices of their own and that of their partner's. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Ruth Schowalter, aka Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>EMBODYING THE RHYTHM OF THEIR SPEECH. </b>Both
native and nonnative speakers of English participated in this graduate
science communication workshop. Everyone was asked to prepare a 150-200
word paragraph explaining their research to a lay person. Here they are
applying the rhythm and intonation skills presented earlier in the
workshop in a "solo" walk around the room. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Ruth Schowalter, aka Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>GAINING CONFIDENCE AND INCREASING EXPRESSIVENESS. </b>In
incremental steps, these researchers decreased their reliance on
written text. They moved from reading their paragraph, to "just saying"
it, to reducing it to 3 sentences, and finally to one sentence while
networking and meeting each other. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Ruth Schowalter, aka Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This improvisational workshop using the tools and principles of InterPlay <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">succeeded in physically en<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ag<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ing</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">these </span></span>engineering graduate students from the United States, Iran, Peru, Colombia, Korea<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, China, Vietnam, and Brazil.</span>
Some noticed feeling awkward and challenged. Some experienced release
from stress. Others enjoyed connecting with classmates they never have a
chance to talk with on a day<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-</span>to<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-</span>day basis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Two students, one from Iran
and another from Colombia, discovered they did similar research and sat
down immediately after<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the works<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hop</span></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for a</span> deeper discussion. Students from
the United States had the opportunity to be with international students
in a different way and to confront their own challenges<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> of communicati<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ng in English</span></span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">feedback that brou<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ght me the greatest joy? </span></span>One Korean student a<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">pproached me before he left to </span>express<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> a</span> relief at being
invited to play! I had informed <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">everyone that I was a "recovering serious person." He <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">said he would like to be one too!</span></span></span><br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>IMPRESSIVE BUILDINGS FOR ENGINEERS ON THE GEORGIA TECH CAMPUS.</b>
It was such a pleasure to be invited into this engineering complex on
the GT campus to assist these scholars in building their communication
skills and encourage them to engage more fully in their lives as a way
to enhance their effectiveness and joy. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(photo by Ruth Schowalter, aka Hallelujah Truth)</i></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">I am happily grateful to <span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://celestesnowber.com/" target="_blank">Celeste Snowber</a></span>, who</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"> I just discovered, and her most recent book, "Embodied Inquir</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">y</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">: Writi</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">ng, Living, and Being t</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">hrough the Body." Part of the wider InterPlay communi</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">ty, Celeste is a dancer, writer, poet, and educator at Simon Fraser University</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">, B</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">.C., Cana</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">da</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">, where </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">she is an as</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">sociate professor in the Facul<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ty</span> of Education. As usual, I am for</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">ever thankful to co-founders <span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://www.interplay.org/pdfs/InterPlayCoFounders.pdf" target="_blank">P</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://www.interplay.org/pdfs/InterPlayCoFounders.pdf" target="_blank">hil Porter and Cy</a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://www.interplay.org/pdfs/InterPlayCoFounders.pdf" target="_blank">nthia Winton-Henry</a></span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">for </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">the improvisational system of InterPlay and how they facilitate </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">friendships and collaboration among </span>national and international InterPlay communities. It <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is with deep gratitude I acknowledge <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">K<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">aren Tucker, director of the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Georgia Tech Langu<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">age Institute, for her d<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">edication to expand <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">her understand<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ing of w<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ays we might communicate </span>and hence the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">LI's programming ac<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ross the GT campus. Many thanks to Amand<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a Gable (<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">MSE)</span> and Jeffrey Donnell (ME) who facilitated this <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">improv workshop for their gr<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">aduate </span>stude<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nts. And <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">t<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hank you Tony Martin f<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">being my drive<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">r and r<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">elieving me <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">from th<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">e worry<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of driving on a GT fo<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">otbal<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">l game day.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Ruth Schowalterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03106140875246572230noreply@blogger.com0