Communicating the Facts--More than a Feeling

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InterPlay is an active, creative way to unlock the wisdom of the body. 
SCIENTIFIC FACTS ARE REAL. Do you need support responding to "opinions" about scientific facts like climate change, pollution, and endangered species? Science is more than a feeling! Let's play around with making effective and respectful replies!
InterPlay joins the Atlanta Science Festival on March 23, 2018. Ruth Schowalter, certified InterPlay leader, is offering a unique and fun way to communicate scientific facts in collaboration with two Atlanta scientists.
"Communicating the Facts--More than a Feeling is 2-hour improvisational workshop, which gives participants (teens and adults) a chance 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.

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.

 Workshop Leaders: Tony Martin, science author, educator and paleontologist; Ruth Schowalter, Certified InterPlay Leader and educator; Dottie Stearns, dancer, B.S. Environmental Sciences, and a Master’s of Public Health. 
Suggested donation $5. Reserve your place here: https://www.freshtix.com/events/communicating-the-facts

IMPROV-ING ANIMALS UNDERGROUND. InterPlay Atlanta joins the Atlanta Science Festival for the third year in a row. In 2017, Ruth Schowalter and Tony Martin activated participants' imagination as they played around with earthworm movement and other burrowing animals through time. The topics were taken from Tony's book, The Evolution Underground.  In 2016, they offered the Atlanta community the topic of evolution to play around with using storytelling, movement, voice, and shape and stillness (see this blog).
Contact Ruth Schowalter with questions about "Communicating the Facts--More than a Feeling : ruthtruth@mindspring.com or 404-580-2392
To learn more about Atlanta Science Festival 2018, go here: https://atlantasciencefestival.org/events/
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