Classroom Teachers, Why Do InterPlay?
K-12 Educators from Panama. In the first week of March 2018, I facilitated an InterPlay workshop for 23 Panamanian educators at the Georgia Tech Language Institute, who had come to study educational methodologies and techniques for 8 weeks. I was invited to introduce them to “Applied InterPlay for Educators,” in a short two hours. In this photo, we had fun posing to demonstrate the “seriousness” of being teachers. I can tell you why I use InterPlay in my classroom as an instructor of English as a Second Language at the Georgia Tech Language Institute and a Certified InterPlay Leader! First of all, InterPlay is an active, creative way to unlock the wisdom of the body. It is a thirty-year-old improvisational system that uses movement, storytelling, voice and shape and stillness, to support authenticity and foster ease and joy. Among the many reasons that InterPlay co-founders Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter , developed it was to be a tool for building comm...