InterPlay: 8 Body Wisdom Tools for Social Change

Eight Body Wisdom Tools InterPlay’s Approach to Unlocking Harmful Socialization and Freeing Sustainable Lives in Community Many current systems overstep limits and use every resource to accomplish a goal in spite of harm to people, creatures and earth. If we agree that honoring the body supports healthy systems and dismissing the body dis-eases systems, the following tools offer an attentive creative practice that includes what the body wants.

1) Easy Focus Practice: Wheee Whoosh A release of visual focus creates a spacious experience and the ability to access multiple points of view. As we learn to be part of a multidimensional system, creativity can flow with ease.

2) Body Data, Knowledge, Wisdom Practice: Notice Notice Notice Physicality is basic. We can notice and learn from diverse experiences of heart, mind, sense, memory, limits, and gifts in diverse bodies of color, gender, class or difference in ability.

3) Internal Authority Practice: Believe What We Notice Even when we can’t articulate our experience, we can believe our body. When we have a minority point of view, to value each person’s inner authority allows us to better move and share whatever is present.

4) Physicality of Grace Practice: Choose More of What the Body Wants

Focusing on problems creates a worldview full of problems. We can listen and move toward practices, people, and work that bring beauty, joy, peace, and health now AND later.

3 transformational tools: 5) Exformation Practice: We can get rid of stuff.

Bodies are designed to release energy, tension, and harm.

Creativity allows us a way to tell the truth in sighs, movement, voice, rhythm and word that lifts the spirit.

6) Body Wisdom Practices Practice: To change your life change your practice.

When a big change feels overwhelming we can find practices that feel enjoyable and doable alone or in community. Body to body our practice can shift greater norms of practice.

7) Incrementality Practice: Get out of trouble the way we got in, in tiny steps.

If we want to move toward a greater purpose, the body needs action steps that are interesting, doable, and successful. Going too fast overwhelms the system and slows down change.

8) Affirmation!

Practice: Say what moves you.

Bodies thrive on appreciation and recognition. Affirm creative endeavors, small and large which serves better than critique or “working� on others.

InterPlay.org 510-465-2797, Cynthia Winton-Henry