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Sharie Bowman, MA, LMHC is a Mental Health Counselor and also InterPlay's Regional Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest.  In 2006, Sharie completed her training as an InterPlay leader and also received her degree in mental health counseling, so InterPlay and counseling have been woven together in her bodyspirit from the start.  She finds InterPlay to be foundational in building and maintaining her personal resilience, as well supporting her work with clients.  In her private practice she regularly weaves InterPlay’s life-enhancing forms and philosophies with counseling wisdom to help individuals and families thrive.

Prior to 2006, Sharie worked as a high school math teacher and found InterPlay to be the best Teacher Training she ever received.  The improvisational skills that she developed immediately brought more play, creativity, and expression to her teaching as well as to classroom management.

Now Sharie finds great joy in bringing her organizational and instructional skills to the InterPlay classroom, and she often leads the foundational InterPlay Life Practice Program and mentors new leaders. She relishes sharing the joy of InterPlay far and wide, and supporting each participant in integrating InterPlay into their own lives!

Lorena Gaibor was first introduced to Interplay during the early days of the pandemic in 2020 while being coached by Kaira Jewel Lingo. She was quickly enamored by the potential that the sneaky deep play offered for her healing journey and enrolled in the first BIPOC Life Practice Program. Since then she has continued her learning journey in Interplay most recently having completed the Secrets of Leading program. She is now overjoyed to be collaborating in the newly formed Colorado Regional Group of Interplayers. Together this group is bringing Interplay workshops to the Front Range. Lorena is also a recovering social worker and academic having taught MSW students for 7 years at the University of Denver. Lorena has been a longtime activist and advocate, dedicated to working with marginalized communities centered on topics of social, ecological, racial, and immigrant rights. Lorena is currently on a sabbatical centered on unlearning and re-membering as she sheds a lifetime of harmful dominant social norms internalized as a Latina/woman of color. In her healing journey, alongside Interplay, she also studies and practices Interrelational Focusing and other Somatic therapeutic practices that are helping her to reconnect to her embodied joyful experience. In addition to being a recovering academic, she has also embraced a post-activist inquiry into fugitivity, learning from visionary teachers such as Bayo Akomolafe and by participating in sensemaking processes with other alternative educators in a global alliance called Ecoversities. She’s also finishing up a two year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher’s Certification Program run by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfeld. She has begun to bring all that she has been unlearning and re-membering from this sabbatical period into her new role as a facilitator and witnesser of people’s healing/ re-membering processes.

Linds West (pronouns they/them/theirs) created Gather the Wild Collective as a place to collaborate in offering customized classes, workshops, and retreats for groups and individuals that combine movement, play, stillness, and creativity. This work is an offering towards collective liberation and social change that brings joy together with grief. Linds is committed to intersectional social change in support of racial, gender, and environmental justice, knowing these are deeply connected with all forms of social oppression. Linds also offers one on one consultations and accompaniment to folks seeking companionship for transitions and shared holding of life's deep questions. They bring their fourteen years as an educator, librarian, and facilitator together with their InterPlay, mindfulness, and creative practices.