Author: Jude.Gaffney

Kate is a joy-recovery expert who can’t take play too seriously! She is also an Alexander Technique teacher, trained to help people move and sound and breathe and be with their whole body. For Kate, improvisation brings us alive to the whole and InterPlay is a wonderful big Yes! to it all. Her facilitation approach offers compassionate and playful ways for people to attune to themselves as they connect with others and expand their creative body skills repertoire.
Kate is currently based in Wellington, Aotearoa NZ, working in private practice as an ATTSNZ Alexander Technique teacher with a focus on creative movement, voice and performance. She has a BA (Hons) in Social Ecology, a Diploma of Alexander Technique teaching and a Diploma of Alexander Yoga Teaching. For many years she has also been deeply inspired by the experiential anatomy and movement research practices of Body Mind Centring.

Mark is a performer, writer, and lecturer in the performing arts and screen studies. He has also worked as a writer, director, video and sound editor in corporate and educational video production. He currently lectures in creative and performing arts. He also has a private coaching and consulting practice in promoting ‘resilient vulnerabilty’ for the wellbeing of creatives and other relational professions such as law and medicine. His special interests are creating performing arts training practices that are both ethical and sustainable, and, facilitating conversations in organisations that can nurture creativity and innovation. As a 2009 Churchill Fellowship recipient, he has returned from a study tour of performance training in the UK and is working to promote psychological and emotional well-being of actors both in training and in the workplace in Australia. He has a BA (Majors in Theatre and Philosophy), Grad. Dip. in Arts by Research (Theatre) and a PhD in Performance Studies.

As a Uniting Church minister and a Creative Arts Therapist Peter recognises that the InterPlay forms are a playful way for people to experience the sacred and to move towards healing and wholeness. InterPlay enhances Peter's creativity as a photographer and sacred clown. He believes that the creative expression and body wisdom of the InterPlay forms are a creative way to enable people to realize their fullest potential. Peter is an accredited InterPlay teacher.

Rod is an artist, art historian, and educational facilitator interested in the connection between spirituality and the arts. He has written and lectured widely on these aspects of the arts and creativity in Australia and overseas. He was Co-ordinator of the Institute for Theology and the Arts and a member of the Blake Society for Religious Art. He has particular strengths in the areas of the visual arts, performance skills, movement and exploring the processes of creativity. Rod has a BA Visual Arts (arts practice), M Phil (art history), M Theol (hons), and Dip Ed.

As a director of her own training and development consultancy Trish has always had a passion for facilitating the process of people discovering how to live life to the full, with purpose and meaning. No wonder her role as InterPlay Australia’s Coordinator of Professional Development & Training is such an exciting one for her! Together with her partner, Peter Lee, she has been a key leader in the South Australian InterPlay community over the past 11 years. Trish is also a member of the Board of InterPlay Australia.